Jun 19 2008
Wedding Table Gifts Should Be Attractive and Practical
Weddings are a perfect time to rejoice in the love of the bride and groom as well as give thanks to the many friends and family that are in attendance. If you want to provide wedding table gifts for all the guests, then you will want to choose something that is both attractive and practical, not something that will likely end up relegated to the junk drawer.
Get Framed
If you plan to have a formal sit down reception with assigned seating, what better way to display whom goes where than with place cards? You do not want to use regular tent cards to do this but rather incorporate your wedding table gifts in the form of picture frames that match the theme of the wedding. Picture frames come in a variety of sizes, colors, textures and shapes and they can easily hold a piece of paper with a seating assignment. Just be sure to announce to the guests that each picture frame is the wedding table gifts to them as a special thank you for attending and sharing in the day.
Light Up
Candles make for great wedding table gifts because not only can they be found in a variety of colors, shapes and scents, they are also quite practical as well. You could choose candles shaped like palm trees if you had a tropical theme or even tea light candles held in special commemorative holders. To pull double duty, you could even choose candles with holders that also serve as place card holders.
Grow It
For more laid back wedding proceedings, small flower pots with seeds would make for great wedding table gifts to each guest. The flower pots could be decorated in the wedding theme or even bought ready made in the wedding colors. The seeds could be anything you deem fitting such as shamrocks if you are Irish or even wildflowers as they are easy to grow. Top off the wedding table gifts with a simple thank you card from the bride and groom and you will have something the guests will remember and use too.
Something Edible
You can ensure your wedding table gifts to your guests will be used – just give the gift of something edible! Candy and cookies top the list of edibles as they can be relatively inexpensive as well as being easy to do. A fun idea is giving guests fortune cookies in small Chinese food containers and each cookie could have homemade fortunes you come up with. Decorated cookies with the wedding colors or even a sugar screened picture of the bride and groom is yet another idea that guests will be sweet on. All in all, there is a variety of wedding table gifts to give guests and you are only limited by budget and imagination.
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