Wedding Favor Tips | Family Relationships

By SeanLamb
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Today's weddings celebrations are not complete without wedding favors on the table at the reception. These started out as small bags of sugared almonds and have grown into a huge variety of different and exciting gifts. Don't be afraid, there are many companies offering a wide range of items, many that can be customised to you particular wedding, and choosing one couldn't be easier. Below are a few of the popular ideas that you may like to consider, the final choice will be dictated by your wedding theme and your budget.

If you really cannot decide, you can always choose the easy wedding favor option of flowers, which can also decorate the reception at the same time. The big plus with this option is the ease and speed with which flowers can be organized. Red roses always look attractive and of course they don't have to be wrapped like many other flowers. Placing the rose on the wedding reception table where the guest are seated is a nice touch and doesn't need to be done until the last minute.

Sweets can be an easy wedding favor to arrange and there are a number of ways to give them, such as presenting each guest with a small tin or basket filled with different sweets. A simpler, but possibly more interesting method, is to present the sweets in a large glass bowl, then, provide each wedding guest with a small bag or box to place their favourites sweets in. This means that you won't have to wrap anything yourself and it should be acceptable to everyone as they get to chose only the type of sweets they like.

A novel idea that will kill two birds with one stone, is a small picture frame which can be used on the day as placeholders. This is a great idea because wrapping this type of wedding favor can put many people off, especially when there are a large number of guests. Almost all receptions have place names at the tables for the guests, so this is an ideal way to present the frame without the need to spend time and more money on wrapping paper, which will only be thrown away, and that is not very ecologically friendly.

Drinks coasters can be a useful wedding favour as they can always be a great way of remembering your special day. They come in so many different styles and materials that there must be one that is just right for you. Some can double as a photo frame which make them even more attractive.

For those of you who want something more ecologically friendly, there are a range of products available. Cards that come with flower seeds built in so that after the wedding, they can be planted to give an annual reminder of your big day, every time the flowers return. There are vegetable seeds in a fake match book so that you tear them off and plant them to get an edible memory of your wedding.

Bottle stoppers may at first seem a little strange, but who, nowadays, doesn't open a bottle of wine at least once a week? Normally, people just reuse the cork but with this wedding favour, they will have a really useful item to remember you by.

Finally, an easy, if somewhat more expensive wedding favor, is to arrange for a professional photographer to attend the wedding reception and take a photo of every couple as they arrive looking their best. It is a simple matter of bringing a printer along so the images can be printed off during the reception and are ready when the guests start to leave. It may be possible to arrange to have the photos shown as a slide show so that everybody gets to see each as they arrived at the reception.

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