9 Halloween Wedding Theme Favors

Not everyone elects to have a traditional wedding. Some love the fun and excitement of Halloween and want to share their favorite holiday with others with a marriage ceremony. Just like those "trick or treaters" that arrive at your door, your wedding guests also deserve a special treat. Here are 9 ideas for wedding favors that you can present to your guests when celebrating your Halloween themed wedding.

Trick or Treat Bags

Since it's Halloween, fill small paper trick or treat bags with the orange foil covered chocolate pumpkins and other candies.

Halloween Candles

You can purchase some very interesting molded Halloween candles in a variety of shapes and sizes (like pumpkins, ghosts, haunted houses, etc.). Wrap up in orange tulle and tie with black curly ribbon.

Cauldron of Pumpkins

Fill small, black plastic cauldrons with orange foil-wrapped chocolate pumpkins.

Pumpkin Jars

If you're on the crafty side, make candy filled pumpkin jars. First, you'll need to collect some baby food jars. Paint pumpkins around the glass with craft paint. Cover the top with orange felt and glue two felt leaves to the top. Add a small piece of dowel, painted light brown, for a stem. Fill the jar with candies.

Orange Net Favors

Cut 6" circles of tulle in orange and black colors. Place either candies or a small votive candle in each circle. Gather and tie off with the opposite color of ribbon. (Orange ribbon, black tulle and black ribbon, orange tulle.)

Wizard's Wand

Buy 1" diameter dowels and cut into 12" lengths. Paint dowels a deep purple. Apply gold stickers in shapes of stars, moon and sun. Seal with acrylic sealer. Add gold and purple streamers tied to one end. Attach a favor tag with your names and wedding date that says: "The power of our love creates a magical world. Thank you for joining us in this mystical night."

Witches Broom

Buy small straw brooms (available in craft stores). Wrap black and orange ribbon down the handle and tie a black bow just above the broom. Add some autumn colored silk leaves and dried flowers tucked in and glued around the bow.

Pumpkin Butter

Purchases small jars of pumpkin butter. It's like pumpkin pie in a jar and it's great on biscuits and crackers.

Miniature Pumpkin Pies

Check with a local baker to see if you could have miniature pumpkin pies made. Wrap in cellophane and tie with orange/black ribbons. Simple, unique and delicious!

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Tween Halloween Costume Ideas

Tween Halloween Costume Ideas

If you are looking for tween Halloween costume ideas, here are some ideas to get you started. From storybook characters to tween celebrities, tween Halloween costumes can be cool.

Celebrity Tween Characters

Tween celebrities, such as the Jonas Brothers and Hannah Montana are hot in the tween set. Dressing like them can be a fun tween Halloween costume too. You could be Miley Cyrus, and have the best of both worlds! Groups of girls can also dress up like The Cheetah Girls. Don't forget about High School Musical for more characters like Troy, Gabriella, or Sharpay.

TIP: Watch your favorite shows on TV and DVD with your remote control to copy the tiny details - and you'll stand out!

Classic Storybook Characters

Your favorite storybook characters also make great tween Halloween costumes. You can be Little Miss Muffet with a big spider attached to her dress. Dorothy from Wizard of Oz is also fun with red shoes. If you like Disney World, Minnie Mouse might be your choice.

TIP: Hair and accessories make the difference. Props win costume contests!

Traditional Characters

Tween Halloween costumes still come in traditional styles, whether you make your own, or buy them. Wearing a scarf and eyepatch makes a quick Pirate. The hat is your finishing touch to become a Witch. Drawing in a black nose and whiskers looks great whether you're a Cat or a Mouse. Find some white go-go boots and be a Disco Doll.

TIP: Don't be afraid to look through closets for long-forgotten stuff!

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How to Make a Halloween Graveyard Cake

This cake or cupcakes are perfect for kids halloween parties and make a great presentation for classroom parties as well.

Graveyard Cake Ingredients

1 (18 1/4 oz.) package Devil's Food Cake Mix9 x 12 inch Baking Pan

10 ozs. Chocolate Filled Cookies (Oreos), crushed or Gingersnaps

6-10 Oval shaped Butter Cookies (Pepperidge Farm Milanos)1 can prepared Vanilla FrostingAssorted tubes of Cake Decorating Gel in Halloween colors
(orange, yellow, brown, etc.)

