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Top 30 Wedding Favor Ideas For 2012

January 25, 2010 By 1 Comment
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This 2012 is two years into the new decade. For weddings, this means new wedding trends and many more wedding days. Some of the most popular trends for this year revolve around the wedding favors. Below you would find some of the upcoming trends as well as the top 30 wedding favor ideas for 2012.

Top Wedding Favor Trends

  1. Do-it-yourself favors – These are ideal for the crafty bride looking for a way to hand out unique favors at a smaller budget.
  2. Monogrammed packaging – Items that bear the initials of the couple are going to be very big this year.
  3. Humorous items – People love to laugh and so, wedding favors with a funny twist are making their way into the arena of popularity this 2010.
  4. Eco-friendly giveaways – These favors intend to help the environment in one way or another.
  5. Edible treats – These are always appreciated by guests who have sweet cravings.
  6. Items for a cause – Express your advocacy with this type of wedding favors
  7. Personalized favors – Giving guests personalized favors is a good way of showing your utmost gratitude.
  8. Candles in unique shapes and containers – Boring and plain candles are out; candles that come in unique shapes and fabulous containers are in.
  9. Beach favors – Beach favors are now not only for beach weddings anymore.
  10. Favors that serve double purpose – These favors serve more than one purpose and can you save money.
  11. Miniature versions of real things
  12. Practical Items – Items that come in elegant designs but can be used as everyday things.

Top 30 Wedding Favor Ideas

  1. Palm Tree Favor Box with Multi-dimensional Detail
  2. Life Is Sweet-Beach Chairs with Heart with Honey Favors
  3. In Favor of a Cure Pink Ribbon Plantable Wildflower Favors
  4. Personalized Audio CDs
  5. Miles of Memories Suitcase Favor Tins with Optional Personalized Labels
  6. Chocolate Bars with Customized Cover
  7. Personalized Expressions Collection Mirror Compact Favors
  8. Sailboat Place Card Holder
  9. Topiary Photo Holder/Place Card Holder
  10. Tin Favor Pails
  11. Welcome to Our Wedding” Canvas Tote Bag
  12. “Cosmetic Couture” Quilted, Monogrammed Make-Up Bag
  13. Choice Crystal Star Bottle Stopper
  14. The Cosmopolitan” Monogrammed Flip-Flops
  15. The ‘Gratest’ Love of All Stainless-Steel Cheese Grater in Showcase Gift Box
  16. The Cosmopolitan Monogrammed 5 Piece Manicure Set
  17. “Cut Out for Each Other” Stainless-Steel, Heart-Shaped Cookie Cutters
  18. “Sew Perfect” Classic Houndstooth Sewing Kit
  19. The Perfect Mix™-Red Roses – Lemonade Favors
  20. Sandalwood Fan Favors
  21. Cross Design Memo Pads
  22. So Pretty Miniature Purse Bottle Stoppers in Gift Box
  23. Peace, Love and Happiness Collection peace sign keychain favors
  24. Adorable Bride & Groom Salt & Pepper Shaker Favors
  25. Scented Frosted Glass Votive- Hearts & Vines
  26. Cupcake bookmark
  27. “Love’s a Peel” apple peeler
  28. Personalized Glass Favor Jars
  29. Olive You! Glass LOVE Oil Bottle in Signature Tuscan Box
  30. Lucky Seven dice candle favors

For a very long time, wedding favors have taken a back seat behind the big wedding aspects. Today, couples give more attention to this small detail because many have realized the importance of wedding favors as a way of thanking guests for being part of the momentous celebration.

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Delight your Guests’ Pallettes with Designer Cookie Wedding Favours

October 3, 2008 By


Cookies make for excellent wedding favours. Cookie wedding favours may cost from $2.50 – $5.00 per cookie if done by a baker, and less than $0.20 per cookie if you can do them yourself. If you find a chocolate and cookie shop in your area, they often offer designer cookie wedding favours. You can have wedding cake cookies, dove cookies, bride and groom cookies, and even frosting-inscription, wedding vows cookie wedding favours.

You can also find designer cookie wedding favours online, just type the words into Google or Yahoo and voila, you can get them shipped to you within 2 weeks time. If you’re looking for a more personalized cookie wedding favours, buying them online makes it easy. You can personalize them right on your computer screen and submit your order. How about cookies shaped like a bride and groom? Guests really get a kick out of biting off your cookie wedding favour’s heads.

By far the most common cookie wedding favours are fortune cookies. They provide a certain entertainment value because of a fun little personalized message, of course.

As you can see, cookie wedding favours can represent a memorable delight for your wedding guests. And last but not least, a good cookie appeals to all age groups better than many other types of wedding favours.

