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Send your guests home with something they can remember from
your wedding day. Shower them with Wedding Favors!
Why? Lets just say that your guests had to dress up, be on their best behavior, wait
forever while you and your wedding party pose for photographs and
buy you a gift. That's the least you can do!
Many weddings on a budget books tell you to sacrifice wedding favors to save
money. Honestly, there are some wedding favors that deserve to be ditched.
Remember the packets of rice and birdseed, they are hardly ever seen
at weddings anymore.
Rice, a symbol of fertility (a concept not as universally popular as
it once was), turned out to give birds potentially fatal stomachaches.
Then we did the politically correct thing and switched to birdseed, on
which guests slipped and injured themselves.
 But almonds, an ancient Greek symbol of long life and happiness, seem
pretty safe. Many brides still choose to place a sweet treat of
Jordan Almonds
at each place setting. Simple, yummy and inexpensive. (If money is no
object, on the other hand, you might give what one recent
California bride handed out as wedding favors--espresso makers.)
Whatever funds you have to spend on wedding favors, a little creativity can
go a long way. Some brides who find ready-made favors to be expensive and
unappealing are opting to design and make their own.
May brides are opting to take ideas that they read in magazines.
Such as one ad that featured a packet of daisy seeds attached to a card
that read, "He loves me, He loves me not, He loves me yes, We've tied the knot."
If your interested in personalizing your favors try by stitching California poppy and
wildflower seeds into sheer fabric packets and attached to vellum cards
that read "All things grow with love."
Whether putting a new twist on an old tradition or creating a new one
of your own, here are a few ideas to get you started.
* Think about reviving the tradition of sending guests home with
groom's cake, first popular in the 1860s. Newlyweds handed out pieces of boxed
cake to their unmarried guests, who then slipped the cakes under their pillows
to bring them dreams of their future mates. For single
women, a version called "dream cakes" can be wrapped with strips of paper
imprinted with the names of available men.
* Thank your guests for sharing your special day by writing a personal
message on a scroll and tying it with a narrow ribbon and two miniature
wedding rings, or putting the message into a small decorated frame.
 * A group of potted miniature rose bushes tied together with
ribbon
makes an attractive centerpiece. When the reception is over, guests may take a
rose bush home and plant it in honor of your marriage.
* Photographs are also a great way to personalize wedding favors. A
recent photo of the couple or pictures of the bride and groom as children
can be easily and inexpensively reduced and copied. If you want to add
some zip, hand color the black and white copies (like old-fashioned
photographs) with colored pencil. Turn them into thank-you cards or
attach them to your favor.
Whatever you decide, your guests will appreciate a favor that says
something special about you, and comes from the heart.
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