Friday, February 1, 2008

Wedding Favor Ideas

We first thought of giving each of our guests a pair of chopsticks as a wedding favor. The varieties of Thai-style chopsticks were quite popular and were becoming increasingly common as wedding favor items. However, we would rather source for more unique chopsticks directly from Thailand (instead of the commonly imported varieties sold locally) but since no one was going there, we looked around and found another suitable wedding favor – heart-shaped soaps.

My sis told me that no one was going to cherish our wedding favor. Her boyfriend took home a pair of chopsticks from a wedding dinner and it had been left lying in a corner ever since. When I imagined my own chopsticks being treated that way, I felt that would be such a waste.

The little pieces of soap came in multiple colors and since they were more likely to be used than chopsticks, we decided to change our wedding favor to the heart-shaped soap instead.

I like organza bags as they look classy. Since I had some maroon organza ribbon left over from our DIY invitation cards, I thought we could make bags out of that. My Mom helped me sew the ribbon into little bags. We then inserted the soap into the organza bags and tied each bag with thin, pink satin ribbon.


Good idea? We just hope our maroon organza bags will complement the light purple theme of our wedding dinner reception (more photos available in the Photo Gallery).

3 comments:

Dreamer said...

i always wonder this kind of "soaps" are really usable or just for decorations purpose??

but normally....i wouldnt "use" it even it's usable..more likely will keep it as a gift/present/decoration....

u guys got any spare one?:p

Dreamer said...

oh ya..btw..happy chinese new year!!

zenetlife said...

The wedding favor can be used as soap or a decorative item.

Guess most ppl won't be using it as they already have their own soap, but it is really up to the guests what they wanna do with it. There are ppl like you, who appreciate gifts and there are also ppl who would throw it away. But Eunice did see one of her ex-colleagues keeping our wedding favor in her car - not sure if it was for the fragrant smell or cos she didn't bother to take it out of her car... hehe.

We’re not sure what happened to the extra wedding favors. There were supposed to be 10 left over but we didn’t get them back after the wedding. Since we don't have anymore left, we can only offer you a photo, as mentioned in our Invitation Cards blog comment.

Happy Chinese New Year of the Rat to you too.