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An increasing trend when planning for a wedding is the inclusion of small gifts and wedding favors, which can be taken home after the celebration. These gifts are often inexpensive, but the impact that they can leave on your wedding guests is significant enough that they should remember your wedding for quite some time. Although having wedding favors and small gifts available to guests is not necessarily a new concept, the popularity of these gifts has caused a surge in the number of wedding favors that are being given as well. These gifts can also increase the number of options available to wedding planners.
If you want to make sure that your wedding is memorable, it is important to make sure that the wedding gifts that you choose are something that your guests are going to enjoy. Here are some options that are available to you when trying to choose wedding favors and other small gifts. Each can impress your guests in its own way and can all but ensure that no one leaves your wedding reception without being awed by how professional and well planned your celebration was.
Soaps
Bath beads, bath salts, and soaps can be given as wedding favors that many of the people in attendance may simply love. Not only can the soaps and other bath supplies be packaged (and carved) decoratively, they also offer the additional benefit of being able to bring relaxation to the wedding guests. Scented heart soaps or personalized shower gels can really put a smile on a guestâ??s face. They may begin to realize that you thought enough about them to not only invite them to your wedding, but also to offer them something with a pleasing aroma.
Candles
Scented candles are an excellent gift to consider for your wedding guests. These candles provide a pleasing aroma, which is similar to the bath soaps. This can act as an aromatherapy solution that can make your guests feel relaxed and stress-free. A number of exquisitely carved or molded candles can be found as potential wedding reception gifts, letting you choose anything from a rose ball candle to a set of white votive candles to help set a relaxed mood. A number of scented candle options are also available, many of which feature pleasing aromatherapy scents that can help to melt away stress from your wedding guests.
Bookmarks
Many people would not think about bookmarks as wedding favors, but with the number of wedding-related designs possible, they can actually make quite a wonderful gift. What better way is there to help people remember how much they enjoyed your wedding than by giving them a reminder that is both pretty and functional? Many wedding bookmarks are made of quality materials and feature designs that can make them a much better option than the cheap or makeshift bookmarks that some people use. Even if the bookmarks do not see much use, the ease of storage and small size makes them ideal candidates for inclusion in memory books or photo albums.
Candies and Other Edibles
There are a number of candies, foods, and drink mixes that can be given as wedding favors, much to the delight of wedding guests. A number of these candies and food items feature personalization options, letting you do everything from add a monogram to personalized Hersheyâ??s Kisses. You can also have custom-labeled honey favors to give your guests some sweet honey that they can take home with them. Another option is to offer personalized tea bags, coffee servings, and hot cocoa mixes that have monograms or wedding details printed directly on the packages to serve as a tasty reminder of your wedding after the reception is over.
Cameras
One other popular and useful option when it comes to selecting wedding gifts that your guests will love is the disposable camera. Everyone wants to bring a camera to a wedding, but in many cases, the camera may accidentally be left behind or it may run out of either film or battery power before the night is over. By giving cameras as wedding favors, you can help to ensure that your guests can take picture of the celebration if they want to while providing them with something that can be functional outside of the wedding reception as well. Developing the film for the camera will cost the same as developing any other film, letting guests drop off the entire camera for photo lab technicians to open and develop the film contained inside.
Choosing the right wedding favor can be a challenge but there are many great options to choose. A few great gift ideas are soaps, candles, bookmarks, edible foods, and cameras. These are all great ways to help your guests remember the wedding while providing them with something that can be used afterwards.
Rachel Jackson
http://www.articlesbase.com/weddings-articles/wedding-gift-ideas-your-guests-will-love-727749.html
I am planning a beach wedding in florida. I am planning on booking a destination package for the beach. Is there anything anyone who has done this before suggest or redoo if they could do it over again. I dont want to forget anything.
I am having a destination wedding in Vero Beach, Florida in February. We are doing it through a hotel and using their private beach for the ceremony. I would suggest going through a hotel because the wedding planner can help you plan since it is a destination wedding. I would suggest going down to Florida for a two week vacation and go to all the possible locations and vendors and book them all in person, then go back again a month before the wedding and meet with them all again. This is what I am doing and it is all working out perfectly!
I’m Newly engaged and now beginning the gruelying process of planning on my own. My fiance father bought me a "planning your perfect wedding" book, which has EVERYTHING you could imagine in it..But my problem is I have only one girlfriend who is so far in my wedding party and she’s always busy…I need input from everyone as to what everyone thinks about the colors red white and black…predominantly black and red…is that too freak-ish for a wedding..
P.S. I am planning a wedding for February of ‘09′
I love red for a wedding, I wanted it for mine but it was in the spring and I thought it was too dark. And black is always elegant.
Can anyone give me any tips or advice i am getting married in four weeks and havnt started planning yet. The reason is we were supposed tobe getting married in September but we jst found out i’m expecting baby number 3 and dont want to be to big at the wedding. Web also have a family holiday booked for four weeks time so we are thinking about getting married the day before the holiday.
Has anyone else had to plan a wedding fast?
Well get it booked a.s.a.p as everything else can be booked around it
Once booked
Tell any friends/family you want to be there so they can book the time off.
If you want button holes and a small bouquet you need to go get them ordered at the florests
If you want something less formal, get friends to help, hire a room and throw a party afterwards, do the food between you, try hire a room with a bar, and a disco
But most of all relax and enjoy your day, it is do-able definately you have plenty time.
Deep breath and organisation and four weeks will be plenty time.
