It’s no secret that I love Weddingbee. I’ve been blogging here for almost eoght months, and reading it for much, much longer. Long story short, I wanted to include the hive in my wedding some way, and I thought that a “Weddingbee themed” favour would be the perfect way. This process didn’t start this easily though: we had originally planned to do homemade jam, and my Mom rushed out and bought 100 mason jars. Then…we realized we don’t can. And that it’s pretty hard. But, we had all these jars, and needed to use them.
I stumbled upon this tutorial on Project Wedding, and knew it would be easy to adapt for a larger volume of honey. We had 100 250mL wide-mouth mason jars, and we bought 24kg, or 52 pounds, of honey from a local supplier. My Mom grows apple mint in her garden, so we just used that (hence:”organic mint” being printed on the labels). I didn’t take photos during the honey/mint combining, but we sterilized the jars using a canner and then poured honey to fill the jar half-way, then added 3-4 mint leaves in the middle, then topped it off with more honey (This took my Mom and I an entire weekend—it was exhausting). The result was something like this:
I designed a simple sticker using Adobe Illustrator that I printed through Vistaprint, and applied one sticker to the side of the jar, and one sticker to the top of the jar.
My mom and I both thought it needed something more, so we purchased some wooden honey dippers from clarkewoodworks on Etsy. We also got some lace to use to cover the top of the jars. I traced out circles using an old bowl, and then placed the fabric on the jar with a clear hair elastic.
To attach the honey dipper to the jar, I slipped it under the clear elastic.
Then, I tied it all up with some champagne ribbon I got on the cheap in the Fashion District in Los Angeles a few weeks ago. This not only looks cute, but provides more stability for the honey dipper.
I absolutely love our favours and I am so glad that I could incorporate Weddingbee into our wedding somehow. (Plus we tasted the honey and it is DELICIOUS!) I’m excited and proud to give these mostly-handcrafted, local and organic wedding favours to our guests. I hope everyone likes them as much as I do!
Did you choose an edible wedding favour? Why or why not?
WOW! I love these favors and would be delighted to get one if I was a guest at your wedding. I think they look really special and it’s amazing that it’s all locally sourced. It was great of your Mom to do the honey part for the whole weekend.
In the end we didn’t go for edible favors because 90% of our guests are coming overseas to the wedding so they would have to eat whatever it was the weekend of the wedding.
those are adorable! I wanna go off and make my own mint honey now.
Also, you resisted taking the pun to the next level, “Mint to Bee” for which I thank you 
I love them! I made homemade candles that I used jars similar to that and covered in fabric for our favors. I can appreciate the work that went into these!
omg, now I really want the honey favors or jelly favors I’ve been looking into. That lace over top the jar just made me like cry LMAO. I’m so in love w/that idea. It’s so darn cute, you guys did such a great job.
Did you make 100 because you have 100 confirmed guests?
I really need to check out that tutorial. Ahhhh! Thinking about buying the honey jars already done though minus being personalized.
I just pinned this blog post to come back to later, yay!
These look great, totally worth the effort!
These are wonderful, your guests are going to love these!
That’s so adorable! I wish something like that was in our budget but Mr CL’s determined to do away with favours altogether because we can’t afford to give good ones 
Looks amazing! I love honey and how cute are those dippers!?
These came out so cute!!! Your guests are all going to love them! Such a clever way to incorporate Weddingbee!!!
@minimoo: Thanks! My Mom did the jar sterilization while I did the honey pouring. I did all the decorating by myself. It was sooo much work.
@radishtime: LOL that would be taking it too far for sure!
@totheislnds: Thanks!
@Rivendeler: So much the work. The honey pouring took a whole weekend, as did the decorating. I feel like these were more work than my letterpress invites.
@soyjoy222: My mom wanted us to do candles initially – but I thought that would be too much work!
@SuperDuperBrit: Yay for pinning! We had 100 jars and we invited 100 so we did 100, but we’re only having 90 now including us 
. I love the lace too, it was one of my favourite parts!
@Katy: I’m glad you think so because I was seriously doubting it!
@Mrs. Pony: I hope so. I’ve already told my Mom i’ll be SO sad if they don’t take them.
@AstoriaKatie: Thanks!!
@clumsylawyer: Favours seriously add up! Because we bought all the supplies over an amount of time, it doesn’t seem as expensive in my head… but if I add them up, they’re at least $5.00 a piece. Which is EXPENSIVE! Don’t feel bad about not doing favours – you don’t need them.
@Mrs. Aardvark: The dippers really finished them off I think!
@Miss Beanstalk: Thanks Miss B!
Beautiful!!! I love how creatively you dressed up the mason jar. We are making homemade limoncello as our favor… hopefully everyone likes it!!
my oh my! WOW!! i’d love to do this for our big day. definitely checking the tutorial when i get home from work!
Oh my goodness – these are adorable! The dippers were the perfect touch and the lace adds so much charm. You have some lucky guests!
So cute! I would be so excited to receive this favor as a wedding guest!
@MrsPeachMartini: I had an italian friend in highschool and during our senior year (drinking age is 18 where I live in Canada), her Mom would give us limoncello before she’d drive us to the bar and then italian percolated coffee in the mornings…. I miss that! Limoncello is sooo good.
@mitchiedoll: The tutorial is super easy – honey, mint leaves, combine. Lol!
@Mrs. Sunhat: Aww thanks!
@Mrs. Hawk: I hope that the boys coming are just as excited as the girls, because it’s a pretty girly favour!
@Miss Treasure: It is SO good!
Mrs. Eagle, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Age and Occupation: 22, Medical Sciences Graduate Student / Science Instructor Fiancee's Age and Occupation: 23, Nurse Engagement Date: April 2011 Wedding Date: August 2012 Venue: Historic Lougheed House About Me: I'm a science-geek graduate student who is studying craniofacial malformations and evolutionary developmental biology. I have a passion for DIY crafts, amazing red wine, and all-things-wedding. Together with my wonderful fiancée, we are planning a formal black tie wedding filled with DIY projects and vintage decor. When I'm not reading about science-y things or wedding blogs, I enjoy teaching science-y things to kids and trying to be Martha Stewart incarnate.
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