Tips For Selecting The Perfect Wedding Favor

Originating in Europe, wedding traditions such as throwing rice and crumbling cake above the bride's head symbolized fertility and luck. Offering trinkets or wedding favors to guests signified gratitude and unity between the two families. The tradition of giving wedding guests a small token of appreciation has grown in popularity throughout the years. Here are a few tips on how to choose your wedding favors.

A Favor is a Favor - Not so. Modern brides want their wedding favors to mirror their individuality and style. In fact, coordinating your wedding favors to match your decorations or wedding theme makes for a beautiful and memorable celebration.

Candy - Candy is one of the most popular choices for wedding favors. Three almonds, representing fertility/health, harmony and happiness coated with white sugar, symbolic of purity, wrapped in tulle are popular wedding favors. Brides are also leaning toward chocolate kisses, roses, spoons, cinnamon sticks, tea-sickles, and mints or truffles placed in tulle rounds or tin favor boxes.

Candles - For brides who prefer an inedible gift, candle wedding favors are excellent because they also double as table decorations. There are so many options to choose from with candle wedding favors, it is easy to coordinate them with almost any wedding theme.

Do-IT-Yourself - Many brides choose to make their own wedding favors in order to express their creativity and personal interests. By inserting a different piece of tulle in its levels, and then inserting the candy filler through a tube pushed down in the center and tying off with a ribbon, anyone can create an attractive favor.

Pack the wedding favors in charming containers, such as white-cardboard candy boxes, glassine envelopes, little metal tins, cellophane bags or tiny terra cotta pots. Look for these and other wedding favor packaging online, or you can also find them at arts, crafts, stationery or baking-supply stores.

Embellish each wedding favor package with ribbon or other festive trimmings. To personalize these wedding favors, add tags or adhesive labels with the names, monogram or the wedding date of you and your spouse-to-be.

Personalization - Personalized wedding favors have become the norm. To encourage personalization, sticky glue-pens and crafting powder are included with most do-it-yourself wedding favor kits. With favor kits, brides are able to weave their color scheme and wedding theme throughout their event. Wedding favors, centerpieces, and even balloon weights can all be coordinated to match the decor.

Place Card Holders - Wedding favors can double as table place cards if you display them near the reception entrance. In this case, the tags should bear the name of each guest and his or her table number. You can also set the wedding favors at each table place to direct your guests to their seats. Another idea is to surprise your guests with a beautiful display table where they will discover their favors at the end of the celebration as they head out the door.

In conclusion, wedding favors are one of those wonderful details that can make your wedding unique. Your wedding favors need not be elaborate or expensive. The key? Make the gift simple, then personalize the presentation.