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Custom Water Bottles for Weddings

Custom water bottles for weddings start at six cases — 144 bottles — and turn in about two weeks, which fits a wedding timeline. DrinkMore Custom Water produces personalized bottled water and printed cans, filled with award-winning purified water. We have produced water for a great many weddings, from small ceremonies to full-weekend events.

Custom water bottles for weddings — personalized 12 oz printed cans with couples' names, monograms, and wedding dates

Where Wedding Water Actually Gets Used

Wedding water is one of the few personalized items guests use rather than pocket and forget. It also solves several practical problems at once:

  • Hotel welcome bags, where a personalized bottle is the item guests actually reach for after a travel day
  • The ceremony, particularly outdoor and summer weddings where guests are seated in sun
  • Cocktail hour and the reception, alongside bar service
  • The getting-ready suite, where the party is on their feet for hours before anything starts
  • Transportation — shuttles and trolleys between venue and hotel
  • The vendor and crew table, which almost every couple forgets until the day of
  • Rehearsal dinners, welcome parties, and morning-after brunches

Bottles or Cans: Sizes, Minimums, and Turnaround

Bottles are the standard choice for weddings — six cases is 144 bottles, they reseal so a guest can carry one through the evening, and a full wraparound label gives a designer room for names, a date, a monogram, or a map. Cans suit couples who want the seamless full-wrap look for a cocktail hour or a more design-forward reception.

Format Labeled Bottles 12 oz Sleek Can 16 oz Can
Minimum order 6 cases 18 cases 72 cases (pallet)
Units per case 24 bottles 24 cans 24 cans
Smallest order 144 bottles 432 cans 1,728 cans
Turnaround About 2 weeks About 5 weeks About 5 weeks
Sizes 8, 12, 16.9, 20 oz 12 oz 16 oz

Bottles are the faster and lower-commitment option — six cases gets you started and most orders turn in about two weeks. Cans take about five weeks because each design is printed directly onto the aluminum, and the result is a seamless, full-wrap look with no label edge. Either way, pricing improves as order size increases, so it is worth asking what the next tier looks like before you settle on a quantity. Timelines run from artwork approval and payment. Delivery is included inside our DC-area zone, and we ship anywhere in the continental United States through our freight partners.

Artwork needs to arrive print-ready as vector EPS or high-resolution PDF. We provide the dieline and print spec sheet, and our in-house art team can build a design from scratch if you do not have one.

For Wedding Planners

We have produced water for a great many weddings, and the pattern that matters to a planner is the timeline. Bottles turn in about two weeks from artwork approval, which means personalized water can be added well after the invitations are out and most of the other decisions are locked.

The six-case minimum is the other half of it. At 144 bottles, a 100-guest wedding does not have to over-order, and a planner can offer personalized water to a client without proposing a quantity that swallows the budget line it came from.

For planners running several weddings a season, each couple is its own design and its own run. There is no requirement to consolidate, and no shared artwork to manage.

Common Questions

How far in advance do we need to order?

About two weeks from the moment artwork is approved, plus design time on the front end. For a wedding date, four to six weeks out is comfortable and leaves room for revisions. If you are inside three weeks, call us before you rule it out — it depends on where the design stands.

What is the smallest order for a wedding?

Six cases, which is 144 bottles at 24 per case. That covers a 100-guest wedding with enough left for the vendor table and the getting-ready suite. There is no need to order in the thousands to get personalized water.

Can we put the couple’s names, the date, and a monogram on it?

Yes, all of it. A full wraparound label gives more room than most people expect — names, date, monogram, a hashtag, a small map of the venue, even a thank-you note on the back. We can print photographs on the label as well. Send us what you have and our art team will lay it out, or send finished artwork as vector EPS or high-resolution PDF.

Can a planner order for several weddings at once?

Each wedding is its own design and its own run with its own setup charge and six-case minimum, so they are separate orders rather than one consolidated one. That is usually what a planner wants anyway, since each couple’s artwork and delivery date is different. Tell us your season in advance and we will help you sequence it.

Bottles or cans for a wedding?

Bottles are the more common choice by a wide margin — lower minimum, faster turnaround, a cap that reseals so a guest can carry one through the night, and more label surface for names and dates. Cans give a seamless full-wrap print and chill quickly, which some couples prefer for a cocktail hour or a design-forward reception.

Can you deliver to the venue or the hotel?

Delivery is included inside our DC-area zone and we ship nationwide through our freight partners. For weddings, talk to us early about where it should land — a hotel receiving desk and a venue loading dock have very different rules about how far ahead they will accept a delivery, and that is easier to plan around than to fix the week of.

Start With a Free Mockup

Send us the couple’s names and date, or finished artwork if you have it, and we will send back a free digital mockup within two business days. Six cases is 144 bottles — enough for most weddings without over-ordering.

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