Wednesday 11 December 2013

Ideas for your New Years Eve Wedding Party Stubby Holders!

Here at Coolaz we simply can't think of a better way to begin the coming new year than married, why not hold your wedding party on New Years Eve and start the year with a bang!!

new years wedding


Invite all of your friends and families for a party to end the year, this will be the BEST party you will ever plan and starting the new year as a married couple is the added bonus. You can certainly lay the glitz on thick and get away with the most lavish wedding celebration you have ever imagined.

Make sure that you have party poppers, streamers and party favours galor ... on of the best sayings for your wedding stubby holders for this type of event would be "Eat, Drink and be Married" ... when it comes to combining a New Years Eve party and a fabulous Wedding, this just about sums it up!

eat drinks and be married stubby holder


Make sure you are ready with fireworks, sparklers and paper canons to bring in the new year celebrations and with the double whammy of meeting as husband and wife on the first day of the year, lets face it you will never forget your wedding anniversary! A new years celebration is always an awesome excuse to break out some party favours and a wedding to have bonbonierre thank you gifts,combining the two is a great way to add some customisation and a bit of party flair.

Se yourself a new year wedding colour scheme to make styling your event an easy process, we have chosed a gold & silver glitzy theme, with a touch of pink. Grab some gold and silver glittery hats or sparkly tiaras and dish them out to your guests on arrival along with a gift bag of party streamers, balloons and the usual new year specialties. Another great and unique idea for your wedding would be to hold a masquerade ball with masks and feathers galore, you could hand out dress up gear at the door or make it part of your wedding dress code. Decorate your beer bottles in sparkly paper to glitz things up, or create stubby holders to match your theme.

If your new years wedding party has a casual cocktail style or is being held at a beach venue then consider placing your personalised wedding stubbies into a 'show bag' for each of your guest, or make it so that when they are not in use they are fastened around your wrist as part of a new years party outfit! This would certainly be a unique wedding favour idea and one that you can personalise to suit your event.



These coolers have been designed as wedding stubby holders, or ...

If you have stumbled across this page looking for NYE party favour ideas then you can adapt any of these designs to suit your party favours and match in with your event theme!

Happy Party Planning & Happy New Year!

Thursday 28 November 2013

Craft Beers, Breweries and making the most of your Promotional Stubby Holders!

After recently attending Beers by the Bay an event held each year at the Mornington Racecourse, conveniently located near to the Coolaz factory, it dawned on us that more and more people are turning their hand away from the traditional stubby and onto a micro brewed beauty-of-a-beer!

promotional stubby holders


The event saw local Victorian breweries such as the Mornington Peninsula Brewery, Red Hill Brewery and Prickly Moses pouring their offerings into the glasses of beer enthusiasts and keen critics. Along with some bigger names like Crabbies and Kopparberg bringing their brews of ginger beer and cider to tempt us in a sweeter direction. Crabbies Ginger Beer trying the hardest with their new advertising campaign 'say goodbye to cider'...!

You could also grab yourself a beer recipe and home brew kit from Brew Smith and purchase bottled versions from most breweries as takeaways for consumption after the event! The trend, it seems is for the modern movement of the craft beer to be bottled into a 330ml sized vessel, which is music to the ears of a Coolaz team member, as we pride ourselves on the fact that our customisable stubby holders are capable of fitting 375ml and 330ml bottles as standard! As you can see the Beers by the Bay team also took advantage of this and added us to their event merchandise stand for a second year running! Cheers guys!

promotional stubby holders


Customised stubby holders for craft beers are a fantastic merchandise idea for events like this, but also for the breweries to promote themselves. Beer promotional merchandise is a great way for microbreweries to not only make some extra revenue to put towards their next brew, but also as a promotional product that will create word of mouth and 'in-hand' brand awareness!

If you consider the sensible functionality of a stubby holder as a promotional product for a brewery you will clearly see the value of being able to spread your message by using an item that is placed directly into the hand of your target audience, and onto a product that is useful to that user and relevant to the drinks market. Essentially creating a business card, that is a cooler and an advert, wrapped around your beer... the perfect marriage of a beer cooler to a beer drinker with the brewer as your witness!!

