Wedding favors

[omly]

I know a ton of you guys are really creative out there, so I am making a general collective brain call. My dear friend eoywin is getting married and I wanted to brainstorm for decorations/favors. Their theme is fairy tale or medival. I am starting to think of a few ideas, but I would love to hear about what you guys can think of.

Comments

[tweekie.livejournal.com]

We did white chocolate Celtic knot hearts. I used this soap mold, filled it about halfway (about 1/2 inch thick), and wrapped them individually in fancy cellophane bags with ribbons. They turned out gorgeous, and everyone wanted to know where we had them made. Pretty simple to make, though time-consuming (start early!).

We used a soap mold because I couldn't find any celtic chocolate molds. The plastic they use for both is the same, anyway. There are TONS of gorgeous soap molds out there, but this was my favorite for a wedding, and fit our Celtic theme.

If they like the idea, let me know, and I can see if I can dig up the links where I ordered the stuff from.

[eoywin.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'm Eoywin and that is really cool!!

Thanks Omly - you are so sweet!

[omly.livejournal.com]

Other ideas:

• allenswitch made mixed cds for their wedding and gave copies to each of their guests. This is great since the cds will only cost cents per person.
  
• allenswitch also had a theme for each of the tables being a different jewel (ruby, saphire etc) rather than numbers.
  
• From craftsrer (http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=5642.0) there are a bunch of wedding favor ideas. I really like the second post in this thread.

Questions:

• Is there a color theme in addition to the fairy tale/medival theme?
  
• How many tables are going to be at the reception?

[eoywin.livejournal.com]

Our colors are green and purple. I'm not sure how many tables, since we haven't booked a reception site yet, and don't have a firm guest list yet either.

I like the cd idea, and so does Todd. His cousin did that for his wedding last year.

Traditional "favors"

[(Anonymous)]

Traditionally, a "favor" was a token given to show that one person has the "favor" of another. For a knight to fight for the honor of a lady, for example. One can "favor" several different people, or, as some Queens were known to do, to "favor" many knights that were about to fight for the honor of the kingdom in question. Oftimes this was something embroidered with the badge or arms of the lady's house, if she has the right to use them, or of the knight in question's arms if not.

Do you have a personal symbol? Does your lord? Since you have colours already ... that should be translatable.

Or perhaps I do not quite understand the current concept of "favor" in terms of Weddings.

Re: Traditional "favors"

[omly.livejournal.com]

The current concept of a wedding favor is slightly akin to the current idea of a party favor. Each guest gets one, so as not to show favortism and to thank them for coming. I have no doubt that, for better or worse, it is a result of a more politically correct climate. Unfortunately this can add greatly to the cost of the wedding depending on how you do it, since there can be a goodly number of guests. But a wedding favor can also be considered a memento for many people, and so something small and thoughtful, that really represents the couple and what they hope for is really the most desirable option. If it can be made as apposed to purchased, it it both more economically feasible and more personal.