Thanksgiving Message

We are so blessed.

Whatever our postition in life, if we are in a position to be thinking about a wedding that includes all the people who have been special in our lives, we have a lot to be thankful for.

I remember a bride several years ago who didn't seem to get this. No doubt she was wrapped up in the stress of the planning process and saw only all the demands that it put on her. It was understandable, but sad. I remember bringing up the question of the kinds of wedding favors she wanted to use to develop her decor and express her gratitude to those who had stood by her and her future husband over the years. But to her favors were nothing more than trinkets. Little more than stocking stuffers...

Sad.

The point of wedding favors is the same as the point of Thanksgiving. It is an opportunity to acknowledge all that has been done on our behalf - all that we have to be thankful for.

And we do have a lot to be thankful for.



Happy Thanksgiving!

Wedding Planning and the Holiday Season: Tip Number One

The holiday season is a crazy time of year when brides often feel the need to set aside their wedding planning efforts. Between the family get-togethers of Thanksgiving, the company holiday parties, Hanukah, Christmas, and every other holiday between Halloween and New Years life often seems too crazy to find an opportunity to plan a wedding.

The reality, however, is that the holiday season presents a great opportunity to work magic with your wedding preparations. What’s more, the opportunity that it presents is not one that is readily found in any other time of the year.

Wedding Favors Make Great Stocking Stuffers!

Thinking about using sun catchers for your wedding favors but not sure if you will like them when the whole lot arrives? Order one and then after you have had a chance to inspect it slip it into your sister’s stocking on Christmas Eve. Who wouldn’t love to find a set of etched glass coasters in their stocking on Christmas morning? Or bath powder sachets? Considering using Barefoot Sandals as a Bridesmaids gift? Order a pair to give to your sister for Christmas. After all, what woman wouldn’t love a pair of Barefoot Sandals to help them feel attractive on the beach?

Use the holiday season to check out a variety of items you are considering using as wedding favors at your reception. This approach allows a bride to make her budget stretch by accomplishing both a part of your Christmas shopping and checking out wedding favors at the same time.

What’s more, nearly everybody has a long list of people that they need to recognize with a gift of some sort. And everyone has a shopping list that includes bosses, coworkers, Aunts and Uncles and other extended family and associates that don’t require much more than a gesture. Consider these examples:

• Check out the collection of beach favors for a boss that loves to run off to Hawaii every winter.
• Search through the collection of candle favors for a candle that you might be able to use in your wedding reception to give to your Aunt that you see once or twice a year – but loves candles.
• Choose one of each kind of bookmark favors that fits your wedding theme for the readers on your list.
• Choose from the decorative bottle stoppers for a relative who spends lots of time in the kitchen.
• Choose cruise ship luggage tags for someone who loves to sail.

You get the idea. By shopping for your stocking stuffers and your individual tokens of affection for your holiday gift giving you can give yourself the opportunity to decide just which wedding favors are right for your wedding while taking care of your holiday needs at the same time.

By the way, don't miss this opportunity to help your husband to be by slipping, A Groom's Guide: Turning Grooms into Gentlemen into his stocking. He will thank you for it.

A 'Happily Ever After' Ending with Fairytale Wine Stopper Wedding Favors

Wine has been at the center of wedding celebrations for millennia, so wine stopper wedding favors are a natural way to tie your choice wedding favors to your big day in the minds of your guests. For example, suppose your wedding was a fairytale themed wedding that included wine in your wedding reception. In that case a natural choice for your wedding favors would be fairytale wine stopper wedding favors that tied directly in to your theme like the 'Happily ever after' wine stoppers.

One great aspect of these fairytale wine stopper favors is that though they come in a four pack, they are designed so that you give them away individually. Yes, they each come in their own 2 ½ “ by 2 ¾” display box that reads, ‘And they lived happily ever after.’

Four Different Designs Means Variety for Your Reception Tables

Think about it. In most cases, when you give wedding favors, the favors are all the same , but with these fairytale wine stopper wedding favors your reception tables will be filled with variety – and that very variety will go a long way toward ...

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Making Your Wedding Favors Work for You

Recently, while talking to a bride-to-be, I enquired about her plans regarding wedding favors for her guests.

She waved the question away, "I'll just get the cheapest thing I can find. People always throw them out right away anyway."

I hope I'm wrong but in her case, I'd imagine they will. It doesn't sound like she's putting any thought into her decision - and there's little worse than a thoughtless gift. She'd probably be better off not spending the money in the first place.

The thing is, if she'd just put a little bit of thought into her favor choices she could find a gift which will pay off in any number of ways. Ways like:

• Decor - a well chosen favor, that fits with a well thought out, specific theme will go a long way toward extending your decor. And the great thing about it is that means that your budget for your decor either doesn't have to be as big or delivers the illusion that you spent more on decor for your wedding than you did.
• Memories - a wedding favor that closely matches your theme and is useful to your guests in some way can provide years of memories for your guests as they see that favor in their own home and think of you and your big day. Toward that end I personally prefer the wide variety of decorative bottle stopper favors because nearly anyone with a kitchen has at least one bottle on their counter top that could be dressed up with a special bottle stopper. How about a place card holder that can be used to hold photographs of a variety of sizes? You can use the place card holder then they can take it home to hold their favorite photo in it - or you could provide one! In some circles a decorative key chain can be useful to you guests. Candles, we all need to keep candles on hand in the event the power goes out. Coasters can be useful. Or luggage tags. You get the idea.
• Prayer - if you come from a community of faith, then prayer is important to you. A well chosen wedding favor, which means a wedding favor that your guests will want to keep around, will provide them a reminder of you and the support that you need as you embark on the adventure of marriage.
• Returned Gratitude - most of the people who will be at your wedding have stood with you for years, often in ways you won't be aware of for years. A thoughtful favor choice tells them that you appreciate them and all they have done for you.

The point is, you can choose a thoughtless trinket that your guests can throw away or you can give your choice a little thought and benefit from your investment in numerous ways.