1 cup Candy Corn or Pumpkin Shaped Candies

1/4 cup Colored Sprinkles or Colored Crystal Sugar in harvest colors
(orange, yellow, brown, etc.)

Ghost shaped marshmallows (Halloween version of Easter peeps)

Click here to view a photo of the finished Graveyard Cake.

Method:

Bake cake according to package directions or recipe. Let cool completely.Spread frosting evenly over finished cake.

Using gel frostings, write silly spooky sayings on the top half of the Milano cookies such as "RIP", "BOO", "B.A. Ghoul", "M.T. Tomb", "Justin Time", and "Yul B. Next".

Press the cookies halfway down into the cake here and there to resemble standing tombstones.

Arrange the ghost marshmallows and candies around the tombstones.

Top with colored sprinkles or sugars.

Serves 8-12.

Options:

You can use other cake flavors, if you pair them with a complementary cookie topping. For example, if you use a pumpkin flavored cake, you might want to use vanilla frosting and crushed gingersnaps.

If you can't find marshmallow ghosts with the Halloween candy in your local store, you could use dollops of whipped cream instead. Remember they should be piped on just before serving, or keep the cake chilled to prevent the ghosts from sagging.

Add a couple of mini chocolate chip eyes to each whipped cream ghost.

Variation:

Make individual ghost or tombstone cupcakes.

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Halloween in Other Countries

There has been a massive surge in the celebration of Halloween. Below I will explain in detail how Halloween is celebrated in some countries across the world.

Australia and New Zealand - By America's influence, there has been a tremendous increase in the celebration of this holiday. It has been reported that Halloween sales have been on exponential increase throughout the past five years. Trick-or-treating is in effect but is rare and limited only to the trick-or-treaters neighborhood. Halloween parties are more popular then trick-or-treating. On the night of Halloween, horror movies and TV episodes are aired.

Romania - Romania celebrates Halloween around "Dracula", the famous vampire. There are many costume parties that revolve around the character. It is also claimed that the spirit of Dracula lives there today because Romania was a place where many witch-trials had taken place which are reinacted by actors on Halloween.

The Netherlands - Since the early 1990s, Halloween has become increasingly popular in the Netherlands. There has been an increase in Halloween sales in the past 20 or so years. Students and children dress up for Halloween but trick-or-treating is uncommon because Halloween does interfere with the Dutch holiday, St. Martin's Day. However, on November 11, children walk around ringing doorbells hoping to receive a treat after singing a song dedicated to St. Martin which can be related to trick-or-treating in a way.

Sweden - There is quite a bit of a mix up in this country with Halloween. The Church of Sweden declares their All Saints Day on Halloween. Due to this, many Swedes are unaware that Halloween is a non-Christian holiday in English-speaking countries. Retail business organizations introduced Halloween to Sweden in the mid-1990s.

Other countries that have been increasing Halloween celebration would be Germany, Japan, and Spain. This was of course due to American cultural influence.

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Warm Halloween Costume Ideas

Each year, Halloween parties are held, which also serves as a great event for the kids. Adults, however, can also hold their own. And in both cases, Halloween costumes are needed. If you are looking for some warm Halloween costume ideas, this article will be providing ways on how you can come up with your own.

Aside from saving money, you can also express yourself in choosing your own Halloween costume, or make one for your child. Costumes are often the center of the party, and you should give it your best shot when it comes to coming up with a great idea.

The first thing to do is decide what character you want to play during the party. Some of the popular characters often picked include Wonder Woman, Superman, Batman, or even Dorothy of Wizards of Oz. It depends on your gender of course, and your personal interests.

Once you have decided, you can just look for some old clothes at home that could match the character you have chosen. You may also ask your friends if they have the pieces of clothing you need. For instance, if you chose Wonder Woman as the character to play, you can look for some old leotards in your cabinet and pair it with an old bathing suit. As for the designs, you can still look around, or buy those little embellishments that are sold in many local stores nearby. You can settle to buying cheap ones since they will just be used for one night only.

