2008 April

Asian Wedding Favours

April 24, 2008 By Shannon Leave a Comment

Asian themed weddings are gaining popularity and are even catching on with the non Asian set. To give your guests a keepsake of your Asian themed wedding simply choose from the many available choices of Asian Wedding Favours available on the market today.

For a long time people of Asian heritage have fiercely held on to their traditional wedding ceremonies even it the face of modernization. Currently the popularity of Asian themed weddings is on the rise, and is not limited to those people of Asian heritage. Many couples are finding themselves attracted the festivity of Chinese themed weddings or the simplicity of “Zen” Japanese weddings. Whatever your tastes and personal choices are, an Asian themed wedding is a wonderful way to celebrate your marriage regardless of your ethnicity, values, lifestyle or location.

In Chinese themed weddings as opposed to a western wedding, the color white is considered bad luck as white in traditional Chinese culture is the color of mourning and death. Both red and black colors are good as they represent luck and prosperity and the color gold represents fortune. Remember to bear this in mind while planning your wedding and selecting your wedding favours. Asian themed wedding keepsakes typically feature bright festive colors and motifs taken from nature. A few suggestions to consider for a Chinese themed wedding are: miniature take out boxes filled with fortune cookies, gold place cards held in place by red place card holders, lucky bamboo stalks, chopsticks, knick knacks with the double happiness character, brocade sachets or boxes, red mini lanterns, hand held fans, red envelopes with lucky coins tucked inside, or Asian themed candies. These are a few of the many Asian themed favours available in the market today.

Zen is the philosophy of simplicity of form and function carried on in every aspect of life. For a Japanese or Zen themed wedding, the couple should look for simplicity, elegance and natural materials when making arrangements for their wedding and selecting their Japanese inspired wedding favours. Crane motifs are a normal feature used in many Japanese weddings often adorning wedding kimonos and Japanese wedding decorations. This is because of the fact that cranes mate for life and are loving partners in all seasons as long as they live. Hopefully this would also be true for the soon to be wed couple. A number of wedding favour ideas that are nice are: Japanese paper lanterns, chopsticks, hand fans, sake gift sets, lucky cat ornaments and figurines and cherry blossom designed items

So when planning your Asian themed wedding, make sure your wedding favours are infused with authentic Asian flair to complement your theme of choice. By putting in some effort into your choice, you’re sure to find your perfect Asian themed wedding favour to suit your party.

Personalized Favour Tags

April 24, 2008 By Shannon Leave a Comment

Personalized favour tags are a wonderful way to make guests at your wedding feel special and take part an excellent memento of the wedding. These tags make the keepsake so much more desirable as the guest know that their host went that extra distance to make their gift extra special.

Wedding favours by themselves are great but they sort of miss the personal touch so important to bind all hearts together when giving such a gift to your wedding guests. By simply attaching personalized wedding favour tags to your wedding keepsakes you will make a world of difference. Normally a wedding favour tag contains the names of the bride and groom and their wedding date. However these personalized tags can be more sophisticated than that especially if you have the budget to print each guest name on their individual tag.

Wedding favour tags attached to your keepsakes assure that your guests feel special. Your friends and family will think that you went that extra mile to make their keepsake personal and they will appreciate it a whole lot more. After the wedding ceremony and reception have been completed and the wedding guests have all gone back to their various abodes, guests will always be reminded of the wonderful time they had at your wedding whenever they glance at the personalized tags on their wedding favours.

Currently, there are so many designs, shapes, and colors of wedding favour hang tags to select from. These tags make any tokens more beautiful, special and personal. Personalized tags and labels are a great way of saying thank you to your guests for coming. There is an extensive array of tags to choose from so you will never run out of choice or ideas when it comes to choosing that perfect tag to suit your wedding theme.

Your guests will be a lot happier with their gift they receive from you on your special day and that is really what it is all about when you hand them out at your wedding reception or party. After all the wedding preparation and planning you went through it is worth going to put in that little extra effort to make sure your wedding is just that little extra special. Imagine yourself attending a wedding reception and seeing that the token you received from the wedding couples has your name on it. Won’t you feel that much more appreciated.

