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Sugar and Spice for Favors is Nice!

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Favors- there are so many to choose from these days it can make your head spin. One thing we can say for sure: no one wants another little teeny picture frame. We’ve figured out how to mix and match them for dinner party placecards, but eight will suffice, thank you very much.

Edibles are always popular. Looking to go with something sweet? Rice krispie treats are delightfully old fashioned and inexpensive. Packaged individually in cellophane bags with pretty ribbon, they are a fun “grab” on the way out of the party.
http://www.ricekrispies.com/recipes/the-original-treats.aspx#/recipes/the-original-treats
Another sweet choice that’s easy to put together are the many options of custom designed candy bar wrappers one can order to dress up Hershey bars. Go for the full size ones- it’s a rare adult who doesn’t relish having a whole chocolate bar all to themselves.
http://wrappedhersheys.com/

As for spicing up your wedding night, we love what we’re reading about customized mini-Tabasco bottles. http://alwaysablogsmaid.com/2011/08/11/spice-up-your-wedding-night-w-baby-tabasco/trackback/

Little bags of chile peppers are another way of sending some heat home with guests, perhaps with a family recipe attached.
http://www.penzeys.com/cgi-bin/penzeys/penzeysstores.html

And if you want to bring the heat and the sweet? Try cayenne chocolate truffles. Hello tastebuds!
http://www.chocolategarden.com/flavors.htm

Get creative with your sugar and spice!

Wait a minute Mr. Postman…I’ve never been to Lord &Taylor. Why do I get their catalog?

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Williams-Sonoma's primary and West Coast flags...
Williams Sonoma's Flagship in San Francisco
Opening the mailbox sometimes can be overwhelming as a wedding professional. We get ads for every new wedding product imaginable from really gorgeous new dresses to dreadful things like bridal toilet decor. (We passed on that, creative though it was).
New brides-to-be also are surprised to find themselves drowning in mail, particularly after creating bridal registries.  Everywhere you go, someone (legitimately) needs your name and address, and suddenly you’re getting catalogs from every store under the sun. Some of them are cool!  Before you go to the bridal salon, it’s good to find a few foundation garments that work for you to bring along, so that Bare Necessities catalog that showed up could be handy.  Williams-Sonoma, Macy’s, Crate and Barrel, if you haven’t firmed up all your registries, maybe these catalogs will help you figure out a few more things you want to add.  But then you start seeing CB2, Pottery Barn, and Restoration Hardware, and then Design Within Reach, the Home Decorator’s collection…and it eventually devolves into Country Curtains. Way too much mail order decor. You don’t need all of that, and neither does the environment.  But they keep coming.  And as the companies sell their lists, you get more and more.
There is a remedy:  a brilliant non-profit called  Catalog Choice . They keep your in-box manageable and give the forests a fighting chance.  They work with all sorts of junk mail – more than the name implies.  You can keep the stores you want, and stop the ones you don’t.   All from one easy to use dashboard.  For free!
After all, your mailbox needs room for all those phonebook sized bridal mags.  Plus, one of your great grand-kids might want an outdoor wedding of their own some day.  Let’s leave them some trees, shall we?

Wait a minute Mr. Postman…I’ve never been to Lord &Taylor. Why do I get their catalog?

by
Williams-Sonoma's primary and West Coast flags...
Williams Sonoma's Flagship in San Francisco
Opening the mailbox sometimes can be overwhelming as a wedding professional. We get ads for every new wedding product imaginable from really gorgeous new dresses to dreadful things like bridal toilet decor. (We passed on that, creative though it was).
New brides-to-be also are surprised to find themselves drowning in mail, particularly after creating bridal registries.  Everywhere you go, someone (legitimately) needs your name and address, and suddenly you’re getting catalogs from every store under the sun. Some of them are cool!  Before you go to the bridal salon, it’s good to find a few foundation garments that work for you to bring along, so that Bare Necessities catalog that showed up could be handy.  Williams-Sonoma, Macy’s, Crate and Barrel, if you haven’t firmed up all your registries, maybe these catalogs will help you figure out a few more things you want to add.  But then you start seeing CB2, Pottery Barn, and Restoration Hardware, and then Design Within Reach, the Home Decorator’s collection…and it eventually devolves into Country Curtains. Way too much mail order decor. You don’t need all of that, and neither does the environment.  But they keep coming.  And as the companies sell their lists, you get more and more.
There is a remedy:  a brilliant non-profit called  Catalog Choice . They keep your in-box manageable and give the forests a fighting chance.  They work with all sorts of junk mail – more than the name implies.  You can keep the stores you want, and stop the ones you don’t.   All from one easy to use dashboard.  For free!
After all, your mailbox needs room for all those phonebook sized bridal mags.  Plus, one of your great grand-kids might want an outdoor wedding of their own some day.  Let’s leave them some trees, shall we?