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AmberWaves

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Well, we were initally thinking of getting honey favors, jars of honey. But, since I don''t really like honey, and I DO love cookies (and all things baked), I was thinking of making cookies, and putting them on trays along with boxes, or bags to take them home with. I''m a notorious baker, and I''m known for it. I''m going to ask family for recipes, then print many copies and put them beside each cookie tray. I have my own special cookie recipe, as well as a peanut butter cookie recipe from my great grandma. I''d ask his family and mine for their own recipes, to bring our two families together. What do you think? I was also going to do little milk cartons, too.
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Maybe I shouldn''t do just cookies, but try to do other treats as well, like my cousin''s cheesecake.

What do you think? All cookies, or other desserts?
 
I like cookies too! If you are known for your baking and think it will not add too much stress, go for it! Maybe you could make one biggish one, put both your initials on in an icing color to match your scheme and cello wrap it loosely...just a thought, trying to be creative!!
 
Thanks diamondfan! I looove baking, and luckily for me, my dad has bought a new kitchenaid pro mixer!! The wedding isn''t for over a year, but I think it''ll be more US than honey.
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I don''t like honey!
 
I love your idea Amber !!! It sounds like it would be a very nice touch as it''s something YOU are known for and would be an extra special treat. I say go for it!!!
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I also love to cook and my FMIL wanted me to bake cookies for the RD, I decided that with everything it would be too much stress for me. SHe is going to bake heart shaped cookes and frost them for it though. I agree, if it wont be too much stress do it. I just cant handle it, and would probably snap!
 
Yeah, I worry about the stress, too, but we''d have two kitchens working on it, so I hope it''ll be okay! I still have a looong time to re-think it.
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cute idea! but i worry about the milk and spoilage though. food poisoning is not what you want your guests to think of when they remeber your wedding!
 
Maybe you could find a milk carton-looking box to package your cookies in?

I think it''s a great idea to bring the two recipes together from the families. I will probably be doing cookies for favors too. I like the monogram cookies I have been seeing in various forms, and would like to do ones with our monogram (two C''s and one G) and our wedding date (07/28/07). I am not sure if they will be round or square yet. Sample pic below from a site:

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I think that's a good idea. I've seen people do that at their sweets table and put out the chinese take out containers with a personalized sticker or whatever and then guests can fill up their little boxes before they leave. And I'm sure the guests will love that too! Who doesn't love cookies??

Anyway, as for the stress of cooking everything... When my mom did hers way back in the 70s, they started baking way ahead of time and froze the cookies... A lot of them can be frozen and thawed with no problems, just an idea to eliminate some of the stress the week before.
 
My cousin''s mom made her signature rosemary sugar cookies for the favors. The packaging was a plastic box, for lack of better description like a shoe box, where the top part fits on the bottom part, but it was square and the plastic was very thin, about 1/2 inch deep, and about as big as a CD case. There were four cookies inside, and then it was wrapped in lavender ribbon and a sprig of rosemary. She figured out that the cardboard thing in a paper towel roll made the cookies the perfect size to fit four into the box, and she filled paper towel cardboard rolls with the dough and froze them! A few days before the wedding she gave them to family and friends, who defrosted, sliced, baked and packaged. It worked out beautifully and the cookies were a really thoughtful favor, with lots of love in them!
 
I actually like both ideas but might vote for the honey instead, for 2 reasons:

1. it lasts longer and guests can use it as they wish, rather than cookies which won''t stay good forever
2. buying jars of honey would be a lot less stressful than making cookies the day before (or 2 days, whatever.) Simplicity!

good luck with whatever you choose; either one sounds deeeeelicious!
 
Thanks for all the suggestions about this! Also, about the milk spoiling, I was thinking of putting the cartons (or jars/jugs...) in a big tub full of ice, and only bringing it out later, since it''s going to be a daytime wedding, indoor, at a hotel.

I love the packaging idea, equestrienne!!

Blue, the freezing idea is PERFECT. Especially since we have tons of freezer room.

Thanks everyone!

So... should I just do cookies, or a more work-intensive dessert bar? I''m really leaning more towards just cookies. My great-grandma Pansy had the BEST peanut butter cookies!
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I love the cookie bar idea! Especially that it would be family cookie recipes.

We decided on cookies as our favors (BIG hit) as well and I had the intention of baking and freezing them, but realised the stress would have been too much for me (not to mention DH eating them!). Ours were frosted sugar cookies in the shape of L''s (our last name) and we had them wrapped in clear celephane bags I picked up at Micheal''s for like $3-5 for 50! I tied them up with little tags that told everyone where to sit.

If the chinese take out boxes are too much, you may want to consider the cellophane baggies or maybe the white bags you get at the bakery. You could decorate them with minimal effort!
 
What do you guys think of these boxes?

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And then there are these, which I really like, actually.

