Because I must believe I’m not the only one.
You see, many of you are perfectly content with and competent putting together darling, theme-appropriate, and within budget crafty items for your parties. You don’t mind the time you spend scouring the dollar bins and hunching over your glue gun. A little ribbon, a gauzy bag, and voila’! You create magic.
HOWEVER. Out of sheer necessity, I have had to come up with different options for tea party favors. Here is a list of my three favorite choices.
- Adagio Tea wedding favors for the large group tea party. These tea wedding favors are not for weddings alone! For less than two dollars you receive YOUR choice of looseleaf tea in a tin WITH a personalized label IN an organza bag of your color choice. I think that’s a bargain! There’s TWENTY-NINE different teas to choose from including blacks, whites, greens, oolongs, decafs, AND herbals. A minimum order of sixty is required and the more you buy the more the price goes down. Imagine the time you’ll save letting Adagio assemble your favors for you when you need a large amount. I think these would be especially helpful for the fund-raising tea or any tea party where you sell tickets and the favor cost is included in your budget.
- Dover Thrift Paperbacks for the small group tea party. I’ve written often at Tea Party Girl how well literature and tea go together. And for just a couple of dollars each, you can purchase entire classics or anthologies in paperback, like this one by Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition. Your local bookstore could order them for you so you can save on the shipping. The Jane Austen tea party is very popular right now (though you may want to think twice about inviting the history purist) and you can provide one of her novels to your guests as a simple and beautiful favor. You may want to take the time to design a book cover for them that ties more into your theme with the date of your event included for a special memento. That wouldn’t take too much creativity, would it?
- Sugars by Sharon for wholesalers. I love, love, love these sugars. In fact, I am tempted to begin stocking these again just for Tea Party Girl readers because I like them SO much and know you would, too. If you have a wholesalers license and want to work with Sharon, do. She is extremely attentive and accommodating while running her cottage industry. She will prepare sugars for you in any color combination in practically any shape AND design you a personal label. You may find her sugars at your local tea room, but must be a wholesaler to order from her directly. Here’s a picture of the sugars I ordered back when I was Wellspring Tea to give you an idea. Aren’t they darling?
Please let me know in the comments which of these three suggestions appeals to you the most.
I absolutely adore these ideas! Especially those uber cute sugar cubes! I would love to have some of them in a sugar bowl on my tea table! Makes me want to get a wholesaler’s license!
Completely off topic-I unsubscribed from the email version since I’m getting it through my feeds. Nothing like opening my homepage and immediately seeing someone who enjoys tea as much as I do!
What GREAT ideas! Thank you! Those sugar cubes are fantastic!
I love the sugars idea the best! Just in case you don’t have a tea room nearby, I got them online at teapotsnmore.com which has a huge selection. I’ve also given the small box as a gift a few times. My friends are crazy for them!
Oh! Those sugars are so cute. Thank you for posting them, I saved one of the sites that sell them in my favorites. I will definitely give them a try… maybe next time I host Christmas Eve. (And also maybe some of the sea shell mix just for me!)
Wow! The sugar cubes are the hit. Thanks so much, Leslie for the online tip.
And rock on, Teapriestess. RSS is still confusing for many. Way to figure it out! I hope other readers follow your example.
I love your blog! I had never thought of giving paperbacks – that’s such a neat idea. The sugars have made me want to attempt making some myself…
All three ideas appeal to me!!! I’m becoming addicted to your blog. :o)
I like the tea and sugar ideas the best. I absolutely LOVE the sugars and will probably buy some just for me, for when I’m having a special tea, in my special cup, just for me. Of course, I’ll use them when I share tea with others, too. 😉
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Thank you so much for the sugar resource! I am a children’s party planner and have themes such as French Poodle and Fairy tea parties. Needless to say, these are just perfect for that not to mention the tae parties aI throw for my girlfriends. Check out my latest Jane Austen tea and a movie at partywishesscv.blogspot.com