What is a Wedding Favor?

April 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment

When it comes to your wedding, you probably feel as though there is an endless list of tasks for you to take care of. This is your most special day and so although it can certainly be daunting to try and take care of everything in the amount of time that you have left, at the same time it is really wonderful and an experience that you never going to forget.

There are lots of different things that you have to worry about when it comes to your wedding and the planning of it, and one of the most important things you are going to need to take care of is making sure that you have a wedding party favor for every guest at the wedding.

What it is

If you are not already aware, a wedding favor is a gift that you give out to each guest at your wedding. Basically the point of a wedding favor is to show your guests just how much you appreciate them and you use it to thank them for coming to your wedding.

Now of course you already have more than enough costs to cover for your wedding, and so you don’t have to spend a fortune on your wedding favor items. You don’t want to get anything that is too cheap and tacky either, so be careful when you are choosing what to get to give out as wedding favors at your wedding.

When you are choosing a wedding favor theme, more than anything you want to make sure that it reflects your personality. After all, your guests have all come to your wedding because they love you and because they want to show their love for you and help spread the love on this, your most special day.

You want your wedding favors to speak volumes about you and so if you are a sarcastic person for instance you may want to get some humorous wedding favors, while if you are more of a romantic, then candles of something of the sort would be a great wedding favor idea.

Once you have the wedding favors out of the way you can get back to the rest of the planning of your wedding. Remember to have fun, because although this process is definitely difficult and stressing, it is your wedding and you want to remember it as being a joyous time so don’t get frustrated or too bothered.

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Some Tips on what to give for your Wedding favor

May 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Looking for tips  give your wedding guests an enjoyable gift at your wedding then edible wedding favors are always a winner. Normally they are of the sweet variety but there is no reason why savory favors cannot be supplied. How effective this looks might be down to how good the personalized wrapper is that contains the chocolate candy. Some people go out of their way to ensure the chocolate is from a specialist candy or quality department store. By having the chocolate outer wrapping specially designed to include the bride and grooms details, it adds a special touch to the gift.

It is not unusual to see a picture of the happy couple on this sort of wrapper or even a presentation box. Why not have a tin filled with different types of candy as your edible wedding favor to your guests. As with candy wrappers, there is no reason why the tin cannot be personalized for the wedding. The guests may eat the candy soon after the wedding but they can keep the candy tin as a reminder of your wedding; they can use it to store other small items such as change, sewing needles, rubber bands or virtually anything which is small enough to be stored in them. Candy will probably remain a favorite edible wedding favor for some time because it is so popular.

One unique way to give out candy as wedding favors is to use large glass bowls as the centerpieces for the tables and fill the bowls with the bride and grooms’ favorite types of candy. You can also supply a small themed container on the table for every wedding guest. This way each guest can put whatever candies they like in the container and take it home when they leave the reception. Cookies are other options for brides and grooms who want to give out edible wedding favors and there are a number of different options in this case. Undecorated cookies are best because they are supposed to go inside a decorated box which can have the wedding day details printed on it.

Current technology allows for a photo to be printed on the cookie so a couple could choose to do this as an alternative to a presentation box. Cookies can be baked in a variety of shapes so all that needs to be done is to supply a picture for them to imprint. For something completely different, consider using beverages for the edible wedding favors; tea and coffee spring to mind but there are others. You can select specialty cocoas, teas or coffees or you can have the packaging customized to include your picture, an appropriate quotation, poem or other message related to loves and weddings. Often the contents are in tins which can be personalized with the bride and grooms details and makes the box or tin more collectible. I hope these ideas will help with your decision and give something to think about.

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