Your wedding day is going to be perfect.
All of the plans are coming together beautifully.
Now it is time to decide on personalized wedding favors for your guests.
Just as weddings can be anything from simple and informal to elegant and formal, wedding favors can match or compliment any wedding theme.
Thankfully, there are several choices from which to choose when it comes to considering gifts for those special friends and family who are sharing in your special day.
You want your wedding favors to be unique, appreciated, and within your budget.
Favors for your bridal party and those helping with your wedding day should be a bit more personal and therefore, might be different for each person.
Wedding favors for your guests can be something that will evoke fond memories of your wedding day each time they look at it.
Examples of personalized wedding favors might be: engraved miniature picture frames with the bride and grooms' names, crystal goblets or other crystal items, candles, pens, engraved glass coasters, engraved bookmarks, or monogrammed key chains.
Wedding favors that are consumable are also popular and appreciated by guests.
For example, flavored coffees with an engraved coffee scoop, bath salts, soaps, hot cocoa nestled inside a personalized mug, teas, cookie cutters that match the wedding theme with cookie mix, biscotti or gourmet chocolates in a monogrammed tin.
Other wedding favor ideas might be stainless steel heart shaped ice-cream scoops, silver coffee scoops, place card holders that match the wedding theme, personalized golf balls, bud vases with the bride and groom's name engraved on them, or bubbles in a plastic or glass container.
If you want to add a personal touch, compose a message to your guests, have it printed in a beautiful script font, and place it in a two-sided picture frame.
Place your message in one frame, leaving the other frame blank, so your guests can later add a picture of you, the bride and groom on your wedding day.
This will be an especially cherished keepsake.
For those whose budget is a bit smaller, brides can easily create their own wedding favors with the help of store-bought items.
To make inexpensive yet attractive wedding favors, begin with a small container.
Tins, mini wire baskets, votive candle holders, or glass jars can hold everything from mints, jellybeans, bath salts, or any small item that would both please your guests and compliment your wedding theme.
Some ideas for unique wedding themes might include using mini terra cotta pots, miniature garden pails or watering cans filled with seedling packets or small flowers for a garden wedding.
Birdhouses could also be painted to look like miniature churches complete with the bride and groom's names and the wedding date.
For an elegant wedding, beaded organza bags filled with individually wrapped chocolates or candies would a nice touch.
To add the final touches, use ribbon, beads and a gift tag on each favor.
Wedding favors can be store-bought, handmade, or a combination of both.
They can be personalized or more general and compliment any wedding theme No matter what you choose, have fun making those choices that will further enhance your special day and make it memorable.