Wedding Balloon Weights

How to make nice looking helium balloon weights for nearly half the price of the 'normal' foil ones.

4x Cheap 1kg bags of rice (£0.40 each @ Asda)
2x 10 Pack Cotton favour bags with strings (£5.00 /10 pack @ Hobbycraft) or make your own...

Place a bag in a cup to keep it upright, then tip the rice into the bag - but not too full so that you can tie them shut tightly. Then tie (very tightly) shut with the hessian string. Simple!

20 Weights made this way only cost 58p each, as opposed to £1 or more each for the foil ones in the shops! I think these are much nicer and easier to adapt to your colour theme by using coloured string/ribbon etc...

Note:
You could also personalise these with your initials using a Sharpie pen