Mrs. Hummingbird, Toronto
Age and Occupation: 25, Publishing Coordinator
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Videogame Designer/Cartoonist
Engagement Date: May 4, 2007
Wedding Date: June 28, 2008
Blogging Since: September 18, 2007
Venue: A garden wedding followed by a tented reception on Mr. Hummingbird's father's property.
About Me: I’m a pop culture loving, vintage obsessed foodie living in Canada’s biggest city with my fantastic fiancé and our lovable fluffy cat Bettie. I’m stoked to marry my best friend and to throw what I hope will be
the most fun and colourful party of our lives.
A Geek Wedding, Part 4: The Favours
July 14th, 2008 @ 2:54 pm by Mrs. Hummingbird
Putting a geeky wedding together take a lot of hard work. If you want something unusual (and for that thing to look good), it needs to be custom made and custom making things, as many a DIY bride knows, can be incredibly time consuming.
When we first started thinking favours, we thought it would be cool to get customized chocolate coins and put them in little yellow custom made Mario Question Mark boxes, similar to this one below (minus the Mario figurine on the top):
Picture courtesy of www.consolereview.com
But the closer the wedding got and as we realized how long all of our other custom projects were taking us, we realized that, if we had to hand paint 70-80 little yellow boxes, we would lose our sanity. Therefore, as much as we wanted to keep the wedding personal, we started to think about outsourcing it. We wanted to go with something edible and to go with someone who would be cool going along with our wacky theme. Plus, we did have cost to think of on top of everything else since we were sticking within a fairly modest budget. In wedding world, this is a pretty tall order, but thankfully it was met when we met the lovely and talented Ms. Stephanie Pick of The Queen of Tarts in Roncesvalles.
Photo courtesy of www.juliekinnear.com
If you’re in Toronto, I cannot recommend Stephanie highly enough. She got what we were doing, was responsive to e-mails and our gingerbread favours rocked!
She made . . .
Yoshi Egg Cookies!
Flower Cookies!
Mushroom Cookies!
Star Cookies!
And, when we went to pick them up before the wedding, she was sweet enough to admit that the cookies had been easier than she expected and ended up giving us a discount on them! I was shocked - I mean how often do you luck out and find a vendor who does amazing work and is so honest to boot?
Anyway, the cookies were a complete hit to the point where, at the end of the night, it turned out, while we were dancing, someone had taken a bunch of extras and Mr. Hum and I only had one measly cookie to spare! I was sad that someone had taken my star, but definitely not sad about the cookie’s taste - so yummy!
Have any of you done unconventional favours? What did you do?
(Thanks to my friend Chris who took pictures of all the cookies since I forgot to tell our photographer to!)
Other entries in the geek series:
A Geek Wedding, Part 1: The Escort and Table Cards
A Geek Wedding, Part 2: The Programs
A Geek Wedding, Part 3: The Cake
21 Responses to “A Geek Wedding, Part 4: The Favours”
oh HELLZ NAH, no body woulda taken my star, no way. somebody would have had to cough one back out for me.
the coins in the boxes ideas are freaking genius! but these cookies certainly turned out fab, and so much less headache. nicely done girl! oh and that vendor, yeah, i would certainly have been emotional enough to make out with her after that.
AWESOME!
SO cute! My head’s spinning with other cute Mario items to feature on cookies. Goombas! Koopa shells! Wheeee!
These are fantastic! I can’t believe someone stole your cookies… I woulda knocked them out with my mad tae-bo skills. You can’t keep me away from my sugary treats!
Oh I LOVE Queen of Tarts! They also make these amazing HUGE marshmallows! MMMM.
Your cookies look so awesome!
OMG!!!! They are freakin’ awesome. My fiance would flip out over those… how cool! And she did a great job!
those truly ARE amazing. I would have cried too if someone stole my star cookie!!
I want that yoshi cookie so bad. Whenever I play Super Mario I scream when I lose Yoshi. I call him best friend and I will instantly throw myself off a cliff because living life without Yoshi is no life at all.
those are stunningly amazing!!! 
What a wonderful surprise that they came out absolutely perfect!!!!!!
OMG, those are awesome. Does your gal deliver to the U.S.? FI and I love hockey and we were wondering if she can make cookies in shapes of hockey pucks or sticks?!?! that would be cool.
I LOVE these. I am such a die hard Nintendo fan, and so is my boy. I’ll have to show him these cookies! 
Yoshi is my favorite character (even though Yoshi’s Island DS is currently pwning me) so I love that cookie the best!
Oh my gosh…those rock. They did an excellent job on them!
So cute, and gingerbread too– yummy!
how is someone gonna take the bride and groom’s cookies? scandalous! but speaks volumes of the taste. they look awesome!
I’m with tea…totally scandalous! Dang, what a nice baker to give you the discount after making such fabulous cookies. Did anyone magically double their size after the mushroom? Or blink wildlly after the star?
if it makes you feel better, jill… alex and i also only had one cookie to share because we forgot our favours on the table in the hype of catching the last shuttle to the hotel!
oh well. the cookie we DID share (ben included) was phenomenal. good job with those favours! they were fantastic.
these are fabulously cute!! is that regular icing that she used for the characters???? I would love to try to recreate something similar to this.
