Little Woman, Little Home will not turn completely into a 'bridal' blog over the next year but I have so many freakin ideas floating around my head, that I want to put them down somewhere before I forget.
For our wedding Big Man and I have decided that we want to keep our wedding as cheap as possible, maybe around 10k or below but we still want it to be nice and beautiful. Our colors are dark purple and light/lime-ish green so were trying to find cute ways to incorporate those colors in.
I know one of things that are usually expected at the reception are favors for the guests. I've seen it at many weddings and I don't mean to offend anyone who had them, but I hate when I get those mint thingies. It's a nice thought but I'm just not a minty person. I'm looking something more personal and one of the things I thought about was making 'monogrammed' sugar cookies. The cookies would be in the letter H since that's what our last name will be and we could pipe the outline with purple or green icing and then wrap them in goodie bags with matching ribbon. I think it would be a relatively cheap project and a great way to spend some time chilling with my bridemaids without us running around like chickens with our heads cut off.
Another thing I would also like to incorporate into our wedding would be the candy/cookie bar. This is a big thing and I have saw it many times in various weddings but I like it and I think it would be cute to have. I would want mine to look kinda like this:
Cute right?!?
What do you ladies think?
Any suggestions/ideas/or advice?!?
39 comments:
I think your ideas are adorable!
Are you subscribed to the million wedding inspiration blogs out there? If not, there are a bunch, with a lot of cheap(er) but still WOW ideas. :) I would recommend following them!
I looked into the candy bar thing for our wedding and it's actually a lot more expensive than you would think it is...but I super cute idea! One of my colors is purple as well, enjoy planning it's been quite stressful over in brown land for me! ;)
I love the candy bar idea. I think you could go to like Michaels or Garden Ridge and get the glass containers. Then you could make chocolate covered pretzels and other things to fill them. The best way to save money is by doing things yourself. We did all of our center pieces ourselves and saved a fortune.
I like to sugar cookie ideas too! What if you did cupcakes? There is a blog called Bakerella that has the CUTEST ideas for fancy cupcakes. You could do like a wedding dress & tux cupcake. Just throwing some ideas out there! You and your bridesmaids could still spend time baking together with those!
I love your ideas. And I am here to tell you it is absolutely possible to do a cheap wedding. Mine and B's was well under 10K!
Love the ideas! :) Keep on sharing with us sistaaaa ;)
cute candy bar! I see those jars at tj maxx all of the time for not too much money so if you do that you may want to look there.
Hey don't worry about writing about wedding stuff - that's a huge part of your life right now, so it's natural to have lots of posts about it! It's fun to hear about :)
I love the cookie idea - everyone loves cookies! We didn't have favors at my wedding, instead we just made a donation to a charity. I love the candy bar idea - I've never been to wedding with one before but I've seen plenty of pictures and it looks really fun!
One of my friends did the candy bar, And it is quite expensive..
The cookie favors sound like so much fun and really cute! And prolly would be really cheap!
The cons on this would be having to make a million of them.. you would have to think about not how many invitations too but the head count for your guest list!
And the week OF the wedding is when you would prolly end having to do them since you would want them fresh lol. And that week is already crazy enough although maybe you could try to freeze them!
I think the candy bar would be great if you were looking for something a little less time consuming on ur end, And it's really funn too! But the cookies I think are really great too! hahah Gosh I LOVE weddings!
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Also idk if you have a Ross where you live or will be living but if you check in there on and off you can get beautiful vases for your candy bar for DIRT cheap! It's where Lace got all of hers! :)
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love that idea! and a 10K wedding is totally possible (mine was around 12K). love the homemade cookies!
Haha, if you do turn into a bride blog for a bit I believe we will ALL understand. :)
My best friend did a very, VERY beautiful wedding for 10k so it can be done!
The cookies would be a great favor. You could go to the craft store and get cute ribbon and little embellishments for the bags. Also, for the candy bar you can start by looking at thrift stores for various vases/jars. Cheap but you can definitely find cute ones. You can buy bulk candy online for discount prices; this is what we did. I love planning weddings!
For the candy bar, hit up thrift and antique stores. Buy candle holders and jars and then glue the candle holders to the bottom of the jar to make them look like apothecary jars.
http://www.homebodyholly.com/2009/11/thrifty-gifty-2use-glassware-to-create.html
Also, I will design your wedding invites and save the dates at no cost, you would just have pay a printer fee. And you can get that pretty inexpensively.
Let me know if you want any other ideas. I have done several weddings :)
We did the candy bar! And it was the BIGGEST HIT EVER! People loved it!
And yeah, I'm with Gina...my wedding was well under 10K. You can do it!
Down with the mints and love the cookies!
I think those ideas are great, the personal touch really means so much more. If I can think of any others to add, I will!
Both ideas are great! I love the personalized cookies. We did cookie cutters since hubs and I both love to bake!
