wedding fortune cookies

for our wedding we wanted to incorporate steve's chinese culture into our reception. we decided that along with our color theme of sage green, we would add a touch of red and incorporate the double happiness symbol. i found a small stamp of the double happiness symbol...

i used this stamp on our invitation envelopes and also on our favor! speaking of our favor, we decided that we wanted to have chocolate covered fortune cookies! the chocolate covering itself wasn't going to happen until right before the wedding, but months in advance i was able to get started on the box for the cookies. i used a red and sage green stamp pad, a large paisley stamp, and our double happiness stamp...

i ordered like 300 chinese take out boxes online. then i stamped each one with the paisley and double happiness...

there were a lot of them...

now 2 days before the wedding, it was time to dip the fortune cookies in chocolate! steve's mom was able to hook us up with like 1,000 fortune cookies through the chinese restaurant she works at. my cousin ryan with a big bowl of fortune cookies...

then, my awesome cousin laurie, who just happens to sell dove chocolate, hooked us up with some yummy dove chocolate!!!

we ended up with 3 cookies per box--2 that were milk chocolate, and 1 that was dark chocolate!! here is my adorable cousin romy with some of the covered cookies...

thanks to everyone who helped!

it took all morning and into the afternoon to get them finished up!

the end product was just how i pictured it. each place setting had a chinese take-out box...

and everyone ate up the yummy cookies!...