Wedding Blog

I posted a little while back on our favor change from a candy/dessert buffet to making a donation to a local non-profit bakery and giving out samples of their tasty maple cashew granola to our guests.

To ensure we wouldn’t change our minds to something else, I quickly ordered 125 3″x5″ muslin bags from Etsy and we picked up a stamp from Jo-Ann Fabric that read “all you need is love”. I gave Mr. S the stamp and a green ink pad and he stamped away. Cute, right?

Using my handy dandy 2-inch scallop cutter (one of my favorite wedding/crafty purchases thus far!), I laid out a message to attach to the muslin favor bags.

Each bag will have three of these scallops - 1 with a thank you message from us, 1 with information about Blue Sky Bakery, and 1 with the address and web site of the bakery. Using my recent purchase of a Fiskars Eyelet Punch & Setter (another fun crafty tool), I joined all three tags together with an eyelet and threaded through it the strings of the muslin bag, like so:

Oh, and don’t forget about the good stuff… this to die for maple cashew granola! I bought 3″x4″ plastic Ziploc bags from Etsy that fit perfectly inside of the muslin bags. It’s not more than a few bites of granola-y goodness, but hopefully those who live in Chicago will seek the bakery out to get some more!

Now we just have to wait until the week of the wedding to pick up bags and bags of granola to fill all of these tiny little bags. We’ve talked to the bakery and it sounds like they should be able to fill our huge granola order for that week! Beyond the granola (I’m estimating spending about $180 on it), the rest of the items - from the bags to the tags - was less than $50 for 125 favors. Yay!

Beyond the fact that we’re making a charitable contribution and supporting a great cause, my favorite detail of the favors is how great the “all you need is love” stamp looks on the bags. What little detail really makes your favor special?