• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Delicious Table logo

  • All Recipes
  • Holiday Recipes
    • July 4th, Memorial, Labor Day
    • Halloween
    • Thanksgiving
    • Christmas
    • New Year's Eve and Day
    • Superbowl Party & Game Day Food
    • Valentine's Day
    • St. Patrick's Day
    • Easter
    • Cinco de Mayo
    • Mother's Day Recipes
  • Party Food
    • Cookout
    • Grill, BBQ, and Smoke Recipes
    • Holiday
    • Game Day Food
    • Comfort
    • Appetizers & Snacks
  • Shop Kitchen Collection
  • Newsletter Sign Up
  • About
    • Lisa Hatfield’s Bio
    • Work With Lisa
    • Contact
    • Privacy Policy
    • Terms of Use
  • Press
  • Culinary Adventures
  • Reader Favorites
  • Cooking Tips
menu icon
go to homepage
search icon
Homepage link
  • 🍽 DELICIOUS TABLE
  • 👩‍🍳 RECIPE GUIDE
  • 💌 SUBSCRIBE
  • 📖 FREE eCOOKBOOK
  • 🎄HOLIDAY RECIPES
  • 🏆 MOST POPULAR RECIPES
  • 🛒 SHOP
×

Garden Party Wine Chiller

Published: June 8, 2016 | Last Updated: January 2, 2022 | Lisa Leave a Comment
This post may contain affiliate links.

Last Updated January 2nd, 2022 at 11:24 am by Lisa

A Garden Party Frozen Floral Ice Bucket is the perfect way to keep wines cool for Spring and Summer entertaining!  A stylish and pretty way to serve icy cold bottles of sparkling water, wine, or champagne outdoors.

Garden Party Frozen Floral Ice Bucket chilled close up
Garden Party Spring and Summer party idea to chill bottles for your party or gathering. Add instant style to your table, keep beverages and the wine cool!

These ice buckets are so much fun to have at a backyard party or celebration. We just put one out for a family birthday party, and it lasted about 3 hours.

Place it somewhere where the melting ice water can neatly drip into your backyard or garden. Have fun and get creative using flowers, fruit, greenery, or decorations that fit your theme or event.

Garden Party Frozen Floral Ice Bucket main
Garden Party Spring and Summer party idea to chill bottles for your party or gathering. Add instant style to your table, keep beverages and the wine cool!

How to Make a DIY Garden Party Wine Chiller

Garden Party Frozen Floral Ice Buckets are easy to make, inexpensive, and you can use flowers from your garden or a florist to match your party theme

I used flowers leftover from making my Garden Crostini recipe and flowers from my garden, hibiscus and nasturtiums are very bright and fun in ice!

Garden Party: Frozen Floral Ice Bucket fresh flowers

Okay, let's do this!

Delicious Table logo
Join Our List

And receive a free recipe ebook as our thank you.

What Supplies, Materials, and Tools Will You Need?


2-gallon plastic pail (hardware store paint section)
2 ½ quart plastic pail (hardware store paint section)
2-gallon bottles of  distilled or boiled water (freezes clear)
flowers, greenery, or sliced fruit
clear tape
frozen ice-pack or weight
2 chopsticks
silver platter or large plate (to serve it on for your party)

Garden Party Frozen Floral Ice Bucket materials on table
Garden Party: Frozen Floral Ice Bucket materials

Time needed: 1 day.

Garden Party Wine Chiller Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. Clear Freezer Space

    Clear a large enough space in your freezer to fit your bucket. (this was not easy for me as my freezer is always packed!😜 Garden Party Frozen Floral Ice Bucket in freezer

  2. Filling The Bucket:

    Next, pour 3-4 inches of distilled water into the bottom of the bucket and place a layer of flowers (or fruit) in the bottom. This is the base of your ice bucket, pop into the freezer. Freeze until solid about 4 hours. Tip: Distilled (or boiled tap water) freeze clearer than plain tap water!
    Garden Party Frozen Floral Ice Bucket first layer

  3. Build The Mold:

    Place the smaller container inside a larger container, rest on ice base and tape small bucket inside the large bucket to hold in place.

