My sea shell Christmas ornaments: favors or just gifts???

[kevsgirl]

So I ordered these little shell 'charms' from Oriental Trading Company, hoping to use them as our Christmas ornament favours...

I was planning on threading a ribbon in one of our colours in the ring on the shell and attaching a monogrammed tag to it (that would be removed probably b/c it'll be too big). OR I could get the ribbon that it dangles from printed with our name and date or thank you, for example...

 

 

 

 

 

I know some others girls on the forum have ornament favours.

 

My questions are:1) Are these too small? (I thought they'd be bigger)

 

2) I only bought enough for each 'family', not per person and my hope was to make our favours in boxes that doubled as place cards, like this:

 

 

So should I go get more of the shells or is it weird to give every person a Christmas ornament because then there may be some families who have like 4 ornaments... am I overthinking this? LOL! Someone slap me!

 

3) Or should I just add them to the OOT bags as a 'bonus' and get some different favor to go in our little boxes on the tables?

[Anna83]

I think those are really cute! I don't think they are too small, the size shouldn't matter too much. I would use them as favors/placecards and give them to everyone. I don't think it's weird that a family will get a bunch of them. I would add a tag with your monogram on it. I think those are a great idea, especially since you are getting married on the beach around Christmas, they kind of tie the two together.

[meghanmbm]

i would probally just add the to the OOT bags, but that may be because we are not doing both favors and OOT bags. i feel like the bags are full of more usefull things than an favor of almonds ect. But if you want to do the favor thing those would be fine. Everyone is going to love your bags so much that they will think that you went way above a silly favor that most people dont ever really use. Try not to over think it and just have fun.

[foxytv]

LOVE these! I am now thinking that since it will be close to Christmas before we get our Thank Yous done, this would be a great thing to include in our Thank You cards as well, with a charm and little hang tag that has the location and wedding date for those who were able to travel to our DW with us.

[Davematthews16]

I can't see them But I'm sure they are very cute!

[kevsgirl]

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Originally Posted by Anna83 I think those are really cute! I don't think they are too small, the size shouldn't matter too much. I would use them as favors/placecards and give them to everyone. I don't think it's weird that a family will get a bunch of them. I would add a tag with your monogram on it. I think those are a great idea, especially since you are getting married on the beach around Christmas, they kind of tie the two together.

I think I feel the same... still waiting on FI to help me decide.

I think what I'll do is make one up fully as though it was going in the box (and do the box up) and then when I see the mock-up I'll probably feel better.

You know how it is when you have it in your head this great picture, but it looks kind of dinky beforehand? LOL!

[heather007]

They are so cute, I love them so much. I would put a few in your favour box- we are giving out wine charms to our guests, and they are getting four in our box.

 

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