Sep 30 2008
Wedding Favors - Your Favorite Wedding Favors Found Fast
Wedding favors are small gifts that decorate your guests’ tables and provide a wonderful memento of the big day. How fortunate that they come in so many varieties. No matter what theme you have selected for your wedding, you’ll find a wedding favor to match.
Many choose a winter theme to go with the season in which the wedding takes place. The choices here are as endless as the snows rolling over the hills. Snowflake candle holders, frosty the snowman placecard holders and much more are available.
Summer is among the most popular of wedding themes. The delightful warmth and bright sunshine put everyone in a festive mood. Select a favor that matches. Flowers are a fine choice of design element. Delightful tiny vases, rose-shaped candle holders and other small items will be a big hit.
Spring is a favorite season for many who don’t care for summer humidity or winter cold. Reflect that feeling in your wedding favors. The joyful colors as the Earth comes back to life find their way into many gift items, such as wine bottle stoppers, miniature pails or tealights in robin blue.
Fall is often the choice of those who enjoy a brisk breeze and multi-colored falling leaves. Wedding favors take advantage of that emotion in the form of maple-leaf placecard holders, small bottles of Vermont syrup and so many more items that bring joy. A pine cone container of chocolates won’t be left on the table when the reception dinner dishes are cleared away.
Planning a beach-themed wedding? What a great idea. Sun and surf can evoke the fun of the day you got engaged or the romance of the tropical paradise where you intend to honeymoon. Seashell photo frames, starfish tealights, sailboat candles and other beach items will be on display in many a guest’s home while you’re away.
Las Vegas is a great place to get married. It makes for an equally fun and funky honeymoon spot. Give your guests some chocolate poker chips to calm the munchies before dinner is served. The coasters etched with your logo are another hot ticket. Spin the wheel and let your winning ball come up on some brass dice to decorate the home office desk.
Many things that we often find around the home make for ultra-fine wedding favors, as well.
You can never go wrong with wine stoppers or sample bottles of your favorite vintage. Coffee packets will get emptied by enthusiasts of one of the world’s favorite beverages. But the containers can make for a keepsake that lasts a lifetime. Tea sachets can hold white, green or black but they always bring to mind passion red. Bath salts and soaps are still another option that brings delight to the senses as they decorate the reception table or home countertop.
Speaking of decorative, crystal or glass wedding favors are not just beautiful. They’re highly prized collectors items. A frost glass sailboat tealight will be displayed on mantles forever. A glass dinner bell will decorate Christmas trees for generations. Wine tasting glasses decorated with personalized ribbons never go out of style.
All these items can be personalized in many ways. Glass can be etched. Tins can be stickered. Leather keychains can be embossed. Boxes can be tied with printed ribbons and bows.
Carry your theme to the ultimate and put your wedding favors in those boxes or tins that include your wedding design. Decorated with the colors of the season, a sun logo or a fun Las Vegas hotel sign, they will be as treasured as the gift inside.
Planning a wedding is so much work, isn’t it great that picking out wedding favors is so easy? You can’t go wrong no matter what you choose.
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