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.

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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.

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As if Diwali weren’t colorful and fun enough, The Festival of Lights: A Lift-the-flap Diwali Celebration by Namita Moolani Mehra, illustrated by Darshika Varm, makes it even more fun to read about with flaps and things to lift and pull to see more information or details in the illustrations.

The book is a story about a family getting ready for Diwali and what happens on the different days of the five-day celebration. There’s cleaning, shopping, crafting, food preparation and getting the home altar ready for the big day.

It covers decorating the outside of the house with rangoli, diyas and lanterns, buying sweets to share with family and friends, the sights and scents of the mandir (home temple), getting dressed up in new fancy clothes, the story of Diwali and celebrations with relatives.

Flaps (there are more than 140 in all) give you vocabulary words for different foods and definitions, as well as fun things like what’s inside the shopping basket or where the cat is hanging out. They also help illuminate the story of Diwali, which is the triumph of good over evil as Lord Ram defeated the demon Ravana to save his wife, Sita.

This pretty and colorful book helps kids understand what Diwali is and how it is celebrated, regardless of whether they practice it at home. This would be a nice book to keep in a classroom (it’s rated for kids ages 3-7) or to have at home to teach kids about Diwali even if it’s not something you celebrate. Where I live there are a lot of people from India so we are probably exposed to Diwali more than some other regions of America, but it’s a nice holiday to know about wherever you live.

Combine with the book Diwali and check out some fun lantern crafts and printables for kids to round out your experience.

About the book: 24 pages, hardcover, published 2025 by Wide Eyed Editions. Suggested retail prices $22.99.

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