besides loving to research i am a lover of fantastic packaging. i will oooh and ahhh a package before opening it. that said figuring out how to package our favors is kind of a big deal.
so when i hopped over to idiy today and saw these beauties offered as free downloadedable templates from flights of fancy i was supremely beside myself. yes, they’re free! i know! i was just as excited as you are right now.
i’ll probably use that as inspiration to make a design that’s more cohesive with the overall theme of our wedding but aren’t they wonderful?
this is one of the reasons i love the internet. it makes researching SO MUCH FUNNER.
i know funner isn’t a word but bear with me. i literally just saw this on ten thousand only and now the gears are working.
courtesy tto via greeting arts
i wouldn’t have even THOUGHT to sew glassine bags but you know it looks perfect.
with the house properly decorated and the guest sufficiently stuffed, we moved on to the party games. depending on the shower, the games can add to the fun or just add to the misery. i was determined to make sure this event was the former.
first off, we created a small book of newlywed advice for jacki. i printed up a set of 3×5 cards with designs i borrowed from paper source and mounted them on 4×6 sheets of scrapbook paper i bought at michael’s [cut from 12x12 sheets]. we asked people to write out a note of wisdom/advice as they arrived and at the end of the shower, we presented jacki the album filled with the notes.
i covered the front and back of the album because i didn’t think florescent kitties quite fit the theme.
our first game was “decorate a cake.” jacki’s mom very kindly supplied the sheet cake [to make the mini wedding cakes] and all the icing for us. we had twelve cakes and intended to have the group break into teams of 2 – 3 people except no one paid too much attention to us over the excitement that they’d be decorating the cakes. teachers…they’re the worst at following directions. the group turned out to be super competitive and creative. it was hard for jacki to pick just one cake so she picked 3 winners.
the second game was the classic “what would [insert groom’s name] say?” earlier in the week i had recorded ed’s answers to a few questions and burned it onto a dvd. we upped the hilarity factor by stuffing bubble gum in jacki’s mouth for every wrong answer. people were laughing out loud at the video and jacki was none too pleased…especially after getting 13 questions wrong.