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Personalized Wedding Favours

April 24, 2008 By Angela Leave a Comment

Personalized wedding favours are a great way to say thank you to your guests for coming to your wedding reception. Short of hacking away and making all of the favours yourselves giving out these personalized keepsakes are the best alternative to imbue a personal touch to all of your gifts.

Personalizing wedding favours for guests is fast becoming the most popular trend in this modern century. There is an old saying that the best gift you can bestow upon someone is the gift you create by yourself. Thus as logic would have it that the second best gift must be the one that has at least a symbolic personal touch even though it isn’t made by the gift giver themselves.

If you are planning to hold a wedding you won’t be far wrong to add a personal touch to each guest’s wedding experience by giving out personalized wedding favours.

In our modern age it is possible to personalize almost any wedding favour with the addition of personalized ribbons or tags. This automatically personalizes your keepsakes in the most simple of ways. There are many wedding tags out there that will suit the colors and style of your wedding decorations.

Engraving the names of guest upon the wedding keepsakes is an even classier way to personalize keepsakes. These engraved gifts become unique personalized wedding favours that will no doubt be treasured by the recipient for many years to come. If you don’t have the budget to engrave all of the guests’ names on the mementos why not have the newlywed couple’s names and the wedding date engraved on them. Champagne flutes, picture frames, cigar mementos, candles, or silver plated keepsakes are among the keepsakes that can be engraved. Metal such as silver or gold are the best to work with.

With such an abundance of good ideas available for personalizing your wedding favours and reasonable prices, you should definitely consider going for personalized wedding keepsakes for your guests. Personalized wedding tokens will not only give your wedding guests a warm feeling of appreciation at your personal touch but also help remind them of your lovely wedding. This is the next best thing other than having to make them yourself.

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Photo Album Wedding Favours

April 24, 2008 By Angela Leave a Comment

Photo album favours are a great way to give guests at your wedding dinner a small piece of the joy that they had at the party for them to take home and cherish. Be sure to plan beforehand and choose a photo album to suit your budget when picking this wedding favour.

The main purpose of a photo album is to hold and preserve memories in the form of photographs for future generations. A picture paints a thousand words and nothing compares to a photo to vividly bring back happy memories. Photo album favours offer you the flexibility to design your own wedding albums that are both personal and unique. Giving out photo album favours are a perfect way of preserving treasured memories, for both you and your guests.

There are a variety of choices when it comes to the physical album itself. These range in price from the standard cardboard photo album to personalized gold and silver gilded photo albums. Choose an appropriate one to suit your budget and wedding theme. Manage your time properly and order with ample time to spare. Once you have made your choice, then you would have to fill each album with your wedding pictures prior to the wedding. The trick to avoiding the stress of filling out the albums with the wedding reception photos is to just put in the pre posed wedding photos and let the guests fill in the later photos in this way you will be able to avoid a lot of headaches. To add special touches to your wedding favour why not add a personalized tag to make it even more meaningful for your guests.

You can further adorn the photo albums with simple decorations to add that unique touch to it. Adding some rose’s petals will add an elegant yet loving feel to the whole keepsake. If you are having a beach themed wedding, you can always use seashells to beautify the cover of the album, personalizing it to your heart’s desire.

Lastly remember that as long as your gift is sincere your guests are bound to appreciate it. These photo album favours make among the best keepsakes to hand out to guests as they will no doubt remind the guests of the great time they had at your wedding every time they flip through it.

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Candle Wedding Favours

April 24, 2008 By Angela Leave a Comment

Candles are the perfect wedding favour to use at a wedding. They provide a varied choice for the happy couple to make. Besides being beautiful these candles are also useful as the guests will be able to use them later on.

Candles used in a wedding symbolize both romance and spiritual belief. A wedding wouldn’t be the same without the presence of some lighted candles. Candles are also often though to symbolize desire, hope, faith, and love in marriage. Two candles intertwined represent two souls becoming one on the altar of love. These candles are really a fitting symbolic expression of love, spirituality, and romance.

