Wedding favors!

I've been thinking about wedding favors for some reason from the moment we got engaged. I think its because my sister in law gave me the idea to give away pashmina shawls. We were going to order a bunch of them and then tie them on the back of chairs to look like ribbon/chair decoration. Then at some point in the night tell our guests what they were and to take them home as gifts. I was even going to get little labels made with our names and wedding date sewn on them. I eventually abandoned this plan as the numbers grew from 300-350 to 450-500. Also, I was feeling bad for not even attempting to include the men in the favor.

So, one day my mom and I were talking and we came up with the idea of doing something with tea. Sri Lankans and Indians alike are obsessed with tea so this seemed like a pretty perfect idea. Then on weddingbee one of the bloggers (miss onion) posted about using adagio tea samples for wedding favors. I went on their site and ordered some samples and they were adorable. Then I came up with this idea to do a Ceylon tea (Sri Lankan tea) and a Darjeeling (Indian tea) so it brings the two cultures together. I think I'm going to stick little Sri Lankan and Indian flags on them or something like that to make the idea clear.

I'm also super excited because I finally ordered the tea tins and had such an amazing experience with Adagio. Adagio specifically does wedding favors with cute preprinted labels that come in organza bags but they didn't have the Darjeeling tea that I wanted available for the wedding favors. Despite that, Adagio has offered to give me labels free of charge and place the labels on the all the tea tins. Not only are they doing that, but they are also going to try and order special organza bags that will fit both tins of tea in them. On top of this they are giving me a 15% discount because I ordered SO much tea (400 tins). They were so prompt with their response time and so accomodating, I know I'll be ordering tea from them for the rest of my life. I highly recommend them for any tea needs. :)



Now I just need to figure out how I will be packaging these tins. I want to put the tins in some type of box and emboss the lid with our wedding monogram. My brother gave me the idea of using these paper mache boxes from A.C. Moore (see image below). I went and picked up some paper mache boxes and a small wooden box so now I just need to test the embossing on these surfaces. I'm sure embossing 200 boxes is going to take a stupid amount of time - enter MOH, sister in law and mom :).

Guest Book Idea :)

I know, I've been a bad blogger lately. I've been swamped with work and honestly just keep looking at my wedding countdown and trying to figure out how it became less than 4 months until the wedding.

So, I was pokin around wedding blogs today in some off time and came across some posts to have a blurb book as a guest book. blurb allows you to put photos and text together to look like (you guessed it) a book. In my opinion, in a really professional, impressive, non-yearbook sort of way. Mypublisher or iphoto (using macs) are some other sites/places that you can use to create these type of things. After reading a bunch of reviews, I'm thinking of trying out Mypublisher - plus I got an awesome coupon where I get a free copy of any book I create. I can provide the code if anyone wants to make a book.

Blurb Wedding Book

Side view of a blurb book

I have been racking my brain trying to think of an unusual guest book that I would actually want to display/keep out in our place. I think these books would be perfect since I'm obsessed with pictures. I'm already planning on having a display of family pictures and a photo booth (more on that later) so I think this could be a cute option. It lets me be creative and also forces me to start going through our pictures so I can work on the slideshow and the guestbook at the same time. Hopefully the engagement pictures we are taking in June will turn out nicely so we can use these in the guest book.

Now I just have to patiently wait for our engagement shoot in June and then I can get started on our guest book! And yes, I realize that the guest book should be the last of my worries and I should probably focus on getting my florist, cake, lighting, etc. figured out.