Favors

Gracie821 Posted: Nov 30, 2008 06:41 PM

Favors

I'm having a really hard time deciding on favors. I wanted to do a charitable donation but FH's family made faces when I mentioned that this past weekend. They really do not like the idea. Also I'm half Italian and my family usually gives big favors. Any one know of where I could get favors for an affoardable price that would satisfy my crazy Italian family lol! TIA!

WishfulRinne Posted: Nov 30, 2008 06:42 PM

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Same question I have. I have no idea what favors to give!

Gracie821 Posted: Nov 30, 2008 06:44 PM

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Posted by WishfulRinne

Same question I have. I have no idea what favors to give!

Hopefully someone will be able to help us!

tgrlily339 Posted: Nov 30, 2008 06:44 PM

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Im having the same problem! I cant find anything that is useful in an affordable price range

WishfulRinne Posted: Nov 30, 2008 06:46 PM

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I had thought about having my sister make her famous cookies and having that as my favor. Wrapping up in a box. One per guest. When I told my mom about it...she made a face!

coldasice217 Posted: Nov 30, 2008 06:47 PM

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Kate Aspen has relatively affordable candles that are pretty cute. But if you have an Italian family, maybe do the almond thing? It's traditional and tangible, and can be ATTACHED to a donation card, so you can kind of kill two birds with one stone.

Gracie821 Posted: Nov 30, 2008 06:49 PM

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Posted by coldasice217

Kate Aspen has relatively affordable candles that are pretty cute. But if you have an Italian family, maybe do the almond thing? It's traditional and tangible, and can be ATTACHED to a donation card, so you can kind of kill two birds with one stone.

Yeah we are doing the confetti's(jordan almonds) already with a little poem. But thanks for the advice I'll have to check out the candles.

xosweetiexo Posted: Nov 30, 2008 07:13 PM

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I was thinking maybe shot glasses with our monogram on them

WishfulRinne Posted: Nov 30, 2008 07:14 PM

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Posted by xosweetiexo

I was thinking maybe shot glasses with our monogram on them

I love this idea but my cousin just had her wedding last july and she did that!

FutureSMwifey Posted: Nov 30, 2008 07:28 PM

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i think im doing bottles of wine ( trader joes in city has 2 dollar big bottles of wine and its actually pretty good )...going to make our own labels...not definate yet but an idea

chadjennwedding Posted: Nov 30, 2008 07:42 PM

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I think so many 'traditional' favors are so dated. i like the idea of something the guest willo actually use: Bottle opener, Wine saver, or something edible and yummy.

august09bride Posted: Nov 30, 2008 07:47 PM

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i also have a crazy italian family ...this is what i did for favors

there's a store amazing savings here in nj but i know they have them in ny...anyway, they have an aisle where they have candy dishes, picture frames, dishes, etc.

i found a really beautiful sterling silver photo frame album that i'm using..i'm having my uncle who is a photographer take a black and white pic of me and fh and putting that on the cover of the album and my mom and my aunt are wrapping and putting bows on it

try checking out that store, they were really easy to work with and gave me no problem when i wanted to order it in bulk

MirabellaNYC Posted: Nov 30, 2008 07:47 PM

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Right now we're thinking of doing some type of food favors. I haven't really done much investigating besides ideas I got on Martha Stewart weddings, but I always like some type of food or drink you can enjoy the next day.

My FH's family is from Italy, I'm secretly hoping someone offers to make the bowtie pastries and we can bag them and give them to our guests. It would let us pay homage to tradition. Plus it would be personalized and cost effective.

august09bride Posted: Nov 30, 2008 07:51 PM

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Posted by MirabellaNYC

Right now we're thinking of doing some type of food favors. I haven't really done much investigating besides ideas I got on Martha Stewart weddings, but I always like some type of food or drink you can enjoy the next day.

My FH's family is from Italy, I'm secretly hoping someone offers to make the bowtie pastries and we can bag them and give them to our guests. It would let us pay homage to tradition. Plus it would be personalized and cost effective.

i also love the idea of an edible favor and actually wnated to do jumbo gourmet apples but i;m getting married in august and that's no good :(

and trust me...if ur fh's family is from italy, i guarantee someone will offer to make something...italians are crazy :) but u gotta love it

shell1879 Posted: Nov 30, 2008 08:03 PM

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we are doing little champagne glasses filled with white and navy sunny seeds(chocolate covered candy coated sunflowerseeds) wraped in tulle with a cute little tie that has little champagne glasses on it...
then adding a little card that tells about our donation
i'm not sure if i'm going to put the 'L' on them or not yet

NickandTara426 Posted: Nov 30, 2008 08:19 PM

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We're ordering truffles from truffletrolley.com they are 1.50 each so each guest will get a little package with two truffles in them.

iYexie Posted: Nov 30, 2008 09:17 PM

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I got shot glasses printed with our monogram........ I will put jordan almonds wrapped in tulle inside of it & then put everything inside a metallic brown box with a pink ribbon!
total cost about $450 for 120 of them

kristentinnelly Posted: Nov 30, 2008 09:21 PM

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We are doing the donation cards with either cookies or the cookie cutters attached

Gracie821 Posted: Nov 30, 2008 09:22 PM

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Posted by iYexie

I got shot glasses printed with our monogram........ I will put jordan almonds wrapped in tulle inside of it & then put everything inside a metallic brown box with a pink ribbon!
total cost about $450 for 120 of them

These look so good! Where did you get them?