Wedding Favors!
June 29th, 2008 @ 11:31 am by Miss Margarita
I’ve been thinking about wedding favors for some reason from the moment we got engaged. I think it’s because my sister in law gave me the idea to give away pashmina shawls. We were going to order a bunch of them and then tie them on the back of chairs to look like ribbon/chair decorations. Then at some point in the night, we’d tell our guests what they were and to take them home as gifts. I was even going to get little labels made with our names and wedding date sewn on them. I eventually abandoned this plan as the numbers grew to 450-500. Also, I was feeling bad for not even attempting to include the men in the favor.
So, one day my mom and I were talking and we came up with the idea of doing something with tea. Sri Lankans and Indians alike are obsessed with tea so this seemed like a pretty perfect idea. Then Mrs. Onion posted about using adagio tea samples for wedding favors. I went on their site and ordered some samples, and they were adorable. I came up with this idea to do a Ceylon tea (Sri Lankan tea) and a Darjeeling (Indian tea) so it brings the two cultures together. I think I’m going to stick little Sri Lankan and Indian flags on them or something like that to make the idea clear.
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Luggage Tag Update
June 20th, 2008 @ 5:03 pm by Mrs. Gingerbread
Remember back in April when I was contemplating luggage tags as favours? Well, we decided to buy a laminator and make them ourselves. Our first idea was to use an image of a map of Vancouver. Then someone mentioned the save-the-date postcard image that our photographer, Aki, took. So now I’m torn. You know what that means! Time for a poll.
Exhibit A
Montana-Flavored Favors
June 18th, 2008 @ 3:45 pm by Miss Cherry Pie
Now that you have an idea of what it’s like in Polebridge, maybe you can help me figure out which of the following favors from the funky Polebridge Mercantile would best serve as a memento for our guests.
Our maximum budget is $500, which equates to $5 per person (for 100 guests max), though it would be nice to spend less and still give a nice gift. We’ve got several options in or around that price range…
1. Homemade cookies!
The merc makes a LARGE variety of deeelicious cookies (not pictured). And at 3 for a dollar, they are a steal. We could easily package these up in some cellophane with a ribbon or a custom sticker and give them to guests. Everyone loves cookies… but they wouldn’t last long!
Favorit-ism
June 15th, 2008 @ 10:24 am by Mrs. Tulip
Wedding favors can be a touchy issue. Brides love them, but realistically non-edibles often get tossed out after the wedding. (Whether right away or, if you’re like me, after you’ve kept them for a few months because you feel guilty throwing out a friend’s favor!)
So I was determined that any favors we gave away should be useful. I also wanted to make them, for a personal touch. After discovering dried lavender for sale at Save-on-Crafts, I decided the answer was lavender sachets. They not only leave your clothes smelling lovely, but keep away bugs to boot!
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Chocolate or Truffles?
June 5th, 2008 @ 8:26 am by Miss Cookie
Mr. Cookie and I love chocolate, especially truffles and hot chocolate! There have been so many chocolate related memories intertwined in our relationship: a romantic email about hot chocolate in the autumn, sipping homemade hot chocolate by a fire on a cold December night, making chocolate covered strawberries at Thanksgiving, handmaking truffles for Valentine’s Day, sipping the best hot chocolate in the world in Brugge, Belgium, and the list goes on and on…
About Those Favors…
May 30th, 2008 @ 11:07 am by Mrs. Toucan
I haven’t written about our wedding favors in awhile, since I had all of my boxes of tea cups wrapped up months ago. I almost totally forgot about what I was planning on putting inside them - the flowering tea balls!
When we ordered the flowering tea balls in China in December, they ladies in the tea shop vacuum sealed the bags so they would stay nice and fresh. When we were wrapping the boxes, I decided that it was to early to break open the sealed bags of tea… so we waited, and I almost forgot! When I remembered this weekend, I was lucky in the sense that I already had all the supplies I needed to package them.
Let’s Rewind…
May 28th, 2008 @ 12:51 pm by Mrs. Cherry Blossom
into some old projects that I want to share …
Some of you have asked about the favor tags, so here goes. I created the template in Powerpoint by creating 1.5″ circles and spacing them evenly top to bottom and left to right, so that when I printed the backside of the circle, it’d line up exactly. A good trick to know if the circles on the two separate pages are lined up is if you are tabbing between page 1 (front side) and page 2 (back side), you don’t see the page blink or change much other than the text.
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Photobooth!
May 19th, 2008 @ 5:35 pm by Mrs. Cream Puff
I must be evolving. Over the weekend, I managed to delegate three things. I delegated two of them to my wonderful mother. First, I asked her to deal with the tent-for-the-ceremony-musicians issue (which she has already taken care of!). Second, I asked her to ask her rabbi (as I do not have a relationship with one where I live) to help me figure out some inter-faith wording for our ketubah. I then asked Mr. Cream Puff to get us a basket of disguises for the photobooth. I cannot believe it did not even OCCUR to me to ask Mr. Cream Puff to deal with the photobooth rental. He totally would have done it, and it didn’t even occur to me. I’m a weirdo.
Anyway, the photobooth situation is completely taken care of, deposit down and everything. Apparently they were very busy for a couple of weeks, and that was why I couldn’t get through to them. We are going with Party Booths–their booths look great and they were the only option I could find for under $1000. We decided to have it for our entire reception, which will be 5 hours…so we’ll be paying $1045 for the whole thing. It’s still a ton of money, but I think it will be worth it.
Photo courtesy of Party Booths
Precisely Perfect Cookie Favors
May 16th, 2008 @ 11:31 am by Miss Cupcake
I’ve seen some cute cookie favors at weddings and showers….. but these precisely perfect cookies from New York-based company meli and angi really take the cake…. er, cookie.
Photo-Stripping at the Reception
May 16th, 2008 @ 11:03 am by Miss Candy Corn
Phew, the photo booth rental has officially been taken care of! Apart from the whole getting married and spending a day with our closest friends and family thing, this is the part that I’m most looking forward to! After dinner, there will be an attendant guiding guests to the photo booth, where they can take endless photos from 8-10pm. The fancy schmancy attendant takes the printout of the photos (the machine prints two 2×3 strips on one page), cuts one off for the guest, and places the other in our scrapbook so the guests can sign next to their photos and voila!
Photo courtesy Signature Studio
