16
Low-Cost Wedding Favor Ideas
- by KissMeGoodnight.com
Wedding
favors can be very expensive, and it is smart to try to
budget the best you can. For example,
let's sat that you have 100 guests coming to your wedding and
are thinking about getting wedding favors that may cost $15.00
each. Well If you were to choose to buy one for each of your
guests, your total budget for favors would be $1,500! If you
use a common budget-saving tip and buy only one favor per couple,
you're still looking at a price tag in the neighborhood of
$750 to $900 (including single guests who aren't part of a
couple).
Below is a list of the best favor choices for couples on a
budget. These items can be found for just a few dollars apiece
and at even greater savings when bought in bulk. A big key
to finding great favors is exercising your own handicraft talents
or asking creative relatives to make favors using items you've
found at wholesale or sale prices. A fifty-cent basket with
a handle can be filled with small packets of bath salts, votive
candles, and a few wrapped chocolates for a decadent bath experience.
The options are endless, and your modest budget will be wonderfully
served by your own imagination.
1. Candles and candle holders (as low as $1.50 each at some
craft stores).
2. Glass hurricane lamps with color-coordinated pillar candles.
3. Glass potpourri bowls with a signature scent of potpourri,
such as rose or gardenia. (Buy potpourri in bulk bags at a
warehouse store or craft store for even greater savings.)
4. Silver frames, found in craft stores or in bulk from great
low-priced sources.
5. Engraved silver bells where you can get them for under
$10.
6. Glass bowls filled with sand, seashells, and a silver starfish
necklace on a string.
7. Wrapped chocolates or truffles.
8. Homemade candies. Use chocolate candy-making or lollipop
kits found at your local craft store to melt your own chocolate
and custom-design your own creations. This particular creative
endeavor is so easy even children can do it. The chocolate
molds and lollipop sticks cost little more than a dollar apiece.
Pretty patterned candy bags to hold your creations cost just
$3 for a bag of twenty or so.
9. Homemade cookies. Break out your holiday sugar-cookie recipe,
buy a few inexpensive gown, shoe, dove, or bell-shaped cookie
cutters, and bake adorable wedding-themed cookies to frost
and decorate as you wish. Wrap each picture perfect cookie
in cellophane, tie with a ribbon, and attach a note. If you're
holding an informal or outdoor wedding, choose cookie cutters
in other appropriate theme designs, such as starfish, flowers,
beach balls, or the sun and moon.
10. Books. Buy books of romantic poetry, a favorite inspirational
author's newest work, or the best quotes about love and marriage,
and share the wealth with your guests. To get greater savings:
Call the publisher of the book directly and ask to speak to
the special sales department. You might be able to negotiate
a large discount or perhaps free shipping on your order of
fifty books. You may also include a homemade bookmark imprinted
with your names and wedding date.
11. Videotapes or DVDs. Choose a variety of romantic movies
your guests might not already own, providing a mix of VHS tapes
and DVDs, and let your guests choose their own favorites.
12. Bottles of wine. You can find great suggestions for vintages
that cost less than $10 or $15. Cut costs even more by giving
each couple one bottle of wine to share.
13. Ornaments. Buy beautiful, color-coordinated or white ornaments
from a local craft store and either wrap them in tulle or set
them in pretty see-through plastic boxes with a personalized
note. With thousands of different styles to choose from, you're
certain to find a great selection of color, design, and special
effects in boxed collections. For even greater savings, if
your wedding is a year in the future, shop the after-Christmas
sales to get those $10 boxes of white and silver star ornaments
for half off. That's twelve to sixteen individual favors for
just a little over $5. Perfect for holiday weddings, this gift
is something your guests will definitely use again.
14. CD mixes. Use your own home computer to burn romantic
or memory-laden music-mix CDs for your guests, and then use
CD jackets and labels from your local office supply store to
personalize the packaging. Again, this is one option your guests
will love, and use again and again.
15. Potted plants and seedlings. For just a few dollars each,
you can find great collections of potted flowering plants or
seedlings that can be wrapped at the base with colored foil
and then labeled with directions for growing and a personal
note of thanks. Beyond the sometimes laughingly low expense
($3 for a six-pack of seedlings!) this option allows your guests
to take a living piece of your day home and watch it grow in
the future. Another option is a pretty collection of flower
seed packets, preferably the kind that don't take a lot of
work.
Some wildflower seeds will work well for guests who don't have
a natural green thumb.
16. Pampering products. Check your local bath and body store
for great collections of men's and women's products and then
assemble your own gift baskets.
Click
here for the ultimate wedding planning guide.
It answers over 250 of your top questions, 150 cost saving tips and
everything you could possible stress over is resolved. Simple
website, but very popular. It's my KissMeGoodnight recommendation.
Are
you planning a wedding on a very tight budget? I've got a
solution for you. Click here. It's also a KissMeGoodnight
recommendation.
# # # # #
by KissMeGoodnight.com
: 2007
>
Home > Wedding Tips: Main Page
|
