Personalized Wedding Favors
If you and your bethrothed are planning on having wedding favors at your reception, consider making them personalized. It's your big day and personalizing the favors is a way to share it with your guests. There are lots of different ways to make your favors "personal." First and foremost, choose something that fits your theme and your personalities. If you are both big into golf, then golf ball favors would be perfect. If you are planning a Vegas wedding, there are lots of items with the famous "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign, along with gambling theme favors. If you are a dessert lover, look for cookies, candy or chocolate treats in your theme. Many online favor retailers allow you to add your first names, and often the date as well to their favor selections. It could be on hang tags, embossed ribbon, or engraved directly on the favor itself.
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Wedding Favors with Personalized Hang Tags
Many online wedding companies sell party favors that come with a free personalized hang tag (some charge a small fee per tag). This is a great way to customize just about any favor you find.One of the trends in 2008-09 are fully coordinated 'personality' favors where you can choose a favor design that is carried through to the box and matching hang tag. Options normally include color and pattern choices as well as tag fonts. These personalized wedding favors may require some assembly, but the final product is well worth the extra effort.
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Golf favors are perfect for the golfing couple. They are particularly appropriate for warm weather ceremonies and receptions held at the local country club. Options include personalized golf balls, tees, divot tools, ball markers, towels, or even golf ball ornaments. The golf theme gifts are often combined into a ball and tee set. Another fun design includes golf tees packaged in what looks like a matchbook. If you are having a golf day for the bachelor or bachelorette party, it's another great time tie in your golf theme to the wedding party gifts. Personalized towels are a good option, as are divot tools. For the bridal party gifts, you should personalize them with the recipients name or initials. Personalized Drink Mixes
Drink mix packets personalized with the bride and groom's names and the wedding date are one of the most popular wedding favor choices. Because mixes are affordable and available in hundreds of unique designs, brides and grooms seem to choose them no matter what the season.Packets are normally available with a number of different mixes such as coffee, tea, lemonade, cosmopolitan or margarita flavors, and hot cocoa. So if you are having a winter wedding, things like hot cocoa, coffee or cappuccino are the perfect choice. Whereas for summer or beach weddings, consider a single serve packet of lemonade or margarita mix.
My guess is that the dizzying array of flavor and design combinations along with the affordability are what make personalized drink mix favors a tried and true winner.
Wedding Favor Idea Books
Wedding Favors: Fabulous Favors for the Perfect Wedding Day
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The Artful Bride: Wedding Favors and Decorations: A Stylish Bride's Guide to Simple, Handmade Wedding Crafts
Amazon Price: $11.10 (as of 12/29/2009)
Creating Your Perfect Wedding: Stylish Ideas And Step-by-step Projects for a Beautiful Wedding
Amazon Price: $13.22 (as of 12/29/2009)
Fabulous Favors: Handmade Favors for Weddings, Parties and Holidays
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Favors with Flair: 75 Easy Designs for Weddings, Parties and Events
Amazon Price: $17.05 (as of 12/29/2009)
Personalized Wedding Cookies
One of the best choices for edible favors are custom cookies that feature a photo of the couple, their names and wedding date, or a custom fortune created just for them. These days you can find cookie wedding favors in all shapes, sizes and colors to coordinate perfectly with your wedding theme.For shaped cut-out cookies, companies sell just about any shape you can imagine from palm trees perfect for destination weddings to snowflakes for winter weddings or cake-shaped cookies that are perfect for any season. Many of these shapes can be personalized with the couples names and the wedding date.
Other edible options include gourmet chocolate brownies, chocolate covered oreo cookies and sugar cookies that have a photo of the couple in edible ink. These are the ultimate in personlized wedding favors.
Another unique cookie idea are fortune cookies that feature a custom saying along with the wedding information. These can usually be purchased in bulk or as ready to go gift packages such as organza bags.
Personalized Wedding Postage Stamps
These days you can even customize the stamps for the invites!
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Custom Printed M&M Favors
What guest wouldn't love getting these clever little favors to take home or to enjoy at the wedding reception? Each M&M is imprinted with your custom message such as your names. You can choose from at least 22 different M&M colors to coordinate with your wedding color scheme. In addition, you can choose to buy them in bulk so that you can get wedding favor boxes elsewhere and package them yourself or you can choose from several ready-made-favor packages such as cello bags with ribbon or silver tins. For more information, visit the M&M Website. Checking Account Duel
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I think having a joint account simplifies things - instead of "you pay this, you pay that". I think a separate saving account for a little stash or "mad money" is always a good deal too though.
