Discount Wedding Favor Ideas
Get favors for your wedding that match the style and theme of the event while not spending a fortune. Set a budget and shop around to find discount favors, or start early and make the favors yourself. Keep an open mind and think outside the box to successfully find or make the ideal favors for your special day.
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Sweet Treats
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Edible favors, such as cookies or candy, are traditional options. Possibilities include wrapping a homemade dessert in a decorative box or providing bags of caramel popcorn or candy apples for each place setting. These favors can often be personalized, too, by having custom labels printed on candy bar wrappers or using a personalized rubber stamp to mark the favor's box. A candy bar, equipped with take-out boxes for guests, is another possibility.
Plants
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Flowers, seedling trees, and herbs make favors that can also serve as table decorations at your wedding reception. A bud vase with a single bloom, saplings wrapped in pieces of burlap, or fresh herbs planted in miniature pots are all options. Small bags of wildflower seeds or other seed packets are other favor choices. Some gardening supply stores, such as American Meadows, even sell discounted bulk quantities of flower seeds for weddings.
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Homemade
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Save money by making the favors yourself. If you can your own jam or make your own honey, provide miniature jars as wedding favors. Other homemade favors are mix CDs of music played during the wedding day, family recipes compiled on small note cards or hand sewn Christmas tree ornaments (if you are having a winter wedding). Another homemade favor is printing a poem or saying about love on a small piece of cardstock and framing it in a discount picture frame.
Theme Favors
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Favors that reflect the wedding's location or theme are options to consider. For a Las Vegas theme wedding, provide an envelope with a $1 lottery ticket and a penny for each guest. If the wedding is on the beach, give guests flip-flop sandals. For an intimate candle-light dinner reception, give votive holders with candles. These can serve as decorations at the reception, and guests can take them home at the end of the event.
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