Right way to offer this? Updated with a photo.

amelisha

I'm attending a wedding tonight. Made about 30 dozen cookies for a table at the bride's request (she offered to pay me for materials and labour, no firm amount was settled on.) Ingredients cost about $150 and I'd estimate about 8-10 hours of labour, but I'd just like to give them to her as a gift from fiance and I as I know they would prefer cash anyway. Can I just write "and I hope your guests enjoy the cookies I baked!" At the end of my message in her card and assume she understands that is our gift to her? I don't want to be like, in writing, "and please, no charge for the cookies, our gift to you," as it seems kinda...crass, but neither do I see a point in cutting her a $300 cheque and then just having her give me that money back in a couple weeks. Is there a more graceful way to put this?

freebread03

I think when you drop them off, or in the card, just write something like "I'm so happy that we could be a part of such a special day-please consider the cookies our gift to you and H."

photokitty

I would put "please enjoy the cookies as our wedding gift to you as you start your new life together."

MGP

Just curious - what kind of cookies did you make?  $2.50 cost would retail at least $10/cookie.

I love cookies.  

amelisha

I did white chocolate cranberry oatmeal, lime-coconut with tequila, triple chocolate caramel pretzel, M&M, rosemary lemon palmiers, and vegan pumpkin snickerdoodles.

5 dozen of each with ingredients at $150 should only have cost forty-something cents per cookie if I did my math right, definitely not $2.50 unless you're adding a labour calculation in there somewhere, so they're for sure not worth $10/cookie!

Thank you so much for the suggestions!

 

MGP said:

Just curious - what kind of cookies did you make?  $2.50 cost would retail at least $10/cookie.

I love cookies.  

theartistformerlyknownas

I would definitely call out specifically that the cookies are the gift. Don't leave her understanding of that to chance.

Or, send all the cookies to me and I'll send her $300.

levioosa

amelisha said:

I did white chocolate cranberry oatmeal, lime-coconut with tequila, triple chocolate caramel pretzel, M&M, rosemary lemon palmiers, and vegan pumpkin snickerdoodles.

5 dozen of each with ingredients at $150 should only have cost forty-something cents per cookie if I did my math right, definitely not $2.50 unless you're adding a labour calculation in there somewhere, so they're for sure not worth $10/cookie!

Thank you so much for the suggestions!

 

MGP said:

Just curious - what kind of cookies did you make?  $2.50 cost would retail at least $10/cookie.

I love cookies.  

So.......now my dinner is ruined because I can't stop thinking about all of this cookie goodness.  

MGP

amelisha said:

I did white chocolate cranberry oatmeal, lime-coconut with tequila, triple chocolate caramel pretzel, M&M, rosemary lemon palmiers, and vegan pumpkin snickerdoodles.

5 dozen of each with ingredients at $150 should only have cost forty-something cents per cookie if I did my math right, definitely not $2.50 unless you're adding a labour calculation in there somewhere, so they're for sure not worth $10/cookie!

Thank you so much for the suggestions!

 

MGP said:

Just curious - what kind of cookies did you make?  $2.50 cost would retail at least $10/cookie.

I love cookies.  

Math failure. . They could retail for $2.50. Open a bakery!

They sound delicious!

classyduck

amelisha said:

I did white chocolate cranberry oatmeal, lime-coconut with tequila, triple chocolate caramel pretzel, M&M, rosemary lemon palmiers, and vegan pumpkin snickerdoodles.

HIRED!

vulpiepop

amelisha said:

I did white chocolate cranberry oatmeal, lime-coconut with tequila, triple chocolate caramel pretzel, M&M, rosemary lemon palmiers, and vegan pumpkin snickerdoodles.

5 dozen of each with ingredients at $150 should only have cost forty-something cents per cookie if I did my math right, definitely not $2.50 unless you're adding a labour calculation in there somewhere, so they're for sure not worth $10/cookie!

Thank you so much for the suggestions!

 

MGP said:

Just curious - what kind of cookies did you make?  $2.50 cost would retail at least $10/cookie.

I love cookies.  

My stomach is rumbling just thinking about them...they sound ridiculously delicious!

amelisha

Thanks again, ladies! The cookies were very popular and I ended up writing something along the lines of "please enjoy the cookies as our gift to you and we wish you a marriage as sweet," although I think I managed to write it slightly less awkwardly than that. Someone posted a photo of the table on Instagram so you can see a bit of it (below).

If anyone else is thinking about cookies for dessert, I recommend it - they were way easier to transport in large quantities than anything with frosting, it was easy to offer several kinds, and they are easy for your guests to take home, too (we offered small bags on the table) if they don't want dessert right away.

cowgirl8238

amelisha said:

Thanks again, ladies! The cookies were very popular and I ended up writing something along the lines of "please enjoy the cookies as our gift to you and we wish you a marriage as sweet," although I think I managed to write it slightly less awkwardly than that. Someone posted a photo of the table on Instagram so you can see a bit of it (below).

If anyone else is thinking about cookies for dessert, I recommend it - they were way easier to transport in large quantities than anything with frosting, it was easy to offer several kinds, and they are easy for your guests to take home, too (we offered small bags on the table) if they don't want dessert right away.

I second this!!!! We had a candy/dessert bar and gave people baggies and it was a HUGE hit!!!  And so much easier to carry home the leftovers then the cake that ended up half melted and a mess in the twenty minute ride home

SP29

Mmmm....cookies! They look delicious! I would definitely have taken one of each.... and a baggie full if any were left over.... *shifty eyes*.