New home for The Yummy Favours Blog

Thank you for visiting our blog.

Based upon the advice from a leading wedding marketing website, we have now switched our blog over to the YummyFavours.com main server.

They suggest that rather than having two separate sites attracting web traffic, you are better off combining them into one higher ranking website – makes sense to us!

Thus, we have a new home for our blog – www.yummyfavours.com/blog

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Wedding Day Photo Shoot Prize Draw– worth £2,500

We thought you might be interested in a free prize draw from a new Yorkshire Wedding Directory.

Whether you’re looking for ideas, inspiration or just a bit of advice, Wildbride has it all!

Register now at www.wildbride.co.uk and you will be entered into a FREE Prize Draw to win a Wedding Day Photoshoot – worth £2,500!

If you enter please let us know!

Free chocolate truffles…

Hand made chocolate truffles with purple edible glitter

We’ve been busy creating new truffle variations for recent weddings.  These are two of our favourite combinations, but you can choose from 21 types of edible coloured glitter to coordinate with your wedding theme.  View our gallery for all of our products.

You can also download the glitter swatch sheet to see the different styles.

Hand made chocolate truffles with pink and ivory edible glitter

Of course, please let us know if you have any off the wall ideas for a new product.  One bride has even asked for popping candy – we are currently doing trials…

If we use your idea in our new range, we’ll give you £50 worth of bespoke gourmet chocolate truffles!

WeddingChaos competition winners

Melissa and Howard

Back in March, as an exclusive competition for WeddingChaos we offered one lucky member the chance to win £75 worth of bespoke edible wedding favours.  We had such a good response, we repeated the competition in April!

The two winners that were selected at random were Sarah Holt and Melissa Harvey.

As always, our hand-made chocolate favours will be created uniquely to coordinate with their wedding colour scheme.

Sarah has gone for smooth biscuit truffles with a tangy lemon and orange zest filling.

They will be decorated with red ribbon and champagne edible glitter to match her wedding theme.   By a rare coincidence, Melissa has chosen exactly the same finishing package!

Sarah and Matt

Although you’d think this would make it easier for us, the weddings are in July 2009 and March 2010 respectively!

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Using Google Colour for wedding planning

When searching for “wedding colours” using the image search tool in Google Images I came across a very neat feature:

They have a drop down palette where you can select your wedding colour theme – so you can easily view collections that represent your chosen wedding colours.

So – If you have chosen purple as the wedding theme and need inspiration when choosing the flowers for example, type “wedding flowers”  into  Google Image search and then select the click down palette option for purple:

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You can do this for Reds, Oranges,  Yellows,  Greens,  Teals,  Blues,  Purples,  Pinks,  White,  Black and Greys.  Here are  some amazing orange flower collections:

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We are very passionate about wedding colour themes – have you  found a good source of ideas or  inspiration?  If so please share it here.

Planning a credit crunch wedding?

There are many recession busting wedding articles around at the moment.  Here are some of my favourites:

A Times article suggests going to Oxfam for the dress.  At first I thought this was a joke – but on closer inspection they actually have some pretty good stuff.

With the cost of wedding flowers often being between £2,500 and £5,000, you could save a big chunk of money by using a DIY flower company.

The mother-in-law may come in useful here with the flower arranging!   She can also save you £500 by baking the wedding cake  – then you just need to get it professionally iced.    Incredibly, you can even rent a polystyrene cake from CakeRental.com.

How else are you being told to cut back?  Dropping the wedding DJ seems to be a current favourite.  Even Alanis Morissette used an iPod at her wedding.

At the extreme end of the spectrum, one wedding industry commentator suggests that couples should cut out the cost of the wedding photographer and get a friend to capture the day instead.  Hmm… this is one option we’re not too sure about.

Finally, we have seen a reasonable number of our brides (8%) getting married on a Friday when the rates are more negotiable.  Perhaps Friday is the new Saturday after all.  Indeed, some suggest you could save up to £5,000 by arranging a wedding between October and February – in the off season.

As a provider to the wedding industry, blogging on this topic puts us in an awkward position as luxury wedding favours could easily be squeezed out to save a few pounds.

However, if you really want your guests to leave with a ‘thank you’ that creates a lasting impression, then don’t skimp on the special details that make a difference… even if you are getting married in the snow, in a second hand dress, with a plastic cake, and wilted flowers  🙂

Do you have any recession busting tips?  Are you even planning to cut costs for your big day?  Please share your thoughts here:

Chocolate strawberries on a towering centrepiece

Some initial images of our latest creation – showcased at the Bagden Hall evening wedding fayre on Wednesday.

View the full slideshow

280 large long stem strawberries decorated with edible coloured glitter

White chocolate strawberries with hot pink and magenta edible glitter

National Wedding Colour Theme Survey

As you know, many brides struggle to decide on their wedding colour theme.   But until this is confirmed, it can be impossible to start the rest of the planning – and it gets very stressful if left too late.

But what are the real trends in wedding colour schemes?

Your valuable support with our National Wedding Colour Theme Survey will identify the most popular themes and help thousands of couples facing this difficult decision.

Click here to take the survey

Everyone who supports the research will receive a summary of the findings when published in September 2009.

Chocolate Dipped Strawberry Wedding Favours

This is our latest creation delivered to a very happy bride!

White and dark strawberries with edible glitter!

We then wrapped them in our ‘Gold’ package which includes silk organza ribbon and a wedding ring embellishment.  Everything was designed to coordinate beautifully with the Bride’s wedding theme.  She got married on Sunday – so in two weeks, when she returns from her honeymoon, I can share what she thought!

More updates to come soon as we have lots more weddings this summer! Please check out www.yummyfavours.com for more favour ideas.

Red glitter chocolate strawberries wrapped with silk organza ribbon