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Light up your evening wedding with romantic candle light!  We found these darling mini lanterns and couldn’t resist adding a pretty ribbon and name tag to use them as escort cards.

As each guest finds their lantern and walks to their table, your venue will be cast with a sea of gorgeous light. Double them up as favors and centerpieces too! We suggest you set your tables with larger lanterns so that when your guests set down their mini lanterns, the centerpieces will be complete and your tables will be awash with candlelight! Guests can bring the lanterns home and use them again and again.

A few tips:

- Make sure you use the right size candle for your lantern. If the candle is too big, the handles will heat up. Give them a test run prior to your big day.

- Make sure your venue allows candles.

-As always, be careful with flames. Assign a friend or helper to monitor the lanterns and candlelight.

-Be sure to have your photographer catch the details!

Enjoy!

Scrabble has always been one of my all-time favorite board games. It was a game that we loved to play when my husband and I first became friends, it played a role when he first asked me out, and it even came up again when he finally asked me to marry him. I knew that I wanted Scrabble to show up in our wedding somehow, but in a way that was sweet and meaningful.
 
In the end, I came up with the idea of making Scrabble tile magnet favors. Each favor was a four-letter word related to love (hope, kiss, true, wish, etc.), and our letterpressed favor tags read, “Some parting words of love.”
 
These favors would be perfect for a board game-themed wedding, a wedding based on beautiful words, a poem, or song lyric, or just as an extra charming touch to a simple, DIY wedding. 
 
Materials:
Scrabble tiles (enough for 1 4-letter word per favor)
Strong magnets  (I used these)
Slide top tins, 79mm x 35mm x 10mm (found here)?
Hot glue
Spray adhesive?
Patterned paper?
Scissors
Paper cutter (optional)
Sandpaper
Ribbon
Favor tag
Newspaper

Process:

1. Track down enough scrabble tiles to make one 4-letter word per favor.
I’d suggest purchasing 1/5 more than you need in order to provide yourself with more letter choices.  For 200 favors, I purchased 1000 Scrabble tiles.

2. Take inventory of all the letters to determine how many of each letter you have.

3. Round up your favorite Scrabble buddies.
Make it a game and ask them to come up with as many 4-letter words related to your theme as possible, given the inventory of your Scrabble tiles.  Note of caution: Must love Scrabble to do this or else will feel like homework!

4. Hot glue one magnet to the back of each Scrabble tile. 
Be careful not to put the tiles too closely together when drying.  The magnets are so strong that they can actually detach from the hot glue and attach to another magnet. 

5. Cut out the patterned paper.
Cut your paper using a paper cutter or scissors into rectangles the same size as your slide top tins (about 3 1/8” x 1 3/8”).  Round the edges.

6.  Lay out the newspaper on the ground in a well-ventilated area and lay out 6 tins in a grid pattern.
Make sure you adequately cover every inch of your work surface and floor…my table and floors were sticky for weeks!

7. Spray with spray adhesive.
Holding the spray about 12 inches away from the tins, spray an even coat of adhesive over tins.  Try to spray from the top directly to avoid getting adhesive on the sides of the tins. 

8. Immediately attach patterned paper to all 6 tins.  
You can do more or less than 6 at a time, but I found that 6 was the most I could attach before the adhesive became less sticky. Repeat until all tins are completed.

9. Sand the edges.
After the tins have dried for a few hours, lightly sand the edges for a more polished look.  If you’d like a more vintage look, sand the tops as well. 

10. Fill the tins with Scrabble magnet words.

11. Tie the tins with ribbon and attach any tags that you might want.

*Suggestion: If you’d like to incorporate a raffle/prize in your wedding, you can easily hide special 4-letter words in the favors.  For our wedding, we hid two special words in our favors – “word” and “suns” that stood for things that my husband and I love. “Word” referred to my love for word games and “suns” referred his love for the basketball team, The Phoenix Suns. Our two guests who received these two favors were gifted a Scrabble game and mini basketball. It was our “wish” that each of our guests could take a little piece of us home with them!

With a color printer, some card stock, and any bells and whistles of your choosing, you can create these gorgeous, romantic table numbers in no time!

Images courtesy: Olivia Kanaley

Things You Need:
Color printer
Card stock in color of your choice, 8.5″ by 11″
Paper cutter or scissors
Gold acrylic craft paint
Fine paintbrush

Instructions:
1. Table number templates 1-20 are available as .pdfs to download and print.
2. Print table numbers onto card stock and cut out along provided lines.
3. You can use the table numbers as is or add extra metallic details with gold craft paint and a fine brush. Use the paint to detail the floral border. Be sure to keep the brush relatively dry, especially if you’ve print your cards on an inkjet printer.

To design a unique wedding planning, every details must be special too,especially wedding favors.Wedding favors can really be something special. Just put a bit of yourself into the presentation and you will have a hit your guests will talk about for a long time to come.Therefore,you should consider to giving away wedding favors in fresh and unique way. Special presentation and packaging able to improve appeal of unique wedding favors. Sometimes, the way a wedding favor is presented is what makes a wedding favor really unique and memorable.Here will provide some ideas for presenting your wedding favors in a stylish and special way.

The bride can carry a beautifully decorated basket full of long stemmed red rose candles.During the reception she can mingle with all the guests and pass out the unique wedding favors herself to each guest. Not only will she get the thrill of seeing the delight on the faces of her guests, but also she will feel like a Princess giving away wedding favors on her big day.

Another idea for creating unique wedding favors is a take-off on Dayna Devon’s (of ‘Extra’ fame) idea of hanging velveteen cones trimmed with satin and filled with rose petals on the chair of each guest. You can create beautiful satin or organza pouches and trim them with antique lace or rope. Fill the pouches with rice or birdseed, which the guests can shower on the couple when they leave. Hang the unique wedding favors on the chairs, ala’ Devon and be the season’s most talked about bride!

An absolutely fantastic idea for unique wedding favors presentation involves the wedding cake. If you can afford it, plan to have a mini wedding cake for each table and one grand wedding cake for the couple to cut. Then put personalized silver mini cake server sets at each place setting. When the couple cuts the wedding cake, all the guests get to cut the cake on their table. It is great fun for everyone present and of course the guests get to take home the unique wedding favors.

You could create air fresheners or potpourri and hang it in the guests’ cars. This was a unique wedding favor idea John and Rebecca Stamos used at their celebrity wedding. If your wedding reception has valets, have them put one in each car as they park them.

Another great way to distribute unique wedding favors is to decorate the fa vors or place them on a center table in beautiful baskets or arranged in a fun design. Put a card inviting each guest to take one favor. This can be a part of your wedding decoration. Place one unique wedding favor for each guest, as well as for children. Also include a few extras in case of damage or double dipping.

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