Almost all of my friends know what a great big chocoholic I am. Seriously, I eat more of the stuff than anyone I know. I just had to have chocolate elements at our wedding to make it even more ‘me.’
My number one choice for our wedding favors were purple M&M’s. In fact, I couldn’t come up with a second choice. Our main issue with having personalized M&M’s was that shipping would cost as much as the candy; they had to be ordered from the US since they’re not available here. Fortunately, Abet’s Tita Carol came home from California for our wedding, she was able to bring the chocolate with her. I got to have the favors I wanted. We got dark purple, light purple, and white shimmer chocolates.
As with a lot of things in our wedding, these M&M’s were a labor of love. Abet and I bought 150 of these glass jars in Tabora St. in Divisoria, where the restaurant supplies are, for P6 apiece. Abet’s 8-year old nephew Ycko did quality control on the bottles to make sure each one was undamaged. Their help Aling Baby washed every single one. My now mother-in-law tied them with purple ribbons. Tita Carol arrived early in the morning on the day of our wedding, Abet’s relatives were packing chocolates at dawn on our wedding day.
Our coordinators placed them on each guest’s setting, they doubled as table decor as well.
The M&M’s were a big hit, we had people asking us where we got purple M&M’s. Too bad Abet and I were not able to get some for ourselves.
Our escort cards were two-finger Kit-Kat bars. This was my labor of love. I got the idea when I saw a site offering personalized Hershey’s bars. I wanted to use plum or purple wrapping paper, but I couldn’t find any, so I printed my own. I Google-d “damask,” found a pattern I liked, Picnik-ed it into the color I want, made a tile pattern, and cropped out a Kit-Kat wrapper-sized image. I made 150 of those. I bought 3 boxes of Kit-Kats and wrapped them all myself.
The guest’s names were just printed out on bond paper, my sister May helped me cut and stick them onto the wrappers. My siblings alphabetized the chocolates so our coordinators won’t have a hard time arranging them on our registration table.
We gave our principal sponsors, secondary sponsors, bridesmaids and groomsmen chocolate truffles from Truffettes de France.
These came in insulated packaging with dry ice. We had 17 of these paper bags, my brother and my sister-in-law packed them on the day of the wedding.
For our commentator, singers, and ceremony musicians–all of them Abet’s friends–we gave them tokens of Almond Roca which I’m currently addicted to, and chocolate cookies from Marks & Spencer.
Why such packaging? These are “brown paper packages tied up with string,” mwehehe! I’m such a nerd!
Oh, we also had a chocolate fountain, too. It was a freebie from our caterer, K by Cunanan, for booking at the bridal fair.
When it comes to my wedding, the more chocolate, the better.
*first picture by my brother-in-law Obet, the rest are raw images from Mimi+Karl