There are many neat tools available that allow you to make the most of your promotional stubby holders too, for example our high quality printing allows us to be able to easily print QR codes onto your coolers. These codes are becoming more visible and are a great way to create a call to action and/or to push people to a website. They can also be used as a marketing tool to track your visitors and the success of your campaign and promotional product.

band merchandise


Perhaps you are a musician or band that plays live at events such as beers by the bay and are looking for an inexpensive merchandise idea to get your name out there. The great thing about Coolaz coolers is that there is no minimum order quantity and so you can purchase a small amount to get you off the ground, we can also print several designs across your volume so that you can include your favourite band shot on one design and your album artwork on another, thus getting more bang for your buck!

Coolaz stubby holders can also make great personalised gift ideas for a special occasion or personal event such as a birthday bash, wedding celebration, engagement party or your hens & bucks parties! We have hundreds of design ideas on our website or you can send through your requirements and our design team will create a unique design to suit your special occasion!

For the beer lover they can also be a great idea for a blind tasting!! Whether at a party, event or just for fun you can design your own coolers to use as an outer layer, not only to keep your beer at the perfect temperature but also to disguise the bottle or can so that there is no cheating when trying to guess which beer is which, a great party game for any event!

For more information about promotional stubby holders or customised stubbies for your event please contact the Coolaz Team - 03 5976 8600 or email coolaz@coolaz.com.au

Happy Brewing!

Monday 25 November 2013

Christmas Stubby Holder Gift Ideas!

Less than one month until Christmas, let the countdown begin!! It's that time of year again when all the kids go wild and the adults start running around trying to find the perfect Christmas gift ideas for all of their friends and family! No matter how hard we try, we always end up in the same place, wondering, why on earth did I not start my Xmas shopping back in September!

Well, worry no more, we have the perfect idea in Christmas presents! You can create a Christmas stubby holder for everyone, simply choose your design, add your personal message and mark who it's from! You can even create individually customised stubby holders for each member of your family, as well as your friends to take home after a day of celebrating!

What a fantastic way to pass on some festive cheer, keep your drink cool, and a great Aussie Christmas gift that will just keep on giving! Leaving you to concentrate on the finishing touches... putting together your Christmas menu and getting creative with your Christmas decorations, baubels, stars, angels the works!! Check out our Christmas stubby holder designs by clicking this button, or view a few extras below for some ideas ...

christmas stubby holders


Design Ref: CHR022-Santa-on-Beach
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Design Ref: CHR023-AquaSilver-Decos
xmas stubby holders
Design Ref: CHR024-Xmas-Tree
kris kringle stubby holders
Design Ref: CHR025-Koala-Christmas-Hats
kriss kringle stubby holders
Design Ref: CHR026-Candle
secret santa stubby holders
Design Ref: CHR027-Bells
christmas stubby holders
Design Ref: CHR028-Kangaroos-Christmas-Hats
christmas stubby holders
Happy Christmas Shopping!

Thursday 21 November 2013

Unique Ideas For your Beach Wedding and our Latest Colour Combination for your Wedding Stubby Holders; Featuring Yellow, Baby-Blue & Grey!

Think summer, think beautiful beach location, think lapping blue shores with bright white sand, think icey cold drinks and delicious finger food and you have yourself the perfect setting for your summer beach wedding. Check out the colour scheme idea for your wedding below, we have put together some inspiring ideas to help you get organised and to inspire wedding party ideas for a reception to remember!

summer beach wedding ideas

When you are ready to begin the planning process it is a great idea for you and your future husband/wife to sit down together and create a simple wedding checklist - this can inlcude simple tick lists of the important aspects of planning your wedding and with a deadline for each so that you stay on track and in control.

