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Unique Wedding Favor Ideas: Personalized Mini Chocolate Bars

By:Christine Harrell

When it comes to finding a gift that everyone will love, you can’t go wrong with a chocolate wedding favor. Mini-sized chocolate wedding favors are not only delicious; they can be personalized and are inexpensive so that you’ll have plenty to go around and to keep for yourself as mementos of your special day.

These mini chocolate wedding favors consist of two wrapper layers; one inner silver wrapper and one wrap around layer that is personalized. This way, your guests can enjoy the tasty chocolate wedding favor and still have a personalized keepsake.

With 21 different wrapper styles that can be personalized, every couple is sure to find a chocolate wedding favor that represents their personality. These mini chocolate wedding favor wrappers come in options from metallic gold, to metallic silver, to pearly white and with a variety of images and fonts to choose from for personalization of both the front and back of the wrapper.

Those who want to take a more hands on approach may decide on ordering only the wrappers and sliding in their own delectable chocolate wedding favor. This approach is less expensive and gives brides and grooms the options to mix up flavors with chocolates from mini-candy bar variety packs.

Try packaging these mini chocolate wedding favors with some full sized chocolate wedding favors in a basket or mug. Embellish the package with a sheen silver or gold fabric bow to create a memorable wedding favor that your guests will truly enjoy.

Mini chocolate wedding favors are perfect to tie up in small organza bags with an elegant ribbon to match your wedding theme. The organza bag can then be used as a table setting decoration. Another idea is to place the mini chocolate wedding favors in a beautiful bowl in the center of the table or attached to place card holders.

One of the benefits of choosing chocolate wedding favors is that they can be ordered early enough for stress-free delivery. Unlike many other edible favors, chocolate can be ordered in advance to cushion any unforeseen issues with shipping or delivery.

A chocolate wedding favor is a wonderful way to thank your guests for being a part of your special day. Guests will love a little token of your appreciation, a chance to have a great time, and the opportunity to share your new union.

When it comes to finding a gift that everyone will love, you can’t go wrong with a chocolate wedding favor. Mini-sized chocolate wedding favors are not only delicious; they can be personalized and are inexpensive so that you’ll have plenty to go around and to keep for yourself as mementos of your special day.

These mini chocolate wedding favors consist of two wrapper layers; one inner silver wrapper and one wrap around layer that is personalized. This way, your guests can enjoy the tasty chocolate wedding favor and still have a personalized keepsake.

With 21 different wrapper styles that can be personalized, every couple is sure to find a chocolate wedding favor that represents their personality. These mini chocolate wedding favor wrappers come in options from metallic gold, to metallic silver, to pearly white and with a variety of images and fonts to choose from for personalization of both the front and back of the wrapper.

Those who want to take a more hands on approach may decide on ordering only the wrappers and sliding in their own delectable chocolate wedding favor. This approach is less expensive and gives brides and grooms the options to mix up flavors with chocolates from mini-candy bar variety packs.

Try packaging these mini chocolate wedding favors with some full sized chocolate wedding favors in a basket or mug. Embellish the package with a sheen silver or gold fabric bow to create a memorable wedding favor that your guests will truly enjoy.

Mini chocolate wedding favors are perfect to tie up in small organza bags with an elegant ribbon to match your wedding theme. The organza bag can then be used as a table setting decoration. Another idea is to place the mini chocolate wedding favors in a beautiful bowl in the center of the table or attached to place card holders.

One of the benefits of choosing chocolate wedding favors is that they can be ordered early enough for stress-free delivery. Unlike many other edible favors, chocolate can be ordered in advance to cushion any unforeseen issues with shipping or delivery.

A chocolate wedding favor is a wonderful way to thank your guests for being a part of your special day. Guests will love a little token of your appreciation, a chance to have a great time, and the opportunity to share your new union.

Article Source: http://www.redsofts.com/articles/

The author is a freelance copywriter. To find chocolate bar wedding favors for your special day, try www.PWPOnline.com. This site offers a wide variety of wedding favors.

May 2, 2008 Posted by 2008wedding | other category, wedding cake, wedding candy, wedding pavor | | 2 Comments

How to Choose Wedding Reception Candy Favors

How to Choose Wedding Reception Candy Favors

The choices that you need to make when planning your wedding reception can seem overwhelming. One thing to consider is what you will be passing out as wedding favors. Wedding favors are a great way to say thank you to your guests for sharing your special day. Many brides and grooms choose to give candy as their wedding favors. Candy is something that can be enjoyed by guests of all ages. It is relatively inexpensive, and does not require a lot of work in order to have it ready for your guests.

You have many choices when it comes to wedding candy. Chocolate candy is a popular choice. You can have candy bars made with personalized labels that include your names, your wedding date, and even a photograph. You can order these through wedding supply companies, or you could even make them yourself on a home computer. Small, individually wrapped pieces of chocolates can be placed in small gift bags and closed with a ribbon that matches your color scheme. Many brides are also choosing to make their own chocolate candy using wedding themed chocolate molds. You can find also find candy molds in various other shapes that might be appropriate for themed wedding receptions.

