Inexpensive wedding favor ideas?

I'm planning a September wedding. Does anyone have any ideas for inexpensive wedding favor ideas? Thanks!

There are many reasons your guests will remember your wedding, even long after the lingering scent of calla lilies has passed. They will remember the music, food, decorations and how the bride and groom looked. The most important thing guests remember are the wedding favors they take home.

Here are some great ideas for Asian wedding favors. The elephant is very important to the Asian culture and symbolizes good luck when given as a gift. It would be great idea to incorporate an elephant into your Asian wedding favor. You would give an elegant gold elephant with a maroon tassel to be used as a book mark. Another way to incorporate the elephant into your wedding favor is to give a porcelain elephant that holds tea lights. There are also silver card holding elephants that make great wedding favors. The Asian culture revolves around traditional, culture beliefs and sayings like “Good Things Come in Pairs”. Putting a traditional Asian saying on a card and placing it on the silver elephants would blend well with the Asian theme of the wedding.

Silk or wooden fans are a big representation of the Asian culture. A great Asian wedding favor idea would be to incorporate a fan somewhere in the favors. You can have a silk fan neatly folded with a gold claps holding the fan together with the couples initials on the front. You can also place the fan into a slightly bigger box and have a picture of the couple on the front. Another great idea that may be a bit more expensive is to have a bigger fan made with the brides face on one side, and the grooms face on the other side. Creating silk fans that are embroidered with Asian symbol for good luck or love will also be something that wedding guests would enjoy.

If there are wedding guests who are not familiar with the Asian culture then a Fortune Cookie would be a great Asian wedding favor. Fortune Cookies are very universally tied with the Asian culture. There are many different ways fortune cookies can be presented as a favor. You can make the actual cookies in the shape of fortune cookies and decorate them with the color scheme of your wedding. You can take regular fortune cookies and dip them in chocolate and place a thank you note in the cookies. You can also become more personal with the notes that go into the fortune cookies. If you have invited guests that played a part in your and your partner meeting and getting married then you can write them a personal message. You can also have silver fortune cookie card holders with messages for your guests to take home.

Sarah L. Mitchell is a party planner and writer for Partease, an online source for wedding favors and gifts.
Asian wedding favors are a natural fit for any Asian or Indian themed event. Your guests will be so impressed that you followed through on your theme all the way down to your favors.

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In recent years it has become popular for couples to let their guests make their own wedding favors by setting up a candy bar at the reception. But what is a candy bar and what should you include?

A candy bar is simply a table filled with various forms of confectionary such as candies and chocolates along with small bags or boxes for guests to help themselves. They make eye catching displays within the reception room and are great fun! But you do need to give them some careful planning and choose your confectionary carefully.

Firstly consider where you will site your candy bar within the room and the size of table you will need. Commonly tables will be long but you can make it work with round tables as well. Candy bars can potentially draw a crowd so think about where you place the table and how your guests will get to it. If you choose a round table then think about placing directional signs on it so your guests go around it in one direction – less chance of a mishap that way!

What confectionary will you include on your candy bar? Think about traditional confectionary based wedding favors such as mints, almonds, chocolates and candies. You can also add in cookies, cupcakes, nuts and more specialist confections which perhaps are traditional to your culture. Do not get too carried away here or you could end up with a surplus of sweet treats which will take years to get through!

Choose your confectionary with your wedding in mind, e.g. colors, themes and shapes. A candy bar of coordinating colored sweets looks amazing, but likewise a rainbow of colors can be just as pleasing. Do not forget your budget either – candies are very cheap to purchase wholesale but cookies and cupcakes will cost a lot more. You should also think about the time of year of your wedding and the potential for confectionary to melt or spoil.

Plan out how you will present your candies and confectionary and choose a range of vessels to put them in. These can include bottles, jars, bowls, stands, plates etc. Choosing vessels of varying heights will add interest to the display.

Finally, you will need to provide your guests with something to put their wedding favors in so they can take them home. Choose bags or boxes of a reasonable size (especially if you have a lot of candies) and add some small scoops to make it easy to transfer candies into the containers. Add a sign inviting your guests to help themselves and giving your thanks to them for joining you on your special day.

Georgina Clatworthy is a dedicated full time writer who composes informative articles related to wedding favors and wedding. She is connected with 1WeddingSource, today’s leading wedding social networking planning site.

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When considering your wedding favors you will need balance finding something which matches your wedding style with your budget. Whilst most favors come in around the same price range, glass favors tend to be slightly cheaper and shot glasses are a particularly versatile idea for your wedding.

Glass is timeless and can easily be bought in bulk. Shot glasses present options for being personalized with your names and wedding date and can also be bought individually or in sets. But what else can you do with them? Here are some ideas:

• As mentioned above, have them personalized and give them as they are perhaps presented in nice boxes.
• Fill them with candies, mints or nuts and place your name cards on top at each place setting.
• Use them to hold tea lights or votive candles, they can revert back to being shot glassed once the candles have burned out.
• Add in miniature bottles of spirits to make cheerful wedding favors for adults!
• Use them as containers for seedlings. Choose something exotic like chili’s or simply flower seedlings which match those in your wedding bouquet.
• Create traditional wedding favors with a modern twist by filling with almonds or chocolates in fives, representing health, wealth, happiness, longevity and fertility.
• Print out cards with instructions for games which can be played with shot glasses and spirits.
• Fill with chocolate poker chips or mini playing cards for a Vegas themed wedding.
• Add a chrome bottle pourer which can be placed on the guest’s choice of liquor.

You can find shot glasses in most favor stores or try wholesalers if you need to buy in bulk. You don’t really need to add in much else by way of packaging although presenting them in a nice box works well for a formal, traditional wedding style. If you wanted to add thank you or name tags these can easily be tied around the glasses with ribbon or simply placed inside.

Georgina Clatworthy is a dedicated full time writer who composes informative articles related to wedding favors and wedding. She is connected with 1WeddingSource, today’s leading wedding social networking planning site.

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Would it be bad to not give out wedding favors?

My fiance and I are having a hard time deciding if we want to give out wedding favors. We are already spending quite a bit on food and drink, because we wanted to have a really nice meal. We have really nice hors d'oeurves, soup, salad, intermezzo sorbet, 4 entree choices (things like surf & turf, pan seared scallops, etc), two kinds of wedding cake with a dessert station with 7 other desserts, open bar, etc.

I have heard that it's stupid to give out anything besides food for a favor. But, we are having so much nice food at the wedding, I feel like I can't give out good food for the favors (we can't really afford it because we are spending a lot of money on the meal). I don't want to get stupid favors like bookmarks, and I was thinking about giving out measuring spoons or heart shaped cookie cutters because I love to cook, but boys probably won't like those things.

So would it be bad to just not give out wedding favors at all? I don't know…I need some opinions on this because I can see arguments for both sides. Thanks!