How to Choose the Best Wedding Favors

One of many things on your wedding checklist that you will need to do is to choose personalized wedding favors for your guests. As far as the best wedding favor ideas go, the first step is always to consider the theme of your wedding. You want to find small gifts that blend into the overall look and feel of the wedding. Most couples make a decision early on about the wedding theme and then integrate it into the invitations, décor, and, of course, the wedding favors.

When your guests pick up these wedding favors, you want them to feel that you have given these small gifts care and thought. Tying the gifts into a wedding theme shows that kind of attention to detail. The best wedding favors do not necessarily need to be pricey, but should show creativity, refinement and taste.

For example, if your wedding is taking place in September, you might want to consider a fall wedding theme. The design for this type of wedding would include fall colors like jewel tones and the décor could include wheat or acorns. The wedding flowers would also integrate into the theme, so they should be things like fall leaves, daisies and roses. The menu could have some traditional fall foods like Turkey and cranberries. With this type of fall wedding, the best wedding favors would be things that also tie into the season. For example, nice ideas for wedding favors might include gifts shaped like apples or leaves. These gifts can include key chains, soaps, or coasters, just to name a few possibilities.

There are a wide variety of other ideas for wedding favors. Other wedding themes can just be a simple idea, such as “elegance.” If you are planning an elegant wedding, this choice will be reflected in your choice of venue, dress, design and flowers. Great elegant wedding favor choices might include beautiful wine glasses, and delicate candles or sachets. Another very popular wedding favor choice is chocolate wedding favors. Chocolate wedding favors can include small boxes of gourmet chocolates or truffles, beautifully decorated chocolate lollipops, or little chocolates shaped like wedding cakes.

If you are trying to do your wedding on a budget, don’t feel like you can’t go with inexpensive wedding favors. Some less expensive ideas for wedding favors include things like small boxes, candy, mini photo frames, and fortune cookies. Really, you don’t need to dedicate a large budget to these gifts. They are just meant to be small tokens of appreciation to show your guests that you care about and appreciate them.

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Bridal Shower Checklist

Bridal showerTraditionally, hosting the bridal shower falls on the bride’s maid of honor, who invites friends and relatives of the bride and groom to offer gifts for their home or anything else, according to the couple’s needs.

From spontaneous and informal to complex themes and etiquette showers, you can let your imagination fly while planning your bride’s shower. Here you have a bridal shower checklist to help you organize all the details.

  • Set budget
  • Set bridal shower date 2-6 weeks before the wedding day
  • Ask bride and groom who they want to have at the shower (guests list)
  • Decide if you want a co-ed shower
  • Choose place (it should match the shower theme)
  • Write and send invitations
  • Decide if there is going to be a central theme (from decoration to gifts)
  • Organize bridal shower gifts (based on couple’s registry list, shower theme…)
  • Organize decoration
  • Organize bridal shower favors
  • Organize food and drinks
  • Decide if you want to have games and, if yes, which ones

Tip #1: If there are going to be many guests coming to the wedding from out of town you may consider having the bridal shower one or two days before the wedding day, so that most of the guests can attend.

Tip #2: The bride or a bride’s relative should work out the details of the bridal shower together with the organizer of the shower (usually the maid of honor).

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