Wedding favors do not have to be expensive to mean something to your guests. You can do something homemade and make it mean the world to your guests. It does not have to be anything big just a simple gesture to say thank you for coming to my wedding.

So when you and your better half are thinking of ideas it should be about who you are and what you enjoy. Make it different and your guests will remember your day.

Here are a few ideas you might be able to use.

1. You can put a small bell on a card that would have a saying on the card like a poem. When you kiss at the reception the guests can ring the bell.

2. You can wrap up some chocolate in nice fabric with a ribbon and put a piece of paper on it that would have you wedding date put on that.

3. You can also get a picture of you and your partner the one you love the most and put it on the back of a backing paper you could get at a craft store and write something on the bottom that they can take home.

4. Flowers and balloons are a favorite for guests and kids to take home after the wedding. They are cheap but you can make them look great for the room. Use a ribbon that matches your wedding colors and your guests can take with them when they leave.

5. Other ideas for cheap wedding favors could be small wedding mint tins.

6. For a gift that is not to expenisve, and you can do a lot with, consider small picture frames.

7. Little mints are cheap and taste good too!

8. Soaps with the date of the wedding on them are easy to personalize.

9. Take a minute and put some thought into your goals when it comes to wedding favors. One idea would be to tell little bit about yourself in your gift. Are you a person that has a hobby? How about a wedding favor that relates to music or a sport you like such as golf or bowling.

10. What do you love and what do you do for fun, or for relaxation. You can really be unique because wedding favors are easy to put on the tables at the reception and they do not have to be costly.

This article will give you some ideas to help you find the perfect cheap wedding favor for your wedding day. If you need more help you can go and Google search her wedding favors or you can also search online craft stores for even more favor ideas.

Don’t worry if you can’t think of anything as there is a whole industry set up supplying treats for guests. With this in mind, it should be one less item you have to worry about for your big day because your favors might just be a phone call away.

One option for an easy wedding favor, especially popular with the ladies is flowers. The preparation for flowers is almost non existent other than deciding on what flowers to use which can be ordered reasonably close to the big day.

You might consider giving your guests a single red rose as a favor and this is extremely appropriate because a rose is a symbol of love plus roses do not need to be wrapped. Placing the rose on the wedding reception table where the guest are seated is a nice touch and doesn’t need to be done until the last minute.

Unfortunately flowers do no appeal to everyone, but with three in every four receptions using candy, this is an easy wedding favor that will. However, there is an even easier way to give candy and also help you to save money on centerpieces. This just needs a large quantity of various candies placed in a large bowl on the middle of the table.

To complete this idea, a small plain bag or carton can be left for each wedding guest to put their candy into. This really is easy because each guest can choose whatever candy they like and there isn’t a single piece of wrapping in sight.

Pictures frames can also work well especially if they are used as place card holders. If you intend to use picture frames as your wedding favors there is a way that you can present them to your guests without have to wrap them! However, by using the picture frames to hold the place cards, you do not have to worry about wrapping them for your guests.

For those of you that like an easy wedding favor that is a little different then why not use a local photographer, you can have each guest pose for a shot which can be presented to them at the wedding reception. It is a simple matter of bringing a printer along so the images can be printed off during the reception and are ready when the guests start to leave. This is a great idea for a wedding favor because your guests will likely be dressed up and will appreciate the opportunity to pose for a professional photo. Many professional photographers have purchased small digital projectors so there is no reason why you couldn’t request one at the reception and this way your guests could see the images that had been taken during the day.

Spending thousands and thousands of dollars on an expensive, new wedding dress when you can have a beautiful dress for a fraction of the cost seems silly.  Most brides-to-be don’t realize that second hand wedding dresses are a vailable solution.

If you’re a millionaire with tons of cash to burn you can buy whatever you want.  However, if you’re planning a wedding on a budget or would like alternatives to an expensive, top-of-the-line, designer wedding gown, smart brides choose to shop the second hand wedding dress market.

The More-Than-Possible Savings

When you stop to think of the savings potential from this decision, it’s truly mind numbing. A new, designer wedding gown can cost anywhere from a not-so-low $4,500 to a whopping $10,000 or more. Compare that immense figure to the cost of a second hand wedding dress — which should cost substantially less than $1,000 — and it’s really a no-brainer.

