Cheap wedding matchbook favors
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Hi everyone! Our wedding is October 5th and we’ll be incorporating some fall elements along with some rustic elements to tie into our farm venue. With seven weeks to go we need more good ideas soon! Still, we want to be gracious and have fun with it. Our budget is tight (who’s isn’t, it’s the RESESH!) and the custom of extending individual gifts to every guest after budgeting a certain price per head for food, hooch, venue cost, entertainment is a little hard for us to swallow. However, that’s still not really an ideal gift for guests as couples, since no couple really needs two almanac calendars in their home.Īs much as we’d like it to be DIY, like our invitations, we also know *any* craft is super hard to pull off 120 times in a row. Now we’re considering scrolled 2013 almanacs from my hometown Mom ‘n Pop grocery store for our guests, maybe with a little nametag attached to each one. Our total yield of 12 jars of jam will probably be earmarked as bridal party gifts. It was a great learning experience and I’m sure we’ll can again if we ever morph into the brilliant gardeners we’d like to be, but we’ve admitted to ourselves what a bad match this project was for favors. HAH! Ever realize the seed-to-fruit content in a blackberry? You will after scarring your face with molten-hot pectin and pressing $20 of berries through a food mill only to yield all of three wee jars. First we bought a ton of cutesy jelly jars and buckets of blackberries at the local farmers market, thinking it would be easy as pie to make a half-pint jar of jam for each and every of our 120 guests. We’re getting married in October in a cozy cabin, and wanted “domestic favors” since we are both very homey folk.
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Some DIY projects cost more than getting something pre-fab, though.
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Wow, these are all lovely ideas, but we’re looking for something a little more DIY to bring down the cost.