Wedding Favor Help

[countrygirl]

Hi Ladies, I am torn on the wedding favors. I found some neat engraved shot glasses w napkins that match my colors of the wedding, but now I have found personalized frosted votive holders. I am leaning toward the votive holders, but here is my dilema....My centerpieces are vases that look like fishbowls, scalloped at the top, with sage votives in inside.

If I do the shotglasses w napkins in them at each place setting, that would be ok, but I really like the candles and don't know how to arrange them w/out making them overkill or tacky.

And suggestions??

[CindySue]

Heather, your centerpieces sound like my ivy bowls! I had them arranged on a table sorta like this:
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b364/Cindysue3132/HPIM0511.jpg
And this was my favor:
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b364/Cindysue3132/DSC00001.jpg
I had them arranged real pretty on a table with our photomat we used instead of a guest book.

[countrygirl]

Yes, mine are like yours, except we woudn't be putting anything around the votives. I am just wondering how the votives would look on the table around the centerpiece. Would that be 'too' much?

[CindySue]

I had votives around mine, and everybody thought it was pretty. If I had had more votive to put on the tables, I would have gotten those mirrors to sit them all on.

[Kacie_bride]

Can you do a test run? What I mean is get a table and set one of everything up to see how it looks. We are planning on doing this with my stuff. I know we can't get the exact thing, but something cheap and close enough to see what it looks like.

By the way, I have the same bowls! I am putting a red candle inside with this stuff called ice. Then I am putting greenery around it with ribbon and flowers. Did you guys get the bowls at Hobby Lobby?

[CindySue]

Can you do a test run? What I mean is get a table and set one of everything up to see how it looks. We are planning on doing this with my stuff. I know we can't get the exact thing, but something cheap and close enough to see what it looks like.

By the way, I have the same bowls! I am putting a red candle inside with this stuff called ice. Then I am putting greenery around it with ribbon and flowers. Did you guys get the bowls at Hobby Lobby?
I did the "test run" with mine.....thats actually what my pic is of!!! And I got mine at Garden Ridge.

[countrygirl]

I did the "test run" with mine.....thats actually what my pic is of!!! And I got mine at Garden Ridge.

I never thought about a test run. DER!! I bought my bowls at the Dollar Tree. Can't pass that up. I am just putting the candles in them by them selves, but will use greenery as well.

[CindySue]

I never thought about a test run. DER!! I bought my bowls at the Dollar Tree. Can't pass that up. I am just putting the candles in them by them selves, but will use greenery as well.
FYI - at a craft store you can catch them on sale for 2 for $1, or I got some of mine 3 for $1.

[countrygirl]

FYI - at a craft store you can catch them on sale for 2 for $1, or I got some of mine 3 for $1.

Is that the votives, holders, or fishbowls??

[CindySue]

Is that the votives, holders, or fishbowls??
That was the fishbowls. My votives I got at Michaels for (I think it was) $4.99 for 12 and it was the candle and holder. I had so many of them I used the 2 different ways. I had some wrapped in tulle as a favor and used some on the tables with the centerpieces.

[cowboysbride]

I am using the same idea at my rehearsal dinner! The bowls will have red and white rose candle rings and I bought floating rose candles at BIG LOTS for .28 each!

The centerpieces at the church for the cake and punch reception are live mini tea rose bushes

The centerpieces at the reception are rose shaped glass votive holders, ice to hold the candle upright (8") and they have red roses and little black cowboys hats glued to them.

I need to get some pictures!

[countrygirl]

I an now thinking, if I can afford it, to get the shot glasses w napkins(folded and standing inside of them) and fillind the glasses w maybe a nut or trail mix to help them stay upright. Good idea?? Bad idea??

[cowboysbride]

It's your wedding do it the way you want to, I like the idea, just think that if the nut mix or trail mix is "greasy" it might soil the napkins.

[CindySue]

It's your wedding do it the way you want to, I like the idea, just think that if the nut mix or trail mix is "greasy" it might soil the napkins.
I have to agree, unless you found something in invidual little packets

[countrygirl]

It's your wedding do it the way you want to, I like the idea, just think that if the nut mix or trail mix is "greasy" it might soil the napkins.

Well shucks, I didn't think of that. Ok, I could still the little mints that everyone (other than me) seems to like.

[WhiskeyGirl]

My concern with the nuts or trail mix is if someone is deathly allergic of nuts of any sort! That's just my thinking though! :)

[Kacie_bride]

You know I always hear about people being allergic to nuts, but I have never actually met someone who was. I hear about it all the time though and I always read those warnings at food places and stuff.

[WhiskeyGirl]

You know I always hear about people being allergic to nuts, but I have never actually met someone who was. I hear about it all the time though and I always read those warnings at food places and stuff.

My cousin is one of those people! So if it were me, I wouldn't take the chance! :wink:

[LaceyinPgh]

You know I always hear about people being allergic to nuts, but I have never actually met someone who was. I hear about it all the time though and I always read those warnings at food places and stuff.

I have a couple students allergic to nuts rather severally. I NEVER buy candy of any sort if it says that it may contain nuts. They send us little medical reports on certain students. I also know that next school year I have a latex allergy coming in that is so bad we have to watch even having balloons around the room that she/he could touch.

[Kacie_bride]

Yes I've heard about allergies like that, but I've never known anyone who had a nut allergy or latex. Justin however, was allergic to chocolate as a child. He grew out of it though. But that is why to this day he does not eat hardley any chocolate. He never developed a taste for it. The only kind of chocolate he really eats is chocolate chip cookies (the homeade kind).

[Jenn060306]

Maybe you could use hershey's kisses or jelly beans rather then the trail mix.

With Latex allergies you also have to be careful about the latex particals getting in the air. A latex glove can cause the same sort of problems.

[rainbowtreat]

I wroked with a woman who is deathly allergic to nuts. To the point that if it is airborn she gets sick. This was proven to her when her boys where eating peanut butter crackers in the car with the windows up. She couldnt breath. Alot of chocolate she cant eat either because it has peanut oil in it or nto even in it but made in the same machines that have peanut oil on them. It is that bad. I never realy looked at the label that close but it actualy says something about being processed in the same machine with peanut oil.

I used skittles for my favors. We placed them in tulle with ribbon that held my home made tags and then placed them in little black and white cowboy hats.