Your wedding theme, the season and the location of your wedding, your family heritage or a personal interest, are all good starting points to find inspiration for your choice of favours offered to guests.
Here are some great examples we've heard about:
- A bride with a love of music created a personalized wedding CD of the couple's favourite songs.
- Another bride, who knew her wedding was going to be smack in the middle of a heat wave, gave a fanciful paper fan to each guest.
- Another couple, wanting to honour the groom's Scottish heritage and reflect the season (December), gave out Christmas tree decorations tied with tartan ribbons.
- A bride with a country western theme for her wedding gave out real horseshoes, decorated with dried flowers.
- Another couple, who have careers in gardening and ecology, gave out tree seedlings.
Ready-made wedding favours are sold at specialty stores featuring wedding accessories. Look in your local Yellow Pages, or browse our local vendors section to find suppliers whose products range in price from pennies to tens of dollars each.
Personal Alternative
Alternatively, home-made favours can be a wonderful way to reflect the personal style of the bridal couple and enhance the theme of a wedding. These can be as simple as bundling a handful of candies (sugared almonds are a traditional favourite) in a square of tulle tied with a ribbon, bottles of home-made wine, or small picture frames (that can double as place card holders for the reception).
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