Pinwhirls

Taken at Lemiga Event's Soiree. Photo courtesy of Altmix Photography.

Our pinwhirls have been used in many different fashions at previous events. They've been used as take-away party favors, cupcake toppers, floral bouquet inserts, and even stuck in hats to create fun party hats. One of the biggest uses we are seeing right now is attaching seating or escort cards to the pinwheels and placing them in either cupcakes or wheatgrass bins on the seating card table. (It's also a fabulous idea to lay a bed of wheatgrass on your seating card table, top with cupcakes on grass and cake stands or cupcake towers, and then insert the pinwheels into the cupcakes. Who says you can't have dessert before dinner?) This makes a traditional seating card table anything but ordinary. Plus it's an unforgettable way to welcome guests to your event or wedding!

Other uses:

- Small handheld pinwheels can be utilized as place cards as we now offer removeable place card attachment flags. Just lay a pinwheel on a prettily folded napkin in the center of each placesetting. The flags can easily be slid on and off the pinwheel stick.

Place our personalized wedding place card pinwheels into trays filled with sand, as pictured below.

Sarah & Kevin - Custom Wedding Pinwheel Place Cards - May 2009

Photo courtesy of Josef Isayo Photography.

Personalized Wedding Pinwheel Place Cards - Sally & Dominic's August English Wedding

Photo courtesy of Helen Maybanks Photography.

Kelly & Liam's September 2009 Beach Wedding

Photo Courtesy of Amy Deputy Photography.

Photo and Floral Design Courtesy of Affordable Elegance

- Pinwheels can be integrated into your table centerpieces. Just insert the pinwheels into floral arrangements - both mini and handheld varieties look adorable.

Photo and Floral Design Courtesy of Affordable Elegance

- Our mini pinwheel attachments can also be adhered to blumeboxes for whimsical events.

- Place pinwheels into baskets or planters filled with wheatgrass and place them in the center of each table. This brings a touch of the outside inside. (Click here for more information on buying or growing wheatgrass.) Flowers such as tulips and gerber daisies can also be fun integrated with the pinwheels.

- Take the table centerpieces one step further by attaching a table number flag to one or two of the pinwheels in your existing wheatgrass pinwheel centerpiece.

Taken at Lemiga Event's Soiree.

Photo courtesy of Altmix Photography.

- Are you one of those brides that is interested in a cupcake tower instead of a traditional layered wedding cake? If so, have your local baker make enough cupcakes for each guest. Insert one of our mini pinwheel cupcake toppers into each of these cupcakes and place onto either a cupcake tower or cake stands on your dessert tables. For your cake topper, we can even make a flag to insert into either a small cake or large cupcake.

- For less formal events, place a cupcake in the center of each placesetting topped with one of our mini pinwheel cupcake toppers. Place card flags can even be added. They also serve as the perfect party favor, after guest's lick off the icing.

First Birthday Party - Photo Courtesy of Anne at haute apple pie

Instead of traditional cake decorations, insert pinwheels as cake toppers as Anne did above.

- Another fun way to display your pinwheels at an event - fill a clear glass cookie jar to the brim with all varieties of our mini pinwheels. Also works great at an outdoor event.

- Looking for another way to use the pinwheels on your escort table but don't want to have to deal with wheat grass? Styrofoam would work great - you can usually buy large sheets of styrofoam at craft and hobby stores - some even have sheets of styrofoam in shapes. To dress the styrofoam up try covering it with moss (available at stores like Hobby Lobby and Michaels in the dried flower sections). The moss should adhere to the styrofoam pretty easily with a glue gun. You can even dress it up a bit more by scattering either fresh flowers (at the last minute) or dried flowers such as rose petals or hydrangeas.

- Cover floral foam with mums and carnations then stick our pinwheel seating cards into the floral foam. A very unique way to welcome guests to your reception.

- Cover styrofoam with a clear layer of protective sheeting then pour on m&ms or other candies as Prue did below.

Carnival Themed Third Birthday Party

Photo Courtesy of Prue of GiGi & LuLu

Photo and Floral Design Courtesy of Affordable Elegance

- Candy and Cookie Buffets are the new wedding rage. Not only do these buffets look fun and whimsical they also make great event favors - who doesn't like candies or cookies? A great way to dress them up is by also adding glass containers filled with our mini and handheld pinwheels. Don't candy and pinwheels go hand and hand?

Photo Courtesy of Pen & Ink calligraphy

- If you are having a very informal outdoor wedding (picture a wedding on a farm or beach), string a clothesline between two trees and attach our pinwheel clothespins with escort card attachments. How fun would these pinwheels look blowing in the wind?!

-Are you having an outdoor event but you are afraid that your placecards and napkins will blow away in the wind? We've got an easy and fun solution - our clothespin pinwheels! They can easily be attached to a plate or charger plate and both napkins and flat place cards can easily be slid underneath. The only thing blowing in the wind will be the pinwheel and not all your goodies!

- If you are planning on having a kid's table at your wedding, stick our handheld pinwheels into tin buckets filled with crayons as your kid's table centerpieces. Scatter coloring books, toy cars, and bubbles to help keep the kids busy and entertained throughout the evening.

- Pinwheels can also be used as ornaments on your festive family Christmas tree.

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