Candle wedding favours come in an assortment of shapes, sizes and colors: brick, crystal, pillar, floating, votive, specialty, gel, taper, tea light, jar and soy to name a few. There are many decorative candle producers around the world and each manufacturer would be able to offer a wide variety, thus the choices are almost unlimited. Prices vary ranging from a few cents to hundreds of dollars; there is always a candle to suit your budget.

Apart from being decorative and aesthetically pleasing candle wedding favours are also practical. You can bring to life a gorgeous glowing tapestry on your reception tables with scented candles. A delicate rose scented candle is best suited for this purpose. Paired with an elegant candle holder this will add a beautiful touch to reception tables.

You would be wise in choosing a candle wedding favours for your guests, there are so many varieties to choose from and the only limit to what you can give is in your mind, candle keepsakes designed as coconut trees, wedding bells, long-stemmed roses, tulips, and “happily ever” candles are among the few wedding favour candles available out there. Candles are one wedding memento category where your selection is infinitely varied.

Candles make the perfect table decorations, by adorning your reception tables with these beautiful candle wedding favours you will no doubt light up the guests’ lives, then let your guests take a little part of the splendor home to get everyone in the mood for love. Light up their hearts with the spark of a candle and at the same time express your thanks for sharing your special day with these wonderful candle gifts.

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Las Vegas Wedding Favours

April 24, 2008 By Shannon Leave a Comment

Las Vegas is one of the most glamorous cites in the world which often attracts many couples there, to emulate the fun of a Las Vegas wedding why not treat your guests to some wedding favours with a Las Vegas theme so they can bring home some of the fun with them.

Las Vegas is the capital of the world for gambling, glitz and glamour. The sights, sounds and delights set many heart on fire with passion for this great city. Many a young couples who rush off to Vegas for the exciting marriage ceremony of their dreams want nothing more then to bathe in some of the glitz and the glamour of the city and bring back home a little piece to share with friends and family. This can be achieved by holding a Vegas-themed reception.

A night on the last Vegas strip is often the highlight of a visit there; here are some tips for emulating the glitter of Las Vegas back home at your party.

The most important thing is, through it all don’t lose your focus on what the party is really about — celebrating your wedding with your friends and family. An important aspect of the party would be the wedding favours to hand out to the guests afterwards.

Wedding favours such as the standard fuzzy dice to hang on your rear mirror are of course the most popular but there are a lot of other choices out there to suit your whims and needs. To add some class to your wedding party why not try enamel coasters in the shape of poker cards or gold or silver dice paper weights. The choices are varied from the cliché to the classic. It depends on the mood of your party as much as personal choice. Palm tree key chains, neon place card holders, glow in the dark mugs or even little replicas of famous Las Vegas icons like the waving cowboy billboard, there is a little piece of Las Vegas for everyone.
So remember, when trying to recreate the atmosphere of Las Vegas that is impossible to resist, remember to spare a though for your guests. Make sure they take back something special in the form of a uniquely styled Las Vegas themed favour. Your friends and family will no doubt be grateful and keep the memory of your Wedding party alive for many years to come. Viva Las Vegas.

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Soap | Bath Wedding Favours

April 24, 2008 By Angela Leave a Comment

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Golf Wedding Favours

April 24, 2008 By Shannon Leave a Comment

For the fanatic golfer it is quite normal for them to want to incorporate golf into as many aspects of their lives as possible. This can mean going as far as holding a golf themed wedding which would call for golf wedding favours. Luckily these keepsakes are readily available in a variety of choices.

Golf is the sport of kings or so the saying goes. The sport of golf has been the subject of both ridicule and adulation; it is played throughout the world but has always retained an air of sophistication about it and has always been associated with the upper crust of society. Those that truly follow the game do so with unabashed passion to the extent of borderline fanatics and are willing to go to great lengths for their game, even to the extent of holding a golf themed wedding for themselves. Golfers will after all go to great lengths to inculcate the game into every aspect of their lives.

To have a golf themed wedding you would need golf themed wedding accessories. One of the most important essential accessories is wedding favours to hand out to the guests. Thankfully in our modern day and age getting themed wedding favours is no longer a difficult task. There are an abundance of golf themed wedding keepsakes readily available out there. These gifts include white chocolate golf balls, silver golf bag paper weights, golf themed engraved mugs, golf tee cuff links, Bluetooth mini controlled golf cart place card holders and many more. Depending on the budget and tastes of the happy couple there is always plenty of golf themed gifts to choose from. The choices are aplenty to choose that special favour to make you feel like a Tiger Woods, Vijay Singh or a Jack Nicklaus on your special day.