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Oo, Amber, just don''t overextend yourself! Baking the day or two days before your wedding is a lot to handle. How many cookies do you think you''ll need and how many hours do you think it will take you? I love the idea though--it''s very personal and sentimental, as long as you don''t take on too much stress.

I can''t tell you how many people tried to talk me out of doing my own flowers. Then night before the wedding (and the morning OF the wedding too!) I was so stressed out with SO MANY things to do that I wished I had listened to them. Doing those flowers the day before the wedding was the closest in my life I ever came to an anxiety attack.
 
equestrienne! you are getting married on MY BIRTHDAY~ :) cool, you''ve picked the best day EVAR!

Amber

the cookie idea sounds cute. i dont think you''d need to do a dessert bar cause you are using them as favors right, not as part of the dessert meal? you will already have the dessert with the cake i am assuming. since you will already have dessert, there is no reason to do milk cartons. here''s what i think, if i come to a wedding and there are cookies for favors, ive already just eaten cake right so i wouldn''t want to start eating the cookies right away and therefore wouldn''t need the milk? and if i took a milk carton it might spoil by the time i drove home? i guess it depends when you want to hand them out about whether you''d need milk.

both of those boxes look nice, the last ones are very nonfussy and I like them. You could add a ribbon and a scroll where the scroll could have 2 recipes rolled up, one from each side of the family? you could print the scroll on smallish sheets of paper? that would make the white boxes more visually interesting. the first set of (the nonwhite) boxes would take away from whatever your color scheme is if it isnt that one.

if you dont think honey is "very you" then dont do it :)
 
Selflove, I remember seeing your post about how stressful your flowers were. I''m so sorry about that, and it really scared me off of wanting to do my own, too! With the cookies, I think I will try the bake and freeze option ahead of time, just to see how it''ll work. I ususally make 30 cookies or more at a time when just making them for my fiance and I, so I think maybe 60 of each kind, maybe 4 kinds.. So, peanut butter, choc. chip, oatmeal raisin, and something else, I can''t think of... If we want 150 people, should that be enough? Because I figure some people won''t be taking all. Or maybe I''ll make more chocolate chip and peanut butter, since I think that''s more popular. I dunno, I''ll have to see what the full numbers for the guest list are.

Froufrou, you are SOOO right about the milk cartons. It makes a lot more sense, that if I give them cookies to take home, they''ll want to take them, not eat them right away.
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Another thing, should I print out the recipes in little square sizes? That way then can take them home with them..
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Two things:
Cookie idea is awesome. Doing other desserts is like wanting to die a painful death.
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As soon as I read your post I thought, "Ooh, she should definitly give copies of the recipes!." But make it easy on yourself--just take them to Kinkos or something, do not try to do all of them on your computer!

So cute, keep us up to date.

(sidenote, not to jack the thread...I am tempted to do homemade family recipe cookies in LIEU of a wedding cake, since I''m not a big wedding cake fan...so I''ll keep a watch on this thread and we can be in touch...yay!)
 
Plantationcatt, my great grandma''s peanut butter cookie recipe is what started this whole landslide, but here''s hoping I''m not the only one in the family who bakes!! I''m super excited about this, and I''ve gotten promises to help bake from family and friends! So that''s good!
 
oh i see...you''ll bake them early and then freeze the baked cookies...i thought you were just gonna make and freeze the dough and then bake them the day or two before the wedding.

that should work and should be too stressfull to thaw them out! hee hee!

what if you wrapped them in celophane bags, like one of each of the 3 or 4 that you mentioned, and put all the recipes in the bag? Then you could still do the dessert bar b/c it wouldn''t be too much sweets. You can never have too much dessert for your guests...they''ll love the variety and the options, i''m sure.
 
Selflove, that is a great idea! I like how many options I have for this!
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I think you should stick to just cookies, unless you get catering help for the dessert bar - otherwise it''s going ot be too much.

I like the idea of cookie favors though. Or, I''ve seen pics of a cookie bar - you get big jars and fill them w/the different cookies, w/a note on the family history/who''s recipe it is, and have bags w/cute monogram stickers for ppl to pick which ones they want.
 
Sounds DELICIOUS
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I''m sure it will be a hit.
 
Thanks for all the advice, everyone. Tough thing is, now I''m starving.
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Thought I''d chime in briefly since we had cookies as our wedding favors and they were a HUGE hit!! I did not bake them myself, but I was trying to tie in something made in the same state in which we were married for the favors and the cookies I found were a perfect and delicous solution!!

I just ended up using small candy jars w/ ribbon in our wedding colors (also corresponding to cookie flavor) tied around the top. There is a picture here towards bottom of page.

Anyhow, I just liked that cookies were more appealing to everyone - more substantial than the candied almonds or mints, and was something guests could snack on later than night in their hotel, the next day on their way home, or whatever. Whereas anything else (salsa, honey, etc.) would require more "work" for guests to actually consume.

The freezing idea is perfect.
 
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