Wedding Favors Contest by Beau-Coup
For those of you that make the wedding blog rounds each day, you already know that Beau Coup is holding a fun contest for us bloggers. To play, each blogger has to choose a wedding favor from the Beau-Coup site and incorporate it into a greater wedding scheme. The winner will receive a $250 gift card to Beau-Coup… which of course, if I win, I will pass right along to one of you! Make sure to read all the way down to hear how you can win!
So, I have chosen the always yummy, Gourmet Chocolate Mints as my inspiration for this Sweet Winter Wedding board…
Clockwise from top left: Mints by Beau Coup, Dress by Saks, Nest by Mimosa Style, Chocolate Cakes by Martha Stewart, Flowers by Domino Magazine
I have a deep love affair with Winter Inspired Weddings…there is just something so dreamy, so romantic about the white snow, the beautiful gowns paired with cozy cashmere wraps, the hot cocoa served to guests, the incredibly warm, elegant styles.
For this particular wedding, I thought that it would be gorgeous to find inspiration in the crisp white mints, pairing them with a deep velvety chocolate, a feminine gray/blue and just a hint of pale rose in the florals. Perfect for a wedding in a rustic barn, with candles tucked in hurricane vases of all sizes in every corner. I totally see the bride in a gorgeous lace inspired gown accented with a pretty, soft capulet and a lush flower tucked into a low bun. Gorgeous. Wish this was my wedding I was dreaming about!
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So, You might be wondering why I chose such a simple, rather traditional wedding favor as a starting off point. Well, it’s because I have officially fallen in love with the packaging options at Beau Coup and these cute mints would look so great displayed in huge candy bins among other white inspired candies, with these great take away bags nearby…
Just drape the table with something really organic, like deconstructed burlap sacks (or burlap fabric) to pair with the pristine white candies. You will have that perfect combination of elegance and rustic chic. Thus is the theme for my Beau-Coup, Winter Inspired Wedding!
Now, it’s your turn…pick a favor from the Beau Coup website and dream up your own wedding. All you have to do is leave a comment (no pics necessary) with your ideas and we’ll pass along two gift certificates, one for $50 and one for $75, from Beau-Coup to two lucky readers. Then, if we win the grand prize, we’ll offer our $250 prize to a third winner!
The deadline for your comment is this coming Thursday, the 20th…so don’t delay!
I LOVE the petite julip cups! I would do different containers for flowers and candles in silver containers of every kind and make the look very vintage and "Great Gatsby". And you could serve mint julips as the signature drink!
I’ve had my eye on those 4 1/4″ mint julep cups for weeks now! We’re having a small wedding on the grounds of a plantation outside of New Orleans, with navy, green, and white as our colors and lots of silver accents to go along. I’d like to make the cups both our favors and also part of our reception decor by placing different white flowers in each and attaching a placecard with navy ribbon. Delightfully Southern, and definitely re-usable!
I am going to have to order the Beau-Coup's green woven favor boxes. I can just picture these boxes filled with chocolates and wrapped with Beau-Coup's double-faced satin ribbon in navy with ivory and green placecard tags attached. This would combine our wedding color and our minimalist just stunning style.
I absolutely LOVE the custom fortune cookies! I'm an American-born chinese girl from the OC, marrying a boy from Wisconsin in a garden wedding in Sacramento on the fourth of July. These fortune cookies would be a fun way in incorporate a fun traditional chinese item into the wedding.
I would put Beau-Coup's fortune cookies with the yellow sprinkles with a personalized message from us to our guests at each place setting, packaged in Beau-Coup's clear chinese takeout box with a designer personalized label with our names and wedding date - tied on with a yellow ribbon. A perfect way to incorporate my culture and the wedding colors.
After using the personalized summer cookies to ask my bridesmaids to be in my summer 09 wedding, I keep going back to Beau-Coup for inspiration. I am ordering personalized favors for my "Welcome to our Wedding Weekend" hotel bags to greet my guests...I am tossing in the fun life is good cocktail mixes http://www.beau-coup.com/wedding-cocktail-favors.htm because at the beach...life is always good, and when we walk out on the beach for our wedding day...love and fun will be in the air!
love the simple organic nature of these favor bags/boxes!!
My fiance and I actually met eachother while eating cookies at a concert at college. I had heard a lot about him throughout the year but didn't know who he was. My friend saw him at the pizza and cookie table that was at the concert and went up to him so she could introduce us! We hit it off right away. 3 years later, we're engaged!
