A Cheap Wedding Favor Need Not Look Cheap

Cheap Wedding Favor - cost

A Cheap Wedding Favor need not be ‘cheap looking’, and with the increasing commercialization and costs of weddings these days many people are looking for ways of cutting costs. One of these is reducing the cost of wedding favors while maintaining the personal sentiments that they convey.

A Cheap Wedding Favor is an accepted part of a wedding, and everybody who attends your reception should receive one. At one time they were for favored people only, initially given to the bride and groom in the 13th century and then expanded to the full guest list as is done today. Everybody now expects one, and the favors can amount to a sizeable chunk of your wedding budget, especially if you have a large guest list.

Cheap Wedding Favor - budget

The total cost of a wedding can be considerable, and you need a budget for each part of it that you should set fairly early on in the planning. Apart from anything else, it will give you an idea of the total amount of money it will all cost, and perhaps your parents will bribe you to elope instead! Seriously, though, you have to have an idea of cost before you can even start to set the budget, and there many expensive items associated with a wedding ranging from the cost of the dresses for you and the bridesmaids, the flowers, photographer and limousines, to the reception and venue costs. Among these somewhere comes the cost of a Cheap Wedding Favor.

That might be one of the last items on your budget, and the one that will be affected by any cut-backs that you have to impose. However, a Cheap Wedding Favor is not intended to be a magnificent gift to each of the guests, but simply a small token of your appreciation for them sharing your big day with you. Originally, they were simple pieces of confectionery, and there is no reason why you cannot continue that tradition. In Italy it is traditional to give bomboniere, which are five sugared almonds, five being a number than cannot be broken apart and representing the five wishes for health, wealth, happiness, fertility and long life.

Cheap Wedding Favor - choices

It would be very inexpensive to purchase sugared almonds in bulk, and place five into a lovely little persentation box for each guest. Plain boxes can be purchased very cheaply, ready for you to decorate using stick-on motifs or even with small cut-out photographs of you and your groom. Not only would these be very a Cheap Wedding Favor, but also very traditional and entirely appropriateyou’re your wedding.

Another idea is to have glass coasters containing a photograph of you and your new husband at each place setting. These are practical and useful and sure to be a hit with all of your guests. You can give one coaster to each guest, or even a complete set of four. They are inexpensive but a very acceptable Cheap Wedding Favor. Alternative, you might prefer something edible, such as fortune cookies or individual chocolates spread around the tables.

Cheap Wedding Favor - ideas

You can also arrange with local bakeries to make some cookies, small cakes and the like, perhaps even decorated with you and your groom’s name and date of the wedding. These can be a very Cheap Wedding Favor if made in large batches. Another good idea is buy batches of small candles and then hand decorate them with small sticky horseshoes and bows. Perhaps add your names and then box them in lovely small presentation boxes.

Presentation of a Cheap Wedding Favor makes all the difference, and what looks cheap can be made to look cute and expensive when placed in a small box, suitably decorated for a wedding. Try to avoid purchasing wedding wrappings, or boxes with a wedding theme, since anything with a wedding motif is going to be overpriced. That is why so many wedding favors are so expensive. You are paying for the wedding theme rather than the article. Buy the same thing without the wedding theme and you could halve the price!

Cheap Wedding Favor - discount

You can get cheap little boxes, for example, in discount stores, and then purchase a pack of these metallic effect gummed stars and other shapes that kids use at school. They are very inexpensive, but when stuck to a cheap box can transform it into a really nice container for a Cheap Wedding Favor such as a small candle or a few chocolates. You can do the same thing with bath favors.

A few small bubble bath balls will go a long way for a Cheap Wedding Favor if presented in a nice looking box, and you can add a personalized gift tag to go with them. If you are buying a lot of them, then you are sure to find an outlet that will give you them at a cheap price, and again discount stores are a great place to look for these small items.

Cheap Wedding Favor - expense

Although your budget might require your favors to be inexpensive, a Cheap Wedding Favor can still be a beautiful gift appropriate for your wedding, and all it takes is a bit of imagination and time. Nobody will leave disappointed with what you have lovingly provided for them, and they appreciate it all the more knowing that their favor has been hand crafted by you for them.










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