The Modern Wedding Favor
Jun 13th, 2008
The one inescapable fact of wedding favors is that you need a box to hold your gifts in. You can go simple and use small paper bags or even purchase, in bulk, gift boxes to keep your favors in. Most typical, modern wedding favors use tulle material to keep their favors in.
The fun thing about wedding favors is that you can be as creative as you want. If you want something edible, you can mold a unique chocolate treat and wrap it with custom wrappings. This might go best in a gift box that can keep it from melting. Even a glass gift box could add a nice, flavorful touch.
Look on the Internet and talk with your friends and family to get some ideas about some very unique ways to make your wedding favors. Heck, with all of the information that is floating around in cyberspace, you might find yourself overwhelmed and get some wonderful things to think about. Buying your wedding favor supplies is easy too, as you can get almost anything online. There are so many choices that you might not be able to make up your mind. If you want to give small candles, then try ordering candle plates to go with them as keepsakes.
Have you ever thought of using decorated Chinese take-out boxes as part of your modern wedding favor? This is not as uncommon as you may think. If you are giving wedding fortune cookies, which are a very popular wedding favor, this is just the perfect idea. These are great inside a Chinese take-out wedding favor box. It is easy to match your chosen colors with this neat idea because you can buy these boxes in nearly any color you can think of.
Besides using boxes, you can use plastic bags. You can buy small bags in bulk and decorate them to fit the wedding scenery. Add some soaps, candles and a thank you note and you have a great, modern wedding favor. You can even go with a more fresh look by using glass jars as your container.
If you are considering to offer flowers as a gift for your guests, why not put them in a small vase with a bow tied around it? Keep in mind that if they are real, then you need to have water to keep the flowers alive. This is just one example of how proper packaging should be in congruence with your gift items.