So to me, the personalized fall cookies from Beau Coup would be great for our October 2009 wedding. We both love cookies, and they play such a great part of the story of how we met. Plus, I know everyone in my family has such a sweet tooth. We'd leave these out on our burgundy draped tables so they can each have one right when they arrive at the reception. We'd probably even buy some extras for the guests too, and place them on a separate table surrounded by fall leaves and flowers. You can never eat just one cookie!
My fiance and I are huge outdoor enthusiasts. I would love to incorporate the mini backpacks into our outdoor reception and fill them with homemade trail mix. It's a healthier snack than candy and would give our guests a much needed energy rush as the night goes on!
I can just picture these at an outdoor semi rustic affair... followed by a bonfire with smores and hot cider.
This may not be the most elegant of suggestions, but I just love them!
I just love Beau Coup's mini monogrammed brownie pops. What an adorable treat! I can just picture them lined up on a table looking whimsical and delicious! What wedding doesn't need a little chocolate?
Love the bloembox flower seeds. Our wedding is going to be in the spring and these will provide the perfect "pop" in color. I just love the idea of something being planted and growing long after our wedding is over.
I love the mini bird nests! My fiance and I are getting married at a zoo--right next to the aviary! I would place the nests at each table setting and fill them with egg-shaped candy that coordinated with our colors. I really think this would help us to highlight our unique venue in a tasteful way. The only thing that could top a bird-nest tablescape would be to have all of the exotic birds dining with us! Not very hygenic, sigh.
The Fall Leaf Wine Bottle Stoppers would be perfect favors for our wedding. We are incorporating a Tuscan theme with our fall New England wedding. My fiance popped the question in Italy and we spent time in Tuscany (and got really acquainted with their wines!!!). And our reception is going to be in a barn in New England (my fiance grew up 20 minutes from the barn) in October 2009. Since this favor incorporates both autumn and wine…it’s perfect!!!
I love the personalized bottles of hot sauce! My fiance would love them. He keeps saying that he is left out of the planning and this as a favor would bring in some more of his personality.
I love how simple, yet organic those favor boxes are! love it!
We are craving the personalized wedding honey jars. Our unstated theme is the birds and bees, with a yellow and gray color scheme. Ideally we would be looking for local Georgia honey, but the convenience of this favor makes it a winner! I can't explain why, but my fiance and I are just crazy about honey, we put it on everything. Must be a symptom of the sweetness in our life!
Love the mini cocktail shakers for a chic, black white and red damask city wedding! Get a chic club or lounge, decorate the tables with red roses on black vases. Black and white damask pattern linens and the fun shaker as favors with your favorite cocktail recipe as a tag.
I'd use the chocolate caramel apples in a fall outdoor wedding. A picnic in a park, watching the leaves fall as we nibble and talk. Oh, and picnic baskets filled with goodies...
I love the custom cookies (the ones that are sold at Neimans--yum) and also the mini cocktail shakers. They're both amazingly perfect. The cookies are just to die for and the shakers are great--will set the tone for a chic, modern night!!!!
I love the cherry blossom silk fans. I think they would be great for a vintage/classic with twist wedding on an summer evening. They'd be great for the guests during the wedding and make great favors too! I can just see some of the photo journalist pictures now- an image of several pairs of gloved hands holding the fans.
We are having a number of vintage elements to our wedding. I'm a two dress bride, with one of the dresses being a vintage 1940's swing dance dress.
My grandfather was a huge fan of jellybeans and the cocktail jellybeans seem like an elegant take on the old standard. I'd put them in silver favor tins with a vintage looking sticker with our names on it.
Who doesn't love an edible favor?
Well this is an easy one for me since my entire wedding was inspired by Beau Coups pyramid tea sachets. Everything from the afternoon tea theme to the colors were derived from them.
My inspiration board is on my blog but the essential elements are cheery yellows, garden greens, and dainty chic. The teas will be displayed atop a 3-tier tea tray containing sweets and will serve as my centerpieces.
My fiance is a huge fan of mints. Carries them everywhere with him, has a bunch of tins always ready, and eats them after every meal. For his birthday, I asked all of his friends to buy mints of every random kind to give to him. All of the mints ended up lasting him over a year!
We are also very thrifty so for wedding planning we are trying to figure out how to save as much as possible. So we decided we'd combine the wedding favor and place card into one fun item.
So the wedding favors I'd pick out would be the mint tins and then make personalized labels with seating assignments on the tins.
I love the porcelain espresso cups. I would fill them with espresso beans and add calligraphy labels for placecards.
My fiance and I are having an outdoor garden wedding. The colors are black and ivory, with touches of green. It will be very charming with vintage touches. The wedding is in Michigan, but we just relocated to Seattle. So a coffee-themed favor is appropriate.
