Appendix 6: Wedding Favors Guide
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Appendix 6: Wedding Favors Guide
It's traditional for the bride and groom to provide small gifts for their guests as a token of appreciation for attending the wedding and helping the couple celebrate their special day. There are countless favors to choose from, ranging from personalized to handmade.
Personalized Wedding Favors
Personalized favors are available in a wide variety of prices and themes. Personalization make favors more - well, personal - to your friends and family. Below you'll find a variety of ideas and prices to help get you started.
Personalized Wedding Coffee Favors
$1.65 each
Love is Brewing...The Perfect Blend...Romantic Roast are among your options for your personal label on bags of coffee grounds. A romantic and unique idea for coffee lovers, these personalized coffee favors are sure to wow your guests.
$18.00 for a set of 10 labels
The soundtrack to your wedding is carefully selected to communicate your history as a couple, your love for each other and your happiness. It is only fitting that you share it with your wedding guests. A personalized CD is a classic wedding favor that guests will be able to take home and enjoy.
Custom Fortune Cookies
$1.65 each
Fortune cookies are a fun and original idea for weddings. Personalize them with your wedding message printed on the fortune!
Personalized Matchbooks
$25.99/100 matchbooks
Got love to burn? Share it with friends and family at your reception with these personalized matchbooks. Specify your names and wedding date.
Personalized Cocktail Mixes
$1.55/each
Tuck these personalized cocktail mixes in with your favor bags and you can be sure that your guests will enjoy the sentiment!
Personalized Playing Cards
$129.95/per 25 packs
Give friends and family a source of entertainment and a way to remember your day for years to come! Each complete pack of playing cards will be personalized with your name, date, and one of 20 graphic designs.
Personalized Bud Vase
$7.00/each
Thank each guest with a keepsake to remember you by. These favor vases are printed with one of six custom designs, to make a gift worth keeping for years to come.
Personalized Votives
$65.00/pack of 12
Now you can personalize your reception table with votive holders for centerpiece accents that do double-duty as take-home keepsakes.
Personalized Wedding Cake Cookies
$3.95 each for petite size, $5.95 each for large size
These beautifully hand-decorated wedding cake cookies are the ultimate in edible favors.. Each cookie is customized with the names of the couple and the date of the wedding in a delicate script font.
$1.60 each
Weddings are a great place to meet people. You talk to old friends, make new ones and for single guests it is the perfect venue to meet someone special. Make sure your guests have what they need to make a great first impression, including fresh breath!
Wine Favor Labels
$14.95/pack of 12
Raise a glass to a classy, innovative new favor idea! Now you can personalize the reds and whites your guests take home as favors -- and enjoy as they remember your wedding. These wine labels, designed for half bottles, fit over the existing stickers.
Personalized Golf Balls
$22.95/set of 12
Planning on hosting a tee-time before the wedding? These personalized golf balls make great favors.
$45 per pack of 50 notepads
Stylish and useful, these mini personalized notepads with white spiral binding are wonderful wedding favors for your guests. The cover of the notepad is custom printed with a design of your choice along with the couple's names and wedding date.
Personalized Seashells
$3.00 each
We often pick up seashells along the beach to keep as souvenirs. For the perfect token of remembrance for your beach wedding, personalize your own seashells with your names or a personal message. These natural seashells are laser engraved to make them ideal keepsakes for island weddings.
Personalized Sparkling Cider Mini Bottles
$34.99/pack of 12
Give them as gifts or serve them during toasting time.
Personalized Golf Tee Favors
$18.95/100 tees
Time for tee? Guests will remember your special day every time they plant one of these into the green.
Mini Hershey's Chocolate Bars
$39.99/100 pack
Be the sweetest couple around: Give guests mini Hershey's chocolates in personalized wrappers.
Personalized Playing Cards
$129.95/per 25 packs
Why not give friends and family a source of entertainment, and a way to remember your day for years to come?
"Love Rules" Rulers
$273.00/144+ pack
Each "Love Rules" Rulers is made of heavy stainless steel with two playful cutout heart designs and a bold proclamation in black letters. Measurement increments are in inches.
"Stop in the Name of Love" Bottle Stopper Wedding Favors
$10.78/4 pack
Solid chrome LOVE bottle stoppers feature the classic LOVE letters on a charming, practical favor that your guests will enjoy.
"Whisked Away" Heart Whisk Wedding Favors
$144/96+ pack
Each stainless steel whisk has a cleverly enclosed heart as well as a heart shaped handle and is presented in a black with silver sweetheart gift box. A white ribbon with a chef's hat tag that says "thank you" adds to the culinary theme.
Personalized "Personality" Travel Candles Wedding Favor
$240/96+ pack
Guests love how these travel-friendly tins allow for a little candlelight romance.
Love and Hearts Bottle Opener Wedding Favors in Personality Box
$9.46/4 pack
These silver chrome bottle openers are uniquely designed openers combined with a whimsical heart shaped handle with raised letters L-O-V-E.
