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Remember how I said we couldn’t make fruit preserves for our mason jars anymore? Then I started chasing bees? Well, I smartened up and went with something easy peasy for our favors: jelly beans!

It wasn’t an easy decision, though. I fought going the easy route at first and when I realized honey was too expensive. Then I started exploring lots of other ideas. I found these awesome heart-shaped whoopie pies on Etsy and got really addicted to the idea of having labels that said “Whoopie, we’re married,” like Mrs. Ribbons and Mrs. Hamster!

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However, when I added up the cost of ordering the number of pies we’d need, I realized it was going to be way too expensive!

I should also mention that I even started to contemplate the idea of making them myself, even though I’ve NEVER made a whoopie pie in my entire life, and then I woke up and realized this was all way too complicated for a bride just 5 weeks from her wedding!

During a crisis call to Mr. Brooch, he calmly suggested jelly beans, because our wedding is so close to Easter and, “it’ll be easy.” At first I totally blew him off because I have a thing for cute sayings and I didn’t think anything went with jelly beans. A few Google searches later, I came across a photo with the phrase: “Thank you for BEAN here with us!”

YES!

This might work! I got REALLY excited and asked Mama Brooch to pick up some jelly beans from the store just so I could see how they’d look in my mason jars. She walked in my place that night with a bag of the most perfect-colored beans: yellow, green, and pink! Our colors!

I loved the way the our jars looked, but the real test was whether I could stomach the jelly beans. I’m not the biggest bean fan and I felt weird giving out favors even I wouldn’t eat. To my surprise these SPREE jelly beans turned out DELICIOUS!! So much so that they are currently ruining my pre-wedding diet!!

After tasting them, loving them, and seeing how bright and beautiful the jar looked, I began adhering fabric to the tops of each jar and playing around with cute labels on the computer.

I decided I am not going to use the green ribbon you see in these pictures. It’s difficult to tie in a bow and I thought twine would be way cuter! Yay! I’ve always wanted to incorporate twine into our wedding somehow. I just ordered a bunch last week and can’t wait to see how it looks. This is our mock up:

For about $30 worth of jelly beans we got about 30 mason jars full! We need more, but I’m pretty happy with the direction these are headed. I didn’t want to spend a ton of money on favors because I heard there’s usually a lot left behind. I really love the pop of color and how perfectly they match  everything else, and I’m super happy we found a way to incorporate our mason jars!

Does your wedding fall near a holiday? Are you taking advantage of any holiday decor/favors?