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DIY Wedding Favors – Nothing Like Doing It Yourself

August 9, 2008 By Leave a Comment

There is no denying that store bought products are beautiful. That’s because they are so professionally and elegantly made with nothing but the best material available. But making your own things sometimes is just as appealing because when you put all that effort into creating something new, it makes the item much more special to you. Of course, if you are not a professional or you don’t have the right tools, obviously it is going to be much harder for you to achieve that similar effect like the things you find in the store.

But that doesn’t really matter because sometimes the beauty of do it yourself, or rather DIY, products is that they can still be close to perfect even though they may not be professionally made. What matters is that they are handmade personally by you, and whenever you take the time and effort to do something yourself, not only do you appreciate it more but your guests do as well.

Maybe that is why some brides these days prefer the DIY wedding favors method even though it may require more time and effort than if they got it at a bridal specialty boutique or off the internet. Sometimes you just can’t seem to find the gift that you think is just right enough and that you are completely happy with to be given away to the guests, and that’s where the DIY wedding favors come into play because you can then make the wedding favor you have already envisioned in your mind but can’t seem to find at the store.

DIY wedding favors are the option some brides are choosing to go for when they can’t find exactly what they want because unlike the other details of the wedding, wedding favors are probably the easiest ones to pull off in terms of making your own material. Wedding favors are probably the smallest aspect of the decoration bit of the wedding, and therefore, hand making the wedding favors yourself is not as difficult compared with if you were to try hand making other things like the décor of the wedding for example.

Wedding favors are merely little gifts that could be made out of anything, because wedding favors don’t necessarily have to be any one specific item. Wedding favors are little tokens of appreciation you present your guests with as a way of saying thank you to them for sharing in their special day with you and making it a lot more meaningful with their attendance. Therefore, you can easily have DIY wedding favors because the wedding favors can be absolutely anything you like and think that your guests would like.

One of the benefits you get out of DIY wedding favors is that you get to make them exactly the way you want so you know that you are absolutely satisfied with the wedding favors you hand out at the reception. That is not to say that store bought wedding favors are not as good, but sometimes when you buy something, you may not necessarily be able to find precisely what you are looking for and you will have to settle for the next best thing, as opposed to if you make the wedding favors yourself because then you know that you have just what you want with no compromise.

And DIY products are always more appreciated that the store bought ones because of the time and effort it took to make them. Your guests will be especially touched because they know it wouldn’t have been easy to make the wedding favors one by one all by yourself. You are going to be a very busy bride planning for the wedding and every spare moment you have will be fully occupied planning and dealing with the details of the wedding. So the fact that despite your busy schedule you actually took the time to sit down and hand make the wedding favors yourself says a lot about how appreciative of your guests you are.

So why not give do it yourself wedding favors a go and see how you like the end result. You don’t have to be a creative genius to come up with some fantastic looking wedding favors, you just need to have in mind exactly what you want and focus on it. Then from there it is all a matter of execution.

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Wedding Favors To Make Your Wedding A Success

August 9, 2008 By Leave a Comment

As a young bride getting married for the first time, busy running around planning the wedding details and trying to get as much done in that short amount of time as possible, you might tend to underestimate the importance of giving wedding favors to your guests. And who could blame you? With all the craziness of rushing here and there trying to get all the details of your wedding perfect, you might not have the time to sit and put a lot of thought into what wedding favors would be most appropriate for your guests.

That is why you should start early. Because you need to keep in mind that sometimes you might not be able to find exactly the kind of wedding favor you want and are most likely going to have to make them yourself if you want to get it just right. Making your own wedding favors is a great idea and if possible you should go for that option because it adds a more personal touch to the gift. Or perhaps you might have been thinking about making the wedding favors yourself but you were worried that you might not have the time to do so.

Either way, wedding favors to make on your own are going to require time and effort, which is why you should begin as early as possible. Not only is it going to require a lot of time, but wedding favors that you are going to make on your own are going to be a little tricky if it is your very first time ever making a lot of handmade gifts for a large group of people. If that is the case and it really is your first time making wedding favors, then here are three tips you want to keep in mind to help you along the way.

First, look at the theme of your wedding. Is your wedding going to a formal or informal one? A seasonal one? A beach themed wedding, a garden wedding or a fairy tale concept wedding? The reason you need to focus on the theme of your wedding is because the wedding favor should reflect the theme of your wedding as clearly as possible so your guests don’t get confused. It won’t do to have a wedding that is say, a beach themed wedding but the wedding favor you give has nothing to do with the beach theme at all. So decide on a theme before you begin on the wedding favors that you are going to make on your own.

The second tip is to decide on the type of wedding favor you want to give your guests before you start on wedding favors that you are going to make on your own. Once you have the theme of the wedding firmly in place, you then have to decide if you want the wedding favors to be the kind your guests can keep as keepsakes, or you want it to be the kind that your guests can eat like chocolates, or even cookies that you make yourself for example. If you are a whiz at baking, then by all means go ahead and show your skills off but don’t forget that the wedding favor has to carry the details of the wedding too. If you are going for the keepsakes type of favors, then make sure the details of your wedding are printed on some part of the gift, and if you’re the culinary type, then write on the details of your wedding in whatever it is you may be baking.

