Jun 24

Author: Melissa Burton

If you have ever attended a romantic wedding, you probably remember the keepsakes that the bride and groom gave their guests. Giving each guest a wedding favor is part of the tradition of the wedding ceremony. Any bridal shop will have various wedding favors from which you can choose. For a more unique touch you can design and create your own style of wedding favor to give guests. Not only does this add a special touch to the ceremony, but it also provides an opportunity for the individuals in the wedding party to spend time together before the ceremony in an occasion that is not as hectic. A customized wedding favor can also save you money since you can usually buy the materials you need at any hobby shop.

More than a Keepsake
A wedding favor can serve many purposes. A keepsake is the main reason that people give a wedding favor at weddings. A wedding favor can also serve the purpose of sending off the bride and grooms. A very popular wedding favor that you can make without spending much time and money are bubbles. When the wedding couple is leaving for their honeymoon venture, the guests generally send off the couple with a cloud of bubbles. When you make the decision to give each guest a wedding favor that is memorable, it is a good idea to come up with a wedding favor idea that is associated with the bride and groom.

Adding Your Unique Touch
In addition to being a keepsake, a wedding favor should be unique. To make a wedding favor unique, you can add a twist to a traditional idea or create something completely your own. Divinity or candy is a common gift that you can dress up with decorative containers or wrappings. It is completely acceptable to make the candy or divinity yourself or have someone with cooking skills take care of this for you. A candle makes an excellent wedding favor because there are so many fragrances, colors, and accessories that you can use to make them a unique wedding favor. If you go with candles as a wedding favor, you might to consider taking a candle making class. Check your local area to see if any of the hobby shops have candle-making classes. This is a fun activity that the entire wedding party can participate in.

Jun 19

Author: Chrystal Holman

Your wedding is your very special day. As such, you want everything to look magnificent, and the wedding favors are certainly no exception. Rather than just putting them on the tables for the reception, you want them in wedding favor gift boxes. However, you are unsure of what wedding favor gift boxes you want, so you need some wedding favor gift box ideas.

The first things that you should consider before you select a wedding favor gift box are the sizes of the guest tables at the reception, as well as how those tables are decorated. For example, if you have small tables, you certainly do not want large gift boxes, because you want the guests to be comfortable.

When it comes to how the wedding favor gift boxes should look, they should match the decorations on the table. For example, if the decor on the table is all white, you should find wedding favor gift boxes to complement.

The next thing that you should consider when choosing wedding favor gift boxes is what the wedding favors themselves will be. If you have chocolate wedding favors, it is important that you not put them in boxes, because they might melt. True, you can keep the boxes in the refrigerator, but they might melt during the reception.

Smaller wedding favors work best with wedding favor gift boxes. Wedding favor gift boxes look especially nice when paired with wedding favors like ballpoint pens. Once you have selected the size and color of the box, you need to figure out how you want the box wrapped.

Some creative people prefer to wrap the boxes themselves, but this is very time-consuming, so most people choose to have professionals wrap the boxes. It is important to note that ribbons as opposed to stick-on bows are preferable, since stick-on bows can fall off before they make it to the reception.

Jun 17

Author: Joe Palladino

Have you ever wished that Romantic wedding favors could be easier or that you did not have to pay a professional for help? Using the tips in this article, you can learn a few ideas you could do without spending an arm and a leg.

Often wedding favors are left until the last minute, even though they are one of the easiest things you have to take care of. Doing it this way creates stress that could have been avoided with a little bit of planning. Stress is one thing you do not need more of right now!

Here are a 4 ideas for easy wedding favors that should get you off the hook in advance if you plan ahead.

Candy is easy to offer as a gift, and there is many different ways you can give it out. You can fill a basket with it and put it on the table as a centerpiece. You could od the same thing and use a large bowl or tin bucket as a decoration. Then put bags on the table with instructions for each guest to fill their own bag. This is an easy way to set up quickly and give your guests something they would enjoy.

Flowers are excellent gifts because they do not need a lot of preparation time and you do not have to order them very far in advance. Roses are easy and they match most wedding themes of love. Using a single rose is easy to set up and you can have a family member or friend lay one for each guest on each table after they are set up.

You could give each guest a CD of the wedding ceremony as a gift? You can create personalized CD covers and include the theme of your special day and your names. You can personalize each copy for your guests by including their name.

They are easy to get ready in advance, and then you can burn CDs during the reception and give them out to people as they leave. Modern technology is a wonderful ally if you have a notebook computer that let’s you burn cd’s.

Pictures frames are a very easy wedding favor to give and you can personalize them by having your photographer take photos of each guest. Then hand them out at your wedding reception. He should have a digital printer and be prepared to print off the pictures in the size of the frame you are handing out.

When you do it this way you do not have to spend time wrapping each picture frame which will free up some of your time. And each guest gets a favor that they can take home and look at in the future. Each time they do they will be reminded of your thoughtful gift.