Beach Wedding Favors

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.

From using recycled paper to gift wrap favors and presents to using energy-saving bulbs for lighting, there are many ways a bridal couple can be environmentally friendly. There have even been weddings where paper plates and napkins have been made from recyclable paper. If going green is important to you, there is no better place to preach it than at your wedding!

While there are many ways you can go on and on about saving the environment, no method is more prominent in getting that message across than using eco-friendly wedding favors.

Wanting to give eco-friendly wedding favors does not mean you will be limited in your choices. The easiest and most common favors of this type are seedlings in a packet. These can be herbs, even spices or flowering plants – the important thing is that these seedlings can be sown and grow into a full-blown plant so your message of Going Green and being environmentally friendly reaches your guests. Whether they are store bought or purchased online, these seedlings are sold in ready-made packets complete with sowing instructions, so it is just a matter of leaving a personal note on them. Phrases like “Sown In Love”, “Grow In Love” and “Love In Full Bloom” can be printed or engraved on them. Some couples use a separate attachment for their personal notes and leave the original packaging for the seedlings so their guests will know what plant it is that they are given.

Giving a mini watering can with the seedlings is another interesting idea. Various types of watering cans are available for your choosing and all you have to do is choose the color that best matches the rest of your wedding décor.

If giving seedlings and encouraging the planting of plants is too foreign for you, then why not give a little tree? These are already planted in mini pots so all your guests have to do for a while is water and fertilize them until they are bigger and need to be replanted into a bigger pot. This cuts down on the need to find soil and pots in the initial stages and will still be a good reminder to your guests of your wedding and message of going green.

Most bridal couples do not like to poach on their guests’ generosities during the reception but doing good by the environment may make this a necessity. For a truly eco-friendly wedding favor, you can provide your guests with pledge or donation cards to an environmental organization where all they need to do is to fill up their details and contribute a small amount. Naturally, this is all purely voluntary.

A different way of achieving the same goal – donations to an environmental organization – is to inform your guests beforehand that a portion of their monetary gifts will be for an eco-friendly charity. If you do this, however, make sure you indicate the exact amount out of each gift. For instance, two dollars out of every ten dollar gift to you and your spouse will be donated to The Recycling Centre for their daily operations. This is a great way to show your guests how much you care about the world they live in as well.

Another idea as to what you could give as wedding favors – biodegradable, celebratory wedding poppers that are made of recycled and recyclable paper. These are wonderful elements of fun and can be used as a party prop for the reception as well. They are also appropriate for the occasion and you need not worry about having killed Mother Earth in the process of having fun.

Even if your favors are not directly related to saving the environment and the Going Green movement, you can always put your normal favors into environmentally-friendly boxes. Choose boxes that are made of recycled wood or paper, and painted with water based paint. For your own convenience, try and find those that come with a mini bow on the top so no additional packaging is required. These recycled and reusable boxes are both pretty and practical enough to be used over and over again.

Having eco-friendly wedding favors does not mean boring, serious favors. They can be fun and practical, pretty yet recyclable all at the same time. You just want to pass on the message that having fun at your wedding and saving the earth can go hand in hand!

Weddings are huge events, and at huge events, there is going to be a lot of material that is used especially for the decorations. There’re little ways you can do your bit for the environment here too, and the first thing to do is let nothing go to waste. Like don’t throw out the leftover food for example, instead either pack it away and eat it yourself later, or donate them to local charities. And don’t just toss away the decorations either. Pack them away neatly and store them somewhere because you never know when an occasion might come up where they can be used again.

If you don’t plan on re-using your wedding decorations, then try to decorate with something that can be recycled, such as live floral arrangements or something which you can replant somewhere else at another location so that it doesn’t go to waste. Green or environmentally friendly weddings are becoming more and more popular these days, as more people are slowly becoming aware of their responsibility in preserving the environment.

What we need to realize every time we think of throwing out something just because we don’t have any use for it anymore, or whenever we waste something and don’t think twice about it, even when we can’t be bothered to find a proper dustbin to throw our trash in, is that everything we do can impact the environment and we are going to have to be more careful if we want to have this same environment for the future generation.

That’s why many couples are considering going with the eco-friendly wedding theme now more than ever, especially couples who are deeply concerned about environmental issues to begin with. The couple could even encourage their guests to go green and do their bit for the environment too – with the help of some eco-friendly wildflower wedding favors for example. There are more eco-friendly gifts to choose from these days, and one example of a good eco-friendly gift would be eco-friendly wildflower wedding favors. It is the perfect solution!

Give your guests a little nod in the right direction by giving them personalized eco-friendly wildflower wedding favors like personalized biodegradable bags, and within those bags could be an assortment of little packets of different types of flower seeds which they can plant in their own garden. Each of the guest’s eco-friendly wildflower wedding favors could contain different types of flower seeds, or you could give them seeds of their favorite flowers even, and these packets can be handmade out of earth-friendly or biodegradable products.

Because eco-friendly themed weddings are becoming increasingly popular these days, they are much easier to organize, and it is much easier for you to pick out environmentally friendly themed wedding favors for your guests as well. Maybe you might not be too keen on giving them seed packets, but not to worry because there are other eco-friendly wedding favor options you can go for and the best place to search for these would be either wedding specialty shops, or if you want more options to go for, then browse online as the internet will provide you with the most variety and options when it comes to things like these. It might not have been so easy in the past, but you can pull off almost anything these days.

The eco-friendly wildflower wedding favors would be a great complement to the eco-friendly wedding theme (if that is in fact the theme of your wedding). Even if you are not going for that sort of theme, they can still make a great little addition to whatever wedding favor you are going to give your guests. These simple little packets of seeds can go together well, no matter what the wedding favor may be.