Happy Anniversary Assortmints.com

This month our web site turns 2 years old. Well, it's actually a little younger than that, but it was 2 years ago this month that my husband came to me with the idea (I will give him the credit for the idea, at least :)) for the site. He got the idea from the favors we created for my in-laws 50th wedding anniversary, where we created small, round tins with a picture of them now on the outside, and a picture from when they met (in their teens) on the inside. Everyone loved them.

The site has gone through many iterations since we first launched. Some of those early designs (if you can call them that) were:



We passed another milestone this month also, having shipped our twenty thousandth mint tin wedding favor. When I think of us waiting for that first order to come in which came in on the last day of February 2006 - about a month or so after we "officially" launched - I cannot believe we've actually shipped over 20,000 of them. That first order was for 80 tins, and the design chosen was Wedding Bouquet 1. It's amazing to me that that many wedding guests have received one of our personalized mint tins. And so far in 2007 we have grown over 300% from 2006.

Some other interesting Assortmints.com personalized mint tin wedding favors facts (at least to me):

• 19% of our orders have come from California. New York is second with 12%
• We have shipped to 31 of the 50 states, including Hawaii (I'm still waiting for Alaska)
• We have also shipped our tins to other countries such as Canada, Austria, and Mexico
• Our largest order was for 3,765 mint tins
• Average order size is 177 personalized mint tins
• Most popular personalized mint tin design is 'Own Design' at 30% of our orders (I never even thought it was anywhere near that high). A lot of the designs on our site actually started off as ideas the brides had.
• Second most popular mint tin design is Flower Vase #1 with about 7% and in third place with about 6% is Monogram #1.

All in all, it's been an incredible experience. And I want to thank each one of our customers who has made http://www.assortmints.com/ this incredible. We are going to keep growing, and we look forward to continuing to being a small part of so many brides' big days!!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Jolie