What have you used for table favors?!
What have you used for table favors?
I am hosting a dinner party for about 25 people and would like some ideas for inexpensive table decorations and favors. It would be nice to have something to do with fall. The colors are so rich.
Answers:
Decorate CD covers and put your favorite songs on them.
Make Jam jars.
For a wedding, I went to a party store and got those teeny little champagne coupes, then some netting, a roll of thin ribbon, and a few pounds of jelly bellys in the colors I needed. Mix the jelly beans together, put them in the coupes, wrap them up in a square of netting, and tie with ribbon.
It was very well received.
Fall foliage is so beautiful, and makes a terrific table setting.
Start with a gold or soft tangerine table cloth. If you can use linen napkins in one shade darker or a complementary fall color or fall foliage pattern (rust or brown works well with gold), even better. Then, either raid your garden or head to the nearest farmers market to gather a variety of autumn-color leaves, acorns, and berries. You can use this to create your centerpiece, plus reserve a few for trimming the napkin settings or name cards. If you have enough table space, maybe you can also use some of the little miniature pumpkins... put a small slice in one side and use them for your name card holders? Intersperse a few gold, rust or brown votive candles around the table for warmth and elegance.
For favors, something fall harvest oriented, depending on your guest list. If all women, maybe some fall spice potpouri sachets, if a mixed group, maybe some individually wrapped pumpkin spice chocolate truffles.
Very simple and economical. Enjoy!
How about mini pumpkins for everyone w/a place card that has their name on it. You can get different colors.
How about muddy buddies? Box of chex cereal. I think the recipe is on the back if I'm wrong about any of this but I believe it is 2 cups of peanut butter and a bag of chocolate chips put in sauce pan and stir until melted. then add chex, stir in bag of powdered sugar. you can add peanuts or colored M&M's. I like to make this for all the holidays cause you can add any colors you want. And you can wrap some in mesh wrap and tie with orange bows or red bows the ideas are endless!! you can set these by the dinner plates for an after dinner snack! Even if they don't eat them alot of them will take them home for their kids! Enjoy! Hope your party goes well:)
This is what I did my last year's thanksgiving dinner table which was very easy to do and added a nice touch (at less than a buck per favor).
I went to my backyard and collected fallen autumm leaves. Makes sure the leaves you get are in good condition and not cracked...preferably with a smooth center. Rinse them out with some cold water and let them dry for about an hour or two before starting this project.
Then I wrote individual guests name ( I had approx 30 guests) in the center of each leaf in black (ball point is better).
I then placed each leaf inside small picture frames which I purchased at my local dollar store (you can also buy them at michaels or maybe at an online wedding favors site).
You can use these for sitting placement purposes which also really add to the decor.
For table decorations...I used a large glass plate and filled them with different sized pumpkins (also of different colors)...and in between the pumkins I added orange and yellow flowers with a bit a gold ribbon.
It was gorgeous and very cheap...I think I spent less than 15 dollars on those.
Good luck...and have fun with this project....
There are some lovely tablescape ideas already given so I won't bother with that. As for inexpensive favors...buy some candy kisses wrapped in the autumn colors and with some tulle simply gather 5 or 6 of them into a little bunch and tie with narrow brown, gold and orange ribbons. Last fall I found cute little oval boxes with a lid that had a fall theme and filled each with candy kisses and pumpkin candies. I put one at each place and left the lid slightly tilted. Looked cute and everyone had yummy reminder of the dinner party to take home. You could also make up little packets of goodies using various colors of tissue paper layered in threes so each slightly overlaps the other and when you put the center together you see all three colors. (similar idea to the tulle above). How about buying small inexpensive candle holders for votives and putting some cranberries in the bottom and a fall colored candle to top. Place on a leaf from the yard. If you wish you could light the candles or allow guests to take them home unburned.
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I have taken the little tiny pumpkins, covered them with glue and then sprinkled fine glitter on them. Then went back with a bottle of glue and drew on a spiraling vine and glittered that in a contrasting color. Then you let them dry. I have piled them up on a cake plate on top of a layer of fall leaves - they were beautiful. I have also bought inexpensive short brass candlesticks and placed a pumpkin on top of each candlestick and put one at each plate. I propped the placecard for each guest in front of that. Both times I encouraged every guest to take a pumpkin home. The colors I used were silver pumpkins with midnight blue vine, purple pumpkins with green vines, orange pumpkins with red vine, fuschia pumpkins with black and gold pumpkins with red glitter. They were gorgeous and so easy to do - and look so expensive.
I have also gone to Pier 1 and bought little tiny wooden games, marachas, kind of traditional wooden toys - wrapped them in bright paper and placed one on each plate - for a Christmas breakfast. It was fun.
I have made individual fall leaf cookies and written the peoples names in icing and wrapped them in cellophane and tied with ribbon and used them as placecards.
I have collected random antique silver spoons (believe it or not you can usually find these at GoodWill for about 25 cents a piece)and filled the bowl of the spoon with potpourri, wrapped them in tulle and tied them with ribbon.
I hope this helps - I love to do favors! Good luck with your party!