I adore Beau-Coups beautiful Silver Luggage Tags!
They are the perfect favor for a travel-themed wedding....invitations that look like airline tickets, tables named after destinations that the couple has been to, and these perfect silver luggage tags displayed piled high in a vintage suitcase that is covered with those old-fashioned destination stickers.
Or the tags could double as placecards, with each guests name written on the enclosed card. You could have a map of the world mounted on an easel and hang the luggage tags from different countries signifying the table "number".
I actually just did an idea board that drew inspiration from the Mini Gumball Favors. How perfect is this.
http://treesandmarmalade.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/idea-board-5-class-in-candyland/
Those favors are so pink and girly yet fun, I thought they'd play right into my idea for a classy candyland. I thought of having lots of cotton candy pink colors paired with soft flowers and a cotton candy martini as a signature drink. This would totally go with a big elaborate Venetian table with soft pink cake desserts and pretty little pink candies. I feel the whimsical nature of the favors helps balance the rest of the theme, so that it's not just girly but also fun, very much like a candyland.
I love the mini brownie pops! I think the filigree design is quite beautiful, and they would look stunning set at each place setting (alternating between white and brown chocolate covering) at an elegant winter wedding - or they would also be great displayed on a long silver tray for a dessert buffet! And if you taste is a little bit more whimsical, those "bride and groom" versions are just too cute!
I would definitely purchase the crystal choo choo trains. My fiance and I met on the train and we are incorporating the train symbol into our wedding. We have incorporated the design into our Save the Dates, invitations, and we had our engagement photo session at Union Station. These would be perfect at each place setting for the reception!
I love the Christmas/Winter Themed Wine Bottle Stoppers. They are simply adorable and could be presented to guests in so many fun and creative ways. Plus these are gifts your guests can bring out every Christmas as a reminder of your wedding.
I absolutely LOVE the silver clear top favor tins. They can be used to store little goodies after the wedding which is always nice. We are filling them with five assorted colored jordan almonds. We had a monogram made, so we're putting our monogram sticker on the top and packaging the favors in a clear candy bag, with paper confetti, sealed with a sticker that reads:
"The tradition of candied almonds being given at wedding receptions comes from Italy.
The five candies signify: health, fertility, longevity, happiness and wealth for the new couple.
The treats are meant to represent both the bitter and sweet aspects of life…
a tangible reminder of “for better or worse”.
Divertiti!
Thank you for being part of our wedding
Con amore, Laura and Jon"
Thought it was a cute, and tasty was to incorporate my Italian heritage.
I can't get enought of the Midori dupioni silk ribbon! I would love to use it to tie a chic letterpressed note to our welcome bags. We're also creating an escort card "tree" - and thought the cards hanging and different lengths from mulitple green shades of beautiful raw dupioni ribbons would be just perfect!
I love the personalized water bottle labels and the party cooler tub. I'm getting married on the beach and was worried about guests overheating. This way we can keep them all hydrated without compromising on style!
I think the Holiday Mini Brownie Pops in "Snowberry" would be perfect for my wedding. Granted we are not having a holiday wedding, but my colors are Red, White and Black to suit our Vegas venue. We are having our reception (cocktail style)in a suite overlooking the Bellagio. I think rows of those red-coloured, chocolate-covered brownie pops sitting on a silver tray would fit in beautifully with the view of the lights on the strip. Plus since my bridesmaids will be carrying beautiful silver clutches instead of flowers, the berry design would lend a more floral element to the dessert table. Last but not least, my fiance is French and the traditional French wedding cake is a tower of cream puffs covered in caramel, so this is a great way to work chocolate into the mix!
I am loving the bride and groom brownie pops! How adorable and fun!
I love the tea satchets. We both love tea and the colors and vibe they give work perfectly with our spring garden wedding!
I love the miniature tin watering cans. I am having a spring wedding, so these would work perfectly! I am planning on having tons of tulips and daisies and these would look really cute on the tables.
I'm not getting married, but I'm a 'crafter' and always finding new uses for different things. These would be great baby shower favors!
I think the min wooden pencils would be perfect for a rustic, romantic, and naturalistic, outdoor wedding in the mountains. I would tie a small tag around the pencil using twine with the bride and grooms name and wedding date on one side, and on the other side I would put the guests name. The pencil could then sit pretty on a table, above the plate, and act as a place setting.
Well, thanks to your contest I've found the perfect favors for my client's Sake Ceremony. Having the guests participate in the ceremony would be a perfect Favor and memory. Or labeling the sake cups and using as a place card. The guests can partake of traditional sake at the cocktail reception in their very own cup that will lead them to their table.
