By Georgina C Clatworthy
Wedding guests love edible wedding favors! Perhaps it is the instant sugar rush after sitting through a long ceremony or the simple fact they haven’t received yet another miniature photograph frame! With edible favors you have a big choice available and problem coordinating them with your theme or wedding style.
Best of all edible wedding favors do not need to cost the earth yet can look like you broke the budget creating them! Here is a top ten of edible goodies you can delight your guests with along with some packaging suggestions.
1. Candies: who doesn’t like candy? As favors go candy makes a perfect choice, inexpensive, color coordinated and easy to package. Visit a wholesaler for bulk buy savings.
2. Chocolate: from personalized bars to luxury chocolate truffles there is a chocolate variety available to suit every wedding. Serve Champagne laced chocolate truffles on mini silver colored trays or colored, sugar coated chocolates in clear plastic boxes.
3. Cookies: from the custom, themed varieties to homemade family recpies, cookies are possibly the best wedding favour idea to emerge in the last few years. If you are having an unusual theme for your wedding then custom cookies are a great choice.
4. Cupcakes: a great budget saver if you double them up as your wedding cake, but on their own make a delightful choice although perhaps at the upper end of the price range. Clear plastic boxes designed to hold cupcakes will ensure you guests can take them home safely to enjoy later.
5. Mints: a traditional favor choice, mints are usually presented in small tin boxes which can be personalized with stickers.
6. Almonds: the most traditional of wedding favors, almonds are perhaps less popular these days. They are a great choice for a traditional wedding and can be found in sugared varieties also know as Jordan almonds and sugar coated almonds which come in a variety of colors.
7. Chocolate Dragees: the chocolate version of almonds these are sugar coated and available in a range of popular wedding colors including silver and gold. Aside from almond shaped dragees you will also find heart shaped versions.
8. Condiments: a modern addition to wedding favors, many stores are stocking various types of condiments from mini jars of honey to bottles of hot sauce, all with the option of personalized labels.
9. Tea and Coffee: so called gourmet favors include loose tea and ground coffee. These are lovely presented in small sachets or tins with silver infusers and chocolate coated coffee beans.
10. Fortune Cookies: popular for Chinese themed weddings but great fun for any wedding style. Fortune cookies can be found in Chinese stores or have them hand made with your own fortunes inside.
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