Making personalised candles for weddings and other events can be a very fulfilling experience, so hopefully we can give you some tips that we have leat to enable you to make some lovely candles for your special event.

One of the main problems I had when first started out was finding the correct information. There is plenty of information from people in the USA, but not so much in Australia or they are reluctant to share their knowledge. 
I have many years of soy candle making but felt my knowledge had to include making personalised wedding candles.

I'm happy to share information that I have.

The method used in most YouTube videos was to print onto tissue paper, then to melt the customized Christmas candle allowing the wax to soak into the tissue paper which made the paper stick to the candle. By soaking the tissue paper it gives the impression that the decal is embedded in the wax.

I find this method quite tedious and don't like the idea of using tissue paper. I prefer to use the water slide decal paper, then dip the whole pillar candle into melted paraffin wax.

The method I found most successful was simply to dip the candle just once in paraffin wax to give a very thin coating of wax. Dipping more than once will mean the decal you have used to personalise will not be as clear.

Now I know that people may say that they don't like paraffin candles, but when you think about it, most unity candles, christening candles do not actually get used for very long or sometimes not at all. They are generally used as a symbol of the ceremony.

So, what do you need?

1/ The pillar candles and any size that you like will do. The most popular sizes for wedding or unity candles are the 20 - 25 cm tall candles. This height allows enough room for the candle to be personalised with text such as names, dates, venues and space for embellishments such as ribbons or adhesive "bling".