Hi everyone! How was your weekend? I hope you had a great one!

My weekend was total madness, but the happiest and most fun kind of madness I could ever want - I had my first two weddings as “Lovely Little Details, LLC”! As many of you know, I have been planning events (including everything from large-scale festivals with 30,000 people per day, to corporate events, to weddings} for the past 8 years, but finally last year decided to start my own business on the side. This year I have about 15 weddings booked so far, and I really couldn’t be more excited. This is something I am truly passionate about, and my passion was reignited this weekend when one of my brides, Jen, came in to the ballroom for a sneak peek before the guests came in, and started to tear up and said “I didn’t even cry at the ceremony, but this is making me cry, it is exactly what I wanted and more”! That right there just made my weekend, friends. And I can’t wait to share more on both weddings with you {along with the other brides!} very soon!

Today, though, I wanted to share with you a little DIY I mentioned last week on Facebook; a wedding favor I put together for Kelly’s Napa wedding which was also this past weekend. Kelly’s wedding was a little bit wine country rustic mixed with a touch of black-tie elegance. Hosted at a private estate in Calistoga, just outside of Napa {at the same venue where Michael Chiarello hosted an event the very next day!}, Kelly and Daniel’s wedding was very much an intimate and special time, a weekend long affair with family and friends, filled with tons of lovely little details. One of those details was her favor boxes, which were made of wooden wine crates with their wedding logo on the front, filled with excelsior and included these homemade rosemary sea salt masons, along with chocolate truffles and other treats for her guests to enjoy.

Rosemary is the herb of remembrance, something that was oh so special to everyone in attendance, for this was an event not to be forgotten! Here’s how I made this simple yet savory treat.

Materials Needed:

• Sea salt, enough to fill the number of jars you are going to make {Mortons Kosher salt works perfect, too, because it is a nice, flaky salt and saves $!}
• 4 oz mason jars, or in my case, I used 2.7 oz Weck jars, because they are just so pretty
• Fresh rosemary (assume ~5 sprigs per 36 jars worth of salt)

Instructions:

1. Using a large (preferably non-stick) saucepan, heat salt over medium heat and add 4-5 sprigs of fresh rosemary, stirring occasionally until heated through for about 10 minutes.

2. Transport salt and rosemary sprigs in to a sealable container and let cool for another 20 minutes or so before closing the lid.

3. Seal container and let stand on the counter for 24-hours, or at least overnight. Do not refrigerate!

4. The next day, remove large rosemary stems, leaving the remnants in the salt mixture. When you remove the lid, you should smell a strong scent of rosemary.

5. Utilizing any remaining fresh rosemary, insert a small sprig on the side of each jar, tilting to the side and covering with salt so you can see the sprig through the side of the glass.

If you are using mason jars, just screw on the lids and you are all done! If using Weck jars, keep reading :)

6. Take rubber seal and center on top of filled jar.

7. Place lid on top of rubber seal, and use jar clamps to secure the lid firmly in place.

And that’s it, friends! Pretty simple, right? Sorry for the iPhone pics, one of these days I’ll bust out the Nikon for some nice ones, but for the sake of requests I had for the DIY, I wanted to get this out today :)

Here they are in Kelly’s favor boxes with my custom labels that we tied around the jars {professional photos coming soon from Jessica Burke!}

Also, thank you to Chelsea Santos for all of your help this weekend!

Have a great week, everyone!