Vintage Wedding Favors and Placecards

I love this idea not because it is simple and elegant, but because it serves two purposes and allows lots of personalization options.  You pick a favorite candy (or other ideas such as tylenol, flower seeds to plant, or other small item) and wrap it with either lace or a vintage handcercheif.  Then you close the packaging with ribbon to match your color scheme or go neutral to match the lace or handcercheif.  Finally, attach a tag on the ribbon thanking your guests for sharing in your special day and use the other side of the tag as their placecard.  Multitasking and saving money....LOVE IT!!!!

Beach Bridal Party Gifts

I wanted to tie in our beach theme with my bridal party gifts so what I did was I found each girl a beach bag that I thought they would like and then used that as the gift bag and filled it with their other gifts.  I included a small soft pack cooler, which to make it more special you can order a personalized cooler or what I did was ordered a designer cooler.  I also included a beach towel.  I used each girls favorite color and selected the various items based on that.  Other beach items you can include: personalized or cute koozies, sun tan lotion, aloe, cute flip flops, beach hat, etc.  Or you can also include a few non-beach items that are maybe just for the wedding day, which is what I wound up doing (I'll include those in a later post).  It has been over two years and I still see my girls using their beach bags, towels and coolers, which makes me so happy.

More gift ideas to come.

If you have any special requests for ideas please contact me and let me know and I will try to post something to help you.

Happy wedding planning!

Beach Wedding Welcome Bags

Several ideas for the welcome bags all of which are a little more costly than a regular gift bag, but very cute and reusable...

Beach Bag
Plastic Sand Pail with Shovel
Small Soft Pack Cooler
Styrofoam Cooler

All of which can be personalized.  You can either order them from various vendors already personalized or if you have nice hand writing or know someone else that does, craft stores make various markers and pens you can use to personalize them on your own.

You can include travel size sun screen or aloe, koozies, flip flops, sun visor or hat, beach ball, Gatorade or water and beach friendly snacks.

Have fun in the sun!

Chocolate Popcorn

Here is an easy treat you can make with limited time and is fairly inexpensive.  We included this treat in our welcome bags, but it can be used as your wedding favor or shower favor.  After our wedding one of my co-workers was planning her wedding and I told her about it and even made a small batch for her to try...needless to say it was incorporated into her wedding :)

You'll want to purchase cellophane bags and used the silver twist ties that came with it, but to dress it up a bit more you could create personalized labels for the bags and use ribbon that matches your color scheme.

Now for the treat.  Purchase butter flavored microwave popcorn, melting chocolate and wax paper.  Pop the popcorn according to the instructions on the package.  Allow the popcorn time to cool before spreading the popcorn over the wax paper.  Melt the chocolate as the package instructs (be careful not to burn the chocolate).  Once the chocolate is melted all you'll do is drizzle it over the popcorn.  After the chocolate hardens it is ready.  Package it up for your guests to enjoy.

If you have never had it yourself give it a try, so easy and so yummy!!!

Fall Centerpiece

I love these if you are set on having flowers for your centerpiece for the big day or it can even be used forr a shower or holiday or for the fall season.  It is so easy to do yourself and you can get friends or family to help prepare them for the big day.  The picture below is a smaller version and a bit on the dark side, but you'll get the idea.  You use pumpkins as your pot by cutting off the top and cleaning out the inside then you fill them with soil and the flower of your choice (pictured below is purple & white pansies).    Be careful not to overfill the pumpkin with soil you don't want water spilling out when you water them.  You can make them a couple days ahead of time, but you don't want to make them too soon as eventually the pumpkins will begin to rot.  Happy pumpkin carving :)