Wedding Blog

The best thing about our original favor idea? Someone else made all the favors: less work for me! Of course, that came with a hefty price tag, one of about $6 a favor: yowza! The ribbons were adorable and the chocolate truffle inside delish, but the decorating piece was a single wine charm — a single wine charm! What the dickens were we thinking? Who would want to take home one random wine charm that wasn’t part of a set?

But we knew we wanted the favors to tie in with our Monopoly theme somehow, and did want to come up with something that wouldn’t be complete trash, so…we started out by contacting Etsy artist Sweet Papery, on the recommendation of Mrs. Violet’s post, and commissioned a custom rubber stamp…

…we purchased some “lucky” Florida lotto scratch-off tickets from our glamorous corner gas station…

Hit up New York’s Paper Presentation by phone for the perfectly sized 2 Pay envelope (but in a lovely pink color they call Pink Feather):

Lay out some classic Monopoly playing tokens to use in lieu of coins to do the scratchin’…

And voila! Our new favors, which will await each of our guests atop his or her fancy flat-folded napkin, are born!

I love our stamp by the way! I love how the curly’s are reminiscent of the ones on our invitation!

Originally, I ordered all the envelopes in Pink Feather, not knowing they also come in a refreshing Citrus Green…and now wonder if the envelope colors should alternate. I’m also thinking of putting stickers inside the envelopes where kids will be sitting (even though we only have a handful). What do you think?

It would be fun if someone really did get lucky and left our wedding with some cash in the pocket, no, as an added treat?