favors

sanmik Posted: Apr 30, 2003 04:39 PM

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Murano candydishes and yes I will have close-relative children at the wedding. They are getting chocolates.

OctBride05 Posted: Apr 30, 2003 04:54 PM

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i am also having my wedding in october, and the idea of the pumpkins filled with candy is a great idea. i am thinking of having mini wine bottles, chocolate bars with our names and date and matchbooks with our names and date also.

Kathy116 Posted: Apr 30, 2003 05:23 PM

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No kids at the reception, there aren't too many children in the family, and FI's brother (the only one with young kids), doesn't want to really watch them all night, he said he'd rather have a sitter so he and his wife can be more relaxed.

In lieu of favors, we are making a donation to a charity (Flowerfield gives everyone a small box of delicious truffles as they leave...so at least they are not walking out totally empty handed).

Who knows....in another few months, I may change my mind.

SeptemberBride03 Posted: Apr 30, 2003 05:24 PM

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Has anyone found nice wine favors for approx $5 a piece? I would love to do wine bottles, even large wine bottles and do it per couple. Thanks!

Boop2704 Posted: Apr 30, 2003 07:02 PM

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I just got a mini wine bottle brochure in the mail today. They sell them by the case. depending on how many cases you buy the price is cheaper.

1 case $134.95
2cases $124.95
3 or more $104.95

The wine comes with 48 in a case so if you bought one it would come out to $2.81 per bottle.
They are 6.3 oz bottles
They also have the jelly bean bottles for kids that are $3.50 a bottle for 48 or more.
This place looks cool. They do the custom labels and designs on the bottle for you. I will try and scan the brochure later.
It is Specialty Wines Inc. in Upstate NY.
Their website is www.specialty-wines.com
Hope this helps!!!

OctBride05 Posted: Apr 30, 2003 07:07 PM

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thank you, i will definetley look up their website, and if you could show me the brochure i would appreciate it.

LisaT Posted: Apr 30, 2003 07:08 PM

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Our favors were alcoholic (mini bottles of Baileys and Jagermeister w/almonds), so we made special favors for the 5 underage kids at our wedding (ages 12-16). I just put a bunch of candy in the organza bags, and I think I threw in some nail polish and makeup for the girls.

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maysie18 Posted: Apr 30, 2003 07:11 PM

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We're having children, but only from the family. Guests can't bring their children.

Favors are:

CDs (1 per family)
handmade bookmarks

Edited to say: we aren't doing anything special/different for the kids unless we hit lotto

OctBride05 Posted: Apr 30, 2003 07:12 PM

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i really want to do something special for the children. i'm having 5 and there all under the age of 10, so i really don't know what to give them.any ideas would help a lot.

LisaT Posted: Apr 30, 2003 07:14 PM

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give them things to occupy them at the wedding - crayons, books, a puzzle - stuff like that.

LnP2003 Posted: Apr 30, 2003 07:29 PM

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We are having 8 children in total at the wedding who i have bought coloring books w/crayons, and the regular favors are pictures of the guests in picture frames which they will be picking up @ the end of the evening....

MelTodd604 Posted: Apr 30, 2003 07:57 PM

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Yes, there will be children at my wedding! I'm giving out beautiful candles wrapped up in off white tooling with a heart charm on top that says our names and date! Beautiful!! I love them!

Boop2704 Posted: Apr 30, 2003 09:36 PM

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At my e-party I sat all the kids at one table in the back of the room, away from their parents and I set up a table for them full of different candy and I left them loot bacgs to fill. That kept them occupied for a while. They were sitting at the table trading candy for an hour. The rest of the time they were either eating the candy or out on the dance floor.

swags1016 Posted: Apr 30, 2003 09:40 PM

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Here are ours-- hand painted and match our colors

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juju Posted: Apr 30, 2003 09:49 PM

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Boop2704,

Thanks for the Website! I love this idea for favors. I love the minnie Wine bottles!

sonia Posted: Apr 30, 2003 10:24 PM

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CD favors

for the kids im getting glow in the dark necklaces they can wear when the dancing starts .. and probably more as time goes on

julybride444 Posted: Apr 30, 2003 11:37 PM

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My fiance wants to do baseball cards for the favors, along with a donation to our fav. charity.

This might not work out, he wants something really authentic looking, not too cheesy and hasn't found anything yet. If he hasn't found anything by the end of May we're going to come up with something else (in addition to the donation).

I'm thinking mini organic chocolate bars, having several small vases with flowers instead of large singel centerpieces, I'm just not sure.

Any ideas (esp. those that are socially/environmentally responsible) would be helpful. We don't really want to do seeds or mini trees.

Hmmmm......

julybride444 Posted: Apr 30, 2003 11:39 PM

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Oh, and the only kids are those in the bridal party and two others. We're thinking of doing journals and giving them the job of coloring us pictures and writing us notes about our day! We'll give them each a blank journal and some colored pencils.

OctBride03 Posted: May 01, 2003 01:31 PM

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Michelle! MV1003! I JUST saw your response about the kids favors! THAT is SUCH a great idea about the pumpkins! I think I may steal that!

Betty Posted: May 01, 2003 01:33 PM

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No children (except maybe FGs)
Donation to American Cancer Society in memory of FH dad
Organze bag filled with hershey kisses
Hershey kiss rose made for seating cards