If you're looking for ideas- here they are. Fifty different
ideas in total- all divided into categories that you can pick from.
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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