Shopping for Wedding Favors

Shopping for wedding favors puts the couple in a tight corner either because they want to shop everything in a single day or wakeup to the task in the last minute. They realize that it is too late to order and too difficult to compare prices of items and purchase the favors.





This is a frustrating experience for couples who want to plan their wedding. Shopping for wedding favors should be made a priority in planning if the couple wants to enjoy the whole experience. Here are a few tips in that direction.

Importantly you have to set a budget for wedding favors similar to what you do for other aspects of the planning a wedding like the venue, food, transportation and entertainment. A neglect of this factors results in the surprise of the cost of the wedding favors. They suddenly realize that the burden of wedding favors is too much to bear. As you have to spend on individual items it becomes unbearable depending on the number of guests at your wedding. If an item costs $2 it will be $600 if 300 guests were to attend the wedding. This surely cannot be an incidental amount.

Purchase the favors a few weeks in advance of your wedding day. Then only your favor can be wrapped in ribbons and personalized with your names and the date of the wedding. This personalization requires a few weeks time for special preparation. They cannot be shipped simply from the warehouse companies will rush your order or request but charge substantial fees for the service.

Wedding favors should arrive a few weeks before the wedding date as they have to be properly wrapped. You have to pay the distributor extra if you want him to do the job. Wrapping charges will be per item or favor and it will again increase the budget. If you wrap it yourself you can do it at leisure. As you will have many things to look into you will not have time to worry about wrapping favors at the last minute.

It is important to calculate all the costs involved with the favor and see if it fits into your budget. There will be the base price for the favor but additional charges for personalization and wrapping the favors. Even while you do the wrapping there is the cost of wrapping paper, tape, ribbons and other accessories you employ to adorn the favors. It is better for the distributor to supply you with the total cost for the favors including personalization and shipping before making your purchase. This will avoid misunderstanding about how much the favor will cost.

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