    Weigh down the smaller container with a small frozen ice pack or a weight. Add more flowers, push them down or position with chopsticks in the outer ring. Freeze this layer for 2-3 hours. If your flowers are quite large, they will hold in between the outer and inner bucket.Garden Party Frozen Floral Ice Bucket setup

  4. Add another Layer of Flowers and Greenery:

    Fill with another 3 or 4 inches of water and place flowers down into water.
    Sometimes the flowers float up, use a chopstick to push down into the water. Garden Party Frozen Floral Ice Bucket pour water

  5. Final Layer of Flowers, Greenery, and Water:

    Repeat and freeze in 3-4 layers depending on bucket size. Freezing in layers allows flowers to be all the way through the bucket. Otherwise, they float to the top.
    Freeze overnight before taking out of plastic bucket. Garden Party Frozen Floral Ice Bucket top

  6. Un-mold Your Frozen Bucket:

    When you are ready to unmold your Garden Party Wine Chiller, pour warm water into the center small bucket which will release the small pail from the center.

    Next, run the large bucket under warm water until the bucket releases. Garden Party Frozen Floral Ice Bucket mold bucket

  7. Return Ice Bucket to Freezer Quickly!

    Once your ice bucket is out of the mold, return it to the freezer until your party begins, place out after guests arrive on a pretty silver tray with a napkin underneath to keep it from sliding with a bottle of sparkling water, wine, or champagne. Of course, it melts, so place it somewhere so it can drip into your garden!

    Garden Party Frozen Floral Ice Bucket in ice bucket

So pretty...and by the way, I kept this in my freezer for a couple of weeks before using, so this project can be done well in advance of your party.

Garden Party Frozen Floral Ice Bucket floral close up

Garden Party Wine Chiller Ideas and Tips:

Place your ice bucket on a beautiful silver tray on top of a napkin, this helps it not slide.

You can use the same technique freezing techniques to make small bowls to serve shrimp cocktail and sauce,  wouldn't lemon slices be gorgeous frozen in ice bowl? Just use two different size bowls as your mold and the same instructions in this post. You could make one for shrimp, and one for the sauce.

Creative Things To Freeze:

  • Try lemon, lime, or orange slices.
  • Fruit like strawberries or blueberries
  • Use flowers and greenery from your own garden.
  • Herbs from your garden: mint and rosemary
  • For Winter or Fall, try leaves, cranberries, greenery, pine cones, or cinnamon sticks!

How To Use Ice Chillers and Bowls:

  • Serve a cold dip in an ice bowl with cut veggies chilled.
  • Or serve pretty ice cubes for drinks using edible flowers, fruit, or herbs using an ice-cube tray.

Wine Chiller Serving Tips:

  • Pre-chill your wine bottles so they are nice and cold before your party.
  • The ice bucket will begin to melt very fast so place it out at your party just after guests have arrived.
  • Before your party, remove the frozen floral ice bucket from the plastic pail, and keep in the freezer.
Garden Party Frozen Floral Ice Bucket bright close showing beautiful bright flowers frozen in the ice holding a bottle of chilled wine
Garden Party Frozen Floral Ice Bucket with glasses

Having a garden party? Try these ideas

How To Make Spring Crostini Appetizers
Spring garden crostini with edible flowers and herbs is a spectacular easy appetizer, perfect for a tea, garden party, wedding shower, or Mother's Day.
GET THE RECIPE PIN IT
A white platter with crostini recipe topped with edible flowers and herbs.
Crudités and Green Goddess Dip
Crudités with Green Goddess Dip is an easy appetizer. Serve veggie cups and a purple cabbage "bowl" for a unique relish tray at your party!
GET THE RECIPE PIN IT
A cutting board with crudites and dip with bright colored vegetables cut into strips and sticks.

