Favour Flash. Show me yours!!

Hey - just posted re my favour boxes and other things !!

but here you go: they will have a little homemade tia maria truffle in them !

hely x

Oh they're lovely Hely. Home made truffles, that must've taken aaages!! Thankyou for sharing

Wer'e having these:

They've got a snap, a romantic quote and trinket, we're wrapping organza ribbon around the ends. they're from cox and cox.

Not having favours but instead having buttonholes for everyone so;

I've still got a year to go, but we'll probably have charity pins for the British heart foundation and a cancer charity as they mean a lot to both H2B and I.

We had looked at this type of thing. I must be being really dozy this morning. can't see them on the website!!. ?

thanks !! they are not even started yet !! my mums is making them a few days before the wedding as they are fresh and dont keep !!! arrrgghh !! plus ive only made up one favour box( the one in the photo)?

xxx

Here's the link to my thread about my favours:

https://www.hitched.co.uk/Chat/forums/t/124188.aspx

We're having charity pins for Great Ormond Street Hospital, Birthmark Support Group and Everyman Cancer.

I think they're on page 3 of the wedding section!

Laura - love the idea of doing this. Everyone had buttonholes at all the family weddings I went to as a child! Please let me know how it works out!

My current plan is to make wine charms as favours to add some colour / sparkle to the table.

Here are my decorated favour boxes (well the ones I have made so far!)

They will be lined with tissue paper and filled with retro sweets like these

There will be one type in each box and about 10 different sorts so in theory everyone on the table gets something different, so it may be something to talk about. (Laura_Lee's idea) I wanted a sweety station, h2b wanted bowls of sweets on tables, this is a compromise!!

Thats what I thought... I loved that and noone does it anymore... ☹️ I can see why though its an easy way to save money but as we aren't doing favours we could.

As OH said handing them around "will give the ushers something to do" ?

Thanks all for the replies. It gives me a few things to think about.

Zippy, can I be cheeky & ask where you are planning on getting the retro sweets from. That sounds like a fab idea. (I might eat them all myself though. ? )

I had wine charms around the glasses with an organza bag and a tag explaining the charms were for the guests to keep.

Probably from one of these whichever works out cheapest

https://www.aquarterof.co.uk/

http://www.bagsofsweets.co.uk/?gclid=CLWl-vSpy5sCFVkA4wodAVtkJg

https://www.keepitsweet.co.uk/retro-sweets?gclid=CIf68fypy5sCFUoB4wodFn2SKA

Thanks for the links Zippy, I'll have a look through.

These will be ours. Filled with handmade mint chocolate leaves. They're being made by www.polkadots.co.uk

I'm planning on making felt flower buttonholes for everyone - should start soon, It'll take me 3 years to make 80! lol

x

We didn't have favours as such, but similar to Laura Lee, we had thistles as napkin tuck-ins, which he hoped people would take as a keep-sake.

You can see it here, along with our dessert!

Hi PG - Fantastic idea I haven't seen these used as favors before... Love it!

We had Yorkshire Tea (I'm a true yorkshire lass!!) and Tarporley chocolate in the shape of hearts, gold silver and pink with brown and pink ribbon around them (where H is from in Cheshire!)

We put them out in nice brown baskets like these:

We had these made for people who had helped us through the planning or on the day:

I also made every one of our guests a buttonhole... beautifully demonstrated by the row of aunties in coordinating neapolitan ice cream colours!!

Claire xx

I'm having these for the boys;

and these for the girls;

They'll be in some cellophane with a gift tag from Vistaprint.

I just need to stop 'testing' them between now and then!

These were ours....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7331247@N03/3174386209/

V yummy and most got taken! Went to a friends house the other week and he had kept the tag and wrapper as a keepsake which was v sweet.

Mmmm fudge....

I may steal your Idea as my H2B is cornish. never made them before though so could be a disaster!

I didn't make it - too much stress right before the wedding - I got a local lady to do it - she sells fudge at our local farmers market! Although it wouldn't have been that bad to make it in the end!