Elegant Baby Shower Party Ideas

When it comes to planning a party, baby showers are one of the most special and fun ones to plan. What an amazing time in life to celebrate!

There are many unique ways to throw a baby shower: casual, as a couple, gender revealing, traditional, and even elegant.

For those of you who are planning a baby shower, consider the elegant type and the following themes, and don't forget to use our baby shower invitations to invite friends and family or party favors for the baby shower.

•               Roses--Roses are perfect for just about every occasion and are quite beautiful for a baby shower. All decor is with roses, including the tableware. You can decorate with multi-colored roses or go monochromatic in the favorite color of the mother-to-be. Pink is a great color for elegance. Try pink and gold or a white theme with white roses.

•               Royalty--Prince or Princess--If you know the baby's gender do either a prince or princess elegant theme. Choose royal colors like blue, purple, red, and gold. For an elegant Prince theme in blue and gold, try these ideas. Of course pink is always perfect for a princess, but how about purple and gold?

•               Tea Party--A Tea Party Baby Shower could be anything from vintage to "Mad Hatter." If you choose the "Mad Hatter" theme, you could have unique hats and flowers as your centerpieces. Incorporate some Alice in Wonderland colors and ideas. When planning your tea party, keep in mind the finger foods often served at tea parties.

•               Paris--Paris is synonymous with elegance, and so is a Paris-themed baby shower. Focus your theme around the Eifel Tower, a French cafe, Vintage Paris, and even Shabby Chic with a touch of French country added to it. Keep in mind foods that have the Parisian theme as you are planning this event.

•               Brunch--An elegant brunch just might be the idea you are looking for. You can use any theme for a brunch. Have an elegant Sugar and Spice shower. Try a Sunshine theme with orange juice, lemonade, muffins with lemon icing and other items that would be like sunshine.

Whatever theme you decide to go with, we would love to help you create your event and make it as personal and special as the baby whose arrival you celebrate is. Contact us for more personalized candy wrapper ideas for your baby shower. #sweetwrappings

Save the Date, With Chocolate!

Everyone is constantly trying to think of something that "hasn't been done." Especially the bride looking to make her wedding unique and memorable. To set the tone for a one-of-a-kind wedding, your save the date delivers first impressions to family and friends. Yes, you can make a fun magnet, bookmark, or postcard announcing your upcoming nuptials. But how much sweeter would it be if delivered in chocolate?

At Sweet Wrappings, we love delivering the best news with the memorable sweetness of a chocolate bar. We have many options available depending on how much detail you'd like to include for your save the date. From a simple date in the font of your choice, to engagement photos, the date, and colors to match your wedding vision, your personalized candy bar will leave a lasting impression on family and friends.

Of course, in addition to your personalized letter, you will be announcing your wedding date through a universal language: chocolate. Each chocolate bar carries with it love and comfort in its sweet essence. You've now incorporated more than one of the five senses in your save the date: sight, touch and taste. By linking more senses, more emotion, to your announcement, your guests will more likely, not just remember the date, but RSVP and look forward to your big day with anticipation of what other surprises might be in store.

Visit us at Sweet Wrappings to see our sample products, ask questions, and begin planning the personalized and memorable design of your save the date. Remember, once they've eaten the chocolate, your family and friends still have a keepsake to hang on their fridge or tuck away in an album! #sweetwrappings

How to Reward Your Students With Custom Candy Wrappers

If you're a teacher and you want to get your young students on their best behavior, then doling out candy rewards is a great way to do it. However, you can make it even more exciting and effective by using customized and personalized candy and chocolate bar wrappers. Here are some ideas.

Behavior Rewards

You can order a whole stack of candies, with the individual names of your students on personalized candy wrappers. Stock up on enough candy wrappers for each student. When a student is on their best behavior for a week or another set period of time, reward them with a candy that has a personalized "Good Job!" message -- with their name -- on the wrapper.

Homework Rewards

Order another set of candies that has a general message complimenting students for doing their homework. Create a "store" where each candy costs a certain amount of a custom "currency" you create. Every time a student does their homework, give them a preset amount of this "currency," and when they have enough "money," they can buy a candy from your store.

Test Rewards

Create a similar system to reward students when they get good marks on their tests. You can order candies with messages complimenting students on their good marks and for studying well, and then offer them to students who achieve good scores.

These are just some ideas! As a teacher, you should be creative and come up with many great ideas to reward your students. For all sorts of customized candy and chocolate bar wrappers, just contact us. #sweetwrappings

Bridal Shower Favors for the Out of Town Maid of Honor

You just found out that your best friend from high school is getting married. In two months. And you're the Maid of Honor.

This puts you in charge of planning a bridal shower. And since the bride lives in a different time zone than you, you're planning a party to take place in a city different from your own. Yikes.

But before you panic, Sweet Wrappings can help make checking a couple of items off your to-do list a little easier.

First, bridal shower favors. Design a custom wrapper with a photo of the couple with the wedding date, a photo of your close group of friends with your favorite quotation, or a photo of the bride with sweet sentiments collected from some of her friends. Whatever design you choose, getting them to the event location will be easy. Ship them ahead to someone who lives near the bride so that they're ready and waiting for you when you arrive or since they are compact, simply pack them up and they're ready to travel with you.

Second, is an idea to mix things up! Feeling overwhelmed by needing to design, print, trim, fold and mail invitations to the bride's guests? Let the custom wrapper be your invitation! They are easy to design from the comfort of your own home and then the bride's friends will not only receive a warm invitation, but they'll have a sweet treat to enjoy whether they're able to attend the shower or not!

Hopefully these ideas help make planning a bridal shower a little less stressful, no matter how far away you may live from your best friend and bride-to-be.

Contact us today so we can help you make it an event she'll never forget!

Use a Custom Candy Wrapper for a Unique Gender Reveal for Out-of-Town Family and Friends

There's so much excitement with the promise of a new baby, and it's fun to involve family and friends in all the months leading up to the big day. Back in the day, parents didn't find out the gender of the baby, leaving it as a surprise for the day the child was born. Over time, parents decided it was better to know ahead of time, in order to be better prepared with gender-specific clothing and nurseries, but that did take some of the fun out of it. Gender reveal parties solved that, with parents able to find out whether they are having a boy or girl in a fun and unique fashion. Unfortunately, family and friends who live out-of-town often miss out on the fun, but you can still let them be involved by using a custom candy wrapper.

In a gender reveal party, parents and friends gather and find out together whether the baby is a boy or girl. Sometimes they find out by cutting into a cake, discovering whether the filling is blue or pink, and other times a bunch of balloons are released in the appropriate color. The same fun moment can be celebrated with loved ones who don't live close by. Simply design your own custom pink or blue candy wrapper, and mail them the sweet announcement. You could do one standard-sized bar, or a bunch of miniature candy bars to stick with the baby theme. And then, with the use of video chatting, you can watch parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, and friends open the package and see the reaction and share the moment together.

Custom candy wrappers can be created using different colors, sayings, and even pictures. Family members will love the sweet treat and the sweet announcement to go with it. To find out more about creating your own gender reveal candy bar, contact us. #sweetwrappings.