I love anything wedding so don't you worry about flooding us with all things wedding. LOVE IT!
i love both ideas! just remember the more wedding stuff you look at doesnt mean its soemthing your guests will have ever seen before.
It seems like a million people do candy bars now, accodring to wedding blogs and magazines, but no one at mine had ever seen it. It oes get kinda expensive though.
We still did our wedding at 10k with it, just fyi.
another option for cookies are the publix ones. A friend of mine put three or four cokies in little boxes from publix and no one knew the difference. It brought her favors to about a dollar a person, and you cant really beat that.
those cookies would be so cute and way better than stupid mints! I was in my friends wedding and our favor was a stupid 3 inch tall lantern... I still have it but I dont know what the heck to do with it!
And share your bridal ideas all you want! It is so fun to see it all!!
Candy bar = AMAZING idea!!
Our wedding was well under 10k as well!
Good luck! And PLEASE don't turn into a "bridezilla"!
I think the cookies are a great idea and obviously something people can use. I hate receiving something with the couples names monogrammed on it as seriously it never gets used and probably cost the couple a small fortune. Usually here (AUS) you get bombarded with sugar almonds at weddings which I don't think anybody likes to eat that much!
I love love the cookies, I think that's a super cute idea and very unique. I agree with the candy bar being cute, but it does get really expensive and believe it or not the candy goes really fast. I've been to a couple of weddings where the candy runs out even before the reception has started fully and the bowls are just sitting there empty. It's just something to think about, but it is cute and people do love it.
i LOVE the colors you picked....seriously so cute! and i'm totally down with the candy bar.... i did that for a birthday party and it was a giant hit!! i can't wait to see what else you come up with!
I love the ideas of the cookies but add them to the candy bar. The weddings I've been to recently use the candy bar as the favors. They put stickers with their colors on the bags and then send them home with the guest. There is a place here in town where you can rent the apothecary jars but you can buy them at TJ Maxx or Marshalls too and then use them as home decor later!!! Great ideas girl!!! XOXO
I really think that those are cute ideas. Especially the dessert bar. I want to have something along those lines too except with different kinds of pies and cakes. Mmm.
Oh, want to hear something funny? I was telling my husband about a friend of mine who is planning on getting married in August. And I tell him that the colors are purple and green (which is what he would have thought I would want because they are two of my favs) but then after I said it I realized she just was having purple. Oddly, I couldn't think of who it was who had the green. Until just now anyway. How weird is that? Blog life is creeping into real life! =]
I WANT to hear about the wedding details so don't feel bad about doing so!! I actually really like the monogrammed cookie idea! I don't know how expensive a candy bar would be, but either one I'm sure will be a hit!
Cute ideas! Love the cookies. Have you been on theknot.com? Lots of awesome ideas there!
I love the cookie idea! But, it may be time consuming when it comes down to it. But it could also be a stress reliever! If you decide to go the candy bar route, you can shop online at bulk candy stores and get candy by color, but beware what a pound of m&m's and a pound of gumballs actually look like. I would go to the candy store, so you have an idea. I love hearing about weddings that aren't breaking the bank because mine didn't either!
Such a cute idea friend!!
I love the candy bar idea and I also dislike favors. I think it is a stupid place to dump money, you know?!? I do think that monogrammed sugar cookies are a fantastic and yummy idea!
I love both ideas!
I am a huge fan of the candy bar idea. My friends did it when they got married and it was a huge hit. And served as a great breakfast the next day :)
i love the candy bar idea! i totally want to do that as well!!
the cookie idea is cute too!!
I like the cookie idea if you feel that you need to have favors. Something to keep in mind would be the time & effort to do it before the wedding - would you have a family member that would do it for you?
We didn't do favors simply because the only favors we ever kept were beer coozies (we use them on the boat). We thought the money would be better spent for us somewhere else.
My only advice (& it was given to me & I so appreciate it) - it is you guy's wedding. Do what you like that feels right to you.
:)
I'm so jealous that you get to wedding plan :( Boo. I want to wedding plan!!
We had the same colors at our wedding. Plus, we kept it under 5,000. You can do it!
We had the same colors at our wedding. Plus, we kept it under 5,000. You can do it!
10K is cheap??? Ours was maaaaaaybe 5K at the most.
I love the candy bar idea! We had one at our wedding, but we only got to see it in pictures because it was completely gone by the time we finished our pictures and were introduced into the reception.
Love the monogram cookies :)
I pink puffy heart the cookie idea! I mean I absolutely love it! When lil miss gets married I think we'll be doing that, although it's a very long way away. LOL
We did a candy bar at our reception and it was the biggest hit. Everyone loved it, I didn't get to taste any thing because it was gone by the time I got over there. So I say go for it!
Mrs. Big
PS. I love reading wedding stuff so post those ideas lady!
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