The third tip of keep in mind when it comes to wedding favors to make on your own is the sort of message you want to send your guests with the wedding favor. A wedding favor is much nicer and much more memorable when it has a short, simple message written on it from the couple. It doesn’t have to be anything fancy, just something short and simple will do (unless you have a flair for writing and you do want to write something fancy of course). But whether your message is short or long, it is best to put some thought into it so you can get out exactly what you want to say to your guests.

Once you have the answers to all these three key areas, making your wedding favors should become a much simpler process. Making anything on your own is all about focusing on what you want, having a firm idea in place, and then bringing that idea to life, and with these three guiding steps, making your own wedding favors should be a piece of cake.

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Homemade Wedding Favors: Cost Effective Gifts for Your Guests

August 8, 2008 By Leave a Comment

After the joyous celebration of your wedding, you would want your guests to go home with something to keep as a souvenir. Whether you are having a big wedding or just a simple ceremony, wedding favors should be one of the things that must be prepared well in advance. Wedding favors are given as a way to thank the people with whom you will share a very meaningful event in your life. While it is true that some wedding supplies such as favors can be quite expensive, you can always cut back on expenses by making your own wedding favors instead.

Homemade wedding favors are not just cost-effective, but can also be very unique and pleasing to the guests. Since you are making the favors yourself, creativity and imagination can just flow in; you can be as innovative and resourceful as you wish! You even get to personalize the gift the way you want, without having to spend a lot of cash. Also, this fun project of creating your own wedding favors can be a good way to spend quality time with friends and family members.

If you have decided to push through with making your own wedding favors rather than buying ready-made ones, follow these guidelines to help you get started:
– Start right out by listing down all the possible ideas you can use to create homemade wedding favors. Base your choices on the tone, style, and theme of the wedding. For instance, if you are just having a small ceremony, with a couple of invited guests, simple wedding favors such as romantic personalized CDs or sugar coated almonds packed in themed organza bags.

- After making a decision on what to give your guests, it is time to scout for the materials you’ll need. You can go to local wedding shops, craft stores, office staples center, or even hardware shops. Also, since you will buy supplies in bulk, it is important that you compare prices as well as the quality of materials. Your goal is to save money with homemade wedding favors, and at the same time give your guests keepsakes that look as good (or even better) as those being sold in the market.

- Ask for assistance from close friends and family members. Even if you start creating homemade wedding favors months in advance, it is still wise to get help from others, most especially if you have a lot of invited guests coming to your celebration. Otherwise, when you get too tired in the middle of making the 50th personalized and hand-painted flower pot, it’s either you hold back or make succeeding favors hastily. Thus, your wedding favors end up looking messy and poorly made.

Enlisting your friends and family can be beneficial to you, and you may find it enjoyable to spend time with them as you all work together to finish your ‘project.’ Who knows, some may even contribute artistic ideas as add-ons to the gifts you are making.

Here are some homemade wedding favor ideas that you can give your beloved guests:
- Wedding Soaps – In making soaps, you need to have the following materials: soap molds, clear melt soap, metal band in wedding colors such as gold or silver, and fragrance. These are available in most craft stores—just go to the wedding supply section. The first step is to melt the soap as indicated on the package. Then, get your soap molds and fill it with liquid soap (only halfway). Afterwards, put the wedding band into the mold and then pour the remaining liquid soap. Make sure that the metal bands are completely covered with liquid soap. In just a short while, the soap will harden and the metal bands will become visible. You can easily take out the soap from the molds. Now, all you have to do is wrap the soap in nice tulle or cellophane, making a beautiful finish by tying it up with colorful ribbons.

- Edible Treats – If your prowess is on baking delectable desserts, you may want to delight your guests with fresh baked brownies or cookies. You just have to use cookie cutters so you can easily design the cookies into different shapes such as your initials, flowers, or cartoon characters for the little kids on your wedding. Then, you can place the cookies in a small canister or a decorative box, or you may want to wrap the goodies in cellophane. Secure the package with a ribbon and then add labels, which contain your name, the wedding date, and a personal thank-you message.

- Wedding Place Card Holders or Bookmarks – These are very popular wedding favors that you can easily make in the comfort of your home. Using your computer, download software applications that can allow you to print onto card stock the following: thank-you message, wedding vows, or favorite song or poem. Experiment with beautiful font styles or colors, and just punch a hole on the bookmark. String a ribbon on the hole and tie it up into a small bow. Add small trinkets or gold wedding bands and make these hang from the ribbon.

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