Hudson_Hawk
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Show me your wedding favours!
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Pandora II
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I had no idea about favours till I lived in Italy, where the couples selection for ''bombonierie'' was much talked about after the wedding! There are shops that sell nothing else!
At one I got a beautiful sterling silver sugar shovel which I do actually use all the time. No engraving and very simple design. At another a mini murano glass paperweight.
In the UK it''s a very new idea, and I always swore I''d have them for mine as I loved so many of them in Italy, however I don''t think that they are a ''necessity''.
For mine, I am hand-printing 2" x 3" unbleached cotton drawstring bags with the monogram design I made (custom rubber stamp and fabric stamping ink from ebay
) and filling them with a medieval herb mix which I am making, using the same herbs as I have in my bouquet (all ingredients courtesy of ebay).
The herbs all have different meanings - ie lavender for love/devotion, marjoram for joy/happiness etc, and the attached label will have a message from us on one side and an explaination of the meanings on the other.
Most favours just get chucked in a drawer - so I thought I''d go with one that was meant to be chucked in a drawer!
There are also rather a lot of ''stiff upper-lipped'' men at my wedding, who don''t go in for that kind of thing, so I wanted them to be quite subtle - the printing is tone on tone - and not too girly. FI said he would def. take one home if he was given one - which is quite a good benchmark!
I don''t know what I''ll do if I get left with loads of them - I''d prefer there to be more knickers than herb sachets in my drawers.
At one I got a beautiful sterling silver sugar shovel which I do actually use all the time. No engraving and very simple design. At another a mini murano glass paperweight.
In the UK it''s a very new idea, and I always swore I''d have them for mine as I loved so many of them in Italy, however I don''t think that they are a ''necessity''.
For mine, I am hand-printing 2" x 3" unbleached cotton drawstring bags with the monogram design I made (custom rubber stamp and fabric stamping ink from ebay
The herbs all have different meanings - ie lavender for love/devotion, marjoram for joy/happiness etc, and the attached label will have a message from us on one side and an explaination of the meanings on the other.
Most favours just get chucked in a drawer - so I thought I''d go with one that was meant to be chucked in a drawer!
There are also rather a lot of ''stiff upper-lipped'' men at my wedding, who don''t go in for that kind of thing, so I wanted them to be quite subtle - the printing is tone on tone - and not too girly. FI said he would def. take one home if he was given one - which is quite a good benchmark!
I don''t know what I''ll do if I get left with loads of them - I''d prefer there to be more knickers than herb sachets in my drawers.
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