Miss Candy Corn, Philadelphia
Age and Occupation: Senior Editor/Writer & Freelance Illustrator
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Student
Engagement Date: September 1, 2004
Wedding Date: October, 2008
Blogging Since: May 6, 2008
Venue: Pennsylvania Museum of Archaelogy and Anthropology
About Me: I enjoy people watching (especially in New Jersey malls), obsessive collecting, drooling over contemporary art, browsing flea markets for vintage finds and eating an absurd amount of cheese. In my Philadelphia abode, I create mixed media artwork and one-of-a-kind home accessories in the company of my farmer-tanned fiancé, our Westiepoo (Betty White), our three rabbits (Cadbury, Willie Nelson and Applesauce) and our two frisky chinchillas (Ethel Funk and Maude).
I’m Jonesing for a Cream Soda…
May 15th, 2008 @ 12:40 pm by Miss Candy Corn
Since neither of us drink alcohol, Mr. Candy Corn and I decided to order personalized Jones Soda as a favor, as well as something guests can toast with during the speeches. Don’t get me wrong, we’re still having an open bar, but who really drinks more than a sip of the champagne anyway? I’ll take any excuse I can get to drink orange & cream soda, so October couldn’t come soon enough!
This is a sample of what our labels look like:
We ordered a case of each of these (12 bottles per case, 108 soda bottles total):
The only thing I’m not sure about is how to present these to our guests. Should we have one at each place setting beforehand or should we sit them all out on one table, arranged by flavor, for guests to fight over? Normally I’d say we could use them as place cards, but I already have place card holders and an idea for those. I want to avoid mayhem as much as possible, so does anyone have any recommendations?
I don’t mind if someone ends up with bubble gum at their plate and swaps with their neighbor for green apple. I just don’t know if we should have an initial stampede to the tables of sodas where guests can fight for their right to party with fufu berry. Or should we just randomly place them on tables beforehand, which I’d imagine would cause a lot of “What flavor do you have? Wanna switch?” whispers during the best man speech.
Photo courtesy thepalmtrees on Flickr
Photo courtesy glittergoods on Flickr
And yes, I’m storing nine cases of Jones soda in my cramped apartment because I’ve been checking up on their flavors monthly and they finally have flavors that are droolworthy (Turkey + Gravy flavored soda? Seriously?).
19 Responses to “I’m Jonesing for a Cream Soda…”
hahahaha
“guests can fight for their right to party with fufu berry”
I just have to say, you freakin’ crack me up.
are you having a cocktail hour before the speeches and such? if so, maybe you can set them out on a table and let people pick them up then
FH and I love Jones soda. We were thinking about doing the personalized Jones soda for our rehearsal dinner favors (20 people maximum) but I might just DIY instead with label paper. 
Hooray for Jones soda! It was such a huge hit at our rehearsal dinner… and people even saved the bottles!
If you could set them at each table, I would do that! People trade flavors anyhow
Oooh - the turkey and gravy is just weird. Worth trying, but I won’t buy it again. I’m all for the fruit flavors though!
Cute idea and great favor! I love the personalized labels:)
I think they make more of a statement all lined up like the second pic. With the tags. So cute!!!
cool. I however always drink way more than one sip of champagne at weddings (unless of course it’s not champagne)
You are a stronger person than I, storing them in your apartment. They would sit in a corner of mine for about three days before the craving for Fufu Berry became too powerful to resist!
I love Jones soda which we are serving at our wedding as well. But we just using the regular cans.
I’m going to just get those galvanized buckets and stick them in there. In July I think people will want their drinks cold.
They’re cute, but for an average of $3.66 a bottle with shipping, I’ll pass. I simply cannot pay that much for a bottle of soda, no matter how tasty.
@ Linda: be careful, if you have personalized labels, that they don’t get all mushy and come off/get ruined!
Miss Candy Corn, this idea is awesome! I may have to steal it >:-)
I second the drinking more than a sip of champagne, but these are cute.
I think they need to be in the fridge prior to serving. Can you get them served on passed trays? That would make an impact.
ps. I think they would need to have straws pass too! lol
How many people are you having and how many guests to a table? It’d be an AWESOME way to name your tables and seat your guests…
yep! we’re having a cocktail hour in a separate room from the reception, so it might make sense to hand them out then! i’m just worried people will be like MMM SODA! and drink it all up before the toasts.
@lulabell:
I love the idea of having the sodas passed around on trays! I’ll have to ask if our caterer would be up for that
@Kayleigh:
The prices are really steep, but since the champagne prices that our catering place offered are about the same price, we decided to go with the personalized soda because it’s taaasty.
@KatyStardust:
We’re having around 100 guests, with probably about 11 tables (8-9 people at each)…that would be a fun way to do the table numbers!
I second the motion to pass them on trays. That would be too cute. Plus, that way, they’d stay cold until served - just have the waitstaff refresh their supply from the fridges.
Going to be super cute whatever you do!
We used these at our rehearsal dinner. We displayed ours on ice, since they were meant to be consumed during the dinner. It might look cute to place them all together and attach an escort card. If they want to trade flavors later, so be it, but what a cool way to eliminate the need for escort cards! Two birds, one soda!
You could also put buckets at each table with a variety of flavors there, that way everyone could choose the flavor they wanted without crowding at a table and you get the effect of the whole grouping together.
Although I really like the passed idea. Gives the formality of the toasts with passed champagne a little kick in the pants.
