Wedding By Color Blog

When you look up the word “favor” on dictionary.com, some of the definitions include, “a small gift or decorative or festive item,” and, “a gift bestowed as a token of goodwill, kind regard, love.” For guests at your wedding, favors are sometimes an unexpected treat. They are also a way for you to give a very personalized gift to your guests as a way of thanking them for attending your wedding.

A simple start to personalizing your favors is to coordinate them with your wedding color theme. For example, for my wedding next year one of the ideas I had for favors was to give my guests iced sugar cookies. The cookies would be topped with white frosting and then have our new monogram on them: one cookie’s monogram in pink icing, the other in green (our two colors). They would then be placed in pink bakery boxes. If I really wanted to get into the color theme, I could then put a green ribbon around the box, or put a green tag on it that had a note of thanks.

Coordinating favors with your selected color theme is becoming very popular. Many couples are using themes like, “A perfect pair,” and then having green pear favors. Likewise, some couples who have fall weddings are doing green apple themes. At one point I was planning a fall wedding and, still having my green theme and being a huge apple fan, was going to have sparkling apple cider as a favor. I even found the sparkling cider in green glass bottles to along with my green color theme! I was also going to make my own labels for the sparkling cider that read, “Heather and Dustin: A sweet, sparkling love.” Another option I’ve seen would be to say, “A golden delicious love,” to play off the apple theme.

Coordinating your favors with your color theme is an incredibly simple way to personalize them. Papermart.com is a great source for things like pink bakery boxes or other boxes in assorted colors. They also have colored cellophane bags. Another great place is Paper-source.com. They have white favor boxes that you can then detail with stickers or ribbon in your color theme. A friend of mine bought her favor boxes there and then bought chocolate and fuchsia paper (stripes, floral, etc.) that went along with her theme. She bought a Xyron machine and made the paper strips into stickers that she then used to decorate the boxes. She went a step further and sealed them with a circle sticker emblemized with a simple chocolate or fuchsia “t” (her new last initial) rubber stamp imprint.

Bakery items or sweets are a simple way to get your favor to match your colors. Cupcakes and sugar cookies can very easily be topped with any color of icing. Also, these are a great gift for you guests to take home, and it gives the night a very “sweet” ending!