HELP - Any good ideas for Christmas Table Place favours

[Tenalady]

Oh dear, volunteered myself to do table decorations, thinking 10 tables, 10 lovely floral table decorations, holly, ivy a few baubles, whats to worry about UNTIL. . . . .

I learned that I have to produce 100 individual table favours, now I am struggling. I thought maybe candy cane with a ribbon bow tied and a sprig of berry holly and maybe a tiny bauble, until I started to tie ribbon bows and thought I have to do 100 of these, its not going to work.
Last year somebody produced some very nice cones with sweets inside and a sparkly bauble on it with our individual names.

Any ideas that have worked for you in the past, or maybe a twist on the wedding favour turned festive?

hmm the cone idea is a good one.

is it on christmas day or before?

how about little bits of paper with a pen where every one has to write down their favorite bit of 2013 or what they have been thankfull foir.. it all goes in a top hat and every one gets a chance to read one out?

not a table favour but you could set up a little side table of big jars full of sweets, with scoops. brown paper bags so they can make thier own?

All on Christmas day WonderingSoul! They have been quite specific that they are individually named favours of some guise or other bah!

I make gingerbread biscuits and pipe icing patterns on them - Christmas trees, stockings etc. I put them on the side plates as place card alternatives.

They are cheap and easy, and last for a week in an airtight tin?

I think the problem is the volume - 100?!!! What about buying some of those boxes of trivia/quiz cards that you get at weddings and attaching a card to a candy cane, and if you want bows & holly, buy some ready made bows. Seriously wouldn't worry about personalising them. Whoever has the turn next year would be eternally grateful!!

Wow 100 to make what kind of recipient are you dealing with? Families with all kinds of ages, or elderly people or...

My friend had lego mini figure blind bags on each setting at her wedding. Went down really well as it kept people busy too (assembling/comparing/swapping)

And I'd definitely rule out personalising them if you're pushed for time.

My wedding favours were 3 posh wrapped chocolates wrapped in silky fabric, tied with a few different strips of gold ribbon and some gold wire I put beads on. Fiddly though (only had around 30)

Oh I didn't see you have to personalise them. Would it fulfill that criteria if you bought some nice cardboard luggage tags and wrote their names on (could use a gold/silver pen) and then attach those to whatever you end up doing?

Are you paying for this out of your own pocket or is this a business thing, and what's your budget?

Its for a Christmas Lunch for Cathedral, so all sorts of ages as, I have yet to receive a budget but clearly its going to be cheap if they are paying (always is). I had a lot of ideas like, clear baubles stuffed with sweets and ribbon with a tag but the baubles are a maximum of 89p each, doesn't sound much until you times it by 100. Even I cant justify that.

Im liking the idea of the candy canes, tried tying bows myself, blimey I cant do it , it looks awful, so maybe ready made bows maybe the trick. I think I can get away with name luggage tags tied on and just write the first names (when I get them)!

If anyone has any other ideas, I still have time to consider something simple. Arrrgh!

For 100 people you're going to want to keep it quick and easy. For the name settings you could print off little pieces of card with their names on them and then place them in a pine cone.

You can buy ready made bows on eBay for 3.99/50?
£8 for bows is still quite a lot though.
I've used a company called chocolates for chocoholics (it's a fundraising one) and they sell little liqueurs in a tiny glass. That's what I used one year. Quite a reasonable price if I remember rightly.

I've just stumbled across that Chocolates for Chocoholics site naturalblonde.... OP, there are some ideas here - you can could easily make your own, e.g. organza bags 50 for 6 on Amazon - you could put a mix of choc coins/mini Santa Clauses/Christmas balls - usually dead cheap in Aldi and Lidl?

Glue 2 candy canes together to make a love heart and tie on a brown card/paper label with the recipients name on in fancy Kettering. Or use 1 candy cane, stick 2 google eyes near the top of the curved part and then wind a pipe cleaner round top to look like antlers. Turn gingerbread man biscuit upside down and ice on antlers, eyes and stick on a red cherry/sweet for a nose - draft in friends to help. Make up a batch of brownies/truffles etc and cut each person a square, tie up in a bit of cellophane or tissue paper. Dip marshmallows in chocolate, add 2 icing eyes, a red sweet for a nose and twig lets/bits if curly workers for antlers. Buy a big box of QStreet and bag up a couple of sweets each in cellophane. Good luck.

Kettering is lettering!