Are you a bride having an Alice in Wonderland themed wedding or posh tea party and looking for that perfect favour?

If the answer is yes, then you'll love this new candle collection by new e-boutique The Dizzy Flea.

The online store has created a range of posh tea cup candles, which are perfect for table decorations or wrapped up in clear plastic for that perfect favour.

The candles are made from eco soy wax and available as unscented, jasmine and vanilla or freesia. Each candle is set in an individual and unique tea-cup featuring a vintage or contemporary design which can be used after the candle has burned and enjoyed for many years to come after the wedding.

They have a burning life of around 15 hours and start at £7.99

While we're on a Disney wedding theme we thought it only right to continue it for the rest of the day. In our last post we gave you a few ideas on how to give your day that magical theme, however, we decided to keep the wedding favour aspect until now. There are a number of keepsakes you could use to tie in with a Disney theme, and many can be made. We give you three options.

Glass slippers.
Perspex empty glass slipper containers can be bought from many online wedding favour stores for around £2-£3 each and are perfect for continuing your Disney theme. Jazz them up to really bring the theme home.

What you'll need.
To make a Disney glass slipper you'll need some organza, which is available from most haberdashery and fabric stores, some small sweets such as smarties or tiny white pear drops, and some edible glitter, which can be bought from your local craft store or bakery.

Get sparkly
Take your chosen sweets and place them on a large tray. Liberally add the edible glitter and mix them all together. Make sure that the glitter is evenly spread before adding them into the plastic slippers.

Get crafty.
Take your tulle and loosely wrap it around the slipper leaving about an inch and a half at the top for tying. Cut this size out and use it as a template for the rest of your favours. Once you've done this take some ribbon (we suggest this has some sort of sparkle on it) and tie it at the top.

Princess cookies.
If you're artistic and have patience then another way to wow your Disney guests is to make some princess shaped cookies.

Again, shapes for these can be bought from your local craft store. However if you can't find these and desperately want to use this idea we suggest you buy a Disney colouring book (no, we're not going crazy) and cut out a Disney Princess sketch. You can then use this as a template to cut around for your cookie mix.

Once baked, choose icing to match the character you have chosen before placing cookies in a cellophane bag and finishing with a ribbon.

Wedding favours have become a popular guests at wedding receptions with almost every bride and groom placing one on for each attendee on the table.

But why are they so important and is it worth spending part of your bridal budget on these?

We look back at the history and the reasons why these could be an important part of your day.

The wedding favours date back from the 16th century where the bride and groom have given guest a keepsake as a special thank you for attending their special day.

The first wedding favours were believed to be a small trinket box made of crystal, porcelain, and/or precious stones filled with 5 sugar cubes. These were said to symbolise each of the five wishes commonly bestowed upon the wedding party by their guests (health, wealth, happiness, fertility, and longevity).

Although the basic premise of these still lingers today, with many of you opting for chocolates or almonds in a box, the wedding favour market has grown rapidly with other couples taking gifts to the extreme.

Popular alternatives to the traditional favours include silver plated bottle opener or favor bags, picture frames, candles and candleholders complete with a personalised message. However, none of these resemble the symbolic meaning of what these gifts are all about.

Therefore we advise brides on a budget to consider making their own traditional favours, which will not only keep the symbolic meaning but also keep the costs down. We'll be showing you how to do this tomorrow.

Anything to do with your wedding, apart from your groom of course, will almost always come with a price tag and wedding favours are no exception.

There are a range of different wedding favours, which you can buy or make, and we'll be covering a range of these in the near future.

However with the help of www.bridesbook.co.uk and Michele Jones at www.icingonthecake.me.uk. we thought we'd start of the wedding favour train with a simple way on how to make chocolate truffles.

These are a perfect little gift for guests and can be made very cheaply. Put them in a favour box, which can bought bought flat-packed in packs of 100 or 50 or wrap in cllophane with a ribbon to give your guests a sweet treat with a personal touch.

Step one: Buy the ingredients
To make around 40 Truffles you'll need 800g of ganache and 300g of chocolate (milk, white or dark - you decide).

