I Need 1,000 × 50 g Wedding-Favour Candles — How Much Wax, Fragrance, Wick and Container Inventory Should I Purchase?

Your order as numbers

The title gives two figures, and they are yours: 1,000 favours and 50 g each. Everything else below is a labelled worked example you replace with your own: the load (8%, the series default when a title gives none), one scent (Gardenia), the container, your reject history and the wedding date. 50 g here is the total candle weight, oil included, which is how CSI calculates load. If your 50 g is the wax only, every oil and wax figure below moves by about 8%.

If you have not yet made and approved a favour in this exact container with this oil, stop here and run the test stage first: the cluster’s hub sets out the order of tests for a new fragrance (the 500-piece wedding test sequence), and the reasons a 50 g favour behaves differently from a 200 g candle (fill tolerance, wick cost per candle, labour per gram) are in the mini-favour calculation post. This page assumes that is done and turns it into a purchase.

The container decides the order: which CSI containers hold 50 g

Start the purchase with the container, because it is the line you cannot fix in the pot. Four CSI listings come up when makers think "small favour", and only some of them hold a 50 g candle with room to spare. Capacities below are the pages’ own wording; none of them states an internal diameter.

The Clear Glass Votive Jar 70 gram is priced the same as the white matte one, but its page text describes an "externally frosted purple matte" jar with a "Matte white" finish, which contradicts its title: if you want clear glass, ask on WhatsApp what you would actually receive before ordering a thousand.

Which of the two that fit? The votive is the cleaner look at 50 g and is glass, so it carries the 2% breakage line. The tin brings a lid and survives a dropped carton, but a 50 g fill in an 85 g tin looks part-empty unless the client is shown one first. On price the tin is ₹30.00 against ₹31.86, which takes the order from ₹85,187.12 to ₹83,379.02. The worked sheet uses the votive; swap the line if your client chose the tin. The fill-line method for any container is the net-weight and headspace post.

The bulk purchase sheet, line by line

Each line follows the same order: what 1,000 favours need; the 20 favours you pour and do not hand over; the loss buffer (a 4% reject rate applied as a divisor to everything you pour, a 1% heel on grams, a 2% placement or breakage allowance on pieces); then rounding up to real, in-stock CSI packs, with the leftover written down. Planned extras and loss buffers sit in separate columns so neither is counted twice (why samples and retains are their own line).

₹85.19 a favour is CSI materials with every buffer in; it excludes your printed tags, favour boxes, ribbon, labour, freight and GST. One favour’s own materials at these pack prices cost ₹77.95 (wax, oil, wick, votive, wick sticker and care sticker); the difference to ₹85.19 is the extras, rejects, heel and leftovers. An exact-1,000 order with no extras or buffers would cost ₹77,980.00; the protection costs ₹7,207.12, which is 9.2% on top.

Reading the lines: leftovers, pack choices and what moves the total

Wax: one bag, a thin margin, and a reusable leftover

49.39 kg against a 50 kg bag leaves 0.61 kg, about 13 favours’ worth of wax. That margin is thin but honest: the loss buffer is already inside the 49.39 kg, and soy wax from rejected favours can usually be remelted into the same scent, so a normal run rarely uses all of it. If your reject history is nearer 6% than 4%, add a 1 kg bag (₹450.00) rather than a second 5 kg. Pearl costs ₹424.80 a kilo from 5 kg to 50 kg, so the 50 kg buys convenience and a single bag lot, not a lower price. How heels and rejects belong in your real cost is the pitcher-heel post.

Oil: Gardenia is flat per gram from 100 g

Gardenia costs ₹4.33 a gram in 100 g, 500 g and 1 kg bottles. That means 43 × 100 g + 50 g (₹18,842.02) is actually ₹8.00 cheaper than the 4 × 1 kg + 3 × 100 g + 50 g on the sheet. The sheet still buys the 1 kg bottles, because eight bottles are easier to weigh, store and keep to one lot than 44. That is a handling decision you can reverse; on other oils the per-gram ladder is different and the pack choice must be checked oil by oil. The 30 g sealed reference stays unopened until the order ships, so a second lot can be compared against it.

Containers: the biggest line and the one to secure first

At ₹34,568.10 the votives are 40.6% of the order, more than the wax (24.9%) or the oil (22.1%). They are also the line where availability matters most: 1,085 identical white matte votives is a stock question, not a pricing one. Send the WhatsApp request for the containers first, and if the answer is fewer than 1,085 from one batch, decide the container before ordering anything else. A shortfall plan is in the 700-of-1,000-jars post.

Wicks and wick stickers: small money, real labour

C1 is ₹5.90 a wick in every in-stock pack, so 1,000 + 100 is simply the smallest combination that covers 1,085. Wick stickers are ₹2.50 each in sheets of 40 (the 100-sticker sheet is out of stock), which is ₹2,800.00 for 28 sheets. Argued against our own interest: if you already fix tabs with a glue method you trust, drop the wick-sticker line; it is a convenience, and at 1,085 pieces it costs more than the extra 100 wicks.

Care stickers: the size decides, not the price

Three 1 inch rolls (₹1,239.00) cost ₹127.00 more than one 1,000 roll plus one 500 (₹1,112.00). The sheet takes the 1 inch rolls because the 1,000 roll’s stickers are 1.5 inch and a small favour base may not take them; measure your votive’s base before you order the cheaper mix.

Can you pour 1,063 favours in time?

The mix is 53.68 kg, which is 6 melts on a 10 kg melter (five full and one partial). One full 10 kg melt of finished mix fills at most 200 favours of 50 g before losses. The melter page says it can "create 80 candles at a time"; that implies fills of about 125 g from 10 kg, so for favours the figure that matters is yours, not the page’s. Melting is not the bottleneck here: hands-on work per piece is. The figures below are a labelled worked example; replace them with your own timed run of 20 favours.

Count back from the handover date: 13 days before it, the wax, oil, wicks and containers must be on your bench, and before that sits CSI’s dispatch and your transit, which CSI does not publish and you confirm on WhatsApp. If a cure longer than three days is part of your approved process (many makers wait longer before judging hot throw), use your own figure; cure is time since pour, and the cure-time-under-deadline post covers what a short cure can and cannot do.

The decision rule, what you never skip, and protecting the order

The decision rule. Accept the order on these quantities if the favour is already proven in this container and there are at least 13 days between materials arriving and handover. Accept with conditions if the container is new: a full burn test of the 50 g favour first, which adds about a week of calendar time, and a written approval before the bulk purchase. Renegotiate the date or the container if CSI cannot confirm 1,085 of the same container, or if the days do not fit. The settling numbers: 1,063 pours, ₹85,187.12, 13 days from materials in hand.

The products on this order

Six CSI products from the worked sheet, chosen because this order uses them or is the honest alternative; nothing is ranked on performance (CSI publishes no burn data), and the wick and container on your order are the ones on your approved favour.

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