I designed not one but TWO inspiration boards that showcase not only why I wish us to have our new beginning but where it is to be.
This is taken directly from my blog btw.. www.xanga.com/atlgabelle
I call the inspiration boards "Beau Coup Southern Soiree"!
"Without further adieu, say hello to the warm breezes of Jekyll Island and my Old South meets Old Hollywood inspiration boards!
Jekyll Island has been a special place for my son and I and now for my handsome significant other, Ted and I also. Years ago, I remember the first vacation I took after becoming a single mom ( was sad and another whole story for another day) and my son and I (he's 5 in the pictures) went to Jekyll Island where I was able to stay for almost free as I was then Pres-Elect of my medical society and was planning our state convention. We stayed a few extra days and explored and just enjoyed being together. Some of the pics were made at the turtle rescue center also! Now tell me this child isn't adorable? (you'll see board 1 here)
And then...
"Now, four years later his mom fell in love again and we'll probably marry where my little guy and I started our life again. My son loves brownies (made some last night) and I adore the beau coup monogrammed brownie pops (which match our color scheme of shimmery aqua, pink, and black of course!) as well as the dolphin wine stoppers which remind us of the fun dolphin tour we took on our trip. Incidentally, the dolphin in the other inspiration board is from jekyll island and the tour boat we took is at the marina right on property at the Jekyll Island Club which is the venue at the top of my list btw!"
*I moved the inspiration boards to the top of the blog so it would be more visible!
I love those clear favor boxes ( http://www.beau-coup.com/clear-favor-boxes.htm ), they would be a perfect match for my little stone-like favors... (chocolate coated almonds with a stone design : http://www.boutique-pyrenees.com/upload/cailloux-aux-amandes.jpg )
It would be a shame to put them in opaque boxes ! And they would fit in perfectly with my orchid based theme... Right in the plate, on round tables with pink and white orchid centerpieces, in the charming Bressan farm we've rented for our wedding in France.
PS : in case you wonder, YES we can order from France ;).
I love the little brownie pops (especially the red/yellow ones)- there is something so sweet and simple about them and make me think of my man who LOVES lollipops&sweets because he is a kid at heart. When I also saw the gorgeous Elle cake your featured from Impressions in Chocolate I decided I had to make a scrumptuous board with those beautiful colors! Here it is: http://oneamongsisters.blogspot.com/2008/11/beaucoup-favor-inspiration-board.html
Our summer wedding reception was at an apple orchard, with deep red dresses, baskets of apples and lots of sunshine! When I saw the red and ivory fall leaf favor boxes on the beau-coup website, though (http://www.beau-coup.com/fall-leaf-favor-boxes.htm ), I began to imagine how it might have been on an autumn evening instead.
I can picture walking toward my handsome groom down a center aisle carpeted with fiery leaves, in a chapel lit by scarlet tapers in hurricane lamps. Afterwards, the reception hall would be warmed by the scent of pumpkin spice candles glowing among centerpieces of autumn fruits, flowers and leaves. Deep red roses might join yellow chrysanthemums, and mix with ranunculus, rose hips, berries, golden leaves and small red apples.
Instead of a candy buffet, a chocolate buffet would await. . . raspberries near a chocolate fountain, mini brownie pops, chocolate covered strawberries, and dark Dove chocolates in red foil. Guests would hardly have appetite left for the cake, with its smooth chocolate sides and brilliant red sugar flowers in full bloom. So, at the end of the night, they could carry slices home, along with their beautiful little fall leaf favor boxes, filled with packets of apple cider, chai, or caramel apple tea to enjoy on another lovely, rainy fall evening.
I am using the mini wood pencil favors in my rustic themed wedding. I'm going to get a small flower pot and fill it with coffee beans and put the pencils in it. We aren't using the pencils as favors though, they will be used to sign the guest book which is made out of recycled paper and binded with raffia. It's going to tie my wedding together and I have been using these little pencils as inspiration for other items in my wedding.
Love the photos so many creative and inspiring ideas!
I would like to use the mini teapot guest card holders with our vintage tea party theme. We are using all sorts of colorful tea cups plates and sauces and constructing centerpieces to look like a tower of tea cups, filled with flowers of course. These would be a really sweet accent.
I just bought these ivory favor boxes at AmericanBridal.com, I'm going to put jelly beans in them that I purchased from Smart & Final. They're a really good deal, and I just think that rather than giving away wedding favors that might not be used, at least most people will eat the jelly beans...
Check out what I got, got them for 50% Off the clearance price:
http://www.americanbridal.com/ivory-favor-box-hh30192.html
Thank you for this post,its good to know that I am not the only person stressing about the wedding stuff.
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