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Wedding Favors and Decoration Ideas

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Wedding favors and decor can help make your wedding as memorable for your guests as it is for you! Below are some of our favorite ideas for wedding favors and decorations.

Seasonal/Holiday Favors

  • Candy canes
  • Mini Easter baskets filled with foil-wrapped chocolate eggs
  • Little plastic pumpkins filled with candy corn
  • Simple Christmas ornaments
  • Blow-up beach balls with your names and/or your wedding colors
  • Miniature heart-shaped boxes of Valentine’s chocolates
  • Miniature watering cans filled with spring blooms
  • Chocolate coins in gold foil
  • Sparklers
  • Easter eggs (that you’ve colored yourselves)
  • Miniature pots of clover (four-leaf?) for St. Patty’s Day

Keepsake Favors

  • A copy of a memorable photo you have of you (or both of you) with each guest
  • A pretty picture frame
  • Potpourri
  • Several sheets of pretty notepaper with matching envelopes, tied with a ribbon
  • Engraved silver keychains
  • Pretty paper fans (to beat the heat, and/or to represent your Asian or Spanish ancestry)
  • Figurines (Precious Moments are popular)
  • Mini replicas — or picture postcards — of landmarks in the town where you marry
  • Little blank books/journals
  • Music boxes

Edible Favors

  • The classic: candied almonds (Italian “confetti”)
  • A single, amazing petit four
  • A miniature box of good chocolate (Godiva!) or a single truffle
  • Gourmet jelly beans
  • Chocolate Kisses wrapped in tissue paper (in your wedding colors, perhaps)
  • Mixed nuts in little canisters
  • Mints with your married monogram on them
  • Everyone’s favorite: M&Ms
  • Licorice (Twizzlers or the assorted, colorful kind)
  • Little tins of butter cookies
  • Honey or jam – that you’ve canned yourselves or from a local gourmet shop

“Living” Favors

  • Tree saplings
  • Flower bulbs
  • Donations to the charity of your choice in each guest’s name
  • Packets of seeds – your favorite bloom, or one with significance to the two of you
  • Potted African violets (or any other plant)
  • Flower leis
  • Aromatherapy candles

Fun Favors

  • Pez dispensers (complete with the candy!)
  • Decks of cards (having a Vegas wedding??)
  • Bottles of bubbles (can be doubled as “rice” when you leave)
  • CD singles (maybe your wedding song, or something classic)
  • Stickers (silly ones, or have a graphic-designer pal design wedding-memento stickers)
  • Super Balls or Slinkies
  • Crayons (you might want to cover the tables with butcher paper, too)
  • Yo-yos
  • Personalized pens or pencils
  • Calendars (little plastic ones or funny rip-off-the-date ones)
  • Lottery tickets (give them a chance at good fortune)

After you’ve read through this list, you may have an idea in mind that you love- but the best thing to do is figure out which section you want to work with and find something that really shows off yours and your fiance’s styles and personalities.

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