"Good Wishes" Pearlized Photo Coasters Wedding Favors
$71.50/4 Pearlized
Pearlized glass frame coasters will protect your table tops. Good wishes you have for the future such as love, joy, hope, bliss, faith, and forever surround the frame.
"Two Peas in a Pod" Candle in Ivy Print Gift Box Wedding Favors
$7.20/4 pack
A beautiful beginning. To symbolize your new life together. Uniquely charming candle wedding favors for your guests.
Homemade Wedding Favors
Homemade wedding favors evolved from a centuries old tradition of brides and grooms providing small gifts to wedding guests. The tradition of creating homemade weddings favors has continued as a means for the bride to reduce expenses on the wedding budget - and some brides simply prefer to create homemade favors as a means of self expression. Homemade favors give the bride many opportunities for unique gift giving and personalization that can't be found anywhere else.
Homemade wedding favors can extremely detailed or simple and sophisticated - just use your imagination. Craft stores offer an impressive variety of supplies to make virtually any wedding favor you can dream up. Simple glass bud vases and candles can be adorned with paint or glass gems. Something as simple as adding a photo of you and the groom to a simple picture frame makes an excellent favor that will outlast the wedding day.
You can also put your home computer to use when making wedding favors. You can use it to create unique bookmarks or framed plaques using a wedding poem and a decorative background. Software to edit music and video recordings allow for the production of private CD's and DVD's.
Baked goods are also excellent wedding favors. Really - who doesn't like food?! You can find cookie cutters in every imaginable shape, which are perfect for creating distinctive, frosted and personalized delights. Miniature cakes, petits fours and even chocolates can be recreated in the home kitchen. Plastic molds for forming chocolate and other candies make it easy to produce delicacies that are representative of wedding themes. A fun twist on a common molded candy is to prepare it on a stick to create a lollipop from hard candies or chocolates.
Need more ideas for homemade wedding favors? Try these:
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CDs: Giving personal thank you CDs is the new trend in wedding favors. You can record a personal message, add a photo of the bride and groom along with a song choice
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Magnets: Have you heard that the refrigerator is the communication center of almost every house? So how about making magnets as favors, so that your guests can put their magnets on their refrigerators and use them to hold up drawings and the like, and every now and then see the magnet and think about you.
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Homemade bell-shaped or heart-shaped cookies: Decorated with your names and wedding date in hard icing.
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Homemade Jam: Pick a great recipe for your wedding favors
* Fruit and Wine. Fruit and wine jams are captivating. Strawberry and champagne make a classic jam combination. Also consider raspberry, peach and champagne jam, or port and currant jam.
* Hot, Hot, Hot. Jams spiced up with jalapenos and other hot peppers are sure to make a splash. Try raspberry jalapeno, peach jalapeno, hot pepper and mango/raspberry jam, or hot apple jelly.
* Taste of the Tropics. Try jams made with exotic fruits such as guava, pomogranates, mangoes, kiwis, limes, or pineapples. -
Small Containers with Goodies:
Examples of small containers to use:
* tiny wicker baskets or straw hats
* candle holders
* flat shells (scallops)
* small filigree metal boxes
* decorated wooden boxes
* coffee mugs
* wine glasses
* small decorative dish
* tiny flower pots
* little tin watering cans
* small jars
* ceramic spoon rest
Fillings to add to your favor containers:
* heart-shaped candies or chocolates
* Hershey's kisses and hugs
* small floating candles
* gourmet or flavored coffee - enough for one pot
* little decorative soaps
* wild flower seed packets or small quantity of seeds with planting instructions
* flower bulbs
* bath oil beads
* bath salts
* small bag of mixed spice (cinnamon/nutmeg)
* packets of specialty tea
* hot chocolate and cinnamon mix - enough for one mugWant to attach a special message to your homemade wedding favor? Attach a small card to each favor that bears one of the messages below, plus your name and wedding date. All you need is a hole punch and some ribbon to attach the cards.
* Please plant these to celebrate our growing love (for bulbs, seeds)
* All things grow with love (for bulbs, seeds)
* Our flame of love will always be bright (for candles)
* Hugs and Kisses from the new Mr. And Mrs! (for Hershey's kisses and/or hugs)
* Heart-felt wishes from the new Mr. And Mrs. (for anything heart-shaped)
* Love lives in happy hearts (anything heart-shaped)
* The best gifts are tied with heartstrings (anything heart-shaped)
* May there always be spice in your life! (for hot chocolate/cinnamon mix)
* We're suited to a 'T' (for specialty teas)
* Nothing can wash away the love we feel! (bath oil, bath salts, soaps)
* Thanks for sharing this special day with us
* Thank you for sharing in the celebration of our love (or union, etc.)
* Thanks for joining us on our wedding day
* Thanks for sharing in our special day