Good luck and congratulations
My boyfriend and I are trying to plan an inexpensive wedding because we don’t have really a lot of support from our families.
We don’t know much about weddings but can’t afford a wedding planner. Can you all recommend any good books or websites that we can check out to figure out how to do this?
I know there are a ton of resources out there but I’m looking to avoid the crap and just look at the ones that people have found helpful in planning their own weddings.
THANKS!!!
weddingplanningonabudget.com
www.big-wedding-tiny-budget.com
www.shopwiki.com.au/weddings
is a few sites hope they help!!!
so i went to a wedding on Sunday and I’m officially obsessed with having my own. i did the city hall thing so now i wanna go a bit big but not trying to break the bank. So i wont mind paying for it but i would like for the book to be at least updated to this century…lol. If it matters, I live in NY.
I’m also 23 btw
You can go to walmart and get one. They have them online & in stores. I just went about a week ago to get mine! It only cost me about $18.00
Target also has them.
I know a lot of people are creating wedding planning websites to keep their guest updated on the event. I think that people who are doing destination weddings tend to use them for travel plans, etc. Can anyone recommend a site they have used and liked? I’m not looking to build my own page from scratch, but I would rather enter in details into a template if possible. We are doing a destination wedding and would like to include the travel plans, booking info, etc. Thank you!!
Here are some, these templates are the easy to edit and manage and very affordable.
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Bridal showers are a perfect way to show brides how special they are to their family and friends. There are so many great ideas to apply to make the bridal shower successful. Of course, this is the main goal of the hostess - making the event as perfect as possible. However, despite of the charming adornments and delightful meals present in the party, planning for it is not always as easy as you want it to be. As the hostess, you are responsible for so many things. Planning for this event definitely require patience and willingness to show, ”hey girl, you mean a lot to us.”
The first thing you need to consider when planning a bridal shower is the budget. This is the most important factor to lead you until ending. First, decide how much you are willing to spend. Traditionally, the bride has nothing to do with the expenses. A bridal shower is thrown as a gift to the bride-to-be, therefore it is very inappropriate to include her bank account in the line. The hostess, however, can ask for contribution from other friends.
After the budget has been decided, you will then need a theme for the party. There are several themes to think of, such as a lingerie theme, tropical theme, beach theme…etc. You must think of the bride when choosing a theme for her party. Consider the things she love; her interests and hobbies and her overall personality. After all the party is for her, so relating everything to her is definitely a good idea.
When choosing the shower decorations, pick those that suits the theme of the shower. It is always a smart idea to incorporate items that will easily tell what theme you would like to show to the guests. Aside from the decorations, the theme will also tell you what menu should be on the serving table, as well the time of the day.
Of course, the bridal shower will be incomplete without gifts. One thing that makes it a shower party is, different gifts will be showered to the bride-to-be. This has been an old tradition, and often these gifts include household wares, silly lingeries, marriage guiding books and other gifts that can help the bride prepare for her new life as wife.
During bridal showers, the gifts are not only for bride but for other people also. In fact, bridal showers are the perfect time where brides often give gifts to their bridesmaids. Popular bridesmaids gifts include personalized tote bags, engraved compact mirrors, jewelry pieces, and other things that the bridesmaids can use at wedding day. Lastly, the both the hostess and the bride would like to end the party by thanking all the guests. Giving out bridal shower favors is a great way to say thank you to all those who spend their time with the bride. There are so many great choices of favors available online, just pick those that, of course, suits the theme of your party. So basically, these are the things that usually bridal shower has, but above all, have fun when planning and choosing bridal shower accessories and supplies. Don’t get stress over little things, plan ahead so that you’ll have plenty of time to decide.
Janet R.
http://www.articlesbase.com/marriage-articles/bridal-shower-a-perfect-way-to-show-how-special-she-is-744883.html
My wedding is not for a year and a half. I’m so excited to be engaged and everything, but i know the planning needs to happen in a timely fashion and it will soon come all together. For now though, what can i do that is "not too soon"? We have already booked the ceremony and reception hall to make sure no one else books the place on the date we want, and we have an appointment at the end of the month for engagement pictures where my fiance propsed, but what else can I do? Plan an Engagment Party? Dress shopping or the girls and I? Favors? Save the Date Magnets? Cakes? Meet with Florists, Photographers, & DJ’s? Please let me know any ideas or help? I’m a first time bride-to-be! 
And TOTALLY excited!!!
I have a knot.com account, i just want to see what everyone else thinks is "okay" to plan now. And also, someone said I could send out save the date magnets now, a year and a half is not too far away or is it really okay to send them out now?
Congrats to you! It is not too early to choose the sites like you have done, b/c they sometimes go quickly! It is also fine to send out save the dates in the next few months. You do not throw yourself an engagement party; either family or close friends do. But if they do, they may do it any time now. If you have not already booked the photographer for your wedding as well as the engagement pics, you can go ahead & do that.
I would wait on the dress shopping. Manufacturers come out with new styles & consequently discontinue some styles twice a year, usually in December and July. You don’t want to pick something now, have everyone pay deposits & get measured, and then have the dress get discontinued! I would wait til about 6 months away for this. Also, you never know which b’maid might gain or lose weight, or decide to get pregnant!
Does anyone know the best wedding planning book out there and maybe a link to it? Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have no idea where to begin!!
There’s an entire section of Wedding planning books at Barnes & Noble that you can check out– that way you can browse through all of them and see which one suits you best! Plus you don’t have to pay shipping!