Planning a wedding can be a daunting task and is something that you need to tackle together. Choosing a beach wedding can make a wonderful and casual affair and give you a base for creating your wedding party ideas! It does mean that your decorations and wedding bonbonierre ideas do not have to be formal and can reflect your modern setting and your personalities!

summer beach wedding ideas

Maybe you will choose to have a beach ceremony in the late afternoon to avoid the midday sun, followed by a beach wedding reception. Choose a cocktail style with bar tables and casual dining, no need for the formal sit down - this will make your guests feel more relaxed in a beach environment and a great way to get your guests to mingle! There are many wedding venues across Australia than can offer a cocktail style wedding, for example, we have heard raving reviews about All Smiles for a wedding in Sorrento on the Mornington Peninsula - check their website for ideas ... Visit www.morningtonweddingvenue.com.au!

The casual wedding can also lend itself to creating fun ideas for wedding bonbonierre for your guests, consider our wedding stubby holders, they can be personalised with a beach wedding theme or using the colours that you have chosen, we can match the colour to your bridesmaid dresses or your decorations. They can include your names and the date of your event along with a personal message. The great thing about Coolaz wedding stubbies is that they can also include an individual guest name so that each person has their very own named gift - a great way for people to identify their drinks and a practical gift that your guests can take home with them too..!

You can choose from hundreds of designs online that have been designed specifically for a beach wedding! Here are just a few to match the wedding color scheme above and a beach wedding...
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yellow wedding stubby holder
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 beach wedding stubby holder
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 beach wedding stubby holder
Happy Planning!

Sunday 10 November 2013

Unique Wedding Ideas For your Summer Wedding and Colour Combinations For Your Wedding Stubby Holders!

As we head into November and the final month of Spring in the Southern Hemisphere, you can start to prepare yourself for some extreme sunshine! Many summer weddings will be organised to take place in the coming months, December to February, and there will be some fabulous trends hitting the wedding scene this season! We have chosen bright and light shades of pink and a honeydew green as our first summer wedding colour combination to help you with your wedding planning and ideas...

summer pink and honeydew green


This amazing colour combination for your summer wedding in Australia conjours up heaps of inspiration and fresh ideas for your wedding. The collage above shows some great ideas to bring a fresh look to your wedding. The contrast of the fushia and light pink against the pastel honeydew green looks stunning. Use mason jars as your choice of serving glass, fill them with summer cocktails designed to be in your wedding colours and with paper drinking straws to match.

Love the use of bride and groom name flags shown here in the tall glasses, these look fab and make a practical drink stirer and keepsake too ... If you have a straight sided glass then you can also use your Coolaz stubby holder around it provided that the circumference is between a 375ml or 330ml/275ml bottle, like the image below you can see how this couple took advantage of the adjustable coolers ... best to test this around the exact glass if your venue is providing them of course, you can email us for a sample cooler if that helps ... email us here: coolaz@coolaz.com.au

wedding stubby holder around glass


You can see how the pink design in the collage uses one of our most popular sayings for your wedding stubby holders "to have and to hold and to keep your drink cold" this looks awesome and is eyecatching in the different sized fonts, personalised with the bride and groom names and the date of the event this will certainly make a great bonbonierre gift idea for your guests to take home and will brighten up your table decorations too. Take advantage of the hot weather and treat your guests to ice blocks made from delicious fresh fruits, the honeydew melon ice-pop works really well for this wedding colour combination as it brings great flavour and fits the theme perfectly.

Bring added notes of this colour combo into your bridesmaid dresses, groomsman outfits and other wedding accessories. Teh use of bridal sashes is a great way to introduce colour and texture along with hair clips, small flowers and large bouquets, there will be a summer blooms in abundance and the choice for your wedding flowers will be endless...!!

Here are a couple of wedding cooler ideas to suit this summer theme for your wedding, if you have something very specific in mind be sure to get in touch and we will do our best to create a unique design for you.

Reference; DP-WED-CART003N
pink cartoon wedding stubby holder


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honeydew green cake topper wedding stubby holder


Happy Planning!

Monday 28 October 2013

Eco-Friendly & Rustic Wedding Ideas, Trends to help you Create your Unique Wedding Stubby Holders;

In modern Australia there has recently been a shift in the way that we think with a real emphasis on healthy eating and eco-friendly concepts ! This is a great focus when putting together the foundations for planning your event and for creating some really unique wedding ideas.

