Wedding bonbonnieres: what we need, how to make it and how to fill it?

The brightest and happiest holiday in your life - wedding is near! How much excitement takes preparation for this momentous event - everything from invitation and rings, and ending with large-scale attributes, and even the most insignificant trifles, should be ideal.

It is not easy to devote time to everything in the pre-wedding rush, the bride and the groom will need the help of devoted friends and girlfriends. Just they can be charged to do the preparation of small, but no less significant accessories. The number of fashionable and irreplaceable items of the wedding theme includes cute and touching bonbonnieres.

When planning a wedding celebration, young people try to surprise and delight their guests, to share happiness with them.

The word "bonbonniere" goes back to French bonbon, which means "candy." Thus, it turns out that as a thank you for their loved ones, the newlyweds give beautifully packaged sweets. Usually these are small bundles, bags, boxes.

The gift tradition originated in France. According to local customs, it was considered obligatory to present a wedding bag with a bag of sweets and almonds in chocolate. Such is the symbol of family life: sharing together both the bitterness of failures and the sweetness of joyful victories. Be sure to put in the bonbonniere an odd number of sweets. Three - as a sign of the family: husband, wife, child. Five - for the wishes of health, happiness, prosperity, a long family life, wealth.

In Italy, it is customary to give cute souvenirs not only for a wedding, but also for birthdays, christenings, name day. It is believed that sharing their happiness with the guests, the heroes of the occasion only multiply it. In general, Italian bonbonnieres, as well as in other countries, are designed to please and surprise dear and close guests.

Today, you can move away from tradition, and put in a gift wrapper a small souvenir (instead of candy and nuts). The form of packaging is also varied, because the imagination of needlewomen truly knows no bounds. You can order ready-made souvenirs in the wedding salon or from those who are engaged in hand-made.

Filling bonbonniere can be both edible and not. At first we will stop on tasty options.

• Candies. It is preferable to take candies, caramel or chewing sweets, as chocolate will surely melt in a warm room.
• Chocolate. There is a great space for imagination: you can order tiles of any original shape or paint the packaging with good wishes. Recall that to keep sweet better in a cool place to give a nice souvenir, and not spread something.
• Jam. Hostess brides who want to make a favorable impression on the guests can prepare tiny jars of homemade jam. If there is no time to engage in such a time-consuming process, you can give store-bought or custom-made jam.

• Honey. Instead of jam, you can put honey inside the jar. Sweet and useful souvenir.
• Nuts A good option would be a small nutty platter. And stored for a long time, and does not get dirty. Good and tasty.
• Bakery products. You can make cupcakes in the form of hearts, macaroons, gingerbread.They relatively well retain their taste, regardless of external conditions.

Now the wedding industry has received such a development that it is possible to decorate any sweetness to the taste of the young. Using a certain color scheme, you can make various inscriptions: the names of the spouses, the date of the celebration. The form is also different: pigeons, flowers, hearts, ribbons - in general, everything that reminds of a wedding.

• Salt for bath. It is only necessary to choose the color scheme in the overall style of the wedding celebration, and a cute souvenir will long resemble this happy day. You can use salt for its intended purpose or leave it as an interior decoration.
• Handmade soap. The form may be different: the traditional heart, flowers, animals. Or original, understandable only to a narrow circle of initiates. It all depends on the fantasy of the bride and groom, the format of the celebration and the preferences of the guests. After all, the purpose of any gift is to please and surprise.
• Soap petals. Filling a box or jar with weightless fragrant soap petals is a great idea.

• Handmade candles. The shape, color and decoration can also be any, in the general style of the holiday or in contrast. Guests will be happy to remember your wedding, looking at the decorative candle decorating the shelf in their apartment.
• Charms. A memorable souvenir for loved ones can be decorated with a photograph of the newlyweds or contain information about the place and time of the celebration.

• Magnets. You can paint them manually or use as a photo decoration.
• Sachet. A bag of fragrant herbs is quite suitable as a small gift for those present at the wedding. Original and cute!

After you decide on the content, you should choose the appropriate packaging option. Here it is necessary to take into account several nuances.

• The size. The correct size will not be too bulky and voluminous, because it will cause inconvenience during transportation, storage, and not all guests are ready to carry large boxes. At the same time, unnecessarily small souvenirs can be a reason to discuss the stinginess of donors. It is very important that the contents do not fall out of the container, and do not "hang out" on the bottom of the package.
• Material. There are many options for a beautiful and original filing of bonbonnieres. Keep in mind that not every package is suitable for edible gifts.
• The form. You can pick up original patterns to create intricate boxes or use the classic options, focusing on the picture, ornament, filling itself.

Packaging from the material is made simply: you need to cut a circle out of cloth (you can circle the tea plate on the cardboard and use this blank as a template), scorch the edges over the candle or sheathe a decorative ribbon. In the center of the circle put nuts, candy or what you have chosen as a gift for guests. It will only be nice to tie up the bag with contrasting tape.

The most popular fabrics for this type of packaging are:

• fatin;
• chiffon;
• organza;
• atlas;
• silk.

These are light, flowing materials, they are festive in themselves. The advantage of their use is that the edges of the product do not require excessive processing.

You can use other types of fabrics: burlap, linen, cotton. Easy carelessness in fashion, so the edges can not be processed at all to save time. It will be more accurate to look like a simple bag, sheathed at the edges.When choosing cotton fabrics, you can focus on the fabric pattern. Sacking and flax are colorful and self-sufficient, you can add such a bag, for example, with jute tape.

If your choice fell on cardboard packaging, then making it yourself is also possible. Find, print, and cut out a suitable pattern, and then assemble the box. You need to act carefully, without haste, and then success will not take long to wait.

Bonbonniere in a glass jar definitely will appeal to your guests. For a handwritten performance, you can take baby food jars - they are just small and look neat. If you want to paint your souvenir, put a pattern or just sign a jar, use acrylic paints.

For any packaging option is important decor. Even the simplest box can be turned into a small masterpiece, if you pay time to decorate. Bows and flowers made in various techniques look beautiful. Here to help needlework kanzashi, quilling, knitting, sewing - everything that can or what the bride wants to learn.

Surprise and delight loved ones and loved guests on the most joyful day of life can every girl, even without special skills. We also recall that, if desired, professional wedding agencies will make all the necessary attributes according to your sketches, will realize all the dreams and ideas - the question remains only in price.

Finally it remains to say that you can give souvenirs at the end of the celebration, saying goodbye to the guests after the wedding feast. Or combine the function of a landing card with a bonbonniere, writing the name of the guest on a box or jar, and setting it in front of the right place at the table. It is usually accepted to give all the guests the same gifts or to make a separation based on gender. A good tone will be to please the guests of children's age separately.

See the next video for a master class on making beautiful and original wedding bonbonniere.