Guest Favors

This is really one area that I felt a lot of conflict with. I wanted something that my guests could enjoy and also leave with. I also wanted it to reflect the tone of the wedding and our personalities. There were so many options to choose from and when you are talking about 250 guests, they all add up fast. Even at a dollar a piece, there is 250 dollars of your budget right there. So it was important to find something that was cheaper and still reflected us as a couple. We settled on puppy chow, york peppermint patty drops, and cootie catchers. These were things we enjoyed or played with as a child. Perfect right? Also very simple, and definitely within our budget. You can see our favors below. The cootie catchers are the blue origami paper figures.

The York drops were a relatively easy favor to produce. The tulle came from Joanns, at a reasonable price per yard. I used less that 1/4 of a yard for these little bags. The drops came from the grocery store which I used a coupon on. These were our wedding colors. If your colors do not correspond to any of the drop candy, you can purchase custom M&M's on their website. That is obviously more expensive. I cut the tulle in a 5"x5" square. I put a serving size in the bag which was about 50 pieces. I then tied them up with some ribbon left over from other crafts for the wedding. It was about 50 a spool from walmart and comes in a lot of different colors. A second set of hands would be helpful when tying up the bags so that the candy doesn't escape.

The cootie catcher was a little more difficult. This is where the degree in art was helpful or at least the design programs that came with it. I made a cootie catcher out of paper and then wrote on each of the flaps to find the correct orientation of the text. I then came up with 16 difference questions and answers to put on the 2 different cootie catchers.  The picture below shows what the cootie catcher will look like before it is folded. We printed these on blue paper and folded. They cost about a penny a piece and the guests had a lot of fun reading the questions and answers that we put on them. You can now purchase a custom printable cootie catcher file in my shop. You can print them at home on any color paper your choose!

If you have any questions please let me know. Happy Creating!