Wedding Blog

I have been given a great gift by one of my BM’s mothers! She wanted to throw me a shower or a luncheon, but I thought there must be something different that we could do. Mrs. Greene (my BM’s mom) is an amazing woman. For years in college she hosted get-togethers at her home and made delicious meals and yummy desserts. She has an amazing kitchen, and loves to be in it. I asked Mrs. Green if she would consider helping me with my DIY Candy Bar the week before the wedding. SHE SAID YES! So, a few days before the wedding, we are planning to get together at her home for a day or baking, candy making, and more.

I am so excited about what we are going to put on the candy bar, but I will share that a bit later. I have spent months trying to determine how our guests will get their candy home. I had a few ideas, ranging from baker’s boxes, to cellophane bags.

Option 1: Baker’s Boxes- I saw this gorgeous DIY project on the Style Me Pretty Blog and loved the boxes. You can see the DIY instructions here.

Finally this weekend, I decided to go a simple, cheap, DIY route, and I am super excited about how the treat bags turned out.

I decided to use brown paper lunch bags (I got 40 for $1 at the Dollar Store). I thought I would run them through my handy printer, and I love how they turned out.

The design was inspired by a lot of different elements. I pulled in the font from our invitations and other pieces. I used a flower from an old template (from the amazing Bella Bella Co.). I used our birds (but changed their colors). I really love how the kraft paper was pulled into this project… it makes everything come full circle, from our save the dates, to the invites, to the RD invites.

I used the Martha Stewart punch to punch out the tops.

The design was super easy. I designed this in Word (like all of our other paper products) and used cool fonts. I set the paper size in Word to be the exact size of the paper bags, and it worked really well. Here is a stack of them yet to be punched:

I am still deciding how they will be sealed, but I am thinking of buying some adorable little clothespins that people can use.

(these are from the Etsy shop of Dozi)

You can find the pins online. Here is a link to 50 of them for $2.49.

I am so excited about how they turned out and how cheap they were!