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If you are getting married, more than likely you know that one part of your wedding planning is going to be coming up with wedding favors. However, you may be wondering why you need to give out wedding favors and what the history is behind them. Do you really need to spend your money on sending your guests away with a gift? Believe it or not, there is a long history behind this tradition; and yes, it is generally a great idea to give your guests a nice memento to remember your day by.

Choosing Your Wedding Favors
When it comes to choosing wedding favors for your wedding, there are a variety of ways you can go. You may want to go with traditional favors, ethnic favors, homemade favors, or even themed favors. Here are a few tips that can help you make the right choice for your wedding.

• Traditional Favors – You can present pieces of the bridegroom’s cake in beautiful boxes, picture frames with pictures of the couple, or even baked goods in lovely ribbon tied boxes
• Ethnic Favors – Some great ethnic favors include small bottles of Japanese saki, fortune cookies, marzipan candies from Scandinavia, or even Swiss chocolates.
• Homemade Favors – Some brides choose to make their own favors including beautiful tulle sachets filled with potpourri, wreaths made of herbs, homemade candles tied with ribbon, and bird houses that you can decorate yourself.
• Themed Favors – If you are having a wedding with a theme, you may want to carry over the theme when choosing favors. Toy boats with candy are great for beach weddings, for southwestern weddings small cacti are in order and there are lots of ideas for winter time themes.

Choosing the right kind of favors for a wedding should be according to the theme, if there is. For example, if it is a beach themed wedding, then the couple will have to choose beach themed favors as well. There are so many themed favors available today, be it for a garden, Asian or winter wedding.

There are unique wedding favors that fit for creative brides and grooms. Unique, creative wedding favors can really bring fun and impression to the guests. Choices include custom disposable cameras, custom wine stoppers, custom scrap books, custom keyboard dusters, candy dispenser, etc. Unique wedding theme like a Las Vegas wedding will need unique matching themed wedding favors also to gather it all together. Customizing the favors creates a unique touch on them. It usually include the couple’s monogram, the date of the wedding and a personal thank you message from the couple.