Elegant and Sophisticated Wedding favors

Every bride wants her wedding favors to be stylish, elegant and unique. So as you progress through your wedding planning it is worth making notes about what types of favors you would like for your wedding and how you intend to present them.

There are three golden rules when it comes to choosing wedding favors :
1.they should coordinate with your wedding style and/or theme
2.they should match your wedding colors
3.they should say something about you and your style and personality

The choice of favors themselves does not need to be hard, any type of favor can be made to look stylish and elegant, be it tea light candles or inexpensive candies. The art to making them look elegant is in the packaging and presentation.

Time was when wedding favors were simply almond shaped candy coated chocolates presented in a plain card box or badly presented tulle net (very few brides could actually get those to look right). But these days there is a much greater expectation on brides to produce something fabulous for their wedding favors.

Use magazines and wedding websites for some inspiration. Create a scrapbook of images that you like, even if the picture doesn’t match your wedding colors or style, it can still give you some creative ideas. You can then use these images to pool together some ideas for your own wedding favors. It is worth coming up with two or three options in case any aren’t viable or you cannot find the materials to pull them off successfully. Get your maid of honor involved as well so you can brainstorm some ideas together.

Don’t purchase your packaging before your favors! You need to know how big your favors will be first so you can buy packaging to fit. You can then look at your packaging options, consider ribbons, tags, labels, embellishments and decorations. Don’t panic if packaging is not available in your chosen wedding colors, simply choose white or ivory instead and coordinate the colors with ribbons and decorations.

Finally, consider how you will present your favors to your guests. Most brides will place them on each individual place setting and perhaps double them up as place cards too. Other options include using them as centerpieces by piling them up in the middle of each table and letting guests help themselves; having your flower girl and page boy hand them out after the wedding breakfast; placing them on a table by the door so guests can collect them as they enter or leave the room.