Unique Wedding Favors

Wedding favors are little but very important details in any wedding. These cute souvenirs are generally given to every guests, one way for the bride and groom to say ‘thank you’ to those who attended their special day. Favors has become a necessary part during the stage of wedding planning. However, when planning for a great choice of wedding favors, you should first think what party you want to have. This is where the theme took its place. Once you already have a them in mind, you can now go out and shop for favors that that can fit to your wedding theme.

The choices of wedding favors are of different choices, from different styles, designs, sizes and themes. You can find them anywhere. Today, the couple may opt to shop online, which is a very good shopping option. Online stores can give you lots of great choices than local wedding shops. If in case it is a seasonal wedding, you should have souvenirs that are in season too, like beach, fall and autumn wedding favors.

Included in your plan is to make a list of favors that should depends on certain things like your wedding theme, location, colors, guests and required favor items. Having these all prepared lets you perform the entire process of giving favors with convenience. Also, you need to take into serious account your budget. The budget will tell you the quality and quantity of souvenirs you will be needing. If in case you one of those who have tight budget, you can always settle for homemade wedding favors. You can make you homemade candle, soap, cookies, chocolates and other do-it-yourself wedding keepsakes that are very good, affordable option for you.

Little keepsakes should be nice because these are memorable mementos of the occasion. You can distribute these gifts to all individually as well as per couple. Most couple opt for inexpensive favor ideas, which is often the case. However, besides of thinking the price, you should also think of their other features like how will they function well. What makes a good favor is its versatility, so it is always best to consider useful items to serve as your wedding souvenirs, like pens, fans, mugs, picture frames and the likes.

If you are creative enough, you can always add several options like hand written tags, bubble bands and flower ties. This will enable you to add your own personal touch on the each favor. Or you can buy personalized favors in many retail and online wedding stores. You can find personalized wedding bells, wedding albums and frames, place card holders that are doubled as favors, bookmarks and more. Other better ideas if you are on tight budget are giving out fortune cookies, deck of cards, seashells, message in a bottle, key rings, mini liquors, flower seeds and gourmet tea and coffee favors. These are all affordable options for you but you can always include your creativity where you will add your own style and design.



By: Janet R.

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Deshawn Desmond

Have you ever been to a wedding reception and gotten a favor that was so cheap and tacky you wondered why the couple even bothered handing it out? Hopefully this has never happened to you, but if you’ve been to enough weddings in your lifetime, it may very well have! If you’re a bride planning your own wedding, how can you be sure that you won’t make this same mistake and pick out some cheap wedding favors that are just plain old too cheap? There are some easy tips and hints you should keep in mind when shopping and planning, and by remembering them you’ll be much less likely to get cheap wedding favors that make YOUR guests feel like you shouldn’t have even bothered.

What you want to absolutely avoid by way of cheap wedding favors are items that look as if you just didn’t care enough to shop or prepare them at all. Anyone can go to the local dollar store and pick out some plastic little doodads that are three-to-a-pack and call them wedding favors, but what does this say about you? How does it express your appreciation to your guests for getting dressed up, finding a babysitter, driving all that way, getting you a gift, and so on?

Wanting to make your favors at home is a great idea, and many that are searching for cheap wedding favors should be prepared to do some of the work in creating or assembling these items themselves. However, you need to be realistic in this regard. As an example, suppose you want to give your guests some nice bookmarks; these can actually be very practical and appreciated as cheap wedding favors. Most people have a computer at home on which they can make up the bookmarks themselves, and then you can easily take this to a local office supply store and have them print the needed quantity. But how good are you really when it comes to graphic design? Take a look at bookmarks that you see in the stores or online – how does your design compare? If you just get some clip art and throw it on the page with some wording, this isn’t going to impress anyone. Again, your guests may be wondering why you bothered with such cheap wedding favors in the first place. For an item like this, you might do well to enlist the help of a friend that is skilled in this sort of thing to help you with the design.

Or suppose you decide to make sugar cookies in the shape of a heart or wedding cake and hand these out individually. This too may be a good option for cheap wedding favors, but how good are you at decorating? If you just slap some frosting on the front of the cookie, how will this look? This too might require the help of a friend that is experienced with baking and decorating, or at the very least, scour the internet for inspiring photos and try some “practice” cookies until you get the design just right.

Remember that what makes a gift the best is not always the money spent on it, but the time and effort put into selecting it. The same goes with your cheap wedding favors; you can find just the right item without spending a lot of money, if you’re willing to put some time and effort into doing just that.



