I found these in damask and love them, but I can't find them in Canada and ordering in from the States is crazy expensive with extra taxes, duty and brokerage. Has anyone bought these?
...t my bridesmaids & Groomsmen favours. Well they turned up and the mens ones are fine but the womens mirrors were cheap and nasty plastic things that i just can't give to my girls. So instead...
I've finally got all the jars and most of the lollies have been ordered now. Ordered my pink and whitel lollipos, watermelon rock candy, conversation hearts from Goody Goody Gum Drops yesterd...
... the bridesmaids and groomsmen/best men. The boys have got a kind of keyring bar tool with a bottle opener, cork screw, little knife etc on it. The girls have got a little mirror shaped as a pur...
...rlap decorations, but it might be expensive to buy specialty tea or coffee in bulk. I also saw cute mini rosemary olive oil jars, which could be easy to make.
There is a really neat fire pit...
... Today I finished my labels for the candy buffet. I have somewhat more jars than I had when I began (More candy!!!) but I think it's going to look nice in the end.
The theme is mainly pastel...
Okay, hard to tell from this picture but I bought these personalized shot glasses for super cheap online! I thought they'd be a great idea that our guests might actually keep and use rather t...
... the reception. Im gona be using a different idea on a couple of other tables but havent got any of that stuff yet. So far, we have the purple tablecloths but they are on round tables at the rec...
... Found these gorgeous cages at the local pharmacy of all places. Painted them a nicer white, probably will re do them with a spray can but theyre meant to be gloss white. They look so cute! Go...
TICK!
Favours are completely done. Our personalized rock candy order arrived
just before the New Year, much to my surprise. Because I wasn't expecting that
for aaaaages, y'know, I arra...
...nice wedding favors for the guests. I finally found these cure little candles which I think will be perfect for the women & then these Shot glasses with our names & wedding date on, for ...
Have been going back and forth with favours. I have done some research on what makes a 'good favour, and what makes a 'bad' favour. I have found that MOST people remember and LIKE edible trea...
I purchased my guest favours on www.orientaltrading.com
I've decided to give everyone a personalized votive candle holder with 3 votive candles (one in each of our wedding colours)
Ok, so I finally decided to have a candy buffet. I am going for the easy option of buying a tractor load of lollies and popping them on the table. Not literally.. but pretty much. SOOO much e...
I'm so excited about these! I found a paper bag template online and bought a couple of old books to destroy lol. I was prewarned to not tell the bookstore man what my use for them was. :)
...
I never thought I would struggle with this soo much.
WHAT are you doing for your favours?
I cannot think of any idea to do.
My wedding doesn't really have a theme, so I don't know how ...
...ican wedding planning so far.
I thought that I still needed to bring a very subtle element from my culture, and naturally thought of the first thing everybody buys for a souvenir from Russia - ...
I found this place in Campbellford ON that sells bluk candy/Chocolate. Its worlds finest chocolate that does fundrasing for schools and businesses. You can go to there warehouse and buy anyth...
... and wedding planning and just the summer in general gets us super crazy!
I can't believe it's only a week away! It feels like it has been forever that we've been engaged and now it's finall...
For my favours I am doing a variety of spices since cooking is a big part of our lives.
I would like to do a tag similar to the one pictured but instead of our initials on the front I want...
found these on some other ladies' sites, what a great idea! works for both guys and gals and is trendy! anyone know of any sites where these are sold for cheap? shipping to canada...thanks!
...
... the wedding music on it, we also made a DVD(will add pictures) of our wedding sideshow that i have made to be played during diner and i also put a little bag of mints in it as well.
We will...
...d my bridesmaid ash.. gotta love self timers.. ps.. ash is sporting her bridesmaiddress, but more on this later :)
have you been busy with your DIY projects?...
... DIYwedding favour tags. I wanted to put a lot of info on these little tags which was difficult to do, but I think I accomplished it!
On one side I put a little thank you message from FH &am...
... Rather than order something from a wedding company and give everyone the same favour, I'm hoping to peruse a lot of thrift and antique stores to find everyone something unique.
I'll be loo...
... buy flowers, chocolates or jewellery as a token of affection. Centuries ago in Wales, the young lover would give a special, more personal gift to the object of their desire, the Welsh Love Spoo...
ok so maybe a few...
What do you think of this design?
I am printing it on ivory paper and backing on to dark purple (as well as printing in purple)
We are attaching these to the gold ...
UPDATE***
ok what if there is no box, since we are putting it in a box there won't be need for a bow on the inside and the outside esp when they are 25/roll at michaels reg price, like are...
have 100 clear favour boxes for sale.
