Presenting Your Wedding Favors

As much as wedding favors are concerned, the key is in the presentation. Sure the favor itself is important, but the way you present it, its overall look and how you give them out, are what coordinates them with your wedding.

A favor comprising a few chocolate candies would look rather ordinary presented on it's own without any packaging. But place them in some stylish packaging with ribbons, tags and labels and your wedding favors suddenly take on a whole new look.

Packaging just like the favors themselves, is available in a range of styles which will compliment any wedding style and/or theme. Imagine a stylish Asian wedding theme with favors presented in miniature Chinese take out boxes or a garden wedding with flower shaped candies filling a mini terracotta plant pot. You can see your choice of packaging should compliment your wedding as much as your wedding favors do.

Personalizing your wedding favors doesn't have to mean meters of printed ribbon or custom printed tags, although they are a popular option. It simply means adding your own creative touches to items with ribbon, labels, stickers and tags, as well as additional embellishments such as buttons, flowers and butterflies.

It is also the case that your choice of wedding favor will determine the packaging too. Here are a few of your options:

* Try miniature card Chinese take out boxes or mini hat boxes. These look amazing finished with ribbon and a personalized label.
* Mini linen or silk bags printed with your wedding monogram or simply your names and wedding date.
* For a beach wedding use clam shell purses, available in many seaside gift stores and fill with chocolates or candies.
* Glass jars filled with candy, chocolates or nuts make a great wedding favor.
* How about a ‘message in a bottle' with a hand written poem, rolled up like a scroll and placed inside tall glass bottles with cork stoppers.
* Miniature baskets, tin pails or plant pots are really cute for a spring or summer wedding.
* Small julep cups are elegant and ideal for formal weddings. Fill them with mints, chocolates or colored candy coated chocolates. You could finish them by wrapping tulle around and tying with ribbon at the top.
* Small aluminum tins make stylish and modern containers for many types of wedding favor, including edibles, seeds and tea and coffee.

How to present them is your next task. Many brides simply place them on each place setting, perhaps doubling them up as name cards. Others will place them on a table at the entrance so guest's can help themselves.

Other creative ideas include piling them up on a decorative plate and using them as table centers or asking the flower girls and page boys to hand them out after the wedding breakfast.