Monday, November 2, 2009

DIY-Honey Favors

The future hubs and I both love honey, especially tasting really crazy types like white Hawaiian, Spanish heather, etc...  So when I told him about this sweet idea I found on Weddingbee he was totally down.  I set the favor budget at $50, so the more we spend on containers the less we can spend on the actual honey.  I spent hours scouring the internet for affordable glass containers.  The test tube idea is great, but I wasn't having any luck finding a local source, and shipping for buying them online was outrageous. 
Ebay had the best prices, but it was still going to be $30-$40 for 50 tubes, wack!  So I just started searching for 'glass jars' and 'glass vials' and finally found my awesome containers.


















I picked them up from guy who used them for dioinized water in a lab, so they will be thoroughly sanitized before we use them.  $13.50 including shipping, and they have SCREW LIDS!!!  Don't get me wrong the wax over the cork thing is an incredibly cute idea, but when I saw these screw-on lids I realized how much easier it would be for people to re-cap them between usages.  Each bottle holds 1 oz.  I'm going to cut little squares of cool vintage scarves to cover the lids, tie off with ribbon and a tag and there you go-instant awesome.

We got these for such a good price that we are either going to go nuts and order super expensive, exotic honey (his choice), or stick with a well priced local honey (my choice) and offer a second favor, like a candy bar set-up with bags people can fill and take home.  What's a good candy to do this with?  We were thinking almond Hershey's kisses (we are less than an hour from Hershey) or those customized M&M's with our initials or something.  Any ideas??

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