Have fun, create and share something you put your heart into with your guests, that is truly entertaining in style and your guests will love it!

All the Best,

Lisa

XO

1.4K shares

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recipe Rating




Primary Sidebar

Hi, I'm LISA! Welcome, can I get you something delicious to eat? Let's find that recipe you are craving. Delicious Table features simple recipes, holiday and party food ideas.

Find out more →

FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL

MOST POPULAR RECIPES

  • The Best Cheeseburger
  • 15 Lemon Recipes
  • Homemade Dog Food Recipe
  • Lobster Ravioli
  • Limoncello
  • Classic Taco Salad

ALL READER FAVES ►

COOKOUT & JULY 4TH RECIPES

  • American Flag Cake
  • Lamb Gyros With Greek Tzatziki Sauce
  • Cherry Pie Ice Cream Sandwiches
  • Homemade Relish
  • Burger Sauce
  • The Best Burger Seasoning

MORE RECIPES ►

Footer

Most Popular "Reader Favorite" Recipes

A person holding a messy grilled burger topped with melted cheese, burger sauce, lettuce, tomato, and pickles.

The Best Cheeseburger

A pile of bright yellow lemons in a pile ready to make lemon recipes.

15 Lemon Recipes

A white ceramic dog dish that says woof filled with homemade dog food.

Homemade Dog Food Recipe

A white plate filled with heart shaped lobster ravioli garnished with parsley.

Lobster Ravioli

Two small glasses of icy cold limoncello (lemoncello) ready to sip.

Limoncello

A white plate full of taco salad topped with taco meat, grated cheese, Fritos, sour cream, black olives and tomatoes.

Classic Taco Salad

Three golden crispy edged hash browns baked in a muffin tin on cutting board.

Oven Baked Hash Browns

A square collage of colorful grilled food at a cookout with a logo that says Cookout Menu.

Cookout Menu

A small clear jar filled with sun dried tomatoes and topped with olive oil, rosemary, garlic, and basil for use in recipes.

Sun Dried Tomatoes

A red bowl with fluffy vanilla frosting ready to frost a cake.

Fluffy Buttercream Frosting

A large glass clamp jar filled with pickled eggs, fresh jalapeno slices, and spices.

Jalapeno Pickled Eggs

A large pork loin roast with a lot of dry rub seasoning pouring over the top.

Grill & BBQ Rub

A graphic showing lots of food for July 4th including cheeseburgers, corn, and baked beans.

100+ July 4th Recipes

A Cinco de Mayo party with frozen margaritas, guacamole, and chips on a green table.

CoronaRita Margaritas

A white casserole dish with roasted pulled pork just out of the oven and seasoned with bbq rub.

Oven Roasted Pulled Pork

A large white spoon scooping a serving of cowboy baked beans out of a casserole dish.

Cowboy Beans

More Delicious Recipes

AFFILIATE DISCLAIMER

As an Amazon Associate and Affiliate Marketer, I earn from qualifying purchases. If you click a product affiliate link on Delicious Table and make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no additional cost to you, ever!  I own every cooking product I recommend and love how they perform. Happy Cooking! Lisa XO

I've Been Featured On

Lisa Hatfield Torres with Delicious Table shares everyday and holiday fresh seasonal ingredient real food recipes, cooking techniques, kitchen tips, and more at www.DeliciousTable.com.

PLEASE FOLLOW US!

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • YouTube

Reader Faves!

A person holding a messy grilled burger topped with melted cheese, burger sauce, lettuce, tomato, and pickles.

The Best Cheeseburger

A pile of bright yellow lemons in a pile ready to make lemon recipes.

15 Lemon Recipes

A white ceramic dog dish that says woof filled with homemade dog food.

Homemade Dog Food Recipe

Copyright © 2021 ♥︎ Delicious Table ♥︎ Privacy policy ♥︎ Accessibility Statement