Wedding Favors & Wedding Planning

Weddings during the festive season make for extra special affairs, perhaps because the time of year is so strongly associated with family and reunions. So if you are planning a festive wedding then here are some ideas for festive wedding favors to delight your guests.

• Bottles of mulled wine or sachets of mulled wine spice with a recipe make for favors with a scent that is so evocative of the season. These can be even more special if you serve your guests a glass of mulled wine as a welcome drink at the reception.

• Christmas is a time when we like to indulge ourselves with an assortment of foods and confectionary. Give your guests favors consisting of festive candies such as candy canes, marzipan fruits, nuts and liquor chocolates.

• Treat your guests to some mince pies, gingerbread cookies or cinnamon cookies. You can have them iced in a festive theme as well.

• How about jars of preserves of condiments typically associated with the season. Try cranberry sauce, spiced apple sauce or preserves such as marmalade.

• Give your guests jars of homemade mincemeat as wedding favors complete with a recipe for the ultimate mince pies!

• If homemade mincemeat is not your thing then include some pastry cutters with the recipe.

• Look out for scented candles which have festive scents such as mulled wine, cinnamon and apple or pine trees.

• Christmas decorations have to be the ultimate festive wedding favor and possibly the first you thought of! Look out for personalized baubles or hanging photograph frames shaped like snowflakes.

• Check out your local Christmas shop for some unique glass baubles. Buy lots of different designs and give them out as wedding favors. The uniqueness in their design will make them treasured keepsakes for many years.

• Give your guests some festive tea light or candle holders. There will be a great range to choose from at this time of year, including stylish elegant designs and whimsical festive designs, so coordinating them to your wedding will be easy.

• The shops will also be full of stylish candles, including advent candles and carved or molded designs. Many people choose to never lit these instead using them as part of their Christmas displays every year, so they make ideal keepsakes and are perfect as wedding favors.

• Finally why not make your own CD’s of festive music. You could coordinate the songs to the style of your wedding, for instance a formal, traditional wedding could have traditional choir songs and festive hymns, whilst an informal wedding could have popular Christmas songs from the charts, such as Frosty the Snowman and Santa Claus is Coming to Town!

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When trying to decide on a birthday gift for a special someone, it can take a little bit of time, especially if you are not exactly sure what your friend or loved one really wants. A gift basket is an ideal gift for someone of any age. Kids and adults alike would love to receive a basket full of goodies that they can have. Kids will be entertained for hours with all of the items you can stuff in it and adults will love the variety. Plus, giving a gift basket is not something that everyone gives and you are more likely to have an original gift idea.

Birthday gift baskets are a terrific idea because if you are giving one to a child, it can be themed to be for a child of any age and gender. I don’t know about you but I’m sure that any little girl would love to receive a gift basket full of dolls with clothes and accessories or a little boy that would be thrilled to get play cars and trucks with some chalk or coloring books. There is no limit to the type of items you can put into your gift basket. Any age child would love a gift basket from as young as 5 up through adults. Just pick age appropriate items to load the basket with and you can’t go wrong.

Giving a birthday gift basket is also a terrific idea if you are going in on a group gift. When you have more than one person putting items into the basket, you can afford to maybe spend a little more money or add a few extra items that you might not have put in if you were giving it on your own. Plus, having others chip in gifts is a great way to really stuff the basket and let the person receiving it know that you really care about them.

Whether birthday gift baskets are for adults or children, people of all ages love to receive gifts. Only your imagination can hold you back when it comes to coming up with ideas of what to put into your gift. Anything your special person loves can be made into a gift basket whether it is chocolate, nuts, golf, or even poker, a themed basket will be the hit of any party. Make their birthday a special event and give them a birthday gift basket.

The question of when to order your wedding favors, or to even start looking for them, is one which will plaque most brides during their wedding planning. When to start looking for favors will be dictated by the size of your wedding, the style of your wedding and your wedding theme if you are having one.

Unless you are purchasing edible favors then there really is no reason why you can’t look for them early on in your wedding planning. So long as you have set your wedding style, theme and colors you can start looking as soon as you want to. What you shouldn’t do is forget about them and leave it till the last minute to order them. Not only will you risk not receiving them in time but you may not have any time left in which to put them together.

It is usual to order your favors as soon as you have a firm idea of numbers. You may want to wait until you have your final numbers, although if you do end up with more favors than guests you could always send the extra one’s to those guests who couldn’t make it. By the same token, it is always a good idea to order slightly more favors than you may need in case of any last minute guests or even breakages.

As wedding favors should be unique and personal to your wedding it is a good idea to take your time to consider all your options before making your final choice. Visit several shops and websites for some ideas and use your wedding scrapbook to create a collage of potential favors and presentation ideas. Many brides will go through an agonizing decision making process when it comes to wedding favors so the more research you do and the more time you take to decide could help you to that Eureka! moment when you finally realize the perfect favors.

Edible favors need to be treated a little differently because of the issue of them going off before your big day. Most will keep for long periods of time, such as tea, coffee, candies and alcohol. However, favors such as cookies, cakes and chocolate brownie pops will not have such as long shelf life so you will need to check this out when you order.

Aside from the favors themselves you will need to think about how you will package and decorate them. Many favor stores will carry a selection of favor boxes and bags, however there are other stores that will carry far more extensive ranges as well as decorations, ribbons and tags.

If you order your favors and packaging separately take a note of the delivery times so you can be assured that both deliveries will arrive in time – it could be a potential disaster to have the packaging arrive but no favors!