New !! Wonderful Ideas for Wedding Favors

The tradition of wedding favors began in medieval times when aristocrats would give small gifts to their wedding guests to spread good luck. These were small metal or porcelain boxes filled with sweets. Eventually sugared almonds, called Jordan almonds, became the popular wedding favor. Traditionally, the gift was just five sugared almonds to represent fertility, health, wealth, happiness and longevity.

Nowadays brides have an limitless choice of wedding favours. Wedding favors can be any small gift given to the guests at a wedding as a token of thanks. Items such as small silver picture frames, candles, wine bottle stoppers or trinket boxes all make great favours, although sweets are still the firm favorite. Wedding favors are often wrapped in pretty layers of net and decorated with ribbon, tags and flowers.

Ideas for Handmade Wedding Favors

Handmade wedding favors are always welcome. You can make your own beautiful containers for wedding favors using basic craft supplies such as colored card, paper and ribbon. All the designs can be altered to match your specific color theme or to suit the feel of the day. Craft punches are a quick way to cut out shapes for tags, labels and and are more cost effective than purchasing ready-cut flowers or shapes. You'll need card stock, a flower punch or a heart punch and a tag punch. Did you know that you can get mirror card stock to use with a punch tool? You can make the containers for your wedding favors well in advance of your wedding day. Of course, homemade wedding favors are inexpensive, budget-friendly gifts. But the real joy of making your own wedding favours is that you can create a unique personalised memento of your special day.

Ideas for Homemade Wedding Favors

If you are feeling crafty, make your gift box out of colored card stock and a pattern. Then insert candies, tie with a floppy tulle ribbon, attach a gift tag stamped with a matching colored flower. You can purchase mini tin beach pails with handles. Fill the pails with candies or cakes wrapped in cellophane. Then decorate the pail with a flower, a label and ribbon. Or decorate with tiny boa feathers in your wedding colors. Sheer tulle bags are also available for your wedding favors. Tie each with a ribbon and attach a silk flower, or a stem of pearls, gems or glitter. You can use a small flowerpot painted gold to hold a bag of goodies, and decorate it with a giant craft flower on a stick growing out of the flowerpot. Use a carryout container, like they have in Chinese restaurants, and decorate the handle with paper flowers. Other containers for your wedding goodies can be a purse made out of craft paper, a plastic shoe, a see-through plastic box, or an English "cracker" tied at both ends and decorated.

More Ideas for Fun Wedding Favors

Here are more ideas for wedding favors, in no particular order, right off the top of my head. Some are charming DIY, Do It Yourself, ideas for wedding favors. Other are great BIY, Buy It Yourself, wedding favors.

• If your reception tables are decorated with votive candles, why not offer them as wedding favors for the guests to take home. In the wedding menu or on the table card, encourage the guests to take them home.
• I think bride and groom rubber ducks might be a fun favor for a casual wedding. Small flower containers can decorate the dinner tables and go home with the guests as wedding favors.
• A smooth river rock engraved with your names or words like Love or Joy strikes me as a beautiful souvenir.
• Some couples choose a packet of seeds as a wedding favor to convey the theme of an eco-green wedding.
• Another flash inspiration for wedding favors, a simple table-top knickknack for the home. This wedding favor can reflect your wedding theme, if you have one. I like a glass angel, a china bell, a green pottery frog, a seashell, a sea horse, a snow globe, a small vase, an enameled box, a wood apple or a porcelain bird. Shop carefully, because knickknacks can be costly.
• Bubbles and wands for blowing bubbles are an amusing wedding favor.
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  Simple white satiny boxes to fill with candy are available for about 20 cents apiece. You can decorate them with your initials and attach a colorful ribbon and a silk flower to the top of the box.
• Another charming homemade wedding favor is a giant lollipop of white chocolate on a stick, wrapped in cellophane, decorated with a tag, glitter and a filmy bow.
• Other favors can be a miniature bottle of wine or spirits, decorated with a special label or sleeve.
• Bags made of sheer organza fabric with white satin ribbon draw-strings are very classy and refined for only 20 cents apiece.
• A soy candle in a square tin holder is a thoughtful, useful favor that costs about $4.00 each ready-made. If you want to make the candles yourself, the cost will fit into a small budget.
• What about a bride and groom Frisbee printed with your names? This can be a fun wedding favor, particularly for a casual wedding or a wedding with young guests.
• Again for the casual wedding, paper horns and noisemakers will keep everyone laughing.
• At an outdoor summer wedding, a decorated fan placed on each chair will be useful and thoughtful.
• One of my favorite ideas is heart-shaped measuring spoons for useful wedding and bridal shower favors, sold in gift boxes for $1.75 each. You can also get heart-shaped cooking whisks, too.
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  Consider these edible goodies as your wedding favors: gourmet jelly beans, a candy apple in cellophane and ribbons, a homemade sugar cookie decorated with the names of the bride and groom.
• Did you know you can buy key chains with a bridesmaid dress or a wedding dress fob?
• Consider these, too. A personalized selection of tea bags, mini red candy hearts, glass spice jars, Chinese takeout boxes, a martini glass, metal tins, miniature plants like palm tree seedlings, custom fortune cookies, personalized playing cards, wedding bubbles in clear tubes, personalized notebooks, and disposable cameras
• At the reception, ribbons personalized with your names will have lots of uses tied with flowers, favors, napkins, menu cards, and balloons.Personalized self-adhesive labels have lots of uses for wedding favors, the bridesmaids gifts, the place cards, the seating chart or the table card and the wine.
• Here for more quick ideas for practical wedding favors. Candles, coasters, hand fans, luggage tags, picture frames and wine bottle stoppers.
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  Edible wedding favors are candy, nuts, chocolate, tea, cookies and mints.
• A crystal paperweight, salt and pepper shakers, heart shaped glass photo frames, personalized votive holders, faux diamond ring key chain, glass candy dish filled with candy, miniature bottles of oil and vinegar, a rosebud in a mini vase, personalized Christmas tree ornaments, engraved pens, maple syrup in a glass leaf bottle, an engraved champagne glass, honey in a glass beehive jar.

Are you feeling inspired now? Remember you can't go wrong if you choose wedding favors with warm, sincere charm. Wedding favors acknowledge wedding traditions and extend a heartfelt thank you to all the people who care about you.

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I wish you a day full of romance and memories as you plan your lovely wedding on the cheap.
- Heather, Best Cheap Weddings

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