Wedding Favors For Your Guests
Planning a wedding can be a complicated, but pleasurable, time. There are so many aspects to a formal wedding that need to be listed, discussed, planned in outline and then planned in detail. As it is such a special day, you also want it to be a day to be remembered, not just in the mind, but through physical rememberances, such as photographs, and wedding favors for the guests. After all, you would like the wedding guests to remember the occasion too.
Wedding favors are traditionally small gifts (although you can make them lalrge or expensive gifts if your budget allows) that are handed out to the wedding guests as mementoes of the occasion. Favors are a wonderful way to show your guests that you appreciate them coming to celebrate your wedding day, and to say a small, personal “thank you” in advance for their attendance at the wedding itself, and for their wedding gifts to you.
Wedding favors have evolved a great deal in recent decades. Once the domain of the wealthy, increasing affluence, and a wide and cheap range of wedding favors easily available, has meant that ordinary couples usually want to buy wedding favors. These favors can now be bought from many sources, including online and local stores, for a fraction of the price they used to cost. Even a small or modest wedding can be made a bit more special by giving carefully chosen wedding favors for the guests.
Wedding favors are traditionally small, but thoughtful, gifts which are intended to serve as a memento of your wedding day. Traditional items include things like cake servers, bottle-stoppers, and silver plated serving spoons. These gifts are intended to be a keepsake for the wedding guests, rather than something they will actually use in everyday life. Some couples, however, will choose favors that serve double duty as a reminder of the event as well as a useful item. Small picture frames, decorated place card holders, candy dishes, pen and pencil sets, and other such wedding favors fall into this category. Edible wedding favors such as mints or candies in an attractive tin are also available. The choices really are only limited by your own imagination.
Typical designs for wedding favors, at least traditionally, are such designs as flowers, bells, hearts, doves, and flowing ribbons, but can also include more modern motifs like dolphins. It is also easy nowdays to add the personal touch even more by having the wedding favors personalized..
The most important consideration is selecting wedding favors is to remember that these are items meant simply to say “thank you.” You’re not going to find the perfect item that will please each and every guest at your wedding, but a little thoughtfulness will result in favors that will at least let your guests know you are thinking of them. Your wedding guests are primarily your family and your friends; all of whom will truly appreciate a small souvenir of the event.
Wedding favors should not be confused with the traditional gifts provided by the bride and groom to members of their wedding party. It is proper to provide the bridesmaids and groomsmen with a more personal and separate gift. They have played a special part in your special day, and deserve something a little bi different from the wedding favors that all guests will receive.
Your wedding day is undoubtedly one of the most important days in your life, and with all the planning that goes in to it, you want it to be a day to be remembered. A good choice of wedding favors will help with those remembrances.
