Up next in our Wedding Series are these fantastic beach bucket favors! When it came to deciding what we wanted to gift our guests in our wedding favors, I have to admit we went through a few ideas but none of them seemed to fit in with the beach theme very well. After looking through some more ideas on Pinterest, we finally found a miniature candle bucket which was just what we were looking for. Unfortunately these candles were from the USA and wasn't something that was going to be cost effective to ship. So we then started thinking about how we could create something similar. We did try making our own candles inside small metal buckets, however we discovered that these could leak whilst burning and I definitely didn't't want our guests to be burning leaking candles at home.
We therefore decided to use tea lights instead but needed something safe to sit them in for our guests to burn them at home. So we bought some small glass tealight holders to put the candles in. This way they could been placed inside a container and will burn safely.
We decided to use small garden peat pots as the bucket and pierced some holes around the edge to give out some light when the candle is burning. We then painted the peat pots in an off white and found a mixture of sand dollars and starfish to add on the front.
For the handle we used a wired twine that was also painted and on one side we aded a shell and pearl bead.
To finish off the favors, we added our guest names, using a small print out flag attached to one side.
An extra treat for our guests were some sweet treats, in the form of chocolate seashells - very fitting for our theme! These were wrapped in small cellophane bags, tied with twine and positioned on top of the tealight.
I think these favors were perfect for our beach themed wedding and a gift that our guests can continue to use at home when they are burning small tea lights.
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