Giving favors to your guests at the end of the wedding reception is a way to send them home with a memento of the day. Wedding favors should be thoughtful and lend a personal touch to your wedding. The favors are a tangible memory for wedding guests of the bride and groom’s day. Although individual favors aren’t costly, usually one-to-five dollars, the expense adds up when you consider the number of favors that you’ll be giving out. Consider what to give, how to package it, and how to present it so you get the most for your money.
Choose Wedding Favors
Select a wedding favor that will remind people of the style and theme of your wedding. This way, the favor reflects your event without seeming to be something you tacked on as an afterthought.
Connect the favor to the locale, such as a corkscrew for a winery; a candy-covered apple for a wedding at a farm. Reflect the wedding’s color scheme with hard candies, chocolate-covered candies, or jelly beans in that color. Seasonal favors could include leaf-shaped chocolates for the fall or seashell-shaped chocolates in the summer. Destination wedding favors can be a souvenir from the location or a luggage tag. Use your monogram to frost a cookie or another edible treat. For a green wedding, give out tree saplings, soy candles, or even a reusable shopping tote. Give a donation to a charity in the name of each of your guests (make certain that the charity won’t then spend a lot of money sending out thank you notes or acknowledgement letters).
Packaging Party Favors for Your Wedding
If you’ll be pulling together the favors on your own or with the help of your bridesmaids, look for items at dollar stores anyplace else you can get items in bulk. The perfect container may inspire the favor or the wedding favor may demand a particular type of package. Consider a simple box (or gift wrap it for a more impressive statement), a takeout container, tiny tin pails or canisters, a small wood box, or a glass jar.
Ribbon helps whatever packaging you’ve selected look more put together. Remember to include something that mentions your names and the wedding date.
Presenting Wedding Favors
After the thought and expense of providing favors for your wedding guests, make certain that they receive these small gifts.
Combine the escort card, telling people where they will be sitting, with the favor, so guests pick up the item as they enter the reception. Set the favor at each place setting. Or, turn the favors into the centerpiece; everyone will take a part home. Place the favor on a table so the guests can pick them up on the way out.
The wedding favors are a way for the bride and groom to thank their guests for joining them in their special day. This small token is also a memento for guests so a bride and groom should consider what they will give and how they will present it to their friends and family.