Wine Barrel Coffee Table

Just days before our wedding while at a grill out at my cousin's house, Rob surprised me with such a fun gift - a wine barrel coffee table!

I had just finished giving our Ring Bearer his gift when Rob said 'we still have one more gift tonight!' I was so confused; I was the one organizing the presents for our wedding party and could not think of who I was missing.  Then as he lead me towards the garage I realized that I was the one opening a present.  There it was - covered with a tablecloth holding the drinks for the party.

I have always wanted a custom table like this and am so impressed that Rob had remembered the times I had pointed similar tables out and decided to make us one of our own.  Coincidentally, Rob worked at Cedar Ridge Winery a few years ago. Pair that with the fact that the family he was marrying into is full of wood-crafty Jorgensen men and he had all the right connections to pull this off.

While I was being showered with wedding gifts from my neighbors back home, he made a sneaky trip up to Hampton and joined my cousins, Gabe and Beau, and my uncle Ray in Ray's shop.  They cut the tops off the barrels, sanded them down, added some grips, placed a piece of glass on top, and presto - the coffee table of my dreams!

Thanks, babe!