Easy Ideas for Beach Wedding Favors

Beach Bags of Salt Water Taffy

For ocean side beach weddings, purchase little burlap or fabric beach bag favors and fill them with bulk wrapped salt water taffy. You may want to add a cute flip flop key chain or other novelty item. Rolls of Life Savers candies also work and you can even add personalized wrappers with the bride and groom’s names and the wedding date.

Alternatively, you could place clear packages of customized blue M&Ms candies into the bags of beach wedding favors. You could get blue M&Ms personalized with the bride and groom’s names or with a light-hearted theme message such as “Love’s a Beach.”

Mini Frisbees with Seashell Chocolates

It’s a tiny plastic plate – no, it’s a flying beach toy! Mini Frisbees filled with seashell-shaped chocolates make smart beach wedding favors. Wide mesh netting fabric is the perfect choice to cover the Frisbees before securing one end with ribbon and attaching a little starfish or seashell themed thank you card.

Beach Shovels of Candy

Buy children’s beach shovels in a color to go with your beach wedding. It’s a good idea to base the size on the place setting space and the look you want. Fill with wrapped candies or use candy packages that go with the wedding’s colors and themes. Secure the candy by using netting and gathering it up at the base of the shovel. Secure with ribbon and add more ribbon and a thank you card hanging from the handle.

Sea of Love Boats

Sailboats with room to hold candy or mints make great beach wedding favors. Make them even better by writing on the sails with a fine-tipped dark marker. The large one might read “Sailing together on the sea of love.” The smaller sails could have the bride and groom’s names or just their first initials such as “T + C.”

Message in a Bottle

Cork-topped mini glass bottles can make cute beach wedding favors. Your message inside each bottle favor could read “Love is a day at the beach. Thanks for being here with us. Kelly and Nicholas” Roll the notes and tie with narrow ribbon. You could add some tiny shells or silver colored starfish charms to the bottles.

Awesome Ideas for Personalized Wedding favors

Personalized Stickers

You can order all types of stickers with the bride and groom’s names plus the wedding date. This way, creating personalized wedding favors couldn’t be easier. Just look for colors and sizes of stickers that suit your wedding theme and color scheme. You could even use the stickers for the seals on the backs of your invitation envelopes. Personalized stickers are also great for wedding favor box tops and on bottles of bubbles that you leave on outside chairs for guests to use during an outdoor marriage ceremony.

Personalized Mini Photo Album with Disposable Camera

Mini photo albums embossed with the bride and groom’s names and the date make enjoyable personalized wedding favors when given along with a disposable camera. Guests can use the camera right then to capture moments from your wedding and later keep those memories in the album.

Personalized M&Ms Clear Heart Boxes

Clear favor boxes containing personalized M&Ms candies in your wedding color make simple and fun favors. You could use clear heart shaped boxes or any shape you prefer. Even small clear glass bottles filled with message M&Ms make great personalized weding favors. Don’t forget to dress up the boxes or bottles with pretty ribbon and attach a hole-punched thank you card.

Personalized Mini Gift Baskets

Fill individual mini natural baskets with candy or little charms that go with the theme of your wedding. Use baskets with handles. This way, the cellophane can be gathered up to the top of the handles and then secured with personalized ribbon with the names of the bride and groom plus the wedding date.

Personalized Ice Cream Scoop

You could buy attractive stainless steel ice cream scoops and have them engraved with the bride and groom’s first initials and the numerical date such as “L & E 06-20-12.” Fill the scoop with candy or other small items and wrap it in sheer fabric. Add ribbon, a bow and a round note to these
personalized wedding favors that reads: “Here’s the scoop: Leah and Ethan got married today! Thanks for being here.”

Cheap Wedding Favors Under $2

Fridge Magnets

Fridge magnets don’t have to be tacky. They can be classy as well as humorous and you could even get customized ones. Tasteful fridge magnets make useful cheap wedding favors to be used at home or at the office. They are ideal favors for informal outdoor weddings when you want the tone to be casual and light-hearted.

Care should be taken to match the colors and designs in the magnets to the accent color and theme of your wedding. Remember that even the most casual wedding favors should include a ‘thank you’ for guests. You could attach a little card to the magnets that reads something like “Love attracts the best people. Thanks for sharing our special day with us. Megan and Max.”

Mints in Sheer Fabric

White net, mesh or organza squares filled with mints and then tied with ribbon are classic wedding favors, but they are also cheap and look nice on reception tables if you take care to gather the material attractively and use pretty ribbons.

