queen of procrastination example numero uno

procrastination happens to everyone right? right? (even if it doesn't i'm going to choose to believe it does) as the date of my engagement party was approaching i kept flip flopping on whether i am going to do party favors or nix the whole thing...but after seeing my engagement party twin (she had hers on the same day as mine) post her favor ideas on LIW i knew i had to do something...so the brainstorming began (7 days prior to the event)...it took me 2 days when i decided i'd do something uber easy and something i can pull together in minimal time since i obviously wouldn't be able to order these suckers and have them delivered in time for my PAH-teee...

little boxes of chocolaty goodness! or little pieces of bliss, kisses and hugs!


i purchased 75 2"x 2" favor boxes from the container store for $35.76 (you can most definitely find these suckers online for cheaper, but because i was in a time crunch i was okay with paying more)

then i purchased a whole lotta chocolate kisses, bliss and hugs in dark and milk chocolate varieties and filled the boxes with about 10-12 pieces each, luckily for me hershey happened to be on sale at the local rite aid down the block...so the chocolates (16 bags) came out to $50.00


with the event now 4 days away i had to figure out how these things are gonna be wrapped... i must admit i had not the faintest idea how...BUT lucky for me i work in the garment district and there are trim stores all around...and M&J trimming happens to be up the block from my office! (this is ribbon and trim mecca for those of you that don't know) i popped in at lunch time and found the most perfect 3/8 mm satin ivory ribbon...at $27 for 100 yards i had more than enough ribbon to finish off this project


along with my mom we tied all 75 little boxes for the party that was to happen the next day

so without further ado i present to you my precious little favor:

ok so it's not martha stewart-y but it got the job done and everyone seemed to be happy to take home a little sweetness with them.

for those of you who are more ambitious you may decide to tie a favor tag to yours, i would've done this but i obviously had no time..just print a bunch of thank yous up on word and affix each to a piece of cardstock with either glue stick or double stick tape and insta favor tag you have!

The DIY dummie attempts her engagement invites... kinda...

so after we decided to have a chinese dinner for the engagement party, i started thinking about what this invitation is going to look like... and being since it's gonna be chinese dinner i wanted something that will reflect my culture and the event but at the same time have a modern and contemporary twist, after deciding on the elements i wanted, i turned everything over to L.

i got to admit i'm a very lucky girl to have a number of talented friends...my awesome friend L is one such friend...he's an amazing artist, graphically and classically (you know the good old fashioned kind with paper and pencil)...i digresss...so when he volunteered to design the engagement invitations i immediately jumped at the chance to have something truly unique done for my party! after going back and forth several times with the wording, this is what the jpeg version looked like:

The best part about this was that because L designed it for me, i was able to print these right off my laser printer on precut card stock/invitations i purchased at staples for 25 bucks...all together my first wedding project saved me mucho moola! SCORE! thank heaven for talented friends :-)

finished product printed on ivory cardstock:

thanks L! you did an AHHHHMAZING job, i love it and we received many compliments on them too!!