Step two: Ingredients for the the Ganache filling

You'll need 800g of the chocolate of your choice, 45g of liquid glucose (available from supermarkets) and 220ml of whipping cream (that's the one with the green top in case you're sending hubby to be out for the ingredients), 60g of unsalted butter and if you want to flavour, the liquer of your choice or why not try mint, vanilla, coffee or orange extract (not essence).

Step three: Ready steady, begin to cook
Start with the ganache.Break the chocolate into individual squares - you can whack it on your work top (whilst still in the wrapper) and don't believe all the nonsense about boiling pans and pyrex bowls, stick it in the microwave for about a minute and a half, give it a stir ,and then in for about another minute. Remember the chocolate carrys on melting after you've taken it out - stir the chocolate if you have a few small lumps, they'll soon disappear, if not then give them another blast for approx 20 seconds.

Step four: Add the rest of the ingredients
Next put your cream, butter and liquid glucose in a pan - Tip of the day, heat a tea spoon over the spout of a boiling kettle,wipe dry.This heats up the spoon and the glucose will slide off of the spoon more easily. Heat until the butter has all melted and as soon as the mixture starts to boil remove from the heat.

Add this to the melted chocolate and stir thoroughly. Wait for the mixture to cool before adding any flavourings.

Step five: Get whisking
Once the ganache has cooled, whisk with an electric whisk until smooth and creamy, place teaspoons of the mixture onto a greasproof baking tray, place in the fridge for about half an hour. Take out the fridge and roll them into a ball - work quickly because the chocolate will start to melt (and accept the fact that this is messy), return them to the fridge for about an hour.

Melt the remaining chocolate and leave it to cool slightly, take the truffles from the fridge and roll in the melted chocolate, then return to the fridge. You can repeat this after about half an hour if you so wish.

Step 6: Packaging
You should now be looking at beautiful handmade truffles, pop them in an airtight box and leave in the fridge, they'll last up to six months.

To wrap them buy some celophane from a florist, cut it into squares, wrap them up, tie with a ribbon and make a name tag if you like. You can even buy individual bags top put them in (see image above.)

If you're getting married this Winter and still struggling to find favours or a cake then you may be in luck. Blue Door bakery has launched its winter range of yummy cupcakes, which are perfect for gifts or can be stacked up to make your main wedding cake.

Baker Sarah Barnes said:"I'm looking forward to helping couples celebrate Christmas in style with some fantastic new recipes, including spiced chocolate sponge, moist gingerbread cake and mint candy-cane cupcakes."

We think a taster might be in order.

Visit the website for more information.

No matter how long we've tried to kid ourselves, we can no longer deny that the winter season is well and truly here.

We know many of you realised this a long time ago, but to celebrate us coming to terms with it, we've decided to give you a winter wedding special day here at Bridalwave. First on our list is the new winter wedding range by Nordic House.

The online lifestyle boutique has come up with a range of decorations and accessories for your winter wedding theme including outdoor candles, hurricanes, lanterns, party torches and tall candle holders.

For the winter wedding table there are heart shaped vases, heart encrusted silvered, white, red, black, glass, frosted and metalled votives, as well as spherical glass vases for a single flower and place card holders. We also love the hanging silvered glass tealights.

Are you looking for something really different on your wedding day? Perhaps you're fed up of fiddly favours and common chocolates or perhaps you just want something unique and special. If this sounds like you then you'll love this new idea.

The Wedding News is an individually designed, personalised magazine publication for all the guests and the couple themselves. It's printed in full colour and uniquely tailored to the couples own specifications. The memento can include amusing stories from childhood and teenage years, how the couple met, the engagement, stag and hen parties and can also be personalised further with photographs, anecdotes, poems, horoscopes and illustrations.

We think its great to have on the tables to keep guests amused and something your guests can take home with them as an alternative to the traditional wedding favour.

If you're looking for a wedding theme with an Arabic twist then head down to Confetti now.

The one stop wedding shop has launched a range of bows, stationary and confetti to give you a Marrakech Nights wedding theme.

Confetti makes it easy to create the look, with a mix and match collection that lets brides-to-be to create an individual look, which we think will be perfect to add some heat into winter weddings.

To get the perfect look mix bold hues of purple, fuschia, and red with metallic gold and bronze to conjure a touch of the Far East.

