Wedding And Bridal Shower Favors From Wooden Spoons

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By Anna Hart

Both wedding favors from wooden spoons and bridal shower favors from wooden spoons offer a variety of possibilities.

Wedding Favors from Wooden Spoons

Wedding favors from wooden spoons is a reversal on the very old Scottish and Welsh tradition of giving the bride a wooden spoon. This tradition was based on the idea that the wooden spoon was the most useful utensil in the kitchen. Giving wooden spoons to the bride would help her cook for her new husband, and later their family.

Wedding favors from wooden spoons give the spoons to guests rather than to the new bride, sometimes using them to hold place cards. We offer 7 cheap ideas below.

Bridal Shower Favors from Wooden Spoons

Bridal shower favors from wooden spoons are handled similarly the wooden spoons are given to the guests instead of to the bride-to-be.

Bridal shower favors from wooden spoons can be made quickly and cheaply. Try the 7 ideas below.

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Ideas for Favors from Wooden Spoons

The price of conventional wooden spoons may quickly break your budget for bridal shower favors or wedding favors. You can get cheap wooden spoons at an online site offering craft supplies. Look for kitchen miniatures. We found 12″ long spoons at less than $0.60 each. For smaller bridal shower favors or wedding favors, we also found 4.75″ wooden spoons at less than $0.50 each.

1. Place a few pieces of candy in the bowl of the wooden spoon. Wrap the bowl portion with tulle to fit your wedding color scheme. Tie a satin ribbon bow just above the spoon’s bowl. This makes good bridal shower favors or wedding favors.

2. For bridal shower favors or wedding favors, print out the new bride’s favorite recipe on small cards. On the reverse side, print a line for guests’ names. Beneath it, explain briefly the wooden spoon tradition. Punch 2 holes at the top of each card. Run a ribbon through the holes and tie the card to the handle of the wooden spoon.

3. Combine small wooden spoons with packets of coffee, loose tea, soup mix, or bath salts for unique wedding or bridal shower favors. Tie ribbon around the two, add a tag, and you’re done!

4. Purchase mini jars of jam or honey. Tie a small wooden spoon to the neck of the jar, with a place card, for quick wedding or bridal shower favors.

5. Whimsical bridal shower favors or wedding favors can be made with small wooden spoons dressed as brides and grooms. Paint “bride” spoons white and glue a skirt of white tulle to the handle just below the bowl. On the bowl, glue tiny wiggle eyes, pom-pom noses, and a small yarn mouth. Add a second bit of tulle to the bowl top for a veil. Tie a bow where the handle meets the bowl. Paint “groom” spoons black, and proceed in the same way, using black cloth in place of tulle to fashion a “tux” and hat.

6. Simple wedding and bridal shower favors from wooden spoons can be prepared quickly beginning with the small size wooden spoons from craft supply stores. Print out pretty cards that say “Love without Measure.” Use the reverse side for placecards, if desired. Or print the bridal couple’s names and the date on the reverse side. Tie the cards to the spoon necks with ribbon.

7. Bridal shower favors and wedding favors from wooden spoons can be patterned after Welsh lovespoons. Lovespoons can be purchased online, but only by those who have a large budget for favors. Create your own wedding of bridal shower favors from wooden spoons by purchasing a quantity of 4.75″ wooden spoons. Purchase painted wooden cutouts, available in shapes of hearts, arrows, doves, etc. Glue the wooden cutouts securely to handle or bowl of wooden spoon. Tie with a ribbon and tag.

Bridal Party Ideas

Bridal shower favors and wedding favors are not the only uses for the wooden spoon. Present each member of the bridal party, as well as the mother of the bride and the mother of the groom with their own “lucky” wooden spoons. Use larger wooden spoons for these gifts than for bridal shower favors. Cover each spoon with satin in the color of the bride’s gown. Glue braid with tiny pearls down the length of the handle. Glue lace around the edge of the spoon’s bowl. Glue a loop of blue ribbon at the end of the handle so the spoon can be hung. For an even more memorable spoon, glue a tiny bride and groom or double wedding bells to the satin bowl of the spoon. Find them at craft supplies sites.

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5 Social Media Marketing Strategy Tips

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By Aaron Hoos

Until recently, businesses had well-established “rules of engagement” that dictated how to talk to prospects, customers, vendors and competitors. But with the recent ascent of social media into the business arena, those rules of engagement have been set aside and new rules are being written. Business owners who get these social media marketing strategy tips and actively participate in social media marketing can enjoy the benefits. Business owners who ignore these tips but try to participate in social media marketing anyway, will fail.

If your business is thinking about participating in the social media phenomenon, here are 5 marketing strategy tips you need to know before you start:

Marketing strategy tips #1: Social media is not about you. Don’t jump into the world of social media to talk about yourself. Rather, join because you want to hear from other people. Even if you never talk about yourself, you can still derive tremendous value from listening to your prospects and customers and adjusting your business based on what you hear. Create rules for yourself about how often you want to engage others before you mention something about yourself. Some people follow a 10:1 ratio of talking about others ten times as much as they talk about themselves.

Marketing strategy tips #2: Be personable. It’s so easy to default to the original rules of engagement, which tended to be impersonal. But social media isn’t impersonal. It’s very personal. Be willing to share some of yourself. Decide what you’re willing to share and what you aren’t willing to share, but be willing to share something.

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Marketing strategy tips #3: Be professional. For so long, businesses equated impersonal with professional. But that’s not the case. You can be personable while still being professional. Professionalism in social media means not trashing your competition or making inflated claims. It means not dominating the conversation. It means helping customers not forcing them.

Marketing strategy tips #4: Engage others. Social media is a medium of engagement. People aren’t just listening, they’re participating. So take part. Ask others. Involve others. Listen and respond. Keep the conversation going.

Marketing strategy tips #5: Enjoy it! This is so important. If you don’t enjoy participating in social media then stop doing it. If you don’t like it, you won’t engage others and you’ll end up doing what a lot of businesses do create a cycle of pre-written, timed-release messages that don’t do anything other than annoy. Just because social media is popular right now doesnt mean you have to participate. Enjoy it or find something you do enjoy.

Want to know the best way to succeed at social media? Just follow the same rules of engagement and etiquette that you might have at a dinner party or cocktail party. Listen to others, share a bit of yourself, be professional, engage other people, and enjoy the conversation. The scenario is very similar it just so happens that with social media, people aren’t in the same room.

Use these marketing strategy tips to help you grow your business with social media.

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