Wedding Blog

For our OOT bags, we wanted to include NYC-themed items. Nothing too over the top. Just a touch here and there. Since soft pretzels would not last long, I was searching for a hard pretzel of substantial size. Mr. Snow Pea’s mom ran to Costco for me and picked up a tub of these hard pretzels for $3.99 (50 pretzels). They are about 4.5″ wide and 5/8″ thick, so they were perfect!

Since they were loose pretzels, I had to package them somehow for sanitary reasons. Okay, I lied. I wanted a reason to use this cookie favor idea by the talented Mrs. Plumeria. I even pulled out all the cheesy stops and included a line saying “Tie the Knot” since it’s a pretzel. Like the cookies, the pretzels are somewhat heart-shaped as well. Perfect!

I created the labels in Photoshop and printed 4/sheet of 8.5×11 paper. I trimmed the labels, folded them, and stapled them to the cellophane bags. I put two pretzels in each bag since there are two guests per hotel room. Since the back side of the pretzel is flat, I inserted the two pretzels back to back, so the “nice side” can be seen from the front and back of the bag. I like these cellophane food bags because they can expand and hold goodies of all shapes and sizes.

I made these as additions to my OOT bags, but they would easily make great wedding favors.

Pretzels (Costco): $3.99/50
Cellophane bags (ACMoore): $2.69/24
Labels: Free

Total = 19 cents each!
For 100 guests, that’s only $19!