Cheap Wedding Favors - Ideas To Spice Up Your Reception
By Jen Carter, Sat Dec 10th

Cheap Wedding Favors

First, let's start off by saying that we don't think that you'recheap! We know how much you've already shelled out for the bigday. So let's figure out a way to cut some corners and save youa few extra bucks. Have you ever considered buying your wedding favors inbulk? Believe it or not, there are a lot of wholesale companiesthat cater to the needs of the bride and groom. With a fewclicks of your mouse you can locate several wholesale weddingsupply companies on the internet.

If for any reason you're not happy with your search results,you'll have to do some creative thinking. Here's an idea: bulkChinese food cartons. Purchase the cardboard cartons anddecorate the metal handles with curling ribbon. You can place aphotograph of yourself and your significant other on the side ofthe carton. You can wrap some mints or other flavored candies infabric mesh and insert them into the carton. This not only willoffer a fabulous presentation, but it will make for a veryunique wedding favor.

If you're on a small budget and you've decided not to hire aphotographer, than disposable also make excellentwedding favors. Give every table a disposable to takephotographs with. At the end of the night you can collect thecameras and develop the pictures. Send everyone a "thank you"favor of a photo album containing the prints. While that maysound

expensive, many shopping centers offer great deals onreprints. It's much cheaper than hiring an actual photographer;and your guests will cherish the pictures.

Here's another inexpensive unique idea for favors: personalizedsodas. Hire a printer to create labels that will contain yournames and wedding date. On average 100 labels should run youabout $100. It's a very interesting idea that won't cost you awhole lot of money. If you have different flavors of soda, youcan always change the color of the label. For instance: pinklabels for cola, white labels for ginger ale, etc.. If youprefer not to use soda you can always use personalized waterbottles as your favors.

Since we're on the topic of personalized wedding favors, you canalways print your own labels and glue them around candles too!Place your name and date of your wedding on every label and tieor glue silver curling-ribbon to each candle. You can place thecandle into a sachet or find inexpensive candle holders.

As you can see--there are a lot of inexpensive gifts to give aswedding favors. Nevertheless, we advise you to shop aroundbefore you commit to one idea. You may already have a specificwedding favor in mind, but it doesn't hurt to weigh all of youroptions before you make a selection.

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