Mrs. Daffodil, San Francisco/Los Angeles
Age and Occupation: 26, Nonprofit Strategy Consultant
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Resident Physician
Engagement Date: December 29, 2006
Wedding Date: May, 2008
Blogging Since: August, 2007
Venue: Church w/ floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the Valley; Westin in downtown LA
About Me: I moved around a lot growing up, but consider myself a Southerner at heart. I love scrapbooking, dancing, doggies, and diet coke. I am all about personalizing everything and hence, I'm a DIY bride who is just loving the entire wedding planning process! Mr. Daffodil and I met in our college fellowship group and were "just friends" for three years before we started dating. We've been together for four years now and can't wait to get married in sunny SoCal, Mr. Daffodil's hometown.
The Icing on the Cake
July 9th, 2008 @ 1:57 pm by Mrs. Daffodil
…or rather, the wrapping! Helpful wedding tip: It’s all about presentation!! 
It’s amazing the difference that great presentation can make.
So…our favors were a bit random. As you all know by now, part of wedding planning is all about compromise: focusing on the aspects you are willing to fight for and letting go on some of the other aspects. As hard as it was, I had to let go on the favors (more on favors that made it in the running some other day!). It was cute, somewhat practical, and guests were either delighted/amused/entertained or possibly all three.
Here is our favor:
It’s a face towel folded into the form of a Chinese dessert! Pretty cute I suppose, but VERY random! 
The parents loved it most because they felt it was unique but also practical, so that people could actually use the towel and would be less likely to toss it.
We found these at an Asian shop that specializes in wedding favors last Christmas when I was visiting my parents in Hong Kong. They thought it was unique and cute, but I was a bit hesitant. They took a picture. The in-laws later saw the picture. The in-laws fell in love with it. My parents liked it too. And the deal was sealed - Mommy Daffodil put in an order and brought all 250 of them with her the week before the wedding.
I went with it . But not without a little primping and pretty-fying first. We’d be putting a favor at each place setting, and to be honest, Mr. D and I both thought it made everything look quite messy. We invested in some spring green tissue paper and bought extra rolls of the same ribbon we used on our invitations.
It took forever to individually wrap each one, but we did it! Here is the Daffodil family hard at work on their late night shift…
(I’m taking the pic - Mr D’s family and my other bridesmaid who was helping turned in for the night…What would I do without any of them!!)
And here are the favors, all boxed up and ready to go! Those are little engraved personalized tags that came with the favors, with our names and wedding date on them!
Quite a transformation, no? I am happy to report that literally just about every guest took their favor with them!
A funny aside:
After Mr. D and I returned from our honeymoon, we were busy packing up and moving. Two of our groomsmen later dropped by to visit and crashed for the night. Well, given that we had packed everything up, they didn’t have any towels. Yes, you guessed it. We had some leftover favors (we had ordered a lot more than our final headcount) so the face towels came in handy indeed!!
14 Responses to “The Icing on the Cake”
Those towels look yummy 
I love to see you and your family working together, its so cute!
i like it. its random but wrapped up you can’t tell. i love usable favors!
Very cute!
I do have a question for you though - did you find that most people were unwrapping them at the table to see what was inside? We chose to put our favors into red chinese food boxes for this very reason.
Of course, when I put them in there, I made sure the the ribbon (the favors were ornaments with personalized ribbon) was laying just right & the ornament was cushioned well with tissue paper. I cringed imagining people shoving them back in haphazardly after all that hard work! I almost wanted to put a favor on display so that the guests could SEE what they were getting instead of unwrapping it!
(sorry so long!)
Becky
Really, thats a cute and different idea!
@Becky: actually, strangely enough, i think the majority people kept their’s wrapped! i’d say at most a couple people per table opened their’s, and once everyone else saw what it was, they kept their’s wrapped up!
very useful…i’d use it 
I love them - they are absolutely adorable!
how weird! i went to a wedding a few months back and they had the exact same favor! they had it in pink and in brown too. very cute.
where in hong kong were these purchased? they’re adorable
may i ask where you purchased these in hong kong?
I stumbled across the towels while browsing through dealextreme.com, and I had to share. They are $3.92 each (plus free shipping), but from buyers’ comments the boxes may be damaged.
pink towels:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.8206
brown towels:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.8210
Enjoy!
@lily: @mrscho: sorry, i just saw these comments! there is a “bridal mall” in prince edward, pretty much right outside of the mtr station…there are a bunch of shops in there that sell wedding favors, and quite a few who had these exact ones! you might have to do some price comparisons, as i’m not sure which exact store my mom went to, but they are there! i think in US dollars, we averaged about $1.50 a favor, which is much cheaper than how much they cost if you were to purchase them in the US!