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Personalized Chocolate Wedding Favors
From giant 5 oz chocolate bars to little Hershey kisses, chocolates of all types are available with unique personalization options for wedding party favors.A wide range of online wedding companies sell chocolates and wrappers in a dizzying array of unique designs ranging from simple roses to ornate baroque scrollwork to whimsical flip flops. Simply choose a design to coordinate with your wedding and add your custom wedding information to create a unique one-of-a-kind chocolate favor for your wedding guests. And best of all, just about everyone likes chocolate!
Personalized Glassware Favors
One of the best keepsakes to give your wedding guests to say thanks for sharing in your special day is glassware imprinted with your wedding information. There are a wide array of glassware choices available for customization ranging from champagne flutes to simple votive candle holders.While personalized glassware can be a bit more expensive than some of the other wedding favor choices, it is something that your guests can use again and again for years to come. One big advantage is that the glass can usually be customized in your choice of design and color so it is easy to theme it around your wedding. Be aware that often times, imprinting set-up fees do apply to glassware so be sure to inquire about any such fees prior to ordering. Also, be sure to order a few extra of whatever favor you choose to make sure that you have plenty to cover additional guests or anything that breaks.
Wedding Etiquette Books
For Tips on All Things Wedding including Favors!
Emily Post's Wedding Etiquette, 5e
Amazon Price: $18.47 (as of 12/29/2009)
The New Book of Wedding Etiquette: How to Combine the Best Traditions with Today's Flair
Amazon Price: $11.53 (as of 12/29/2009)
Something New: Wedding Etiquette for Rule Breakers, Traditionalists, and Everyone in Between
Amazon Price: $11.66 (as of 12/29/2009)
Simple Stunning Wedding Etiquette: Traditions, Answers, and Advice from One of Today's Top Wedding Planners
Amazon Price: $9.50 (as of 12/29/2009)
The Everything Wedding Etiquette Book: Insights and Advice on Handling Even the Stickiest Wedding Issues (Everything Series)
Amazon Price: $9.95 (as of 12/29/2009)
Custom Wedding Pens
The unique rotating design of these particular pens enables you to put a custom saying along with the bride and groom's names and the wedding date directly on the pen. They are available in 4 different unique designs and make great keepsakes for guests. Available at A Special Gift.Other companies also sell personalized pens at more affordable prices as well. Just search at google for personalized wedding pens for an entire list of companies.
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Personalized Wedding Matchbooks
Matchbooks and matchboxes imprinted with the wedding names and date are a popular wedding favor choice amongst brides and grooms. They are affordable, easily customizable and available in a wide array of colors to match just about any wedding color scheme.Many companies such as Rexcraft offer the match boxes in different sizes with various designs and color options.
Personalized DIY Favors
Making and assembling favors yourself can not only save you money, but it can also enable you to create one-of-a-kind fully customized favors that fit in perfectly with your wedding theme. Many online companies sell do-it-yourself wedding favor supplies.See the Youtube videos below and some of the Amazon books that I recommended for unique favor ideas that you can make at home. Some of the essential supplies will be things like edible fillings, wedding favor tins or boxes, embellishments such as flowers, and my favorite - personalized wedding ribbon. Ribbon just gives homemade favors a professional and elegant look.
If you aren't all that crafty, you can still personalize your favors by purchasing any favor online and then adding either a custom hang tag or a personalized wedding favor sticker. You can find tags and stickers in all shapes, sizes, designs and colors so finding something to coordinate with your store bought favor choice should be relatively easy.
Personalized Honey Jar Favors
Your wedding guests will be buzzin' about just how clever you are when they see these adorable little jars of honey. Each honey jar favor is available in over 30 different designs and they are imprinted with the bride and groom's names as well as the wedding date.Some of the clever sayings on the jars include 'Meant to Bee', 'Love is Buzzing' and 'Sweeter Than Honey'.
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- jkvkdailey jkvkdailey Dec 15, 2008 @ 5:25 pm
- What a great lens! I knew nothing about wedding favors when I got married, so I look forward to using these ideas when we reach a big anniversary! I love the honey jars and the drink mixes. 5 stars!
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