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"Unique favours"
"Unusual favours".
"Chic favours".
"Amazing favours that will differentiate my wedding from everyone else's. Please.. that's all I ask!!"
For some reason I spent an inordinate amount of time looking for favours for our wedding that no-one else would have seen before, god knows why {borderline bridezilla?}. So maybe apart from the last one I would spend most lunchtimes googling the above search terms looking for something that would blow my mind. No, really.
So what was wrong with a few sweets or chocolates? Nothing, in fact I'm rather partial to a nibble on a sweet after dinner, but the past two years I have been to a lot of weddings and everybody had done something different but covered all the bases.
We'd had Thornton's chocolate, a favourite of each of the bride and groom is a snazzy little box but unfortunately for me, the two chocolates (Viennese truffle and an alpini) were also mine and Mr C's two favourite chocs so we would basically have had exactly the same favour. But they were delightful :) and I think its so important that if you are going to do favours that they really mean something to you, so your favourite sweet, colour, smell which will resonate with your guests.
We had a cute little box of jelly belly sweets at another wedding, another great idea taken and we even had a lovely little candle and votive at another. Darn it!
So after getting stupidly close to the big day without anything in the bag I decided to go simple and have my favourite little treat, macaroons in soft pastel hues in a cute little birdcage box from confetti, not clever but looked super sweet and I love them so win-win.
But one day whilst browsing etsy {seller MadebyDina} I stumbled across wish bracelets which were I guess exactly what I was looking for originally, a bit different and a lasting reminder of the day. So the ladies got an extra little favour!
Wish bracelets are little hemp string bracelets with a bead on and the owner makes a wish as they try it on which hopefully comes true when the hemp wears away and breaks, very romantic. These would be perfect for a DIY bride as they are so simple but effective.
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