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 :).
