I Want to Make 100 Tealights for a Wedding — What Wax, Wick and Tealight Cups Should I Buy?
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Which tealight cups does CSI sell? Tea Lights Aluminium empty cups, 100 for ₹649.00, and Big Tealights Empty, 100 for ₹1,180.00, whose title lists “~9 hours burn”.
Which wax should I use? CSI 464, a container soy for single pours. Unscented is the sensible default for dining tables.
How much wax for 100 tealights? Weigh your fill first. At an example 12 g and 110 pieces with 5% allowance, 1,386 g, so 1 kg plus 500 g.
What CSI sells for tealights, and what it does not
Start with an honest inventory. CSI sells two empty tealight cups: Tea Lights Aluminium (empty cups) in packs of 10, 50, 100 and 500, and Big Tealights Empty, whose product title lists “~9 hours burn”, in packs of 10 and 100. It sells container soy waxes that suit a small filled cup. What it does not list is a dedicated tealight wick. So the wick for a wedding tealight is something you choose from CSI’s general wicks and prove in a burn test, not something you can pick off a chart.
The “~9 hours burn” on the big cup is the product title’s figure. It is not a promise for your tealight, because burn time depends on the wax, the wick and how full you pour. Treat it as a reason to test the big cup, not as a number to print on a wedding invitation.
| Part | CSI product | Packs and prices | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard cup | Tea Lights Aluminium (empty cups) | 10 ₹94.40, 50 ₹330.40, 100 ₹649.00 | Weigh your own fill |
| Large cup | Big Tealights Empty | 10 ₹118.00, 100 ₹1,180.00 | Title lists “~9 hours burn” |
| Wax | Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 | 500 g ₹260.00, 1 kg ₹507.40 | Container soy, single pour |
| Wick candidate 1 | Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) | 20 ₹118.00, 100 ₹590.00 | ₹5.90 each at every pack |
| Wick candidate 2 | Braided Wick Roll with 100 wick tabs | 61 m roll ₹706.82 | Cut and tab your own lengths |
Neither wick has a published dimension, burn rate or flame height, and CSI publishes no wick sizing chart. Eco C1 is the thinner of the two Eco Candle Wicks, which makes it the obvious first candidate for a small cup. The braided roll lets you cut a length that suits the cup height and fit one of the 100 tabs supplied. Both are candidates to test, nothing more.
A starting specification for 100 wedding tealights
Wedding tealights usually sit on dining and reception tables, close to food and to dozens of other candles. Unscented is the sensible default there, because a hundred scented flames in one hall can be overpowering and compete with the meal. If the couple wants a scent, keep it to a few tables and see the scented-tealight page in this series for that version.
| Element | Starting choice | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Cup | Standard aluminium cup, with the big cup as an alternative | Cheapest per piece; the big cup if longer burns are needed |
| Wax | CSI 464, unscented | Container soy made for single pours; no oil to balance |
| Wick | Eco C1 and a cut braided length, tested side by side | No dedicated tealight wick is listed |
| Fragrance | None for dining tables | Avoids a hall full of competing scent |
| Dye | None | White tealights match most décor and keep the burn simple |
CSI 464 is a forgiving starting wax; one reviewer called it “One of the best wax for container Candles. Easy to work with, especially if you are a beginner.” That suits a one-off wedding order made by someone who may not pour tealights every week.
The wick test that has to happen before the wedding
Burn testing a tealight is quick, which is the good news. A wick that is too small drowns in its own pool or leaves a ring of unmelted wax. One that is too large gives a tall, flickering flame and a cup that gets hot fast. You want a steady, modest flame and a pool that reaches the cup wall.
Write down the burn time you measured. If the venue asks how long the tealights last, quote your own figure from this test, not the product title.
Costing the test and the 100-piece order
| Item | Pack | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Standard aluminium cups | 10 | ₹94.40 |
| Big Tealights Empty | 10 | ₹118.00 |
| Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) | 20 | ₹118.00 |
| Braided Wick Roll with 100 tabs | 61 m | ₹706.82 |
| CSI 464 flakes | 500 g | ₹260.00 |
| Total | ₹1,297.22 |
Working: 94.40 + 118.00 + 118.00 + 706.82 + 260.00 = ₹1,297.22. The roll is the dearest test item, but it carries 100 tabs and 61 metres, so if it wins, it also covers the wicks for the production run.