By: Linda Ellison

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When you are getting married there will be a lot of details that need to be taken to get everything ready. One of the details that will need to be taken care of is the wedding favors.

Wedding favors are used to show your guests your love and gratitude for their participation in your wedding. You can find inexpensive wedding favors that you can get. This will help you save money and still have the favors that you need. There are a couple of different types of inexpensive wedding favors that you can choose to use.

You can find inexpensive wedding favors at various places as well. You can get them at a local party supply store, talk to your wedding planner if you are using one or you can shop for them online. How you get them is up to you but you want to make sure you shop around until you find the perfect wedding favors for your wedding day.

Here are a few inexpensive wedding favors that might appeal to you for your wedding.

Homemade wedding favors: You will cut your costs considerably when you use these types of wedding favors.

Almonds are a good wedding favor that is inexpensive. All you need to do is to wrap the almonds in elegant fabric.

You can also use flower seed packets and place them in transparent covers with a small card attached to them with ribbons.

How about using candles? You can use decorated candles and tie an attractive ribbon around it.

Homemade bookmarks are another great wedding favor to use. You can add personal messages to them.

You can also use place cards, place card holders and frames made with cheap material.

Personalized inexpensive wedding favors: These wedding favors can be given to guests to share your feelings with them and let them know how much you appreciate them.

You can use personalized mints, candies, napkins, candles, playing cards or flower cards for the favors for your wedding.

Coffee or tea favors are popular because you can get a custom designed label added to each one and it is inexpensive.

How about using monogrammed and foil wrapped chocolates, medium sized seashells with candies, small wedding mint tins, miniature frames, heart shaped soaps, petite handbags or sugar stars? These are all inexpensive wedding favors.

Unique wedding favors: These kind of wedding favors are not often seen and are not that expensive.

Place favor cards at each place that includes a thank you message to your wedding guests. Fresh flowers can be placed at each table and then afterwards the guests that want to can take them home.

Another idea is to use wedding favors that have to do with hobbies or interests of the groom or bride.

These are not all of the inexpensive wedding favors that you can get but they are ones that are the most popular. You just need to make sure you find the right ones for your wedding. You will be happy you did when your big day arrives.



By: Joe Palladino

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Adamus

If you think it’s just too overwhelming to create and assemble your own cheap wedding favors, don’t! Any bride can save herself literally hundreds of dollars if she follows these few simple steps needed to create and assemble wedding favors on her own. With a little bit of planning and effort, you’ll find that you can do it too.

Step #1 – Decide your wedding favors budget.

Even when planning on assembling or making your own cheap wedding favors, you still need an idea of how much money you can spend. Let’s say that you have 200 guests and you want to spend less than $1 for each, so you have a budget of $200. That’s not a bad amount to spend on cheap wedding favors, and should be enough to let you make some very beautiful items.

Step #2 – Start early!

Making your own cheap wedding favors is going to involve a bit more planning, shopping, and work than if you simply picked out favors from a company online. Don’t wait until the week before your wedding to make plans or to start shopping. As a matter of fact, you should probably start today, no matter how far off your wedding is! This way you’ll be sure to finish and have your favors done in time for your big day, and keep yourself from some undue stress.

Step #3 – Decide what type of favors you want.

For cheap wedding favors, the best ideas usually involve buying something in bulk such as chocolates or Jordan almonds, and then assembling them into take-home packets of some sort. It might also mean purchasing less expensive items and then dressing them up somehow, such as small picture frames or boxes of bonbons that you wrap in silver wrapping.

The decision of which cheap wedding favors you select will be tied in with your budget. If you decide on those small boxes of bonbons, you need to figure the price of the chocolates, the wrapping paper, and anything else you need to put them together. If you want those Jordan almonds in take-home bags, you need to add up the cost of the almonds, the bags, and anything you use to tie the bags with, or personalized labels if you use those. It helps to do some comparison shopping for different ideas you have for cheap wedding favors, and then you can look at the costs for each item and make your decision from there.

Step #4 – Enlist some help.

Your bridesmaids and maid of honor may already be doing a lot of work for you to get ready for the big day, but you probably will need some help when it comes time to actually prepare those cheap wedding favors. It’s too easy to assume that you can just zip through an assembly line of chocolate and bags and whatever else, but you’d be surprised how much time these things can take, and how frustrated you get. If your friends are already at their limit with responsibilities, ask your future mother-in-law or future sister-in-law or even the flower girls, if they’re old enough. Chances are they would love to pitch in for an evening and see what they can get done.

Step #5 – Make your plan, and stick to it.

