Wedding Favour
Gifts for Your Wedding Guests
Wedding favors are nice
to have for your wedding guests. This practice
is so common at weddings that most wedding
guests expect to receive some little 
treat
or token which represents a little thank you for coming to the
wedding. Wedding favours are
usually set at the wedding guests' place settings
for them, but the favours can also be given to
the wedding guests as they arrive or before they
leave the wedding reception.
Your wedding favors can
be as simple as a few mints or chocolates smartly packaged or
as extravagant as having an item that reflects your personality
or the theme of your wedding. Shop around for
wedding favor ideas, keeping the number of wedding
guests you are expecting in mind. The price of wedding
favors can creep up very quickly if you have a lot of
wedding guests coming to your wedding.
The top choices of wedding favours
recently are favors that are edible, things that
you can plant or donations to a favourite charity. If you plan
on using any of these types of wedding favours, you may wish to
include a thank you note on each of the wedding favours,
thanking your wedding guests for helping to make
your wedding day special. The notes can be a
great way to personalize the wedding favours.
You can get very creative with the notes and what you use to attach
them to the wedding favours. Using cut out wedding
shapes in your wedding colors with special ribbon
to tie the notes on is just one way to make them unique. So get
creative with how you present the wedding favours
and what you place them in. Try to find something that is elegant
and goes with your wedding's formality, colors
and theme.
Wedding favours should
be individually wrapped for easy distributing to the wedding
guests. You could choose to place your wedding favours
in cloth bags with string ties, small decorative boxes,
metal keepsake boxes, vases, mugs, candy dishes, decorated gift
bags, flower pots, or even a small wallets or change purses. You
can decorate them yourself with many things including, personalized
ribbon in your wedding colors with your names
and wedding date on them, gold 
foil
labels printed on your computer, wedding shape
beads or painted wooden cutouts, silk or dried flowers or pearls.
Although it
is quite commonly done and can be tempting to do, I do't recomend
that you personaliz your wedding favors with
your names and wedding day. I ask you to think
about your wedding guests and wondering if you
would really want to walk around with someone else's name on items
you use. Leave the wedding date and your names
to items that will be used right away like treats or things that
it’s not quite so noticeable like on CDs pens and paper.
If you want to engrave or label items that will be used long term,
or your wedding guests will be wearing, use more
generic wording like meaningful sayings or symbols like hearts
or stars. This way the items will be more likely used and your
wedding guests will enjoy them more and isn't
that really the goal?
Wedding
Budget Tip
Check Dollar Stores for ideas for wedding favours
and/or containers to hold your wedding favors.
Be sure you can buy enough for all your wedding
guests; you don't want to come out short. If you want to cut cost
on centerpieces for your wedding guests' tables,
consider using your wedding favours. Find wedding
favours that can also be used for centerpieces or find
and decorate a unique container or dish to hold and display the
wedding favours. Find a list of many wedding
favour ideas to the right.
