Wedding Favors

Wedding favors are typically small but thoughtful items that are meant to serve as a memento of your beautiful day.  Traditional items include things like ornate bottle-stoppers, cake servers, and serving spoons.  Such items are intended to be a keepsake for the wedding guests rather than something they will actually use in everyday life.  Some couples, however, will choose favors that serve double duty as a reminder of the event as well as a useful item.  Small picture frames, decorated place card holders, lovely candy dishes, pen and pencil sets, and other such favors fall into this category.  Edible wedding favors such as mints or candies in an attractive tin are also available.  The choices are truly limited only by your imagination.

Typical wedding favors come with traditional wedding theme designs including bells, doves, hearts, flowers, and flowing ribbons, but can also include more modern motifs like dolphins.  With the more costly but far more personalized option of custom ordering, virtually anything is possible.

The most important consideration is selecting wedding favors is to remember that these are items meant simply to say “thank you.”  You’re not going to find the perfect item that will please each and every guest at your wedding, but a little thoughtfulness will result in favors that will at least let your guests know that you’re thinking of them.  The guests at your wedding are primarily your family and your friends; all of them will appreciate a small souvenir of the event.

Recommended resource for wedding favors: My Wedding Favors

Wedding Cake Tips

Here are some tips if you are trying to save money on your wedding cake:

• Make your own wedding cake creations
• Serve cupcakes and a smaller cake for the cake toppers
• Ask a guest with a baking passion to make the cake for you instead of giving you a gift. Just remember to buy the ingredients and toppers yourself.
• Have a baker make the cake but you can put it together yourself
• Buy your own cake toppers and other decorative additions
• Pick up the cake rather than have it delivered.
• Use your own decorations like flowers, autumn leaves as accents rather than theirs etc.
• Use extra candies and Hershey’s kisses as accents