Tea as favors for Vegas wedding
Hello. I am having a wedding in Vegas in October. I would like to give out favors of tea to my guests. I was trying to think of cool blends to do that play off the Vegas theme.
I was thinking I wanted a red and black tea. I was thinking a black tea with red and white decorations in it. Any ideas?
I was also considering just doing a black tea and a rooibos tea to play off the “bet red or black” theme. Although I have a feeling most of the guests probably won’t drink the tea so it’ll probably be more for show :(. Hence why I’d rather just have a pretty tea for people to look at.
I’d definitely suggest talking to Naomi at Joy’s Teaspoon. She’s based in Vegas and has some really awesome teas:
Adagio does tea wedding favors: http://www.adagio.com/wedding/index.html
I don’t know how that could fit into your plans, but there’s the option if you’d like to check it out. =) I’m sure they’d probably be willing to work with you if you wanted to do and blend instead of their presets.
they are a bit pricey but you could do some blooming teas, even if they dont drink them later they can still use them for a centerpiece for a while.
That’s another idea, although I think having a giant blend I could then just distribute in tins would be easier. Also do they make any black and red flowering teas?
no, and while im by no means an expert, i dont think any true straight teas will be a red and black. you will probably have to have some edible herbals mixed in. or some red chocolate bits :). if you go for the chocolate idea, i would go with a Chinese black tea, they already have chocolate notes in them naturally, so the chocolate shouldn’t distract too much from the tea itself.
Oh yeah, I’m definitely aware I won’t find a straight tea without some sort of decoration mixed in. I don’t mind. I want the tea to look pretty, and I will probably have it out to serve to my guests for them to drink. I already know a lot of the people on my groom’s side won’t care, hence why I’d rather have the tea look pretty than taste too great. As much as I love tea, I’m also realistic ;)
Hmm.. interesting idea. There’s also other red fruits too – acai may also work. I saw Mighty Leaf has something that has the color scheme the at I want: http://www.mightyleaf.com/product/acai-black-tea/
Hmm.. interesting idea. There’s also other red fruits too – acai may also work. I saw Mighty Leaf has something that has the color scheme the at I want: http://www.mightyleaf.com/product/acai-black-tea/I wonder how it tastes. The ingredients aren’t showing up for me..
This aliexpress store has black flowering teas, some of which have a lot of red in the flowers. The teas meet the EU standard.The black tea blooming flower tea with different syles and colorful flowers, herbal tea with different styles
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/The-black-tea-blooming-tea/1697248069.html
Like this oneIndividual vaccum package, 6pcs of ingot flower tea, blossom tea&blooming tea
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/6pcs-of-gold-ingot-blooming-tea/1711751904.html
(from AliExpress Android)
I’ve bought from this store before.
you could find a cheap lapsang souchong and add in some dried cherries. i would be a less expensive tea, and the cherries might go well with the tea if they decide to infuse it.
David’s does special orders. I’m not sure what their minimum is.http://www.davidstea.com/specialorders
If you search for tea wedding favors on Etsy there are thousands of results. I imagine someone doing small, handmade batches might be more flexible on the quantity.
Another thing you could do, sticking with the tea theme, is to do a nice black tea and then get some red and black shaped sugar cubes to include with it, in hearts and spades or whatever Vegas themed shape.
Or you could get a container of poker card sugar sprinkles http://www.kaboodle.com/reviews/poker-shape-candy-sprinkles and just add them to whatever tea you like (though my Googlefu fails me and I can’t find anyplace to currently buy them right now).
I enjoy Wilson’s travellingteapot blog, and he recently posted on packets of tea that come in a tin and are so adorable. He mailed me a couple to try, and they contain different oolongs, usually 50 packets of 15g each. I can vouch for the oolong, it is fairly good tea.
Souchong
http://peksinchoon.com/product/xin-chun-xiao-zhong-2/
Here is tieguanyin that is 50 packets for $20, 15 g each so a good gong fu for two.
I actually scrapped tea from our wedding entirely. Both hubby and I are (and were) heavy into tea but for our 50 person wedding, it was totally impractical. Most guests didn’t care/wouldn’t drink it, and there was no-one to prepare it properly which would have bothered me. We fit a number of our passions into our wedding, but I reached the point that I realized if I couldn’t do something well, not to bother. Of course, ours was a micro-budget wedding in a rural area with no servers, caterers, or even wedding favours. More like a Nova Scotia kitchen party in a Church hall, haha.
Do try out Joy’s Teaspoon though. Naomi makes some great tea and I am sure she would work with you to make a small scale custom tea!
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