Sprinkle star confetti on rich tableware, add a soft glow with heart votives and offer guests a sumptuous choice of chocolates in rich coloured wraps. The gold butterfly place cards also make a beautifully romantic finishing touch. However, we think hiring a camel may be going a bit too far.

If you haven't got the time or motivation to make your own cookies then you'll love these wedding cupcakes by Lola's Kitchen.

Based in Primrose Hill, the boutique bakery, designs and makes a range of hand-crafted delicious cupcakes, which are baked fresh in small batches throughout the day.

They are available in two sizes; regular (£2 each) or bite-sized 'TINYs' (£1 each), and come in a range of flavours including rocky road, peanut butter, carrot, coconut, vanilla and chocolate.

The company will also design the cupcakes to match your wedding theme with coloured icing, or personalised with handwriting or edible images. We think these will look more than good enough to eat on the day.

If you're getting married this Christmas and want to add a DIY touch your day then register for Peggy Porschen's masterclass.

The cake and wedding favour creator is holding an exclusive Winter Wonderland day on 30th November, where she will be teaching brides-to-be how to make delicious Christmas themed cookies and treats.

And we think it's a perfect way to add a special DIY theme to your day.

The class costs £250 and includes lunch, tea and cake. For more information visit Peggy's website.

If you and your groom have decided to buy one and other wedding presents but you're now regretting it as you can't find that special something, then we might have the answer.

BBC DJ Jamie Wilkinson, has come up with a clever idea that not even we can fault; a bespoke radio show. The "show" is a CD full of songs and messages, presented as a radio show. You can include your first dance and favourite songs, some of your readings and even "telephone shout outs from your friends and family."

Your anecdotes, memories and stories about your groom will also be read out by a professional presenter, and, the package will also let you chose a celebrity sound-a-like congratulatory message.

Prices for this package start at £195. You can also opt to make one of these as a wedding favour for your guests, but you will need to call the company to find out prices for this.

If you want to give your guests something nice and smelly and different as a memory of your wedding day then these soaps from Foam and Fizz may be right up your street.

The company has come up with a range of personalised soaps, where you can add your own message to make them an extra special gift for your guests.

Simply choose a scent (lavender, orange and grapefruit, lemon or rose), give your message (in 30 characters) and the soap will arrive shrink wrapped and in a Kraft box tied with raffia.

The soap is made from high quality glycerine based soap with great moisturising and foaming properties.

The soaps cost £3.95 each but discounts are available for large orders.

If you're not sure about what to give your guests as wedding favours and want to do something a little bit different, then you may like these new wedding cookies by Fair Cake.

The cookies, which are shaped like wedding dresses, can be iced to match the day's colour scheme or even be personalised with your guest's names.

Eco conscious brides will also be please to know that these cookies are made with Free Range Eggs and Fairtrade chocolate and coffee.

The cookies are presented in a clear bag tied with a satin ribbon bow. Prices start from £4.50 each, depending on the complexity of design. There is also a minimum order of 25 cookies.

Although it's not a requirement, and people won't always expect it, it has long become tradition to give your guests a favour at the end of the night as a way of saying thanks for attending your wedding. After all everyone likes presents don't they.

Now I've had my share of favours in my life varying from crystal and diamond shaped pomegranates, which would have looked more apt on my great nan's mantle piece, to a beautifully packed box of chocolates.

So what's the best thing to give? We're not talking a celebrity VIP bag full of the latest perfume, make up and designer bags, although we wouldn't mind having one of these, some nicely packed chocolates, or traditional sugared almonds are fine.

However, if you want to go a step further there are also favour options such as grow your own plants, trinkets or you could even make a donation in each guest's name to charity.

We have a look at the top ten.

Click on the picture to begin the gallery.

These adorable teddy bears (£1.99 each from "I Do" Wedding Favours") would be great gifts for the children invited to your wedding. The bear's price includes a little bag filled with your choice of either whisky fudge, chocolate dragees, mint imperials, jellied sweets, foil covered chocolate mint crisps or sugar coated chocolate hearts. Mmmmmm. For the adults, traditional bombonieres with the same fillings cost from £1.45 each.

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