Most brides will feel that they should lean towards a grand event, arranging a lavish degustation of delights that will not only leave their guests completely full but overwhelmed with rich flavours and fancy presentation. Why not flip this tradition on its head and go down the healthy eating path, that way your guests will remember their experience for different reasons altogether.

rustic wedding stubby holder ideas


When designing your wedding menu and table settings you should bear in mind that we eat with our eyes as much as our nose and taste buds - research shows that the way you display your meals, including the size and shape of your crockery and glassware can have an enormous effect on the amount that we eat. And while of course you are not looking to starve your guests there are some neat healthy eating tips that will help you to cut your budget too..!

Most modern couples tend to take a casual approach to planning a wedding, having a self-service buffet can be a great option as it can not only save you on catering costs reducing the amount of waiters and servers required but is also a great way of getting your guest up out of their seats so that they don't feel like they are sitting formally for any length of time. Sometimes this can have a negative effect and mean that there is more waste, people often have eyes being bigger that their bellies and will load up their plates! Research also shows that an oversized plate can lead to your guests grabbing 20% more food and something as simple as reducing your plate size could save you a heap of $$$ and reduce the amount of waste!

The best thing about combining healty eating with your rustic wedding ideas is that you can not only choose an outdoorsy venue with a country style wedding theme but you can really take real advantage of any seasonal produce available in both your menu and your design. Think about the message that you would want to portray to your guests, the modern world relies on us to be environmentally friendly and also economical, so why not add some eco-friendly wedding ideas into your big day and show your guests how to create a wedding without the need for a grand budget and the expected traditional extravagance.

Think 'outside the bin' use recycled items such as mason jars and glasses for your wedding decorations, fill them up with sand or coloured liquid and paint your table numbers on the outside. You can bake cookies or make heart shaped bird seed hangers that your guests can take back to feed the birds in their own gardens. Recipe favours are another unique wedding idea, print your favourite recipe with the caption - "from our kitchen to yours" - you could even print these onto your wedding stubby holders along with an individual guest name so that your bonbonierre gift is a recipe, drink cooler and place name all in one - what a great way to save printing name cards and recipe slips as well as the stubby holder!

Here are a couple of colour ideas for your wedding stubby holders that would work with this rustic and natural themed wedding idea!

rustic brown green wedding stubby holderrustic natural wedding stubby holder


Email our team coolaz@coolaz.com.au for design ideas and help creating the prefect wedding coolers for your big day!

Happy Planning!

Wednesday 23 October 2013

Wedding Trends From the Catwalk - How to Generate Ideas for your Wedding Stubby Holders!

As the new seasons wedding dresses hit the catwalks the latest trend for you and your bridesmaids is 'blush'...! Step aside traditional white wedding gown and make way for the softer more feminie hues of pink, peach, cream and champagne - these colours tend to be more flattering for a wider range of skin tones and can be the base for creating a complimentary wedding colour palette from which to build your dream wedding! Team up your bridal gown with similar shades for your bridesmaid dresses, see in the image below how they have used a range of colours across the girls to compliment the cream colour of the bride's wedding dress...

blush wedding trends and stubby holders
This beautiful blush wedding colour palette also brings warmth and romance, use light materials as drapes and soft wedding decorations to shape the formality of your wedding reception, candles can create a wonderful ambience to make your guests feel welcome and relaxed. This wedding colour would also lend itself to a beach wedding or rustic garden wedding, bringing together outdoor elements with this natural blend of colour. An outdoor celebration also means that you can be creative with your set up and the type of food and drink you serve, follow your colour scheme and fill large pitchers with soft fruit cocktails, for example...

Cointreau Blush - Made from Cointreau, pink grapefruit juice, lime juice and club soda or Florida Bride - Made from white rum, grenadine & soda.

Both delicious fresh cocktails that would make a great welcome drink for your guests on arrival and would introduce the colour theme too!

