| If you're looking for ideas- here they are. Fifty different
ideas in total- all divided into categories that you can pick from. |
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| Seasonal/Holiday Favors |
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Candy canes
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Mini Easter baskets filled with foil-wrapped
chocolate eggs
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Little plastic pumpkins filled with candy
corn
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Simple Christmas ornaments
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Blow-up beach balls with your names and/or
your wedding colors
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Miniature heart-shaped boxes of Valentine's
chocolates
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Miniature watering cans filled with spring
blooms
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Chocolate coins in gold foil
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Sparklers
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Easter eggs (that you've colored yourselves)
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Miniature pots of clover (four-leaf?) for St.
Patty's Day
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| Keepsake Favors |
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A copy of a memorable photo you have of you
(or both of you) with each guest
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A pretty picture frame
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Potpourri
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Several sheets of pretty notepaper with
matching envelopes, tied with a ribbon
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Engraved silver keychains
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Pretty paper fans (to beat the heat, and/or
to represent your Asian or Spanish ancestry)
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Figurines (Precious Moments are popular)
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Mini replicas -- or picture postcards -- of
landmarks in the town where you marry
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Little blank books/journals
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Music boxes
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| Edible Favors |
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The classic: candied almonds (Italian
"confetti")
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A single, amazing petit four
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A miniature box of good chocolate (Godiva!)
or a single truffle
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Gourmet jelly beans
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Chocolate Kisses wrapped in tissue paper (in
your wedding colors, perhaps)
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Mixed nuts in little canisters
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Mints with your married monogram on them
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Everyone's favorite: M&Ms
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Licorice (Twizzlers or the assorted, colorful
kind)
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Little tins of butter cookies
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Honey or jam - that you've canned yourselves
or from a local gourmet shop
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| "Living" Favors |
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Tree saplings
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Flower bulbs
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Donations to the charity of your choice in
each guest's name
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Packets of seeds - your favorite bloom, or
one with significance to the two of you
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Potted African violets (or any other plant)
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Flower leis
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Aromatherapy candles
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| Fun Favors |
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Pez dispensers (complete with the candy!)
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Decks of cards (having a Vegas wedding??)
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Bottles of bubbles (can be doubled as "rice"
when you leave)
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CD singles (maybe your wedding song, or
something classic)
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Stickers (silly ones, or have a
graphic-designer pal design wedding-memento stickers)
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Super Balls or Slinkies
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Crayons (you might want to cover the tables
with butcher paper, too)
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Yo-yos
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Personalized pens or pencils
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Calendars (little plastic ones or funny
rip-off-the-date ones)
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Lottery tickets (give them a chance at good
fortune)
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| After you've read through this list, you may have an idea
in mind that you love- but the best thing to do is figure out which section
you want to work with and find something that really shows off yours and
your fiancé's styles and personalities. |