As a result you do not have to always spend too much just to come up with a Halloween costume for a party. This is just one of the many warm Halloween costume ideas you can try this year!

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Halloween: History And Origin

Halloween is that time of the year that's absolutely freakish and screamingly fun. A time when the line between the world of the living and the world of the dead is the thinnest and you're sure to feel the freak and scare with ghosts, goblins, witches and werewolves prowling all around--both in their selves and in costumes. Halloween is an occasion to let loose the naughtier sides in you--playing pranks, sprucing up in freaky costumes and scaring the wits out of your folks. The chill of rib-tickling thrill, a nip of spine-chilling jitters and a good fare of full-blooded scare is at the heart of Halloween celebrations.

Now today's Halloween isn't the same as it was 2000 years ago. The history and origin of Halloween lie way back in centuries in the ancient Celtic New Year's festival, Samhain. So much so that the customs of today's Halloween are also rooted in the ancient customs of the Celts during Samhain, which was said to mark the end of Summer. Samhain, the Celtic New Year was celebrated every year on October 31--the day, which the Celts believed, was a day of the rise of the dead, when the deceased would wander the land to possess earthly souls. To keep these spirits at bay, the Celts dressed up as ghouls and monsters and put out all lights in their homes. With that, they ventured out as mischievous and wayward undoers willfully wantoning peace and property. The Celtic priests or Druids also built bonfires on this day and offered sacrifices. The idea behind all these was, of course, to scare away the spirits of the dead and avoid being "possessed" ! Now if you're brainy enough, it won't be hard for you to guess that the modern tradition of wearing costumes on Halloween traces back to this ancient Celtic practice !

The sinister attitudes of the Celts on Samhain toned down over the ages to give way to the less menacing attributes of today's Halloween. The playfulness and fun side of Halloween was first brought to America by the Irish immigrants around 1840. Like for instance, the popular tradition of trick-or-treating on Halloween came from the Irish. This had been 'gifted' to the United States by the Irish immigrants who fled their country during the potato famine. The Irish celebration of Halloween or the Hallow E'en (evening of the Hallow), as it's called in Ireland, means All Hallows Eve, or the night before the 'All Hallows'. All Hallows Day is on November 1, and is also known as All Saint's Day (a day to honor all the Catholic saints). 'Hallow' is an Old English word, meaning 'saint'. November 2 is the All Soul's Day--a day which honors all Christians who no longer live and were not saints. And the period of October 31 to November 2 is known as the Hallow Tide. Now, on All Hallows Eve or Halloween, the Irish beggars went asking for food or money from the rich. If refused, they were threatened to be destroyed by the evil spirits. And, of course, nobody wants to take a chance on Halloween. So soul-cakes or currant buns and candy bags chockablock with goodies were kept ready for the Halloween Day.

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Halloween - Why Do We Celebrate Halloween?

Halloween Outfits are Outfits worn on or around 31st October which is known as Halloween. The history of the Halloween is a fairly short one. Wearing Halloween costumes has long been a tradition on or around Halloween, Among the earliest records of wearing outfits at Halloween is in 1895, where outfits are recorded in Scotland, but there is no record of an Outfit in England, Ireland, or the United States until 1900. In the 21st century Halloween outfits are very popular in England, Ireland and in the United States it is massive, However early outfits were designed towards the pagan and gothic tendency's of the holiday, but by the early 1930's outfits based on characters in films, literature, and radio were popular and now we have classics like Freddy Krueger, Scream, Morticia, Michael Myers, Grim Reaper, Saw and many more gory Zombie type films like Dawn of the dead. For the history buffs Halloween was originally promoted as a children's holiday, and as a means of reining in the destructive behaviour of teenagers. Early Halloween costumes were marketed at children in particular, but after the mid-20th century, as Halloween became more popular it was started to be celebrated by adults, the Halloween fancy dress was worn by adults as much as children.

The carving Of Pumpkins is thought to originate from North America where pumpkins are a popular fruit and are usually much larger than the average pumpkin found in the United kingdom, Being larger this made it a lot easier to carve, Pumpkins did not become popular at Halloween until the late 19th century. When it became popular to wear your Halloween fancy dress and carry a pumpkin.

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