I am no longer having favours that will fit into the boxes.
One box is unopened and one is open so I could see how big the boxes actually were. The...
... and bridesmaids and all but still - pretty labour intensive.
Plan B: Buy deliciously colourful Jelly Belly's (in colours that would go with our colour scheme of course), package them in the...
Here is a pic of our spice favours. I'm going to take the little red ribbon out and attach this awesome favour tag that Paige (futuremrsbanks who designed the monogram) Amy (trombonechick) wh...
...n of flowers around. My question is two-fold.
1) - Would coffee go over well as a gift? I know not every drinks coffee, but I feel as though there is at least one person in each household th...
...ings/diy-popcorn-favours/) we adapted it to our own likings and came up with this! I made the sign from scratch in Adobe photoshop but adapted the idea from friends/other brides (can't source ju...
...sert/cake for 30-40 women, have about 8-10 prizes for the games and felt that was enough. Now I'm not sure.
How many of you ladies would give out favours for a shower like this? I'm thinking ...
...! My MOH (and former roommate) silkscreens so I enlisted her to help me make these awesome favours and I couldn't be happier with how they turned out. Here is how we turned 85 plain red tote bag...
... our reception tables seeing as the standard chocolates in a box or as of lately the candy bars have been really popular, but we are having an outdoor ceremony in the middle of July when the tem...
... my 'DIY' part of the wedding... I will be making the following:
Table runners
Ring Pillow
Gift book (Hopefully)
Tears of Joys hankies (Idea from another WBC Bride - thought this was...
...vely bridesmaids once suggested an Alice in Wonderland theme to me. Eat me and Drink me treats would work wonderfully. I came accross these little decorative tea lights that would work in such a...
... the photo!
She said they are usually used for high cocktail tables, but work for regualr ones too! (they don't get hot or get in the guests way)
Since I am an impulse buyer I paid it up f...
...t of DIY to my wedding...but would love to! I do usually make cards but just don't think I'd like to make my own invatations - I am such a prefectionist so am having them hand made by someone wh...
Ok, so my choice of favour is spices since both of our cultures love spice and also, Mark and I totally love to cook together - one of our favourite things to do!
So i wanted to do spices,...
For our guest favors we are giving a donation to the Canadian Cancer Society, but I also wanted to give our guests just something little, so we're using the chinese takeout boxes. But I have ...
...t to DIY it. An example:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=34619129&ref=cat2_gallery_9
My preferred use is to use it as a less formal guest book (although I'll probably ...
hi ladies! hope everyone's planning is going well.
i have seen this font everywhere in the wedding world and I am hoping to do a label (the "sweet" part) similar for my jars of jams.. d...
... our wedding favours. Our wedding is in late October so I wanted something to do with wine or something rustic. My FH's uncle makes his own wine so his parents came up with the idea of giving ...
...d my DIY gift favour tags. I think they turned out amazingly great! Since everyone will be getting a 1 foot high balsam fir as the favours, I put tree stamps on one side of the tag with a thank ...
...some wedding favour ideas and I saw these tree saplings in small test tubes things. I had told my mom about them and when they were ordering trees for the farm next year, they purchased me 100 b...
... Slowly but surely! I picked up some pink m & ms when I was in the city this weekend, and they are super cute! I really like them, and when the breast cancer m & ms come out (hopefully...
My dad and his business partner have a Flavored Honey business.
(www.honeyb.ca)
We decided that for the Portuguese guests we are going to give them Maple honey. We found this super cut...
... Hi ladies,
Today, I spent a day looking around for wedding stuff.
Since I know I will have tea cups as guest favours for my Bridal shower I was looking if i can find something cute and ...
... for decor was to do a candy table which was right up his alley since he eats it all the time LOL. He was so good at picking things that me and the FH liked. It was all his ideas that went into ...
I have decided to make dafodils, and to place lables on each one "A Donation has been made in your name to the Canadian Cancer Society"
Every plate will have one on it, and the we have decid...
...
a dress for my grandma and aunt for the wedding, and we came across a shop
that sold tons of stuff!
My aunt is a huge bargainer, and got them down 1/2 price!! They also had 100
in stock ...
...stly DIY are awesome!!
She said 1 box of cake mix and 1 can of frosting makes 48-50 cake lollipops! How cheap is that!!
Gather up the girlfriends and make 3 cake boxes worth of cake pops!...
...cond DIY and made homemade strawberry jam. It was so much work but they turned out so good. I sampled it and the jam is very yummy.
I will be storing them and then in the new year, I'll be pu...
