Edible Wedding Favors – Taste the Sweet Goodness

Getting married is sharing a lifetime of adventure and misadventures with someone you love more than you love yourself, and the wedding, on the other hand, is the part where you share a portion of that love to other people you also hold dear in your heart. What a better show of appreciation it would be if you would treat your guests with wedding favors that would not only tickle their hearts but as well as their taste buds.

If weddings are the sweetest thing to happen between a couple, then why not spread the sweetness or better yet, “box it” (then adorn it with colorful laces or add a no-nonsense ribbon) and hand it personally to the special people gracing the most special day in you life. Edible wedding favors would be a surefire hit among the guests. Who doesn’t love to eat, anyway? Who would say no to foods? Most of your guest must have each a sweet tooth, so a box of choco truffles for example would delight them to the end.

Chocolates reign supreme in the list of all-time favorite wedding favors. They can come in various sizes and in the most imaginable shapes. You could have chocolate shaped like wedding bells or wedding coins or a big chocolate-shaped heart with you names on it (awww). Chocolate candles, anyone? You could also have some fruits be covered with chocolate like strawberries. Some of your chocolate give-away may have peanuts in them like almonds or hazelnuts or it may come in other variants like dark, white and milk chocolates. Ever heard of choco lollipops? How about candies with chocolate fillings in the inside? What a sweet wedding it will truly be!

Of course, you do not have to solely rely on chocolates since there are other options for your edible wedding favors. For the foodie-lovers, here are some simple tips:

1. Support the local industry.
That is, go for home-made specialties like brownies or cookies or whatever your town’s (where you and your better half hail from) popular produce be, like for example carrots (then go for carrot cakes) and apples (bake apple pies!) then involve it into your wedding. If the wedding would take place in a coffee-growing region, then go for packed locally roasted coffee or coffee-flavored desserts and pastries. Ever heard of espresso fudge brownies? If you happen to be raised in a wine country, then go and let your guests bring home a “bottle of your childhood” and make a toast for it.

2. Let them know about your favorite stuffs.
Actually, let them have a taste of your favorite foods. Do you love blueberry cheesecake? Then have them in mini-sizes and distribute at the wedding reception. Do you love going to the movies? Then go for buttered or caramelized popcorns and put them in plastic bags with a crazy message like, “Thanks a bunch for popping into our wedding! We knew you would make it!” If you or your better half whips up one of the most fantastic macaroni salad in town, then place some in cute bowls and cover it with aluminum foils. If either of you likes experimenting at the kitchen, then why don’t you treat your guests to a sample of your spaghetti or fried chicken done in your own original recipe you have concocted and mastered all these time. You dig jams? Then buy colorful bottles in different shapes or forms and place the jam there with a matching lace or ribbon on the lid. You love colors? Then purchase an assortment of candies and jelly beans. Stuff them on socks (especially if it’s a December wedding) or on boxes.

3. Restore their energy.
Weddings normally last until the wee hours of the morning (even until the rooster crows and the sun’s all up), and what a sweet and smart gesture it would be if you would make them bring home goodies excellent enough for breakfast. Contact your favorite bakeshop for fresh-from-the-oven doughnuts or the local shop for some invigorating tea. How about sumptuous granola to revive you after all the snapping and turning and twirling in the dance floor? Your guests—your respective families and friends—would all appreciates your thoughtfulness.

Put in mind that these edible wedding favors can be personalized to fit in to your personality and to the theme of your wedding. As a matter of fact, they can even appear as “things” or “objects” (Remember the suggestion for chocolate candles?) until you get a careful scrutiny of them. Just inject the right creativity.

A friendly reminder, though for the guests: rein in on your excitement and reserve your appreciation later by not eating the wedding favors right at the wedding itself. There are still lots of raiding to do at the buffet table.