If you are having an outdoor wedding reception and are worried about the chocolate melting, you could offer hard candy favors instead. Peppermints are always appreciated after dinner and can look especially attractive if you are using red flowers at the reception site. For a more casual wedding, you might choose less traditional hard candies such as root beer barrels. These would work well with a country theme.

Another option is tin boxes with breath mints. These can also be personalized with the name of the bride and groom and the wedding date. For a late night reception, try chocolate covered coffee beans. Not only do they taste great, but it will help keep your reception going all night long! For a Valentine’s Day wedding, try personalized conversation hearts. You can get lollipops with custom wrappers, or even a special design imprinted on the lollipop itself.

Another favorite is candied almonds. You can get these in several colors, such as pink, ivory, lavender, and blue. For a bride who wants a traditional candy favor, this is probably your best bet.

Wedding candy can be found in a multitude of colors and styles and can easily be incorporated into the overall plan of your reception.

Natalie Aranda writes on home and family. Candy is something that can be enjoyed by guests of all ages. It is relatively inexpensive, and does not require a lot of work in order to have it ready for your guests. You have many choices when it comes to wedding candy. Chocolate candy is a popular choice. You can have candy bars made with personalized labels that include your names, your wedding date, and even a photograph. You can order these through wedding supply companies, or you could even make them yourself on a home computer. Small, individually wrapped pieces of chocolates can be placed in small gift bags and closed with a ribbon that matches your color scheme.

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Chocolate Candy Wedding Favors

Chocolate Candy Wedding Favors

Dress? Check. Reception location? Check. Catering? Check. Groom? Check. Chocolate candy wedding favors? Ch – AHHH!

Don’t worry bride, there’s no need to go down Stressed Out Blvd! www.chocolate.com is here to direct you to Easy St., with the house number Chocolate Candy Wedding Favor!

Take the first right to our category entitled Chocolate Wedding Favors. By browsing among the products, you will see so many choices! Consider our Chocolate Covered Oreos with Red Hearts! Wrapped in singles or pairs, or even in threes, these would stand out on your tables and be the perfect memento of your day.

A left at the traffic light will lead you to our Six Piece Gift Box. The flavors included are Coco, Forais, Framboise, Merlot, Mont Blanc, and Pure Passion chocolates. They are packaged in our elegant dark brown boxes with Thai paper and our hand-tied satin ribbon. Perfect in every way.

Next, Chocolate.com will drive you straight to your honeymoon home with our Assorted Box of Two Pieces. These are fresh, French artisan handmade chocolates by L’ Artisan Du Chocolat, whose chefs were the recipients of multiple professional awards at the San Francisco International Chocolate Salon 2007.

So brush up on your do’s and don’t’s by reading Etiquette and Tradition. Then realize that in the end, this wasn’t so difficult after all!

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Wedding Cake for Beach Wedding Theme

The wedding invitation is certainly a must for your wedding. As what the other couples do, you will try to make your wedding invitation as unique as possible. The way to choose a vendor for that becomes very crucial. Below is a real life story in Hong Kong and this will give us some insights when choosing the vendor.

The Story

A couple is going to get marry and planning their wedding. They tried to search on the internet for different wedding invitation providers. Finally, they found one which claims to be specialized in drawing the portraits of couples like cartoon drawings.

The couple loved the style of the company and approached it. When they first met, it was found that the shop of the company was not really a shop. It was not an office either. They were just renting a “table” from a tailor’s shop.

The couple felt a bit uncomfortable with the company but the staff of the company offered them a full money back guarantee if they were not satisfied with the design. The staff also offered them a 25% discount, though the original price is already quite inexpensive (HKD14 each or USD1.8, for 400 pcs). As a result the couple decided to give it a try.

When the couple got the electronic proof of the design, they felt really shocked because the portrait was nearly the same as a previous design of the company. It was not really depicting the characteristics of the couple. Because of that, the couple asked for a full refund.

However, the staff of the company lost her temper and became very impolite. Of course the couple could get their money back eventually but they had wasted some time. It is a really bad experience.

The Insights

In fact, we should be very careful when we are choosing the wedding invitation vendor. In the above case, the couple should not hire the company even if they offer a huge discount and money back guarantee. I will say that if the company is really confident with their works they do not need to offer such discount.

As a wedding invitation designer myself, I have never offered discounts when the clients feel uncomfortable with my company. A mutual trust between the vendor and the client is very important. You should not hire a company that you do not feel comfortable with.

Besides, the original charge of the company is too low to be real. Four hundred pieces of invitations only cost about USD720, and it goes to USD540 after the discount. For a really professional illustrator in Hong Kong, only the drawing itself may cost this amount.

It will be quite impossible to have the job done with this amount, unless they are not really trying to provide the wedding invitations of the highest quality. You need always to compare the difference in prices and quality of other vendors so that you will not make a wrong decision.

