For many brides, choosing wedding favors sees them embarking on a fruitless quest to find unique and individual items, perfectly presented and unlike anything their guests have ever received before.
Nine times out of ten they will fail and end up bogged down with creating overly fussy favors with lots of unnecessary trimmings and expensive packaging.
The reason for giving wedding favors is often lost in the quest for perfection, but these little gifts are intended as tokens of thanks to your guests for sharing your wedding day with you.
Traditionally they would have been a bag of sugared almonds or chocolate dragees, a far cry from today's candles, photo frames and bottle stoppers.
By today's standards, a bag of almonds may look miserly, but in fact most guests will agree that they rarely appreciate the amount of thought and effort that goes into creating them and more often than not that decorative bottle stopper ends up in a drawer never to see the light of day! With budgets tight for many your wedding favors are one element of your day that you can look to save money on without sacrificing your dreams elsewhere.
That simple bag of almonds will cost very little, but will provide a welcome sight to your guests who are probably starving by the time they reach their tables at the reception! Another aspect to keeping your wedding favors is the time it will take you to make them up and add all your little decorations.
The last thing you want on the night before your wedding is to be bogged down making up hundreds of favors because you choose fiddly decorations and complicated packaging.
Go simple with glass jars filled with jelly beans and personalized labels, or a simple votive candle with a tag and ribbon attached.
Choosing your wedding favors is a process of picking out those which are not only within budget, but which also match your wedding style and theme, suit your wedding colors and have a bit of your personality in them.
In fact picking the perfect favors can really be a matter of picking out something which you would be happy to receive yourself.
There are literally hundreds of ideas out there when it comes to wedding favors but you need to balance your budget with the amount of time you have available to create them.
Putting together seedling favors requires you to be able to grow them from seed and pot them into individual containers ready to give to your guests.
Custom cookies are lovely but expensive and making your own does not always go to plan! One of the easiest ways to get your wedding favors is to negotiate for them within one of your other wedding packages.
For instance ask your caterers if they can create some chocolates which you can give out as favors or even cupcakes which could also double as wedding cake.
Keep your wedding favor ideas simple and you will not go far wrong both in terms of cost and finished product.
Nine times out of ten they will fail and end up bogged down with creating overly fussy favors with lots of unnecessary trimmings and expensive packaging.
The reason for giving wedding favors is often lost in the quest for perfection, but these little gifts are intended as tokens of thanks to your guests for sharing your wedding day with you.
Traditionally they would have been a bag of sugared almonds or chocolate dragees, a far cry from today's candles, photo frames and bottle stoppers.
By today's standards, a bag of almonds may look miserly, but in fact most guests will agree that they rarely appreciate the amount of thought and effort that goes into creating them and more often than not that decorative bottle stopper ends up in a drawer never to see the light of day! With budgets tight for many your wedding favors are one element of your day that you can look to save money on without sacrificing your dreams elsewhere.
That simple bag of almonds will cost very little, but will provide a welcome sight to your guests who are probably starving by the time they reach their tables at the reception! Another aspect to keeping your wedding favors is the time it will take you to make them up and add all your little decorations.
The last thing you want on the night before your wedding is to be bogged down making up hundreds of favors because you choose fiddly decorations and complicated packaging.
Go simple with glass jars filled with jelly beans and personalized labels, or a simple votive candle with a tag and ribbon attached.
Choosing your wedding favors is a process of picking out those which are not only within budget, but which also match your wedding style and theme, suit your wedding colors and have a bit of your personality in them.
In fact picking the perfect favors can really be a matter of picking out something which you would be happy to receive yourself.
There are literally hundreds of ideas out there when it comes to wedding favors but you need to balance your budget with the amount of time you have available to create them.
Putting together seedling favors requires you to be able to grow them from seed and pot them into individual containers ready to give to your guests.
Custom cookies are lovely but expensive and making your own does not always go to plan! One of the easiest ways to get your wedding favors is to negotiate for them within one of your other wedding packages.
For instance ask your caterers if they can create some chocolates which you can give out as favors or even cupcakes which could also double as wedding cake.
Keep your wedding favor ideas simple and you will not go far wrong both in terms of cost and finished product.