Autumn Wedding
Favours
Make favours for your autumn
wedding that reflect the spirit
of the season. From pumpkin
candles to cookies that will
warm the heart, favours inspired
by fall will be appreciated by
all of your guests.
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Tea Bags - Buy your favourite teas in bulk, or
devise a blend to your
liking, then decant it into
packets large enough to brew
an entire pot. Attach a
homemade tag inscribed with
a fitting message to a
length of embroidery thread,
which can be sealed into the
seam of the tea bag.
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Candles - For a unique
autumn favour,
wrap tapers in vellum; dress
up with blossoms or a
matchbox covered with paper,
florets, and real leaves.
Tie box to candles with a
cord threaded through the
box's underside.
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Tea and cookies - Tea is
twice as nice coupled with
cookies flavoured the same
way. These Earl Grey tea
cookies were made by mixing
tea leaves into the
shortbread batter. Customize
a box with corrugated paper
to form sections for cookies
and tea bags. Ours is
wrapped with damask paper
and ribbon. Monogrammed
tags, shaped like ones for
tea bags, reveal the gift
inside.
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Cookie Jars - It's only
fitting to give cookies in a
jar -- this one is tiny in
size but big in
old-fashioned charm. The
mini store-bought cookies
inside include chocolate
chip, oatmeal cranberry, and
shortbread currant.
Embellish the jar with a
ribbon-tied tag and a
homemade label (affix with
double-sided tape).
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Coffee-Flavoured Favours - Blue-and-white packaging
complements dark-brown
coffee favours.
Chocolate-covered espresso
and coffee beans are stacked
in hexagonal boxes tied with
silk ribbon. Use rubber
stamps (made at an
office-supply store) to
identify the treats.
Homemade coffee truffles,
composed of bittersweet
chocolate ganache spiked
with Irish whiskey and
coffee extract, nestle
inside candy cups; paper
bands, made on a computer
using clip art, dress up
their boxes. Rich espresso
fudge brownies (wrapped in
cellophane) are covered with
dotted paper
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Pears
- Filled with miniature
pears, fiber bags make
inviting favours. The bride's
and groom's names, the
wedding date, and "A Perfect
Pair" is printed on labels
tied to the bags with
strands of paper ribbon
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Chocolate
hearts - nestle inside
a small pink box wrapped
with polka-dotted cellophane
and a thin satin ribbon. Set
each heart in a candy cup
and arrange on shredded
tissue.
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Jams
and jellies made from
fruits grown at Pearbrook:
plums, currants, grapes,
peaches, raspberries, and,
of course, pears.
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Tea, coffee
or hot
chocolate in
a
personalized
mug
- Autumn
leaves
cookie
cutters
with
personalized
labels.
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Maple syrup
in
in maple
leaf bottle.
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Oak leaf
cookie
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Photo
coaster
imprints of
autumnal
leaves
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Leaf shaped
favours such
as soaps, candles,
coasters,
wine
stoppers and
vases
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