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 How to Make Unique Wedding Candle Favors
by Anna Hart
When your grandparents married, the idea of creating unique
wedding candle favors as a project may have crossed the bride's
mind, but weddings were simpler, then. Wedding favors were often
nothing more than sugar-coated almond candies. The candies were
traditional, and many brides went with tradition.
Today's bride has a wealth of ideas from which to choose - and
yet, because the same ideas are so readily available via the
Internet, many brides want something different. They want
wedding favors that aren't like everyone else's. Some want to
get together with friends and spend a day crafting wedding
favors.
That's where creating unique wedding candle favors as a project
comes in. Picture yourself with your friends, tables piled high
with lovely supplies. You load the CD player as everyone
gathers around the table, and then settle down for an enjoyable
day of chatting, listening to music, and creating your own
unique wedding candle favors.
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British Wedding Candle Favors
A nostalgic wedding candle favor with a "tea for two" theme can
be created using "British" teacups with saucers. Search online
for mini teacups and saucers. Several toy teacup and saucer
sets are available. Choose antique white or flowered teacups
with saucers. Place a tea candle in each cup, add a bow and
card to the handle, and your wedding candle favor is ready.
Centerpieces for your tables could be arranged in teapots.
Dutch Wedding Candle Favors
Something old, something blue ... What better for unique wedding
candle favors than Delft "Blue" with an "old" theme like a
clog? An online search will turn up ceramic mini Dutch shoes
with windmill or other design painted on them in Delft Blue.
Purchase pairs to cut costs, and separate the shoes for your
project.
Place a penny in the bottom of each shoe. Then insert a small,
white tea candle. Use thin, sheer ribbon to tie on a printed
tag with the traditional rhyme: "Something old, something new;
Something borrowed, something blue; And a penny in her shoe."
Add a brief explanation: "The theme is old, the favor is new; I
borrowed the rhyme, the shoe is blue. Look for a penny in the
shoe."
Eggs-actly Affordable Wedding Candle Favors
The bride who wants to inject humor can create unique wedding
candle favors with ceramic egg cups. Oriental Trading Company
online offers "paint-your-own" ceramic egg cups at $6.95 per
dozen. The white egg cups can be painted to match your wedding
color scheme, in flowers or other motif. Fill with wax and a
wick, or insert a tea candle. (Oriental Trading has
candle-making wax kits, too.) Tie a bow around the base of the
egg cup, attaching a place card or small thank you.
Oriental Wedding Candle Favors,
Creating unique wedding candle favors as a project is a good
way to carry out an oriental wedding theme. The trick is to
think of oriental objects that can hold a candle. The most
obvious, of course, is an oriental tea cup - tall and narrow,
with handle and lid. These can be expensive, but low cost cups
are also available, especially if you work with a wholesale
company. Choose a pretty pattern, insert a candle, and put the
lid on it. Tie your place card to the handle with a pretty
ribbon.
Spring Wedding Candle Favors
A spring idea for creating unique wedding candle favors as a
project is to begin with tulip bouquet candles, available
online from Lillian Vernon. These come in sets of 3: pink,
yellow, and lilac bouquets. Use white and silver ribbon to tie
a place card to each tulip bouquet and you're done. For a
whimsical touch, a note about "two lips" could be added to the
card. These wedding candle favors are perfect for a spring
wedding, especially with tulip centerpieces.
Tropical Wedding Candle Favors
A favorite tropical flower is the hibiscus, and floating
hibiscus blossoms can be a quick way of creating unique wedding
candle favors as a project for bride and bridesmaids. Begin with
clear plastic dessert dishes 3" to 4" in diameter. Choose dishes
with a short stem. Tie a ribbon around the stem of the dish,
looping it through your place card. Fill each dish 1/2 full
with water, and place a hibiscus floating candle in each.
Candles are available online.
Seashore Wedding Candle Favors
You can create unique wedding candle favors for a seaside
wedding using materials at hand. Order white, 13-hour votive
candles from a bulk pillar candle supplier online. Purchase
small plastic coasters, and pastel ribbon to match your wedding
color scheme. Glue a candle in the center of each coaster. Glue
a layer of sand around it. Make the sand come up over the
bottom of the candle in an uneven pattern. Glue tiny seashells
to the candles, and then tie with a bow, attaching your place
card with the ribbon.
Involve Everyone
Creating unique wedding candle favors is a project in which you
can involve nearly everyone in the family. You can create your
favors all in one day, or do a few at a time. You may not use
one of these ideas exactly as is, but perhaps the ideas given
will spark your imagination.
The important thing is that you like the favors you create, and
that they reflect your personality and interests. This is your
day. Make it uniquely you in every way.
About The Author: © 2007, Anna Hart.
Anna Hart invites you to read more of her articles about wedding favors at
Secrets of Wedding Favors. Anna has posted additional information on that site about unique favors. If you would like to learn how to make mini CDs as unique wedding
favors, visit Anna now.
If you like this craft, you may also enjoy seeing how to make an Ivy Bowl Candle Lamp, Mason Jar Wedding Candles or Canning Jar Candy Candles.
 Caution:
Never leave a lit candle unattended.
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