You could tie a silver-colored metal bell on each end of a ribbon bow. Alternatively, ribbon roses or a silk flower that matches your wedding flowers could be used to decorate a ribbon tie around the neck of each bag of mints. Classic white round mints look appealing, yet are inexpensive.

Heart-Shaped Note Pads

Stacks of heart-shaped or heart-themed note pads wrapped in pretty, sheer fabric or organza bags tied with sheer ribbon make nice cheap wedding favors. You could use co-ordinating grosgrain ribbon to attach a heart shaped tag that reads: “Our hearts shape the day. Thanks for sharing our wedding with us. Emily and Collin.” You could also use an organza favor bag and/or have two heart-shaped cookie cutters hanging from the ribbon.

Seed Packets

Ideal for garden weddings, little flower pots or miniature watering cans with a few seed packages and maybe a mini garden tool make cute cheap wedding favors. Gauzy sheer ribbon in a pastel wedding accent color can be the perfect finishing touch. The thank you card you attach to the sheer ribbon could read: “Our love grows stronger every day. Thanks for sharing today with us. Vanessa and Shane.”

Pails of Candy

Miniature silver-colored or white metal pails with wire handles look just like tiny versions of the real thing. It’s fun to fill these little buckets with candy that matches the tone, color and theme of the wedding. For example, for more elegantly toned outdoor weddings, use white pails and include fancy foil-wrapped chocolates or truffles. Colorful gumballs or jelly beans are best for informal, light-hearted weddings. Tie a bow made from sheer or opaque ribbon on the handles and attach a small ‘Thank You’ card with narrower ribbon to complete these fun, cheap wedding favors.

Beautiful Boxes of Candy

Plain white favor boxes may be cheap, but they won’t look it if you dress them up with color-rich, beautiful bows made of sheer ribbon. You may want to add a silk flower to each bow or attach little charms found at craft stores. These cheap wedding favors can look pretty at each reception place setting. Add bulk wrapped candy inside each box and have the candy wrapper color coordinate with the ribbon color and your wedding colors.

Wedding favors for creating your own unique wedding favor style.
Are you are having a traditional wedding, then you are probably looking for traditional packaging for your wedding favors. It is important never to overlook the packaging for your wedding favors, no matter what the style of your theme wedding. The perfect packaging will create your wedding theme or style & will add a personal touch to your wedding favors. Beautifully presented favors make for memorable keepsakes for your reception guests.

When thinking about wedding favor packaging it is small boxes that will immediately come to mind. These are available in a range of styles, shapes & sizes. You will also find them made from a range of materials such as printed or textured card & transparent plastic, some boxes can be personalized. They are widely available & most favor stores will carry a wide range to choose from, often with choices in color & size.

Wedding favors that are best suited to put in these boxes range from candies to chocolates, bracelets to cufflinks. The trick is to purchase your wedding favors before you choose your packaging. We’ve found that specialtyribbon.com does a good job in pricing their wedding favors.

Another way to present your guest wedding favors is with pretty tulle nets. This works best for chocolates, almonds or candies, but could also be used for small candles. These nets are circular & after placing your favors in the middle you simply gather the tulle up & tie with ribbon. There is an art to getting these to look right, but if you get it right they look fantastic. Don’t worry though if you feel they are beyond your capabilities, as you will find people online or maybe at your local bridal store who can put them together for you.

Other ways to present your favors include wrapping them in pretty papers, satin or organza wraps or even sinamay envelopes. Experiment with wrapping your wedding favors in pretty handmade papers with ribbons & a personalized tag to finish, this usually produces an elegant & stylish favor. Items which are probably best wrapped this way include almonds, fortune cookies, cookies & wine bottles.

If you wanted to present your favors in a really unique way then try bottles or jars. These are relatively inexpensive when bought in bulk & provide your guests with a useful container long after the favor has gone. Best suited to edible favors such as candies, chocolates or preserves, but you could use them for things such as bath salts, loose tea or coffee & even liquid soaps. You will find bottles in a range of shapes & sizes as well as finishes such as textured glass, colored glass & transparent or opaque versions. Another trend these days is to go green or eco-friendly wedding favors that may be such things as personalized seed packets, your guests bring them home and they are plantable.

Your choice of packaging will enhance the beauty & unique wedding favors so you should take some time & thought over your final choice.