Here’s something to wrap your mind around: If you were to wear your mother’s or grandmother’s wedding gown, the expense would be… NOTHING! Just imagine the amount of cash you could save by getting a FREE wedding dress!

Wondering where to purchase a second-hand gown?  Go to Mystique Boutique & Consignment,571 Route 6 in Mahopac.  The entire 2nd floor is filled with beautiful wedding and prom dress at great bargins.  Have fun trying on dress after dress and just think of all the money you will save!

Don’t worry about the alternations.  Take the dress and head over to La Sposa Bridal Shoppe, 957 Route 6 in Mahopac and their expert tailors will custom fit the gown to you.  It will fit and look like it was made just for you!!!

Some other options:

- Family. As mentioned above, your mother, grandmother, or other female relative is an excellent start when searching for second hand wedding dresses.

- Antique Stores. Such a place is worth a few minutes of browsing, however unlikely it may seem to you. If you do find a gown here, not only will it be cheap, it’ll be traditional too.

Why You Shouldn’t Be Picky

It’s important to avoid being overly picky. Why? Because these are second hand wedding dresses you’re looking through, not newly designed ones. The more important reason though is that any dress you find can be inexpensively altered to match your size, style as well as your wedding theme.

Just think of all the money you will save  by choosing to wear a second hand gown and hiring a good seamstress to make the necessary changes! Remember, with the right changes and modifications, a two hundred dollar dress can easily be given the look and feel of a dress retailing for over two thousands dollars.

By: Sean Saunders

Pictures are an integral part of any wedding. Newlyweds are usually thrilled to get their pictures back from the photographer so they can relive their special day. But there are many special activities you can build into a wedding that involve photos.

One photo fun idea that many brides employ is to take photos of everyone as they arrive at the wedding, almost like you do at a high school prom or company Christmas party. You can provide a backdrop and couples can pose either for a paid photographer or for whoever happens to pick up the camera. These pictures can be taken with a Polaroid camera for instant fun or with a disposable camera. If you want slightly higher quality photos, go for a digital camera.

This can be an excellent way to keep guests busy and happy until the “official” reception begins with the arrival of the bride and groom.

As an extension of that idea, you can take instant photos and create scrapbook pages or memory book pages with the photos. There can be supplies on hand so guests can create pages on site, or pages can be pre-made and photos simply placed into the prepared spaces. If guests don’t want to create pages on site, or the bride doesn’t want this particular activity going on, the photos can be saved for later. As a gift for the bride and groom, someone can create memory books with these photos.

If Polaroid cameras are used, another option is to have the people in the photo sign the Polaroid photo and place that in a basket somewhere. The bride and groom will enjoy looking at the photos later.

While it’s not a particularly unique idea, many brides like to provide disposable cameras on each table at the reception so guests can capture candid shots of the reception and the table guests. These photos can be added to the newlyweds’ wedding album or they can be placed into a separate album showing the wedding from the guests’ perspective.

Another photofun activity sure to be entertaining is to create a “silent photo guess” area. Here’s how this works: before the wedding, someone close to the bride and groom collects pictures of the bride and groom at various stages in life. The photos should depict the bride and groom doing things, not at Christmas or with their first birthday cake. In other words, the photos should include some action, but it shouldn’t be obvious in the picture what has taken place or where the person is.

Much like a silent auction, people will come along and look at the photos, then take a silent guess as to what the photos show. They can write their guess on a piece of paper and put it in a numbered basket that corresponds with the number on the photo. Reading these guesses during the reception is entertaining and sure to be amusing. The bride or groom can provide the real answers. This is a particularly fun activity at a relatively small, family wedding where the participants know the bride and groom very well.

If you want to provide an area for guests to have their photos taken but aren’t thrilled with the “prom night” idea, how about having a photo corner set up somewhere in the reception hall or facility. Here, the wedding photographer will take candid shots of wedding guests. They might be couples, but could also be entire families, friends having a good time, or the groom being carried on the shoulders of the best man. Whatever the pictures end up being, they provide a fun, “let it all hang out” area for the wedding guests and a surprise for the bride and groom. Since they will likely be busy with all the reception details and having the time of THEIR lives, they might appreciate knowing their guests had a pretty good time too, as evidenced in the photos.

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