Thursday, March 19, 2009

Simple & Unique Wedding Favors for Your Guest

By Aaron H.

There is going to be a wedding and the bride to be wants it to be the special occasion that she has long dreamed of it being. Ever since she was a little girl in Mom's old high heel shoes pretending to be a grown up bride. Now she is going to follow her mother's example. Everything about the wedding should be special in her mind. Now the time has come to pick out wedding favors and they should be special to.

It depended on the culture of the country what the wedding guest could expect for a favor. In early England, the Bride's gave love knots made of fancy lace with the addition of ribbons for wedding favors. In Malaysia hand, decorated eggs were given because this was the sign of fertility. It became the tradition in Italy to give chocolate candy filled with almond paste or chocolate covered almonds, which had a hard candy coating. In Spain, they gave each wedding guest a stem full of orange blossoms. The Middle Eastern countries gave five candy-coated almonds in different colors in a small container as a symbolic offering of five good wishes, happiness, wealth, longevity, fertility, and good health. In Greece, a wedding favor was a glass eye to protect the guest from the evil eye.

If special wedding favors are to be put in boxes, give it a little thought as the selections are being made for the favors, such as what size box will it take and how will the box look on the table. Usually the best wedding favors are small so it should not be much of a problem. Also consider the cost of the favor, box, ribbon and wrapping all together to determine what value the box has on the total decoration of the table and if its worth the money.

The favors for weddings can really add a nice touch of elegance to the wedding with special packaging. If something useful is selected the guests will be more likely to use the favors and keep them for years to come. Try to get something that the wedding guests would want and enjoy having for keepsakes.

There are many ways to present the special wedding favors to the guests, the bride can hand them out as she and her husband make the rounds to talk to each group of guests personally, with or without help. Other people from the bridal party can give them out. Children can go around and give them, but they might miss a few people. The best wedding favors can be sat alongside each place setting at the tables, they can be put on a table with a note card for each guest to take one as they either come in or go out, or sat in large baskets with a note for the guests to take one.

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