Wedding Favors That Leave Behind Great Memories

Every couple wants to remember their wedding. Most brides would even consider it the most memorable day of their lives. It’s not sure if grooms would like to remember it, but It’s likely they are looking forward to the wedding night. Wedding favors help honored guests remember the event too.

Wedding party favors are the free version of tourist souvenirs. People bring home something from the event to keep the memory alive every time they see it.

That is why it’s important to personalize and think about what you want to give to your guests.

Personalized wedding favors

The only criteria for a good personalized wedding favors are for your guests to remember the wedding from the dozens of other weddings they will attend in their lifetime.

It doesn’t have to be lavish or expensive. Cheap wedding favors that fulfil the criteria are good as long as it doesn’t look too cheap. DIY wedding favors can be food wrapped in a mason jar that can serve as the remembrance. Non-functional items may just end up as attic junk.

All remembrances should be personalized.

Even tourist snowglobes give anyone who picks it up an idea what it signifies. That is the weakness of food wedding favors. Once it’s consumed, it is done. Unless the food itself is mindblowing, nobody would remember it after two weeks.

The point of giving away wedding favor tokens is to allow your distinguished guests to bring home a part of your wedding (and by extension your lives) with them.

It also serves as an additional appreciation for taking the time out of their lives to help them celebrate their own. That is another reason why thoughtfulness from the couple to the guest should be personalized.

Unique wedding favors

One way to help ensure that they remember your wedding token is to make it unique.

Throughout their lifetime, they will receive a few dozen glass wedding favors shaped like one elegant animal or another. Over the years, it will be hard to remember which one belongs to who, besides getting run of the mill token ensures that it will have a good place in a dusty box in the attic, together with other wedding and baptism favors and other souvenirs.

If that’s the most likely scenario, then you’re better off not having them and spend the budget on something else. It’s also why a lot of couples opt for food.

Giving something the guest and their family can enjoy is far better than giving them more attic display figurines.

Unique wedding favors, food or otherwise, may leave a long enough impression that would make them remember your wedding long enough until it no longer matters. After all, nothing lasts forever, not even friendships, marriages, or life itself.

Best wedding favors ideas

Here is a short list of wedding souvenirs and tokens you can get to make your wedding more festive. Being unique and personalized is enough, but for the perfect wedding favor, it should also match your wedding theme.

Homemade or mini liquor

Events are best celebrated by alcohol. Allowing the guest to bring home custom brewed drinks, or a miniature version of your favorite shot will help remind them of the good times you shared together.

Theme colored jelly bean

Modern weddings are color themed in one or two colors.

A primary color theme and sometimes an accent. There are bad choices, but if it makes the couple happy, the rest of us have no right to judge. That aside, theme colored jelly beans in personalized or engraved mason jars hits all three requirements for a low price.

Homemade jam and pickles

Pickles and jams are another option to give away personalized mason jars. If you don’t know how to make them yourself, there are also a lot of small rural companies that sell them cheaply.

Mixed nuts

A healthier option that can be used to fill up personalized mason jars are nuts.

This is not a place to argue about the healthiness of dried and preserved nuts, but they are definitely healthier than sweets.

Custom his and hers mugs

It sounds like an interesting gift, but remember not everyone attending your wedding has a significant other, some of them may even be bitter about it. So be careful what to write on the personalized message.

Fruit and treats basket

It’s not Christmas, but weddings are close enough. Fruit baskets are given during Christmas and harvest festivals to share the bounty and wish friends and family a more plentiful and productive year to come. It applies very much to marriages.

Cakes and pies

Pastry with a personalized message will convey the same messages as a fruit basket. It is literally sweeter and cheaper to make (depending on the type of fruit you offer). Sweets and other candy treats packed in small personalized containers will be just as classy and save money.

Pamper packs

In the US and Europe there are a lot of homemade shampoos, essential oils, soaps, perfume, and other toiletries that do not lose in quality against big-name companies. A Pamper kit in a personalized packaging is a unique way of saying your thanks. It will be a huge hit to types of people who like taking home toiletries from hotels.

Coffee beans

Essential oils and soaps are not the only things offered by small companies in large varieties and high quality. Coffee beans are an adult favorite without being sensual. Coffee is one of the symbols of a new day. Weddings are a celebration of new life. It is a great wedding favor choice to offer your guests.

Jarred scented candle

If you don’t want consumables that will be gone in a week, then this is one of your options. It’s easy to personalize and more or less unique. It’s also something that people feel like displaying or using in their living room.

Mini potted plants

It is another non-consumable item. Unlike the candle that may be used someday, plants like small cacti, bonsai, and bamboo are truly non-consumable.

Personalized wedding favors bring out a couple’s creativity and gift-giving skills. There are times when the number of guests makes it impossible to interact with all of them. Wedding favors allow you to convey your thoughts and thanks to each one, even if you don’t get to talk to them during the event.

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