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Wedding Gift: Coupon book?
Hello Ladies! I wrote a few weeks back about a wedding kitchen basket for my friend getting married at the end of the month. I have since moved to the idea of giving her cooking lessons in some form of coupon book. Any idea on how to put one together/what to include? I also plan on including a few recipes that are simple favorites in our household.
TIA! 
~Mrs. K~
My Married Life & Cooking Blog
Re: Wedding Gift: Coupon book?
This is SUCH a cute idea
. I just went to a wedding a few weeks ago and what we did was i made a basket for her with a cookbook for cookie recipes, wine and the cookie pro cutter because she loves to bake. If you want to make her some kind of a coupon book you can just go onto Microsoft word and use one of their templates to make a cute border or something for the different coupons, then just fill in what the coupon is for (ex: 1 free all inclusive inside look to make Anna's famous apple pie!) or something cute like that. Then after typing them all just print them out and cut, you can either print them out on pretty paper (Michael's and AC Moore have TONS of awesome paper that you can get and it's pretty cheap too) or you can print it out on normal paper but then get some construction or fancy paper and just glue it together to give it a nice colored border. Then once you cut out all the coupons you can always punch a hole or two and string them together with some pretty ribbon to hold it all nice, it looks a lot better than just stapling it.
As for the few recipe's you can do basically the same thing, or you can go to the store and get a cheap recipe cookbook that is a blank one, that way you can fill it with some of yours and she can use the rest of it to add to it and put in her own or other recipes that she gets from other people
My cousin had a pot luck wedding and asked for everyone to just bring a recipe card with their favorite recipe on it so they could build their cookbook. You can also go complete DIY and get a really nice 3 ring binder and do a kind of scrap booking thing where you get nice paper and post some recipes in there. Good luck!
coupon templates: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/results.aspx?qu=coupon&ex=1&ck=1&av=zwd140
recipe cookbook: http://www.amazon.com/Favorite-Recipes-Cookbook-Gooseberry-Patch/dp/1933494115/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1340831330&sr=8-1&keywords=blank+recipe+cookbook
http://www.amazon.com/Recipe-Keeper-Natasha-Tabori-Fried/dp/1932183795/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1340831364&sr=8-5&keywords=blank+recipe+cookbook
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias=stripbooks&field-keywords=recipe+organizer