I'm having an October wedding in upstate NY. The theme is cozy autumn. My FI has been brewing beer at home for years and is quite good at it so we're doing that for the favors for the men with personalized lables (featuring a picture of our dog). Now... for the women/kids/men who don't drink... I was thinking either a candy apple OR a few gingersnaps cutey tied up with personalized ribbon. Which one ladies?
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I didn't even think about the fact that a lot of the women will like beer. Great suggestion! Thanks ladies!
As for the every seat thing, if you are doing different favors, you need to have enough of everything for each person to get one of each. Make sense? 150 guests means 150 beer, 150 apples. It's only fair.
I like the candy apples but don't limit the beer to men. I'd be offended when I realized that only men got beer.
EDIT: I'd just contact the venue and say that "Although it is a nice idea to put the favors at each place setting, I have decided to place them on a table by the door so that people could pick what they wanted." Think of this as a candy bar. They could go over and pick up their favor(whatever it may be). I'm sure they have done this before so it shouldn't be a problem.
My brother home brews. He brewed a couple of different types of beer for us and we served them at the rehearsal dinner.
Other than that, like PP said, you will have to have enough of all of the favors so that each guest can have one of each. I like beer, but I also like gingersnaps so I would probably end up taking both.
As an alternative to the messyness of candied apples. Martha Stewart actually has an article on her wedding site about mini candied apples, they are a lot easier to eat and less of a mess. You could look it up to see if it's something you are interested in.
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