Monk Adult Costume is a great Halloween costume!
Monk Adult Costume

For the ardent abbot.

As this catholic brother, you would never break your vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. Costume features brown long sleeved robe with matching hood, white rope belt and brown cross necklace. Now you’re ready to pray and chant psalms in the Divine Office.

• Available in One Size Fits Most Mens Size Large (40-42).
• Includes: Hood, Robe, Belt, Cross.
• Does not include shoes.

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

00004000Buy 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!

Rose Smith is the owner of Wedding Themes and More, a website designed to help you discover and plan your perfect theme wedding. Planning a Halloween wedding? Then visit our site at: http://www.wedthemes.com/holiday-weddings.shtml for more great ideas.

Well, the time has come again. We’ve hit the end of August, so summer is over and I guess my son feels he needs to have something to look forward to. And that’s not going back to school. So as we sit and chat about what we are going to do the last couple of days before school starts, he pops up with, “mommy, can I have another Halloween party this year. Yes, you heard me right, he is already asking about Halloween. On one hand I can’t believe what I’m hearing, however, on the other hand I too love Halloween. Actually our whole family loves Halloween. My two kids actually talk about what they are going to ware throughout the whole year. And as soon as the stores come out with Halloween stuff we’re there.

Back to the party, I say “ok lets have a Halloween party”. We sit down and make a list of guests. I’m fortunate as a lot of my sons friends, their parents are friends of mine, so I get have have a little party of my own as well. And some help as well. Once we have our list done, we talk about the costumes. We have to have this little talk, as we had a Halloween party two years ago, and a lot of the little guests wore costumes that had accessories with them. And as we all know, the accessories these days may not be appropriate to have at a kids Halloween party with 20 of them running around. So I say “there will be no kind of weapons allowed” and of course I get the ahhhhhhh. But that’s where it ends. We talk about what we should have to eat and drink and decorations. OH decorations now that is the fun part.

Now we can hardly wait until the end of September. We’ll make up same invitations, or you can buy them, and well give them out to the guests. We’ll decorate the house the last weekend is September. Yes, I said “We’ll” the whole family gets involved, it’s actually turns into a great day, you’re spending time together and preparing for something that you all enjoy. I know you’re probably thinking on my gosh that’s early. My feeling is, if you’re going to ta000005B6ke all that time to decorate you should enjoy it for awhile. So out comes the decorations for inside the house and out. Oh yes, you have to decorate the outside as well. That’s one of the best parts.

When the day arrives we’ll have some kid appropriate music, some yummy “scary” snacks, and games to play. I’ll only plan a few things for them to do, because as we all know, they’ll just want to hang out and make their own fun. We’ll have pizza, and blood punch (any kind of red juice) with Jello hands and eyeballs floating in it. Cup cakes that look like spiders, and just the usually Halloween candy. I’ll try to make it easy, in reality at this point my kids don’t really care about what they eat, they just want their friends around. Now for me and my friends. We care about the food, so I’ll make some delicious appetizers, such as my Cheddar Bacon Dip. One thing is for sure, your kids will remember your Halloween party for years to come.

Halloween Village has some great Halloween Decorating Ideas.

You can also find a 00004000Jack Sparrow Halloween Costume at Halloween Village.