What to Consider Giving as a Wedding Favor

If you want to offer your guests wedding favors, please keep in mind that the gift should come from your heart.  It should be something that guests can take home and will remind them of your unique wedding day.

Photo Magnet

Are wedding favors necessary?

Giving wedding favors is a very old tradition. You should consider giving favors if your budget allows it. Wedding gifts must not be exclusive or expensive...it really is the thought that counts.

Pyramid Boxes

There are many wedding favor ideas available online and the gifts you can get for low cost.  The average price range for each gift is from $3 to $10 per person. Take a favor that suits your wedding theme and is meaningful to you and your guests.

Personalized Favor Tags

What kind of favor will be the best? 

You will find different types of wedding favor ideas, some of them are: Personalized and fancy wrapped food, candy bars, glass and crystal, silver made products, a personal photo of you and your partner...

 Cinderella Candy Bar Favors

It is always good to use your theme, if you have one. Get inspired from your wedding theme and match the favors to your beach wedding theme for example.  If you don't have a theme: Go for a seasonal or personalized favor.

Today, couples prefer personalized favors for their wedding because they are reflecting the personality of the bride or groom.  Get your inspiration from web shops and select those which are matching your theme, your personality and your budget.  For example you can purchase a candle-lit sailboat on a nighttime harbor or a wonderful heart-shaped coaster with photo frame center.  Those favors your guests can take home and enjoy time and time again.  Silver Bells (above-right)

How should  I present the favors?

There are many options to present the wedding gifts to your guests:

• One is to offer the favor directly at the reception and welcome your guests.
• Another option is to put the gifts for your guests on their place next to the name cards on the dining table. A favor can also be a part of your table decoration. But a problem arises: Your guests may forget to take the favor before they leave.

To consider all circumstances, I think the best way to say "thank you" to your guests is when the bride and the groom present the wedding favor before the guests leave.

Unique Favor Fans

When you want to give one favor per guest, order some extra wedding favors. Some of your guests want more than one gift.  It is also good to have some more favors on hand for those guests and friends who were not able to attend your wedding or for unexpected guests.

Votive Wraps

Plan ahead! Give yourself plenty of time to find the right unique wedding favor.  Unique wedding favors are wonderful to share your love with friends and family. It is that special finishing touch to your wedding day.

Also try...
Colorful Organza Bags
Favor Jars
Recyled Favor Boxes
Seeded Hearts

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Tips For Photographing a Wedding

Photographing a wedding can be a rewarding experience. It can also be a challenge. This article lists some ways to maximize the rewards and minimize the challenges of shooting a wedding.

Photography by Vanessa Honda

1. Price your wedding effectively. To do this a photographer needs to have a good sense of the time and expense needed to provide effective service to his clients. While it may seem like it would easily be worth the while to take a wedding for $1000 that only takes 6 hours to shoot.

However remember you will need to drive to and from the wedding. You will need to meet with the client before the wedding. You will need to download cards, select images, color correct any applicable images, edit the images, process the ultimate order and deliver the products. When you add in your marketing efforts, overhead expense and time commitments each wedding could easily take 35 hours or more to complete.

Take these items into account when pricing your wedding. If the wedding is not worth your time financially, you will be disappointed no matter how well the images turn out.

Photography by Vanessa Honda

2. Strive to develop a good relationship with the client. The wedding day is one of the client's lifetime most important days. Be willing to do whatever it takes to be successful. This will not only earn you points when the checks are being written and referrals are being made, it will establish you as a caring, competent professional.

Photography by Vanessa Honda

3. Arrive early. Plan on something going wrong (traffic, forgotten lense, injury, loss of cards, etc). While most problems can be avoided by early planning there will likely be at least one unforseen event during the course of the shoot. Being at the wedding location early will make many of these "suprises" much easier to mange.

Photography by Vanessa Honda

4. For destination weddings, set-up an online ordering system. You really don't want to be dealing with mailing proofs to the client or traveling long distances for a purchasing session.

Photographing a wedding can be both rewarding and challenging. Following the above suggestions will help make it more rewarding than challenging.

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Bouquet Tips

Hats off to GetMarried for these great suggestions and ideas for wedding bouquets.  Besides the bride, the bouquet can be a focal point for quests so it's important to create one that's stunning.



Here's a few I found featured on Style Me Pretty, simply darling

Got Style?

These great finds were originally posted on Martha Stewart Weddings.

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Fall in love

I absolutely love Autumn, especially when I travel. The leaves on the trees are adorned with colors of orange, yellow, brown, red and still a touch of green. It's a beautiful sight to see.

If you love color, Autumn is the perfect time for weddings! We have the most adorable Autumn themed wedding invitations ~ we have a variety of designs to suit any bride and groom.

Like this one, A white z-fold invitation insert tucks away perfectly into this translucent pocket featuring an autumn daisy on the front. The insert has a pre-cut ribbon in the color of your choice: lemon, black, white, silver, blush, magenta, bay, breeze, navy, purple, olive, sage, orange, ginger, claret, mocha, or passion.

I love the cutout frame with embossing to highlight the autumn leaves design on this next invitation. It's casual but classy...

Here's one from our Something Different collection for the unique and modern couple

This has lovely leaves of tangerine, mango and orange that bring vivid color to this bright white invitation.

Check out these fashionably fall invitations, they are sure to please your quests...

Remember — warm mocha browns, gold and cream for fall are gorgeous when paired with your favorite accent color. Be creative by accenting with ribbon, coordinating napkins, colorful favor boxes, beautifully printed menu cards and more!

Happy Wedding!

Ink Expressions