When thinking about your wedding stubby holders as bonbonierre gift ideas you can certainly incorporate your wedding colour theme, the design can be formal and sophisticated or modern and humerous or of course a mixture of both. Once you have decided on the sayings for your wedding stubby holders and the base colour you can start to put together your design ideas.

You can also include an individual guest name on each cooler so that your wedding stubby holders can become a place name marker and a personalised thank you gift all in one! Here are a few design ideas that we have put together to help get you started with your 'blush wedding planning' ...

navy pink coral wedding kooziesgold art deco wedding stubby holderpink gold wedding stubby holder

Happy Planning!

Monday 14 October 2013

Wedding Colour Schemes and Ideas for your Halloween Wedding Stubby Holders!

A wedding inspired by halloween is something very different indeed and will certainly bring some fantastic and unique wedding ideas to both entertain and spook your guests!

halloween wedding stubby holders


Perhaps you will decide on a subtle hint of halloween to celebrate your wedding day on 31st October - the use of wedding colour schemes including orange and black widely associated with halloween along with a 'witch' inspired purple would look great for such an occasion. You can plan your vintage wedding ideas around this colour scheme, you can see some great images in the collage above, the use of pumpkin lanterns and wooden barn furniture can make a great setting for your wedding theme and add a rustic feel to an outdoor wedding.

Sweet treats make an ideal choice for your wedding favours and desserts, you can decorate these pumpkin-style or go all out and introduce slime or insects as part of a trick to go with your treat! Love the idea of 'pick your poison' as a caption to go on your personalised wedding stubby holders as bonbonniere ideas! Because fo the versatility of Coolaz coolers each guest could literally pick their poison to be kept cool in their drink cooler!

Here are a couple of halloween inspired wedding stubby holder ideas for you to give as wedding favours to all of your guests:

Eat, Drink and be Spooked!

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halloween wedding stubby holders

Love is sweet, please take a treat!

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orange and black wedding stubby holders

Pick Your Poison!

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halloween wedding stubby holders


Happy Planning!

Sunday 13 October 2013

Wedding Planning - Creative Ways To Ask Your Bridesmaids!

So you are on the exciting path to planning your wedding day, you have a sparkling diamond on your finger and the man of your dreams by your side. Now for something that is equally as important ... choosing your bridesmaids. For some it is an easy choice, a sister or cousin that you are close to or have grown up with and promised the honour to from an early age, for others it will be a group of friends that you can count on, your besties that will be by your side no matter what! Whoever you choose to walk down the aisle before you, to carry your wedding bouquet, bustle your bridal gown and check your teeth, there are so many ways that you can ask them.
Here are a few of the latest trends for 'proposing to your bridesmaids'... what a lovely way to introduce them to the most important event planning adventure that you will ever face together!


bridesmaids wedding stubby holder ideas

The trend seems to be the quirkier the better... You could DIY a cute gift box or scrapbook full of memories that you have shared together, photographs and personal items that will remind you of all the good times. A gift of wine or bubbly would be appreciated by any girl and personalised wine bottle labels are another popular idea, you could get miniature ones made up for a smaller bottle to be placed inside your gift box, perhaps with a champagne flute and a few other goodies as a thank you.

Personalised dress hangers are a great idea too, I saw some ideas on etsy.com where the wooden hangers had the names printed or wood-burnt onto the top, there are also some funky ideas where the hangers have the wire part curled into the word bridesmaid or an individual name, you could give each of the girls a little gift card that says, "we've got the hanger now to find the dress" or something similar. You could even arrange a personalised bridesmaid stubby holder and wrap this around the central part of the hanger for a double gift idea!

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Some other unique ideas include a fun egg that you crack open to reveal a message, or you could make your own fortune cookies and hand them out at dinner, you can really personalise the message for each flower girl, bridesmaid and maid of honour!

Maybe you will take your girls out or have them over for a casual barbeque with a few cold beverages to celebrate, why not arrange for personalised bridesmaid stubby holders, something that your bridesmaids can keep! Here are a few suggestions of some fun sayings that you can include on the coolers for a bit of fun:

Top 10 Sayings For Your Bridesmaid Stubby Holders...

