Wedding Favors by Beau-Coup, II
A bit more from Winnie at Beau-coup!
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Wedding Favors Assembly Parties
There are a great many readily available wedding favors to choose from. But for some of us, the best part about doing wedding favors is actually doing them! I love getting together with the girls for an afternoon of yummy treats, good conversation and fun crafts. It’s a great way to bond with your bridesmaids!
Some tips for a successful Wedding Favors Assembly Party:
* Prepare to have enough scissors, hole punchers, rulers…whatever you need to make the favors so that you don’t waste time taking turns
* Wait until you have all of your wedding favor components before sending out the invitation. Sometimes items in the mail get delayed and it would be a waste to have everyone over and nothing to work on.
* Do a run-through and take note of how long it takes, how much candy goes in a jar, how much ribbon goes around the box, etc. And then make sure you have enough of everything
* Calculate the cost of your favors. Sometimes the little pieces add up and you could be spending more than you expected
* Lastly, make it fun! Prepare food, have some drinks and put on some music so your friends have a good time (…and don’t go home spreading rumors about you being a Bridezilla)
Here are some wedding favors packaging ideas from Beau-coup:
For my friend’s recent brunch bridal shower, we gathered together to assemble her wedding favors. She’s a nature girl…I’m talking Prius-driving, works-for-an environmental-non-profit, barters-for-produce-at-the-farmers-market, nature girl. She’s awesome and she makes green look great.
Her favors were lavender sea salt and rosemary sea salt from her favorite farm (she’s the only person I know who has a favorite farm), Eatwell Farm. The salts were packaged in spice jars from Beau-coup and tied with hand cut, hand written hang tags.
At the wedding, tent cards were set out on each table with a note from the bride and groom about their favors, “We love to put the salts on popcorn, fresh heirloom tomatoes, as a marinade for meats and vegetables and scrambled eggs!” Yum!
By the end of brunch we had 100 wedding favors assembled with love and care. And of course the gracious bride sent us home with bridal shower favors that she made – a CD of her favorite music.
Thank you SO much to Winnie at Beau-coup for all of these great favor ideas! Defintiely check out the site if you have some time…there are so many more really great products!
First of all congats on the birth of your baby girl Audrey, what a blessing to you and you husband.
I love the inspiration boards on SMP, some of them nearly bring me to tears they are so lovely! And I love looking at real weddings for inspiration as well.
Over at Beau-coup I love the petite mint julep votive holders, as I'd like something my wedding guests can keep as a memento and I LOVE candles.
Keep up the great inspirational web-site ladies.
Regards
Pauline
xx
Congratulations on the new little one!!! I too love the inspiration boards and DIY projects...I'm a big DIYer so would love to see even more of that. At Beau-coup I love the mini-cocktail shakers or the glass wine stoppers (our reception is wine themed and my fiance is a bartender so either one would be a great favor.) Thanks for a great blog(and great contest!)
I echo the congratulations. What a beautiful name!
As for SMP, I think you do a great job, and I come here daily for inspiration... But I have to tell you that the real weddings are the piece that I've really been digging lately!
As for Beau-Coup, I was initially looking for something very eco-friendly and sustainable and was leaning towards the honey. However, I stumbled across the "Perfect Pair" cookie cutters. Because of my fiance's last name we are having a pear themed wedding. These cookie cutters would fit right in!
Love Eatwell Farm. I subscribe to their mailing list and they do strawberry and tomato picking events during the summer. I didn't know they have salts. Awesome idea and totally something I would use if I received it as a favor. Makes me think maybe infused sugar would be a good idea too: vanilla sugar, cinammon sugar, coffee sugar...
I love the DIY projects and the real weddings. I find myself scouring this site day to day for new inspriration. My fiance thinks I'm taking on too much, but I made our save the dates, invitations, guest book, and favors (My florist and I are planting 100 little succulents from her garden into 2" pots that I bought online. They will surround the centerpieces and double as gifts for the guests to take home and enjoy for a long time after the wedding.)
Since I already have favors lined up, I'd love to use the gift card to get all the little things that I forgot about until now (Thanks Beau-Coup!) like personalized napkins, water bottle labels, gift tags for the succulent favors, champagne flutes, and maybe tissue packs to put in the restrooms for those criers :)
congrats on your new daughter!
i recently got engaged about 2 months ago, after the engagement my friend recommended this site to me, and i return quite often to browse around and search for ideas for my upcoming wedding~ i love browsing around the real weddings to see how creative everyone is and how the little details really can make a beautiful wedding.
wow! beaucoup has so many ideas for favors~ it's been so exciting to browse around the site in search for my wedding favors. i'm really digging butterfly personalized labels, because i love butterflies! also, the butterfly cookie cutters are so lovely, because i love to bake cookies! very nice!