Perfect Wedding Favours {Book Review & Giveaway!}

Offering your wedding guests edible treats as a remembrance of the day is a time-honored tradition. If you want to go beyond the usual {though always welcome!} bag of pastel-colored candy almonds be sure to get your hands on a copy of Perfect Wedding Favours by Susannah Blake! With 28 ideas for edible favours and creative ways to present them, you’ll send your guests home with delicious little bites guaranteed to provide a sweet memory of your special day.

Want a chance to win a copy of your own? Simply leave a comment on this post before midnight CST on Sunday, April 7th, 2013. Enter as often as you like, and be sure to check back on Monday, April 8th to see if you are the winner.

Here’s a little sneak peek inside the first chapter of the book, Candies & Confectionary. Creamy vanilla blueberry fudge looks so sweet in old-fashioned glass jars topped with fabric and a few leaf sprigs.

In chapter 2, Cakes & Bakes, you’ll find the recipe and instructions for Cupcake Place Names. A clever idea for an edible favour that doubles as a place card!

Chapter 3, Celebration Cookies, shares a recipe for mini cookies in shapes like hearts, flowers, and clover decorated with pastel icing. These would be so sweet scattered around the tables or wrapped up in pretty paper!

Paper containers brimming over with golden caramel popcorn steal the show in chapter 4, Other Treats. Very elegant in the right packaging!

These are just a few of the creative and delicious ideas found in Perfect Wedding Favours by Susannah Blake! Many thanks to Ryland Peters & Small for sponsoring this review and giveaway.

Perfect Wedding Favours is available for $16.95 from Ryland Peters & Small.

Be sure to leave your comment on this post to enter the giveaway! Best wishes to all the entrants!

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These little quilt inspired cross stitch patterns from Flamingo Toes look like ornaments and fit in 3-inch hoops, which are perfect for hanging on the tree or using to decorate a gift. I love the pastel colors on these but you can use more traditional Christmas colors if you like.

This cute Christmas tree from Lagodargetoshop uses a single color and fits in a 4-inch hoop, but you could make it smaller if you wanted by trimming the last ornaments and gifts from the sides, or just stitch the tree without any other embellishments. Either way it’s a cute addition to your holiday tree.

Stitched Modern has a super cute collection of retro Christmas ornament cross stitch patterns from designer Gera. This is a printed pattern that will be shipped to you. Each pattern is about 40 by 56 stitches, or 2.9 by 4 inches/7.4 by 10 cm on 14 count fabric. To work the whole set you’ll need 20 colors of floss.

These snowflake ornaments from Our Little Handmade Home are each about 2.5 inches/6.4 cm when stitched on 14 count fabric, and they use a single color of floss. They are pretty in red but you could also do white on a blue or black background, or whatever suits your other Christmas tree decorations!

From the description it sounds like this set of vintage style cross stitch characters is presented as one large chart, but the photo from Sampler Antique Stitch shows each of them stitched up as their own little ornament, so it gets included here. You’ll find Santa and snowmen in different poses in this cute collection.

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