Planning Wedding Favours

• Flower pots with a simple plant or seedling in them
• Donation to favourite charity
• Canvas shopping bag
• Beautifully decorated mini cakes
• Picture frames
• Fridge magnets
• Small bottles of maple syrup for spring wedding
• Coasters in a wedding or other theme
• Candles in the theme and/or colour of your wedding
• Heart shaped soaps, bath fizzers, or sachets for the women
• Fresh Fudge
• Homemade jam with personalized labels
• Personalized pens with names and wedding date using your wedding colours
• Chocolate hearts, roses, hugs or kisses
• Tea and/or coffee with personalized labels
• Fancy writing paper pad and pen set
• Personalized mugs with two hearts on them with your names and wedding date in your colour theme
• Sugar cookies in bell or heart shapes with your colour theme icing
• Ceramic cherubs
• Metal Water Bottles
• Chocolate covered strawberries decorated like Bride and Groom attire
• Miniature bottles of wine with personalized labels.
• Small decorated photo album
• Flower seeds placed in biodegradable paper that can be planted
• Sun catchers
• Box of cookies
• Fortune cookies with a special thank you message inside
• Heart shaped cookie cutters with a cookie recipe card tied on with the heading "A couple truly cut out for each other."
• Chocolate bars wrapped in personalized chocolate wrappers
• If your wedding has the theme of a holiday, use something representing it. For example, for a Christmas wedding give out Christmas ornaments
• Bottle stoppers
• Elegant or unique coffee mug with candy, packaged coffee, tea and or hot chocolate in it
• Personalized soaps
• Fancy bookmarks
• Salt and pepper shakers
• Small wallet
• Novelty wine or beer coolies
• Candy dish with candies inside it
• Key chains with or without your wedding theme
• Wine charms
• Music CD of couple's favourite love songs with personalized jewel case.

The practice of giving your wedding guests a wedding favour is such a common practice at weddings today that most guests have the expectation of receiving them. Your wedding favours don't have to be expensive. They're just a little treat or token that represents your appreication for them coming to your 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.

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. Before you decide on what wedding favour you will be giving out, so some research to get ideas. Magazines and the internet are wonderful resources for this. Be sure to keep in mind the number of wedding guests you are expecting. The price of wedding favours can skyrocket if you're having a lot of wedding guests coming to your wedding.

Some of the most popular wedding favours recently include items 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 it a great idea to include a thank you note on each of the wedding favours, thanking your wedding guests for helping to make your wedding day special. Notes can be a great way to personalize your wedding favours. You can get very creative with the notes and what you use to attach them to the wedding favours. Your wedding favours should represent your wedding's theme, colours and formality.

Wedding favours should aslo be individually wrapped for easy distributing to the wedding guests. Favours can be placed 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. The options are endless so get creative.

Although it is quite commonly done, personalizing your wedding favours with your names and wedding day is not recommended. Think about which you would use more, a coffee much with someone else's name and wedding day on it or a coffee much with something more generic on it. Bottom line you want your wedding guests to get as much enjoyment out of the guests favour as possible. 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 related to your wedding theme 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?

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