How to Make Your Wedding Favors Useful and Outstanding

Among the many details to be addressed while planning for a wedding are getting a wedding gown, the place of ceremony, preparation of guest list, ordering of invitations and choosing a person to preside over the ceremony etc.Though decorations, flowers and music are less in importance they add greatly to the memorable aspects of the special day.Wedding favors are the other small but significant things that heighten the wedding day festivities. Hence it is very important to know what these wedding day favors are and what they cost and how to select them.



Wedding Favors

These are small gifts given to the assembled guess at the wedding for their august presence. They are, as it were, a reminder of the special function and the day that the gusts and the marital couple shared together. It is also a way of thanking the guests for their attendance.

There favors can be presented through the reception line or placed at the tables where the guests have taken their seas. If it is not a formal seated affair, wedding favors can be delivered and received by the guests at different strategic locations. These places can be a fixed place near the wedding cake, punch bowl or gift table etc.

Ideas: There is no hard and fast rule to provide such or such a type of favor. It is only the planners of the wedding who decide on it. Many types of favors are available if the planners’ decide to give the guests. Favors sometimes are simply pieces of candies covered in foil. The names of the wedding couple and the day of the marriage is printed or embossed on the foil.

A unique type of wedding favor has the print of wedding vows on scrolled parchment paper. The vows may be personal words, spoken by the bride and groom but not traditional marital vows. The guests may be given flower seeds and bulbs. The seed packet may have a love poem attached to it. The comparison is to the growth of flowers from a seed and the growth of love between the wedding couple.

Cost is another chief factor in selecting wedding favors. It is for the planners to select either expensive or inexpensive favors. According to a conservative estimate a favor per person should cost $ 100. It is absolutely important that a wedding budget is ready before buying wedding favors. Decorations for the wedding should also be included in the budget.

The number of favors bought will be in direct proportion to the number of guests in the list. It is also wise to have a few extra wedding favors. The wedding party should also be included without fail.