We threw a Wonka Chocolate Factory themed party for Oliver’s 8th and Cyan’s 6th birthdays. With our wedding in October to plan, I decided we would have one joint party and hold it a little early at the end of July (their birthdays are a couple of weeks apart in August/September).
They were both keen on the latest movie with Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka, and we had just finished reading the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory books by Roald Dahl; so we thought this could be a fun theme for their party.
Naturally the invitations had to be golden tickets.. I designed the tickets and laser printed them onto some gold vellum paper..
.. and of course the tickets also had to be found in Wonka Bars!
I found a lovely lady selling chocolate bars on ebay, she sold them with custom wrappers designed for wedding favours. As I wanted to print my own wrappers so I could insert the tickets she gave me a really good reduced price, I think they worked out about 50 pence each. They also conveniently had a base wrapper of gold foiled paper, and one of the flavour choices was milk chocolate with crunchy caramel pieces.. perfect!
And so became the Whipple Scrumptious Chococaramel Delight Wonka Bar..
On the back of the wrapper was the ingredients and dietary info, and I added a barcode with each child’s name so the kids would know which friend to give each bar to..
I was really pleased with how they turned out, they went down VERY well with the kids invited, and I got lots of compliments from the parents too!
More on the party soon....
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You deserve lots of compliments!! What a fun, fun, fun idea!!
ReplyDeleteand beautifully executed, I might add.
ReplyDeleteGreat party idea and these invites are wonderful!! I would love to see what you did for the party.
ReplyDeleteVery cool. You are so creative. Welcome back, btw. :)
ReplyDeleteso so clever!!! i love these, they are so perfect!
ReplyDeletegood luck with the wedding planning - i hope it's going well!
jeepers those are cool. plus I bet their yummy too!
ReplyDeleteOh does that bring back memories. My mouth is watering just thinking about all the candy in that movie. Boy you could go nuts with that as a party theme. I will add it to my ideas to do pile. Here I stopped by to say thanks for the visit and see photos of your wedding. I can't wait to see what you did as I had an Asian wedding theme too. It consumed months of my time to plan so I get why you have had no time to blog. I don't know if I will ever have the creativity and momentum I did in 2010, I miss it too. Glad to see you again!
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