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Top Wedding Favors Ideas
Depending on your budget you can do simple inexpensive
favors or very elaborate favors. Or you might pick something that coincides with
the time of year your wedding is held. Here is a list of ideas to get you
thinking...you might even create your own.
Seasonal Favors:
Mini Easter baskets filled with foil-wrapped chocolate eggs
Little plastic pumpkins filled with candy corn
Simple Christmas ornaments
Blow-up beach balls with your names and the date on them
Candy canes
Miniature heart-shaped boxes of Valentine's chocolates
Sunscreen for an outdoor summer wedding
Miniature watering cans filled with spring blooms
Frisbees for a cookout in the woods or park
Umbrellas for a wedding during rainy season
Scarves or mittens for a winter wedding day
Sunglasses
Snow globes
Wedding water bottles
Sparklers
Miniature pots of clover for St. Patty's Day
Pretty paper fans to beat the heat
Kites
Keepsake Favors:
A love poem
A pretty picture frame
Potpourri
Votive candle wrapped in tulle
Stained Glass Sun Catchers
A bookmark with your names and wedding date
Several sheets of pretty notepaper with matching envelopes
A letter of love and thanks from the two of you
Fragrance - small vials of perfume and/or cologne that you love
Handkerchief
Aromatherapy candles
Engraved silver keychains
A Polaroid shot of you and each guest as they arrive at the reception
Small, round, decorative boxes
Little blank books/journals
Magnets
Personalized chop sticks
Personalized bottle opener
Music boxes
Edible Favors:
The classic: candied almonds
A single petit four
Chocolate coins in gold foil
A miniature box of good chocolate
Half bottles of wine, perhaps with labels personalized for your wedding
Chocolate-chip cookies
Gourmet jelly beans
Chocolate Kisses wrapped in tulle in your wedding colors
Mints with your married monogram on them
Gourmet coffee beans in mugs
Personalized Hot chocolate
M&Ms - the colors of your wedding
Personalized candy bars
Salt Water Taffy
Fortune cookies
Personalized tea bags
Heart shaped cookies with bride and groom's names and date
Miniature bottles of maple syrup for a fall theme
Homemade jam
Gummie Bears
Cookie cutters wrapped in tulle
Pineapples or coconuts for a tropical wedding
Bubble gum
Little tins of butter cookies
Rice-Krispies treats
Big lollipops in your wedding colors
Lively Favors:
Tree saplings
Flower bulbs and terra cotta pot
A single rose at each place setting
Donations to the charity of your choice in each guest's name and leave a small
paper scroll or card at each place explaining.
Example: The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA)
accepts donations in lieu of wedding favors. Visit their
web site for more information.
Packets of seeds
Flower leis
"Adopt" an animal at the zoo in your guests' collective names
Boutonnieres and corsages for every single guest
Fun Favors:
Pez dispensers complete with the candy!
Decks of cards
Bottles of bubbles
Tiny stuffed animals
Toothbrushes with your names and the wedding date on them
CD singles with your wedding song
Post-It notes in your wedding colors
Wedding T-shirts
Bandanas
Baseball caps or visors
Shot glasses personalized
Super Balls or Slinkies
Crayons, you might want to cover the tables with paper
Yo- yos
Soda can holders
Tennis or golf balls with your names and the date on them
Personalized pens or pencils
Comic books
Lottery tickets
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