Cases like the above story happen everyday. However, if we compare and research thoroughly, we should be able to be away from such kind of unhappy experiences.

Article Source: http://www.ArticleStreet.com/

Author : Jerry Leung is a wedding invitation designer with great interest in Chinese Style Wedding cards. He Designs a lot of Modern ChineseWedding Invitations. He runs A Wedding Blog and shares Wedding Tips.

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Fall Wedding Cake Designs: A Study in Opportunity

Fall Wedding Cake Designs: A Study in Opportunity

The key to building the decor of your wedding reception is found in choosing the right wedding cake design, and this is equally true for a fall wedding. The cake stands as the visual focal point of the reception hall. It is usually the largest single decoration for your reception hall and it is what your guests will see first when they enter your reception hall. As a result, you want to choose a fall wedding cake design that will develop your theme.

Depending on the theme you are trying to develop there are any number of fall wedding cake designs you could pursue, but a bright red cake adorned with daffodils or a light green design with daisy’s are probably out. Instead, the autumn season is a great time to employ a rich chocolate colored cake (most bakeries will allow you to put any flavor of cake inside that you want and if your pastry chef is any good no one will be able to tell until the cake is cut) accented with blues, greens, or reds.

Indeed, a wedding cake iced in a rich chocolate ganache with chocolate roses or white chocolate roses and accented with high quality fresh fruit can be a stunning work of art that harkens to the traditional fall decor while maintaining a distinctly modern touch.

Likewise, lining dark chocolate scrolls vertically on the side of a fall wedding cake is a simple way to make a dramatic statement. Once again, use fresh fruit or flowers to accent each tier and cover the base of your cake jewelry.

Or why not choose a fondant design that artistically employs both chocolate and cream colored fondant. There are so many possibilities. Imagine a cream colored cake with chocolate silhouettes embedded in to the fondant.

Furthermore, you could always choose an off white, three or four tiered, stacked cake decorated in a deep gold rope at the base of each tier and then strewn with lifelike marzipan leaves (or use silk leaves in autumn colors if you can’t find a pastry chef with the skill to create the leaves) to develop your fall wedding theme.

I would be remiss to conclude this article on fall wedding cake designs without pointing out that some of the most dramatic options are not cake at all: Take the Pavlova for example. This healthier alternative to cake can draw as many ooh’s and aah’s on display as they do when they melt in your wedding guest’s mouth.

For a fall wedding cake substitute, try a hazelnut pavlova brushed in chocolate and topped with an apricot whipping cream and dressed with a handmade chocolate design as simple or intricate as you choose. Or perhaps you would prefer some of them be topped with a fresh seasonal berry. They can now be displayed simply by placing them on a chocolate covered cake stand big enough to hold your desired number of servings. As you serve them, consider adding a drizzle of apricot sauce to each plate for a truly unforgettable wedding experience.
The great opportunity that autumn weddings bring from a design standpoint is the chance to play with the rich, warm colors of the season. There is so much you can do to embrace the season and in turn end up with a celebration you will look back on with pride for years to come, and as far as the reception is concerned it all begins with a well thought out fall wedding cake design.

Article Source: http://www.ArticleStreet.com/

AUTHOR : Jeanette Shinn is a wedding professional with over a dozen years experience making dreams come alive. Find tips and accessories from cake jewelry to Cinderella Themed Wedding Favors options at http://www.ExcitingWeddingFavors.com.

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A Guide About Your Wedding Cake

A Guide About Your Wedding Cake

Wedding cakes have come a long way from the traditional fruitcake with white marzipan icing. These days they come in all sorts of flavours and designs. Cutting the cake is usually the last formal act a bride and groom do before relaxing into the reception. After the speeches are done the bride and groom cut the first slice and usually leave the rest of the cutting and distribution to the attendants and staff.

Taking the top tier
 It’s a long-standing tradition for the couple to keep the top tier of the cake and share it on their first wedding anniversary. If you intend to do this it is advisable to choose a cake with good keeping qualities. Usually this is a dense cake, such as the traditional fruitcake or a chocolate mud cake, which will keep in the freezer as long as you keep them well wrapped.

A baker’s delight
 Think about the kinds of textures available. After all, this is a perfect opportunity to have your dream cake. Take an afternoon to check out a couple of cake shops and drool over the range of shapes, flavours and designs available. From light-as-a-feather sponges to mountains of toffee-covered profiteroles, there are lots of inventive and delicious options available. You might even want to forget the cake and have an array of individually decorated cupcakes instead.

Making your cake work for you
 Some couples make their wedding cake double as their dessert course. This is a great way to save money on catering and ensures everyone gets to taste the cake. If you want something extra to go with it you could offer a fresh fruit and cheese platter as well.

Conversely, if you are intent on keeping the dessert separate, you can have the cake cut into small slices and individually wrapped for guests to take home.

Article Source: http://www.ArticleStreet.com/

May 2, 2008 Posted by 2008wedding | wedding cake | | 1 Comment