  1. I need someone to wear an ugly dress so I look prettier in mine!
  2. Did anyone ever tell you how hot you would look in peach satin ruffles!
  3. I can't say I do without you - be my bridesmaid?
  4. Eat, Drink and Help me plan my wedding!?
  5. Keep Calm and Be My Bridesmaid
  6. I got my man... but I still need my girls
  7. Be my - chiffon wearing, tiara adjusting, teeth checking, flower holding, dress bustling bitch - for just one day!
  8. I moustache (picture of moustache) you a question... will you be my bridesmaid?
  9. I promise there will be no ugly colours, puffy sleeves or bows on the butt - will you be my bridesmaid?
  10. It's my turn to pop the question... will you be my bridesmaid.

Check out these designs put together using a couple of ideas from our hens night stubby holder templates ...
HENS-009-be-my-bridesmaid:
bridesmaids wedding stubby holder ideas
HENS-001-be-my-bridesmaid:
bridesmaids wedding stubby holder ideas
Happy Planning!

Wednesday 9 October 2013

Wedding Colour Trends and Ideas for your Wedding Stubby Holders: Mustard, Mocha & White

Planning your wedding in spring or summer? Then this bright colour combination will give your wedding a splash of warmth to match the weather.
Wedding Stubby Holders
A golden mustard yellow for your bridesmaid dresses, teamed with natural whites and mocha will make a glowing combination that can be appreciated by your wedding guests throughout the day. Adding a personal touch to your tables such as a little jar of honey as a wedding favour for each of your guests, or choosing posies and wedding bouquets featuring daisies and cream roses along with a modern twist of wedding bunting will all bring together a real feeling of 'summer fair' to your summer wedding. Be sure to include the colour combinations across all of your decorations, the cute wedding bird cake toppers in the image above will make a great addition to any wedding cake! When considering wedding stubby holders as a gift for your guests remember that we can print almost any colour combination to the outer of your coolers and our design team would be happy to create a unique design or match to your wedding colours and wedding invitations or stationery. Here are just a couple of simple ideas for some inspiration. Design Reference Number: QRD-WED-WORDS-001-Mustard
wedding stubby holders
Design Reference Number: QRD-WED-WORDS-013-Mustard
wedding stubby holders
Happy Planning!

Monday 23 September 2013

Colour Trends, Ideas for your Wedding Stubby Holders: Shades of Yellow

There is certainly something very sophisticated about the way black and white look together and then throw in some subtle colour or even something bold like this mustard yellow to make the perfect wedding colour combination.
Wedding Stubby Holders
One of the hottest summer wedding trends for 2014 will be yellow! There are so many shades and hues of yellow and a combination of the bright with the likes of the richer mustard colours can bring a fantastic burst of sunshine to any event no matter what the weather! The yellows that you choose can be light and subtle or bold and bright, or indeed a combination of the two. You can drop hints of colour at your wedding via your bridal party, their wedding attire may consist of yellow bridesmaid dresses, light grey suits for the groomsmen and yellow silk ties and pocket handkerchiefs to match! Your wedding photographs will look simply stunning with the pops of colour! When putting together your ideas for a wedding, both your ceremony setting and wedding reception venue should be flowing with colour, the reception is the place that you and your guests will spend most of their time so be sure to wow your guests and create a wedding venue with a theme to remember! From the very beginning when you send out your wedding invitations you can set the scene for your guests, insert a subtle wedding daffodil into the corner or bunting across the top of your design to create a summery feel for your guests. On the day you can bring the same vibe, and don't forget that you can double up your wedding coolers to be your place markers like the design below:
wedding stubby holders
Here are a few other design ideas to help you create the perfect wedding stubby holders Design Reference Number: QRD-WED-WORDS-017
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Design Reference Number: QRD-WED-WORDS-018_Yellow
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Design Reference Number: DP15571-yellow-chevron
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Design Reference Number: WED-CART008N-DP2303-yellow
wedding stubby holders
Happy Planning!