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Wedding Favors

moj1966
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Hi,
I have been thinking about helping out a friend and do her wedding favors for her, as they are getting married on a tight budget,
Does any one have any good ideas, that look good but don't cost the earth. there color scheme is cream and burgundy
I have been thinking about helping out a friend and do her wedding favors for her, as they are getting married on a tight budget,
Does any one have any good ideas, that look good but don't cost the earth. there color scheme is cream and burgundy
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How about making some cookies with a heart or star shaped cutter and icing them with white icing and then with the couple's initials in red icing or with the guests names so they can be used instead of place cards?
You can get cellophane and some curling ribbon pretty cheaply to wrap them up in?
If you don't fancy baking, how about a couple of nice chocolates or truffles wrapped in cellophane with ribbon? This was done for a wedding I went to and people ate them along with their coffee at the end of the meal. If you can hang out until after Easter, you may get some nice choccies reduced that you can then rewrap?Belly by name, JELLYBELLY by nature!
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It involves baking but I saw on another board (a wedding themed one, lol) that someone bought a big roll of celophane and some ribbon in colour of choice.
They then made fudge! And put 3 squares of it an brought the celophane up and tied with the ribbon.
Make sense? LolGreen and White Barmy Army!0 -
the other cheap quirky one is a tube of lovehearts--they are 2 for one in some shops at the mo-you could even unwrap them and re-wrap in cellophane with the wedding colours in ribbons as above?even god cant change the past-no matter how many times i cryfor levi, leo, smudge and arfa:A my angels0
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Hobbycraft have organza bags on bogof at the moment so you get 40 for only £4.99 which is a really good price - only 12p each. They sell them in ivory and burgundy so they would tie in with the colour scheme. You could then fill them with a few mint imperials or a couple of chocolates. If you're lucky you might pick up some heart shaped chocolates or similar reduced in the supermarkets after Valentines Day.0
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Hi dont know if its any help but due to budget we tried to incorporate our table decorations and favours. So what we did was buy little glass/plasctic things kinda like these....
http://www.confetti.co.uk/productCategory/view/680-0-Pearla.do
but a bit bigger and bought organza and made our own favours with white organza and some almonds and added them to the little glasses. We then added a feather and tied the name tag to the bottom of the glass. So its like a place setting, table decoration and favour all in one. I think all in all we spent around £56.
Hope this makes sense. I can send a pic of them..... and web links to the shops i used if interested?
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i have bought some chocolate moulds ie bride and groom love hearts doves etc and cellophane bags and ribbon to do my fvours, have put a pic on the chocolate slabs discussionn theres some really good ideas therenow proud mum to 3 handsome boys :j latest one born 10/10/11:j0
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The little cellophane bags you get for card making are really cheap on Ebay - you could fill them with an assortmant of sweets and tie them with ribbon. I went to a wedding a while back where they had little candles as table favors - might be an idea.:staradmin:starmod: beware of geeks bearing .gifs...:starmod::staradmin:starmod: Whoever said "nothing is impossible" obviously never tried to nail jelly to a tree :starmod:0
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At a friend of mine's wedding (he is South African & she is English, they got married in the UK) they had a nice note on everyones placemat stating that instead of favours they were donating the money they would have spent to a SA childrens charity.
What they wrote, it included some bits about specific kids, was extremely moving, & it could be as expensive or money saving as you wish.
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Where are they getting married? We got married in Brighton and had brighton rock as favours 10 for £1.
but also thought of painting rocks from the beach, is there anything local that could be used?0 -
I got mine from Ebayer in America who kind offered to ship themover and even with import tak they saved me nearly £100.
They are min photo frames so I am doubling them up as table place settings and them people can take them home.
Alternately my first plan was goin to be to buy some organza netting from my local shop and make the old fashioned circle ones holding 5 sugared almonds tied with ribbon.
Hope this helps, I know its hard to do a wedding on a tight budget but thanks to Ebay doing well at the moment, just need to do some battering with venues, discos and cars. They are the dearest quotes so far.
Good luck X0
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