Holiday Gift Boxes with Bash, Please

For our Holiday Veggie Kitchen, the amazing ladies of Bash, Please created not only a warm and beautiful atmosphere for guests, but also their exquisite parting gifts. The wintery favor: a custom amber matchstick bottle for striking, etched with a pinecone shape, bundled with a Moon Canyon sage evergreen smudge stick, and boxed and tied up with linen ribbon and a snowy forest fine art photo by Tec Petaja.

I asked Kelly and Paige to share a bit about their process and prerequisites when it comes to creating favors both useful and memorable, and hope you enjoy. XXJKE>KH & PA: Favors at an event should be reflective of the aesthetics, the mood, and the celebration the guests just attended. When we are conceptualizing a parting gift or favor, we always keep in mind how the guest will feel when they receive it and how the usability will carry out. Does it send them home with an original and special reminder of the day? Does it stand out as thoughtful and curated? Is it indicative of the caliber of event? Hopefully, yes. For us at BP, the favor must be congruous to all these elements. There is nothing worse than seeing a trash can full of wasteful favors heading out the door of an event.

For the favor at the holiday lunch we wanted to invoke three things: warmth, beauty, and winter. We loved the smudge sticks Kristen has made in the past and thought a lovely companion to her evergreen/sage stick would be a custom match bottle to bring in the fire for warmth, and which could be re-used over and over again. To bring in the beauty and winter, we chose a dark amber bottle and etched a custom pinecone illustration on it for match striking. To again bring in beauty and winter, we packaged it in a kraft cylinder filled with earthy wood shavings and tied it up with a linen ribbon and a picturesque snowcapped forest photo. The photo could then be untied and pinned on home inspiration boards, tied to another gift to pass it on, or pressed into a scrapbook.