Posts Tagged ‘Wedding Favor Ideas’

Cheap Wedding Favor Ideas That Won’t Compromise Your Special Day

Friday, December 5th, 2008

Indeed, planning for a wedding can cost a thousand of dollars for you. While you seem to be traumatized because there are lots of wedding details you will need purchase, most likely you would want to look for beautiful wedding favors that you wish you can have it for free. Souvenirs are one perhaps one of the large expenditures you will have. These small extras alone can cost a fortune, especially for those who have tight budget. Not all couples can afford to have an extravagant wedding dream wedding. Some couples thought of economical ways on how to lessen their expenditures for their wedding; some bride would rather made their own veil, wedding garter, or took advantage of their something to borrow wedding custom. Instead of giving out traditional favors, hand each of your guests a memorabilia that can commemorate not only your special day, but also your personal taste. And besides, there are lots of wedding souvenir options today that are available in both online and local stores. If you budget won’t still permit you, of course, you can always make your own souvenirs. Different kinds of do-it-yourself wedding souvenirs are available in many craft stores. This is the perfect time to show how creative and imaginative you are.

Consider edible favors as your affordable souvenir option. Edible treats like chocolates, candies, mints, cookies, pies, and even jams are delightful wedding favors that are very much welcomed by any guest. You can either buy these delightful treats or might as well made it at home. Often, tiny edibles like chocolates, candies, mints and cookies were placed in beautiful favor boxes. They were then finished with ribbons and ”thank you” tags. Another affordable option are bubble favors. You can always find many bubble containers in craft stores which usually come in colorless. By simply adding some flair and print some special labels, you can definitely create bubble souvenirs that worth to be treasured.

Other affordable ideas include tea and coffee favors, soap favors, candle favors, personalized pens and many more. Tea packs are becoming popular in today’s weddings, as well as coffee packs. Also, you may consider making your own soap or candle favors at home. However, you should begin making those as early as possible. In case you don’t have enough time to make your own do-it-yourself wedding souvenirs, you could always purchase them at stores. Consider bulk-buying online. You will not only have wide assortment to choose from, but you can also save a lot than shopping at local retail stores.

Wedding Planning: A Memorable Bridal shower

Monday, September 24th, 2007

This could possible be the last chance you have to spend time and reminisce with your most cherished friends. You life from here on will be more involved and you will have someone that will be your constant companion, to who most of your time will be devoted. Because of the busy schedule of most people these days sit will be extremely difficult for your friends to surprise you with a bridal shower so they will notify you well in advance that they are going to give you this treat.

Because of the costs involved in marrying, it is now a usual practice for the friends to give contributions of a monetary nature and to make a list of precisely what the bride might want so as to assist in alleviating the cost. This can help with the supply of things such as: wedding favors, flowers, decorations and other ideas.

The style of your bridal shower will most likely take on a theme, since this is becoming very popular. Some ideas popular are a kitchen and recipe shower, where guests bring an appliance and a recipe. Then you can use your imagination to do things like creating a unique recipe and then everyone places their idea into a hat and conduct a draw. The winning recipe is then turned into the respective food item.

Another popular idea is for everyone to go to a special destination. This can be a surprise destination for everyone to arrive at, such as a special hotel or a bed and breakfast, somewhere for everyone to hang out together. At this special place you could do things such as skiing or surfing. You could even go yachting or camping. There are lots of fun things that a bunch of girls could try and very likely have a huge amount of fun. After all that’s what it is all about.

One I remember and I’m sure a lot of you would probably have done this, is to have a Sleep over. Where everyone brings their favorite toy or teddy, or such. Then it’s popcorn or treats and we all settle in to watch some tearing movies or cartoons, but most importantly just sit and talk and do a bit of reminiscing.

What about all those games we used to play, like Monopoly or Trivia or twister. Everyone could be asked to bring their favorites. This would bring back great memories and a lot of forgotten stories would be told.

Creativeness is what you need to make the bridal shower interesting. Try mixing your favors with your bridal shower themes. You could have the guests bring something like an assorted fruit gift basket. Or boxes of chocolates or some Other treat presented in ribbon.

Whatever you do it is a time to have fun and to be with friends you love. So get to it, this is a very special occasion And should not be missed.