... the engagement. I'll post a picture of the actual loot when I begin to fill the bags.
Next is a pictures of the plum sash I made for the flower girl. Her dress didn't come with an option of ...
I came across this on my other blog in their swapshop. another bride from toronto..about 15 min from where i live was selling them she has 72 of them left over.
she was selling them for $...
As some of you know i am living in Turkey now, with my Turkish Fiance, and we are having a wedding on the beach here in....thats right, Turkey.
So why the hell did i not even think of Tur...
... As i had mentioned before, I was thinking of giving all the British Guests coming out to Turkey a traditional turkish gift as their favour and then for the Turkish Guests, a traditional Welsh...
...h my Maid of honour and bridesmaids hosted the shower for me.
We were supposed to have the shower outdoors at my friend's place, in her backyard. So I thought these favours were fitting - un...
... our wedding favors. You could line them with wax paper and then tie them with chocolate and purple ribbon. (chocolate ribbon for candies, purple for savoury )
Rather than have just one thing...
...o my MOH and one of my BM's met me at my parents house. We assembled all the favour boxes, and wrapped them all...all 130 are finished!! We also finished all 70 of the programs, and all 130 of t...
... so for my favours i had to order jelly beans and at the time it was way too expensive to order it from a canadian store so i looked online and ordered from bulkfoods.com which sold me the jel...
... For Christmas last year, I made homemade apple pie jam for our family and friends. It was sooo good (which was surprising because it was my first time ever making jam) that I had requests for...
...hese flowers, Let them bloom
Remember fondly The bride and groom
And how this day, the vows they share
With work and nurture, to grow so rare
A marriage that Is based in love
And like these...
Hello fellow brides:
I am going CRAZY with the favours. I don't know what to do. We have already figured out what we are going to give the men. For women, on the other hand, we ordered a ...
...)
Photo by Karen Tracanelli
Cliff notes version:
* Decided to go with pink m&m's for favours
* Make wax seals yourself in these quick easy steps:
.....Chill the die o...
... our wedding favours and this is what we came up with:
Old Fashioned Candy Sticks!!! We will probably take three of them and use a piece of ribbon to tie them together as our favours. We are ...
... Score one for the home team!! I got an AMAZING deal on the bottles I needed for my favours and I'm thrilled to pieces! I had been looking for packaging for some time but I didn't want to pay ...
I am getting married in Las Vegas and wondering about the etiquette of gifts for guests. For destination weddings do we still need to give them?
I look forward to the replies.
... Well I've decided to go with the silver wax instead. We were going to have labels made with my mini Xyron sticker maker, but I had a hard time finding a 1.5 punch. So I nixed that idea in...
...nd a flower or two, et voila! I was thinking to put green votives or tealights around each vase as well.
Too bad I can't have tulips... they'll mostly all be out of season by the time August ...
...s as wedding favours. I think that I changed my mind.
I have gotten quotes and looked online and they are ranging anywheres from 3 bucks to 4.50 for each jar.
I have been having trouble de...
...u of wedding favours, the bride and groom have graciously made a donation to the Canadian Cancer Society. Thank you for sharing in their special day and helping to make cancer history!"
We al...
... I'm just curious for those of you who are doing candy buffets, whether you are sticking to your colour theme in your candy choices?
My colours are red, black, and white... I can't stand bl...
... I've been searching for some nice little favors and just haven't found anything that has really stuck out for me and my FH until I came upon the beau-coup website. I found these little chocol...
... and flowers will grow. I have really wanted something like this for favours!
I also found seed paper cones. They are cheaper, and I think I could still use these as a centrepiece if I could ...
We picked these up for the nuptials this past week and Nick has come up with some ideas for them. Stay tuned more info to come.
And remember October is Breast Cancer Month and that means...
...n my budget! I was going to make them myself BUT I don't really think I'm going to be wanting to make 160 candy apples the week of my wedding PLUS where the heck will I put them all!!! lol...
... for wedding favours. These are so cute and I love that the company prints your name and wedding date on the front with a picture that you get to choose from their selection. They're cute, perfe...
... the reception. What are 80 favours that would be affordable to buy... or my original idea was to make cookies. But then I thought maybe something else that would be less time consuming... I mea...
Labour day shopping! I picked up the last batch of apothecary jars I needed for all my favours today. My fiancee insisted that I get 10 more than I need, but that's probably not a bad idea....
... So this week I got quite a few things done. I went to Bulk Barn to pick up a few different types of candy to fill the shot glass favours with. I picked up Hersheys Hugs, Green Apple mini jell...