My very good friend Anna is getting married in July and her wedding party, myself included, hosted a bridal shower in her honour this past weekend. I volunteered to create the wedding shower favours that each of the guests got to take home to commemorate the event.

In principle the idea is incredibly simple - in practice it took a bit more effort than I had planned. The original idea is not mine – I should mention I borrowed it from a baby shower I attended this past January and modified a little.

Start with a simple mason jar. I found mine at Dollarama.

Add a personalised label with the event details. I had originally created a round label for the top of the jars, but the file was unfortunately saved on my home computer which died the Sunday prior to the shower. This meant I had to start the labels from scratch. In hindsight, it's a  good thing my original design was lost – I like the new label design much better.

These are the labels I came up with:

I used a template I found here which was originally used for water bottles. The template is in PowerPoint which before last week I was only slightly familiar with. Through much trial and error I was able to create something I’m fairly proud of.  Unfortunately you can't tell from the picture above, but the nutritional information includes things like love, happiness. trust and laughter - all  at 100%.

I attached the labels to the jars using spray adhesive I had on hand. Regular white glue would work as well.

To fill the jars you need cookies, lots and lots of cookies. I ended up making close to 300.

I used a recipe for Almond Orange Shortbread that I found on the Martha Stewart website. The only change I made to the recipe was the baking method – in order to fit into the mason jars the cookies needed to be round, and less than 2” in diameter. I tried to find a cookie cutter of the appropriate diameter but failed miserably, so I rolled the dough into snakelike forms, and then simply cut the cookies into rounds. These cookies made my apartment smell divine for days.