Some people are just very hypercritical of their own work, and it’s easy to start panicking and assume that your guests will know that these are cheap wedding favors or that you should have opted for something else. But remember, your guests will probably be happy with whatever you choose to give them, and chances are you’re just feeling nervous overall. Relax, work through your plan, and reassure yourself that your choice of favors is the right one.



By: Linda Ellison

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Afram

When you are going to get married you will need to have wedding favors. Wedding favors come in all different types including beach wedding favors. Depending on where you are going to get married, and the theme for your wedding, will determine what type of wedding favors you need.

If you get married on the beach or at the beach then you will want to have beach wedding favors. Wedding favors come in all different sizes, shapes, and costs, that you can pick from.

Here are several beach wedding favors you could have at your wedding:

Silver beach wedding favors – These could include, silver coasters, silver wine bottle openers and wine stoppers. These make unique wedding favors.

Seashell wedding favors – Some of these could be shell mint packs and seashell toothpicks.

Homemade wedding favors – These could be playing cards and soaps. You can personalize them better when you make them yourself.

More beach wedding favors- These could include sand castles, beach sand pails, dolphin shaped bottle openers, flip flop candle favors, and beach cookies and chocolate.

This is a short list of beach wedding favors you could use and should give you some ideas. Now you just need to know where to find these wedding favors.

The first place to start is with the wedding planner if you are using one. They may be able to find you some beach wedding favors at a great price.

The next best place is to go to your local party supply store. They will have a lot of wedding favors that you can choose from.

How about going online and finding the wedding favors you need? There are a number of websites that are devoted to wedding supplies. They will definitely have the beach wedding favors that you need. You will more than likely be able to get them at a great price too if you are willing to shop around.

You may know somewhere else to get the beach wedding favors that you need since these are certainly not the only places to get them. They are best places to research because of the wide variety of wedding favors they carry for all different wedding themes.

You just want to remember that you have to get the favors that you need well ahead of time. You don’t want to wait until the last minute and hope that they still have what you need.

So do some shopping around early and get it taken care of now instead of later. You will be so glad that you did as your important day draws near.



By: Joe Palladino

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Chang

The days of the “blushing bride” are over! In times past it was expected that the bride would be demure, shy, and even timid, but those days are long gone. Today’s bride is often a career oriented, successful woman that is not shy about her choices when it comes to every detail of her wedding, and nowhere in the wedding ceremony is this more obvious than her choice of wedding favors. How so?

Think of the statement that many wedding favors make about the bride, her groom, and their life together. For example, many today are giving out packets of seeds and even small plants or saplings. This of course shows their concern for the environment. Some brides are choosing small tokens of their favorite hobby or passion, such as models of motorcycles or paperweights with the Harley Davidson logo on them, if the bride is a “biker chick” and not afraid to show it. Another popular choice by way of wedding favors is key chains or tokens from a favorite museum, especially one that celebrates her heritage or family. For example, don’t be surprised if you were to receive a souvenir from the Museum of the Cherokee Indian or the African American Heritage Museum at a wedding in the near future. These types of wedding favors make a bold statement from the bride that her family, and her family’s heritage and history, are very important to her.

Another way that wedding favors are becoming bolder – and this is true for all parts of the wedding – is the colors of the favors themselves. It used to be that the “appropriate” colors for a wedding needed to be soft and so-called feminine, such as pastels and mint greens. However, today’s popular color choices for bridesmaid dresses and all other accessories are usually warmer and stronger. Think of shades of warm brown and russet; typically the bride herself might wear a sash of one of these shades as well. Mint green has been replaced with shades of hunter or forest. It’s also not unusual anymore to see a combination of two strong colors such as red and black being used for accessories, invitations, decorations, and even wedding favors.

Of course, many of the standard choices in wedding favors are still popular, including bags of chocolates or personalized candy bar wrappers. However, these too are becoming bolder as the bride is choosing stronger colors for the bags of loose candy and ties that are strings of crystal beads or ribbons in black and red or those warm brown shades. In recent years, many designs for personalized candy bar wrappers are also becoming bolder and more unique, with some companies providing designs that are not just elegant and traditional, but also fun and whimsical or modern designs that are clean and simple with an art deco feel. To see how these types of wrappers would work as wedding favors, visit The Knot or Favors and Wraps and see the wide variety they currently have in their catalog.

It’s unlikely that a bride’s choices in wedding favors and all other accessories for her wedding are going to start being more subtle as time goes on, as many brides are finding that these bold choices are a welcome change from what they’ve seen in weddings from generations past, and guests appreciate how unique and personal these choices really are.