So if golf is your cup of tea and you are so fanatic about the game that you can’t tear yourself away from your clubs even for your wedding day, then maybe holding a golf themed wedding is the right choice for you. To do this you would need a very understanding (or sufficiently bribed) spouse. There is no need to worry about favours as there are plenty available to suit your needs to make your wedding a smashing success. Fore to you!!

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Silver Wedding Favours

April 24, 2008 By Shannon Leave a Comment

Silver is a wonderful metal that is treasured by all and this makes it a wonderful substance to craft wedding favours from. Keepsakes that are crafted from silver are practical, long lasting and beautiful and will be treasured by wedding guests for many years to come.

Silver emanates an aura of quiet metallic elegance and style while still retaining an air of mystery about it; this is a known fact since the use of metal became widespread. Sterling silver or chrome wedding favours are amongst the most popular wedding mementos available on the market today, they last and are useful. The gleam of silver catching the light will leave your guests in awe. Wedding favours crafted from this precious metal will leave a lasting impression on your guests.

Contrary to common belief silver wedding favours are not as expensive as they are made out to be. Should you want to leave your wedding guests with a good impression of your reception, consider giving away silver keepsakes. Sterling silver bottle stoppers, silver bottle openers, silver place card holders, silver photo frames and silver key chains are among silver wedding favours that are sure to make an impact on your reception tables, and they are practical to boot.

Silver lends and air of sophistication to your celebration. These silver tokens are also very versatile as they complement any decor be it from kitchen to bar set, ands thus will not easily be discarded by guests after the wedding. Other useful silver keepsakes are paper weights, miniature coffee mugs, letter openers and coffee scoops, your guests will be reminded of your wedding over and over again every single time they use these items for example to open a letter or to make a cup of coffee. Silver is also a sturdy material that is solid, does not rust and ages well if cared for properly.

There are so many things to worry about when it comes to planning a wedding, these can all lead to a big headache if anything goes wrong. But you definitely can’t go far wrong by picking silver wedding favours as you are ensured that the majority of guests will be happy with them. Silver is a sure and safe choice to make, so if you are planning a wedding be sure to put silver keepsakes on top of your list.

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Practical Favours

April 24, 2008 By Shannon Leave a Comment

Wedding favours that are both practical and functional can be easily sourced and will be better appreciated and put to use by the recipients of these gifts. Gifts like coasters and key chains are both practical and can be shaped to the needs of the wedding.

A considerate couple may want to think about giving out wedding favours which are practical. The practicality of the gift is important because keepsakes which are given for other reasons such as cost and theme may not be valued by your guests. It is a fact that many favours are quickly discarded soon after the wedding and thus they will not serve as a reminder of your wedding.

Should you make the decision to give out mementos which are more practical in nature your guests are more likely to appreciate and cherish them. Although favours such as these may not be the most romantic or lovely, but they are much more likely to be appreciated by your guests than more fanciful items.

Here are a few suggestions for purchasing and choosing practical wedding favours you can give to your guests on your wedding day:

- Coasters are one idea for wedding favours which can be romantic or suit the theme of your wedding but can also be very practical as they are usable and the picture and shape of the coaster can be tailored to suit your needs.

- Key chains are another example of wedding favours which can be both romantic and practical, everyone needs a keychain and like coasters they can be shaped to suit your needs and purposes.

- Candles bring light to the dark, they can symbolize the eternal flame of love or a romantic setting, also they are truly practical as guests are likely to use the candles in the future (black outs, romantic dinners .. etc) as opposed to letting them collect cobwebs and be forgotten, which is a likely scenario for other less practical favours.

There are many other practical gifts out there that can be handed out as keepsakes, it all depend on the creativity of the wedding organizers to make sure that the gifts are useful and will not be discarded. A favour is after all a gift to show appreciation and thanks to guests for attending the wedding ceremony and what better way to do that than by giving them something of use.

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