Bride & Groom Pretzel Rods - Garnish & Glaze (2024)

For the past two weeks me, Nick, and Carly have been in Idaho and Utahvisiting family. The main purpose of our trip was to attend and celebrate the my sister-in-law’s wedding. Oh my, it was a gorgeous wedding! One thing that I helped out with was making these cute wedding favors (seen on pinterest & Etsy)… 300 Bride & Groom Pretzel Rod couples. My mother-in-law and I (and a few other helpers here and there) worked on these for a total of about 12 hours. We really picked up the pace towards the end once we perfected our method so if I did this againit wouldn’t take quite so long. (Contact me if you want to order some!)

K, so we did 300 couples which means we did 300 brides & 300 Grooms. Since the Groom has both white chocolate and milk chocolate they have to be dipped twice so we really had to dip pretzel rods 900 times (and we lost count so so even did a little more than 300). We didn’t use the really big pretzel rods because we thought that would take way more chocolate, time, and money. The day after the wedding we used up the remaining chocolate and 1 bag of large pretzel rods for all the grand kids and we found that they did not taste nearly as good as the small pretzel “dipping sticks” probably because there was too much pretzel for the amount of chocolate. Plus, the small “dipping sticks” pretzels are the perfect size for a little treat.

The brides were a bit easier than the grooms but here are sometips if you want to make them (recipe below):

• Lightly scrape the bottom side of the pretzel so excess chocolate doesn’t pool.
• Less is more when it comes to sprinkles. Too many makes it tastes like those rock candy suckers.
• The large bead sprinkles do not stay on easily but just take a deep breath, try to have steady fingers, and if they start to slide just gently push them back to the middle. (This was the most difficult/annoying part)

I absolutely love how the grooms turned out (plus they taste better since they have chocolate)! Here are some tips for making the grooms:

• Make the white chocolate layer as thin as possible- Dip when chocolate is warm and reheat when it starts to cool and get thick; scrape the bottom side of the pretzels since it will be covered with chocolate anyway.
• When dipping the white chocolate covered pretzels into the chocolate you MUST work quickly or else the white chocolate will start to melt and mix with the outside chocolate layer (let the chocolate cool in the mug a little before dipping)
• To form a “V”, tilt the cup and press gently press the pretzel in allowing the chocolate to come up onto the white chocolate. Quickly lift out, gently scrape the back, and place on wax paper.
• Make the buttons by dabbing on chocolate with a toothpick.
• The bow ties are a more tedious. You can form them easily by making two dots of chocolate close together but not touching and then push the chocolate around using a toothpick to form each dot into a triangle.

Nick’s mom (with the beautiful nails) did almost all the buttons and bow ties.

Packaging the pretzels was probably the easiest part but just a few tips:

• The pretzel rods/sticks are not all the exact same size so before placing in the bagsmatch each bride to a similar size groom.
• When placing the pretzels in, be sure to put them on top of any additional folds in the plastic.
• Make the fold right at the top of the pretzel (no extra space above) so that they are held in place and won’t roll or shift to the side of the bag.

I think I became a pretty good (pretzel) matchmaker. 🙂

Despite our miscounting, inthe end we only had 3 extra grooms… they were yummy!

Heidi (the bride) painted all the vases, tea light containers, and frames for her centerpieces. They turned out so stinkin cute! She was able to do it if for pretty cheap by getting the vases from the second hand store Desert Industries (like Goodwill). She wasn’t able to get all the same vases but I actually really like that they were all different shapes and that she painted some gold and some with glitter. Stunning!The Bride and Groom with all the nieces and nephews (Carly is freakin out a bit). They are going to be great parents!
Heidi is the most beautiful bride! Lover her dress, shoes, hair (done by her sister), and doesn’t she have the most perfect smile!? I love this picture below where she issmilingat her husband. They are so in love! The other picture below with a few of the grooms men shows a little of the back of her gorgeous dress.

Love, LOVE this picture of grandma (mother of the bride) with all her granddaughters!

And then there is my little family. So glad I married this handsome man4 years ago!