By: Linda Ellison

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Most brides today want some type of personalized wedding favors; after all, wedding favors are meant as a reminder of that special day and this means having their name and wedding date somehow included on those favors.  But do any type of shopping today for personalized wedding favors and you’ll see that these can be somewhat expensive, some costing four or five dollars per piece and even more than that in many cases!  So how can you cut down on this particular expense for your wedding but not compromise how beautiful and unique this option is?  There are actually some simple ways to do this.

Many couples today want personalized wedding favors that include a favorite photo of them.  However, give this some consideration.  You may love this photo of you and think that the favors look wonderful with it, but what about your friends and family?  Will they really want to use coasters with your faces on them?  Or keep a key chain with that picture dangling from their keys?  There may be several guests who immediately think that this type of item is just a bit tacky, if not downright pushy. 

Including the option for a photo is usually the biggest expense when it comes to personalized wedding favors, more so than just your names and date, and may include a set-up charge along with the charge for the favors themselves.  Ask yourself if this option is really worth the expense for an item that your guests may not even appreciate or enjoy using anyway.

Another big expense when it comes to personalized wedding favors is the need to have your name and date engraved in the item.  Anything crystal, silver, pewter or another hard element is probably going to cost you more than anything made of paper.  For instance, if you look at most small crystal paperweights that are offered as wedding favors, you’ll see that they typically cost around four dollars per item, whereas most personalized candy bar wrappers are less than a dollar.  This may be a small difference per item, but consider how many guests you’re having at your wedding.  A three-dollar difference in favors, multiplied by the hundred guests you’re inviting, means an additional three hundred dollars for those paperweights alone.  Since most couples today are trying to plan a wedding on a budget, choosing a more affordable option for personalized wedding favors may not be a bad way to go.

Of course, if you have some talent you can always make up your own personalized wedding favors by way of bookmarks you create yourself and have printed at the office supply store, or sugar cookies decorated with your names and date.  These are not only affordable options, they’re also very creative and a fun way for the bride to express her thanks to her guests.

In the past few years, the business of personalized wedding favors has been booming, with an endless variety of options for brides.  This is good news for those looking to save a few dollars on this part of the wedding and reception, as there are many affordable and still very nice choices, if you do a bit of shopping and comparison.



By: Linda Ellison

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Giving your guests a small token of your appreciation for them being there on your special day is a common custom, and wedding favors have become a big business these days. There’s really no end to how much money you can spend or what type of items you can purchase as favors. However, no bride wants her wedding and reception to look like everyone else’s, and this is especially true when it comes to her wedding favors. Even if she buys them from a company online, chances are she’ll still want them personalized!

If you are looking for something unique and personal for your own reception, here’s some ideas for wedding favors that you might consider.

For one, small painted wooden boxes are not only nice to look at as wedding favors but are practical as well. Virtually everyone can use a box as storage for their desk, a drawer, a nightstand, or bookshelf. You can dress these up by either handwriting or printing on your computer with a nice font a personal message that you leave inside the box. Many craft stores have a variety of boxes, and some are even heart-shaped, which would make them a great option for wedding favors.

Small candles are another great idea for wedding favors. Even men will probably find a use for a candle, whether it’s in his bathroom or bedroom. Be sure to exercise caution if giving them away to children; they need to be sure to not use them without their parent’s permission, but even younger children appreciate having their own candles as wedding favors. If you purchase inexpensive one, wrap them with a length of wide ribbon to dress them up.

Notepads in a beautiful color that matches your wedding’s theme, or a nice pen are also pretty but practical wedding favors. Small paperweights that are heart-shaped or otherwise festive are also great and are used by just about anyone, at the office or at home.

Remember when you choose wedding favors to have something that reflects the bride’s and groom’s personality. Chopsticks are if either the bride or groom is Asian, since most people enjoy Asian food at one time or another and will keep a quality set of chopsticks on hand. If either or both enjoy reading and intellectual pursuits, consider bookmarks, either silver placeholders or printed ones. You can usually design your own and have an office supply store or printer actually print them on posterboard paper and cut them for you.

Small potted plants can also be great and unique wedding favors, especially if you personalize the little pots they’re in. Use a stencil, or if you have good handwriting and a steady hand, you can use a paint pen to write a special message yourself. Even children will appreciate receiving these as wedding favors, as they will watch over their little plant like it’s a new pet.

These are just some ideas for unique wedding favors; remember that your wedding is your day, so with a little bit of imagination and some time shopping, you’re sure to find just the right favors for your reception.



By: Linda Ellison

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