Free Wedding Planning Guide!
Chapter 2
Wedding Guest
Favors
Simply Memorable
For
over a thousand years, it’s been tradition to show gratitude to our
guests for sharing this special event with us. Guest gifts are often
something personal, a trinket to remind them of you and your wedding
day.
Favors have
ranged from small, inexpensive edible items
to lavish expensive jewels and precious
gems.
Whether you choose to spend a little or a
lot, you can personalize your guests’
memorabilia to fit the theme and mood of
your celebration.
Consider first, whether you want your gift
to go home with the guest and be cherished
or if it will be a consumable item, such as
candy, gourmet food or drink.
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Seasonal Items
After you’ve established a budget and theme, consider the season in
which the reception is scheduled. If you are in February you may use
Valentine items such as hearts and chocolates, for summer consider
sun glasses, sun screen or beach balls, for fall use plastic
pumpkins filled with candy corn.
Consumables
Everyone loves special gourmet treats, personalize any selection
with a ribbon embossed with your names and wedding date. If you like
sweets try a small box of chocolates or gourmet jelly beans. Or
consider a container of mixed nuts or even a small bottle of wine or
beer with specially made labels of your design. You may even choose
to compliment the beverage with a specially engraved beer mug or
wine glass.
Stink It Up
People are drawn in with their senses, try taking them by the nose.
Give them a sachet of potpourri, small vials of perfume or cologne,
scented candles or perfumed soaps. Personalize these with a custom
wrapper, tag or ribbon. The soaps can even be stamped with your
names..
Keepsakes
If you want your guests to take something home with them that they
can use on a regular basis and remember your special day, try
something pragmatic. You can custom engrave wine bottle openers, key
chains, money clips, music boxes, or even a picture frame … include
your engagement/wedding dates, if you like.
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Generosity Is A Gift
Make donations to a favorite cause or causes honoring
your marriage and print up a note card or all different note cards
for your guests to read about the charity. One fun variation of this
is to choose the maximum number of chairs you will have at any table
and choose that many charities to donate to.
Have each place setting
have a different charitable donation to read about. It gives people
who are otherwise strangers something fun to talk about. You can
even make the donations in your guest’s names if you have the time
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Consider flowers, plants or small shrubs or trees as
gifts. One possibility is something your guests can take home and
replant in their garden. This gift idea is best used in spring or
summer planting season, or winter if the plant will do well in a pot
for a few months.
Choose this gift bearing in mind regional weather
and climate. Present these in pretty, possibly antique pots. Other
ideas are flower bulbs, packets of seeds, a single rose, a corsage
or boutonniere, or tropical lei. Your local florist can also design
centerpieces that separate so that each guest can take home a part
with a partial bouquet, small plant, or potted flower.
Document The Love
Give your
guests the opportunity to journal the event and
their experience to remember forever. Give them
black books, journals, fancy note pads or small
calendars and jazz up the gift with a nice pen,
mechanical pencil or art marker.
Party’s On
If you’re a little wilder
than the straight-laced traditional stuff, try something youthful
and fun. Set your tables with silly string, bubbles, or any type of
toy or small game. These also give your friends and family the
opportunity to play together and have some fun while getting to know
each other.
Whatever
you choose, make it memorable and make it personal.
Have the gift items represent your personalities and
lifestyles...
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