DIY Project Wine Glass Lamps

We have settled on another DIY project for the wedding. Just having candles on the tables seemed too plain, so I've been looking around at other ideas to make our table lighting more personal and interesting. The winning idea was a candle holder that was a lamp made from a wine glass and a paper shade. I found the original idea and template here. We immediately went to the Dollar Tree and purchased 20 wine glasses for $1 each. They are actually rather nice wine glasses. Large and solid.

In retrospect, we should have made a sample shade and tried it on the wine glasses instead of buying the wine glasses first. Our lovely large wine glasses were just TOO big for the template provided on the website. So we either had to find a way to make it work or scrap the project all together since I wasn't willing to pay more than a dollar per glass. Of course we ended up altering the patterns!!

It was WAY more difficult than I thought it would be to make the pattern work. I should have just taken it to a printing shop and had them enlarge it, but instead I played around with my home printer for a couple of hours. In the end I managed to make the pattern work, but it was beyond frustrating. My printer only wanted to print the picture in standard picture sizes, it needed to be bigger than what would fit on a standard sheet of paper so it had to be printed on two sheets, and I'm not particularly familiar with any photo editing software. Luckily I finally managed to figure it out though! Here is what our final template ended up looking like.

I later put this template onto cardstock to make it more durable. Then proceeded to cut out a few lampshades  of vellum to test it out. Here is what our first tea light candle lamps looked like.

Sorry for the poor picture quality; these were taken on my phone. As you can see, the size is almost perfect. I do wish that I could have made the pattern a little bigger so that less of the wine glass showed, but I think that they look pretty nice. As you can see, we punched out cherry blossoms along the bottom of the lamp shade to add some personality. Hopefully our guests will be impressed with this creative little idea....I definitely think that they are rather cute myself!