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What is the theme of your wedding? We used the gold coins (chocolate), poker chips, playing cards for a wedding where the couple got married in Las Vegas.
Depending on if you have a theme or how much you want to spend on them, I’ve done a lot of weddings (photography) to know that chocolates are a huge hit because you can have the chocolates in any shape/color you want. How about a little plastic birdcage with two chocolate doves inside and some pretty ribbons tied around the cage? Just a thought….
Try to put something personal in it. Also I heard that a lot of favors get left behind, so just make sure it’s something you don’t mind taking home.
One friend, her fiance proposed by giving her box of personalized M&M’s that said marry me, and the ring in the box. So they’re giving out personalized M&M in a heart shaped box.
I’m asian, and we’re having a completely american reception/ceremony. So to put something asian in it, we’re giving out wedding chopsticks and chocolate covered fortune cookies, with personalized fortunes (ie thank you for coming etc)
A cute, not so cheap idea, are these small chocolate shaped wedding cakes. http://www.debrand.com/shop/wedding/
Even if you don’t have a theme, you can get M&M’s with your name and date in your choice of colors. Then just put them in a really pretty box with a ribbon. That’s what where doing.
http://www.bellissimofavors.com/?src=overture
http://www.sayitwithfavors.com/
The above sites have very wonderful favors you can pick from. I am actually going to be having baked goods for my favors. I am purchasing these bags from Uline.com and sealing them with glue and placing a ribbon on it with our colors. http://www.uline.com/Browse_Listing_5507.asp?desc=Glassine+Food+Bags The website also has really nice favor boxes and bags you can buy for very cheap. You should check them out.
I really like favors that come in Chinese take out boxes- they make special sized ones- i do think Uline carries them too. You can get personalized fortune cookies made, and get fake grass. Put the fake grass in the boxes and a few fortune cookies in it. That would be pretty!
But the best winner for favors are ones you can eat! I went to a wedding where they had set up a candy bar for the guests to take their own favors home with them- there was about 20 different types of candy and there were 3 candy girls who filled the boxes and sealed them with the ribbon that matched the colors of the wedding.
Everyone is right on – when talking about ‘wedding themes’……if you have one, great, go for something theme related. If not, stick with colors of your wedding…..
Wedding favors can also be different than what most people think. My brother decided to not do wedding favors at the actual table settings, but instead, had a Groom’s cake and had each guest get to take home a piece of Groom’s cake in boxes that were the color theme of the wedding with the wedding date and their names on it. It was cool!
Also… if you are on a tight budget, sometimes wedding favors can get really expensive if they are personalized…. if you are creative and crafty, think about this….
Get plastic spoons at a party store (the color of your wedding theme).
Go buy Hershey’s kisses (you can get them cheaper in bulk at a store like Costco, Smart & Final, etc.)
And get some netting at a fabric store with some ribbon that matches the color of the spoon.
Put the kisses on the spoon, cut out a small piece of netting to cover the spoon.
On your computer print out “A Spoonful of Kisses from the Mr. & Mrs.” (repetitive on a sheet of paper)…. and cut out this fortune message and paper hole punch it and tie it with the ribbon that ties the piece of netting over the spoonful holding the kisses.
It’s cute, affordable and you can get your friends/family to help.
chocolate bar with specially printed wrapper with your names and date and “Just Married”
white box with 6 of your favorite cookies…all tied together with a pretty ribbon
I did music cds…people still ask me if I have anymore to give them. I did my wedding song as the first song …Anne murray Can I have this dance and green day hope you had the time of your life as my last
For my wedding I am planning to have a table set up with bowls of lollies (you can get them cheap at the supermarket) and little scoops for each bowl. Each guest will have a small box that they can go and fill up with a choice of lollies.
Burn Cd’s of your reception music. Not the boring stuff like the chicken dance, but your first dance with your husband, and those kind of dances. Make labels and set them out for the guests at the tables. This can actually be very inexpensive. Another cool idea is to wrap hershey kisses and hugs in a cute fabric or netting and print out a lable that says “thanks for coming hugs and kisses from the bride and groom” but put your names in or another special message…
I went to a really nice wedding up at a winery once that was kind of “rustic-chique”. The bride took strips of copper, about 6-8 inches long, molded them into a heart, and stamped our names on the top portion. They doubled as a seat place-card and a wedding favor.
I’ve also been to a wedding (in October, mind you) that had Christmas decorations as the favors. The bride hand-painted each of them and yours truly hand-caligraphied the bride and grooms name and wedding date to the back.
We are making CD’s of all the important music from the wedding and burning them (processional, ceremony, 1st dance, father/daughter, last dance, etc). Also we have Lightscribe that burns a picture onto the top of the CDs of our choice (our engagement picture) and bought the clear colored jewel cases and favor tags on ebay. If no Lightscribe you could print out the CD labels. Total so far for all the pieces to make 100 Cd’s has been 65$..less than 1$ per person! Plus it’s thoughtful and more personal than candy.