[Baby Teddy]

Originally Posted by linz06

Oh I want to see your favors!!! We were stuck on what to do for favors for a long time. Scott's cousin did a candy buffet last summer which I thought was a great idea and I wanted to do that, but it wasn't really much of a hit with the adults, and it was just full of kids all night sticking their hands in the candy bowls and eating and grabbing some more. My friend's cousin also did one last year and she said it was great! So it depends on the crowd I guess! We also thought we would give each person a scratch lottery ticket, because who doesn't like scratch tickets? I've seen ideas for this online, to put a ticket in an envelope with a note saying "We hope you're as lucky in life as we are in love" Scott looked into it last night and we can buy a roll of tickets, but each roll is $300. You can get 300 $1 tickets, 100 $3 tickets, etc. We are already spending close to $55 per person for food, corkage fee, and midnight lunch, so didn't want to spend that much on favors. Another friend just did a donation in everyone's name to the Canadian Cancer Society, and I think that was a great idea too.

After all that, I think we've decided we are making homemade wine. Scott has made wine kits before and he has all the stuff to do it now. It's relatively cheap as a gift per adult or per family, and we can put make personalized wine labels for them! He asked the hotel (reception venue) yesterday if that would be allowed, and they said they're fine with it as long as it's not opened at the venue. We will make sure to let people know to please just take one on their way out, or take one up to their room if they're staying at the hotel. We'll ask the MC to remind people not to open them there. We will have free wine on the tables anyway!

What are you guys doing for your midnight lunch? I love that idea. I think we are going to do something similar!