| If you're shopping for your reception and are looking | | | | Suppose you and your fiancée really love art |
| for just the right wedding favors, chances are you'll | | | | and culture. Is there a favorite museum that you just |
| go online and type those words into your web | | | | cannot get enough of? How about small tokens from |
| browser and see what comes up. | | | | that museum? Most have little paperweights or |
| This is all well and good; many wedding favors | | | | trinkets that cost the same as any other wedding |
| companies operate online and offer some incredibly | | | | favors [ and can usually be ordered online. |
| lovely products. But this also means that you're | | | | Sometimes your particular career can also serve as |
| purchasing wedding favors that are exactly like every | | | | inspiration. Are either of you police officers? Small |
| other bride and groom out there. If you want really | | | | paperweights that resemble police badges can be |
| unique and creative favors that are special just for | | | | good. If you teach art or literature, small painting kits |
| you and your groom, what to do? Where do you | | | | or a book or poems or verses can also be affordable |
| even start getting ideas from? What can serve as | | | | and appreciated. |
| inspiration to you? | | | | Your next step in making a decision is to really think |
| The answer to those questions is actually very | | | | about your wedding itself - the tone, the theme, the |
| simple, and if you consider this you can save yourself | | | | colors, everything. Is it very casual and fun? Or very |
| a lot of time and frustration in hunting down ideas. | | | | formal and traditional? Does it fall somewhere in |
| First, really clue in to you and your groom and what's | | | | between? Your wedding favors of course should |
| important to you as a couple. He may have his | | | | somehow blend in or fit with the overall tone you're |
| career and you have yours, but what are some | | | | setting with all your other accessories. If you're |
| things that you two share? Is it a love of | | | | planning a very rustic outdoor wedding and reception |
| motorcycles or sports or the outdoors? Do you | | | | on a farm, your miniature Eiffel Towers wouldn't fit |
| travel to see big cities; are you in love with | | | | very well, but some nicely chosen nature themed |
| Manhattan or Paris as much as you are with each | | | | wedding favors would. You and your groom may |
| other? Your favorite hobby or passion is one of your | | | | love sports, but if you're having a very traditional and |
| first clues. If you met at a motorcycle rally and | | | | formal affair in an old cathedral and the fanciest |
| dream of the day when you can retire and ride | | | | country club in town, giving away football keychains |
| cross-country on your bikes, then you can express | | | | isn't a good fit either. |
| this passion of your in your choice of wedding favors | | | | Your inspiration for wedding favors can come from all |
| - miniature motorcycles or paperweights with the | | | | sorts of places, if you keep your eyes - and your |
| Harley Davidson logo can be a fun and personal | | | | mind - open. You may be shopping in a favorite retail |
| touch. Or if you both love a particular city, small | | | | store and see a small trinket, stationery kit, picture |
| models of a certain landmark such as the Manhattan | | | | frame, or other item that you love; if it fits your |
| skyline or the Eiffel Tower may be appropriate. If | | | | budget and your personality, who says you can't use |
| you can't find models, what about snow globes or | | | | those as wedding favors? |
| magnets of that city? | | | | |