A Guide to Unique Wedding Favors

It's no secret that wedding planning can be stressful. The venues, the guest lists, the menus and cakes, the flowers and music, it can make your head spin! And that doesn't even include the cost. But to add on top of all of that stuff, you need to come up with special and unique wedding favors. How is one couple supposed to handle all of that? Luckily, having unique wedding favors can be the easiest part of wedding planning if you follow a couple of these simple ideas.

The most common way to get unique wedding favors is to go for personalization. Personalized and unique wedding favors are always appreciated and can be a memento that your wedding guests will keep and cherish long after the wedding night. Whether it's a small picture frame with your names engraved or candy bars wrapped in personalized wrappers, unique wedding favors can give your guests something small to always remember the night you were married. If you go this route, I recommend something small and useful that will always remind your guests of your wedding. Maybe that something could be an engraved wine bottle opener, or a set of elegant coasters. Whenever you think of unique wedding favors, try to think of something that is not only elegant, but also useful.

If you're truly looking for unique wedding favors, remember that not all wedding favors need to material objects. I certainly wouldn't begrudge a bride or groom if I were a guest and I left their wedding empty-handed. What am I gonna do with a candle anyway? Instead, for truly unique wedding favors, think outside of the box - don't even think of the box. Perhaps you and your fiancee have a favorite or preferred charity; why not make a donation to that charity in that wedding guest's name instead of a shot glass? Or perhaps you can plant a tree for each wedding guest? There are plenty of ways to give unique wedding favors without dropping something in front of their place setting.

Remember that any unique wedding favors should accomplish one thing: give your wedding guests something that they can commemorate the occasion by. A reminder of your love and that you as a couple don't exist in a bubble and that you acknowledge your friends and family as being part of your lives. Unique wedding favors can reaffirm that you all belong to the same community and that you're grateful for their love and support.