Now the order, assuming Eco C1 wins in the standard cup at the 12 g example fill. Make 110 to allow for spares and the odd faulty pour. Wax: 110 × 12 g = 1,320 g, plus a suggested 5% allowance, is 1,320 × 1.05 = 1,386 g, so one 1 kg pack and one 500 g pack. Cups: one 100-pack and one 10-pack. Wicks: one 100-pack and one 20-pack.
| Item | Packs | Working | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| CSI 464 flakes | 1 kg + 500 g | ₹507.40 + ₹260.00 | ₹767.40 |
| Standard aluminium cups | 100 + 10 | ₹649.00 + ₹94.40 | ₹743.40 |
| Eco Candle Wicks Thin (C1) | 100 + 20 | ₹590.00 + ₹118.00 | ₹708.00 |
| Total | 767.40 + 743.40 + 708.00 | ₹2,218.80 |
Per tealight at the production prices: wax 12 g × (₹507.40 ÷ 1,000 g = ₹0.5074) = ₹6.09, cup ₹649.00 ÷ 100 = ₹6.49, wick ₹5.90, so ₹6.09 + ₹6.49 + ₹5.90 = ₹18.48. The big cup at an example 25 g fill comes to 25 × ₹0.5074 = ₹12.69 of wax, plus ₹1,180.00 ÷ 100 = ₹11.80 for the cup and ₹5.90 for the wick, so ₹30.39. Neither figure includes packaging, labour, transport to the venue or GST.
Buy this to test, buy this once validated
Buy this to test
Ten of each cup, a 20-pack of Eco C1, the braided wick roll and 500 g of CSI 464, for ₹1,297.22. Allow time for every test piece to burn to the end before the order is due.
Buy this once validated
1.5 kg of CSI 464, 110 cups of the size that won, and wicks to match: Eco C1 in a 100-pack plus a 20-pack, or the braided roll you already have if it won. Pour two extra tealights from the production batch and burn one before the wedding, so you know the full batch behaves like the test.
Where this page fits
CSI already has guides that cover parts of this question. This page turns the product above into a raw-material list; these go deeper on the rest:
Three things to buy for this job
| Option | Price | Status on the October 2026 pull |
|---|---|---|
| Pack of 10 | ₹94.40 | In stock |
| Pack of 50 | ₹330.40 | In stock |
| Pack of 100 | ₹649.00 | In stock |
| Pack of 500 | ₹3,009.00 | In stock |
| Option | Price | Status on the October 2026 pull |
|---|---|---|
| Thin (C1) × 100 | ₹590.00 | In stock |
| Thin (C1) × 1,000 | ₹5,900.00 | In stock |
| Thick (C2) × 100 | ₹944.00 | In stock |
| Thick (C2) × 1,000 | ₹9,440.00 | In stock |
| Option | Price | Status on the October 2026 pull |
|---|---|---|
| 500 g | ₹260.00 | In stock |
| 1 kg | ₹507.40 | In stock |
| 5 kg | ₹2,537.00 | In stock |
| 10 kg | ₹5,074.00 | In stock |
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Product facts (October 2026, CSI live store): Tea Lights Aluminium (empty cups): Pack of 10 ₹94.40, Pack of 50 ₹330.40, Pack of 100 ₹649.00, Pack of 500 ₹3,009.00 — empty aluminium tealight cups. Eco Candle Wicks: Thin (C1) × 100 ₹590.00, Thin (C1) × 1,000 ₹5,900.00, Thick (C2) × 100 ₹944.00, Thick (C2) × 1,000 ₹9,440.00 — ₹5.90 (C1) and ₹9.44 (C2) per wick at every pack size. Luxury Soy Wax CSI 464 (flakes): 500 g ₹260.00, 1 kg ₹507.40, 5 kg ₹2,537.00, 10 kg ₹5,074.00 — 100% soy container wax in flakes · single pour · stated fragrance load up to 10% · stated shelf life 60 months (cool, dry storage).
Assumptions: Fragrance load is a percentage of total candle weight (200 g = 184 g wax + 16 g oil at 8%); CSI wax pages phrase their ceilings as a share of wax weight. Material cost per candle covers wax, oil, vessel, wick and dye only — it excludes packaging, labels, labour, shipping and GST. CSI publishes no wick sizing chart, burn times or wax survival temperatures, so every wick named is a candidate to test. Retail prices, budgets, margins and packaging costs are the reader's own figures. Test counts and loads are suggested starting points. Prices re-checked 1 October 2026; product pages are authoritative.