Favours Made of Lego

I wanted to talk a little about our favour choices.

We've had a few people to suggest to us that we use these for our favours:

And yeah, I get it. They're cool you can stack them like real Lego and probably have a blast playing around with them, like so:

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BUT

The thing is...

They just don't taste nice.

They taste like chalk. No one is going to eat them- they'll just get played with and end up being thrown away in the end. Plus, they don't fit in with our colour scheme and I don't fancy buying loads and picking out just the white/blue ones.

Now, these!

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These are cute AND tasty. They're likely to get eaten and still be enjoyed, they're easier to fit into our theme and overall a little more suitable for adults and children alike!

But if we could manage stackable chocolate bricks... that would blow my and everyone else's minds!

Hmm

*Ponders the possibilities*

Lego Take on a Wishing Tree

On review of our budget we realised we need to tackle the subject of the guest book. We originally didn't have anything Lego like for this and it wasn't until we were googling around for a plain old guest book that we came across tags for wishing trees.

I wasn't keen on wishing tree's when I first saw them so I hadn't even considered it as a possibility.

However!

My husband to be came up with a great idea on how we can use Lego to make our own unique 'wishing tree.'

Not so much a tree but a big flat base that can sit on an easel.

On the base plate he designed an image to go on this. Very cleverly he made up a mosaic of our venue!

The Wishing Board Design

Our Venue

How amazing is that?!

The tags with be on a string that is also tied to a brick like this.

Thus our guests will be able to write on their tags and stick the Lego to the board!

After the wedding we'll be able to frame the board and keep it as a memento of the day!

So there you have it. Lego take on a wishing tree, with the benefits of a both a normal guest book and a signing frame!

This is one of our Lego projects I'm really excited about!

Why Lego? & List of Lego ideas!

Well,

This wasn't an idea we had from the start. It kind of took on a life of its own. We really weren't keen on a copy and paste wedding and wanted to incorporate as much personality into our day as we could. We were discussing what kind of table centre pieces we should go for and my husband-to-be mentioned in passing that maybe we should make something out of Lego.

He's a big fan of Lego and the idea quickly grew on me. Lego would allow us to be so creative. The next thing I knew I was Googling 'Lego weddings' and was thrilled by the idea of flowers made of Lego.

Any thoughts of having real flowers on our day were quickly dispelled. This was going to be a flower free wedding and any and all flowers at our wedding were from then on, going to be made of Lego.

Lego have a 3D building program called LEGO Digital Designer which I got myself onto to design some flowers.

Centre Piece, Button Hole, Corsage ideas

My bouquet idea

One of the main things about having a Lego theme that was important to me was to keep it elegant and to keep our colour scheme. I hope the flowers look good enough that people will have to look twice before they realise that it's Lego they're looking at!

So Lego flowers are the key part to our Lego theme but we do have some other ideas that incorporate Lego.

While I was on the Digital Designer I also knocked up some MR & MRS letters for the top table.

We're also going to go with really simple but still Lego incorporated invites

For our favours we've got some Lego ice trays just like this one. We'll be making up some chocolate Lego bricks and Mini Figs with these and putting them into favour boxes made to look like old school Lego buckets- But in our sky blue colour scheme.

And of course make good use of our cake topper bought for us by my lovely sister-in-law-to-be.

Our wedding cake isn't going to be anything Lego special. Just a plain white three tier sponge trimmed with blue ribbon and decorated with a few of the flowers above.

So these are the main Lego ideas we have so far. There are still some finer details to be thought of. My jewellery for the day, shoes, head piece and the grooms men's cuff links will all involve Lego but these things have yet to be thought of in detail and will have to wait for another post!