Cheap Wedding Favors -- Six Inexpensive Wedding Favor Ideas
Some brides select wedding favors as an afterthought, if they give them any thought at all. The challenge with wedding favors
is two-fold: selecting an affordable wedding favor, and selecting one that your guests can use and enjoy after the wedding.
If your wedding favors make so little impression that your guests leave them behind, you've wasted your effort and your money.
With so many options available today, it's easy to select something unique to present your guests—an enduring memento of
your wedding day. There's no nicer way to thank your guests for sharing your special day than with a thoughtful favor that
they'll want to take home and display.
- Vinegar Wine Bottles
Everybody uses vinegar and many people make their own infused vinegars. Purchase clear "wine bottles" with pourers,
and add your own label to the bottle. You can find these bottles in many interesting shapes. Print labels on your computer
and attach to the bottle. If you're printing your own wedding invitations, you can use the same or a similar design or color
scheme on the label along with the date of your wedding. Print the design on a clear label to allow the contents of the bottle
to show through.
- Mini Chinese Takeout Favor Boxes
You can purchase mini takeout boxes in a number of pastel and muted shades. Pick a neutral shade that
complements your bridal color scheme, and fill the takeout box with small soaps instead of candy. Your guests
can display the soaps in their guest bathrooms. Print a label for the front of the box, and you have a unique
wedding favor that your guests will use at home long after your wedding.
- Place Card Holders
If you're hosting a sit-down dinner reception after the wedding, you'll probably print place cards for your guests.
You'll find a large selection of place card holder styles and materials—something for every budget. Remind your guests
to take the place card holders with them, and promise them the other half of the wedding favor after the wedding.
Place disposable cameras at each table, and encourage guests to snap candid photographs during the reception.
Post the photos to a Website, and guests can print their own photos and display their favorite one in their place
card holder. For those guests who don't have color printers, they can print their photo through an online service.
- Place Card Frames
Place card frames serve the same function as place card holders. They come in a variety of designs. No one ever has
enough picture frames, and you can count on your guests taking these favors with them and using them at home.
- Tree in a Box
Follow the ancient custom of commemorating an occasion by planting a tree. Supply your guests with a complete
tree-in-a-box kit for approximately $2.50 per kit. You have your choice of about a dozen trees, and choices range from
pines to elms to giant Sequoias. Kits include a biodegradable peat pot, which requires nothing more than planting and
watering. Order different trees and guests can swap trees among themselves. You can order labels or print your own.
This favor is guaranteed to provide lively conversation at your reception while helping your guests to avoid those first
awkward moments when seated at a table with total strangers.
- Personalized Candy Wrapper
Create a personalized candy wrapper for your guests. It's fun, its easy and your guests will love them! Check out the
Candy Wrapper Maker Software to ease the process.
Unique wedding favors require more imagination than money. Use these ideas as a starting point, and you're sure to find the
perfect wedding favor to delight your guests.
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