Spring Wedding, Bridal, or Party Favors

It's the small details and personal touches that make a wedding day truly special. The right wedding favor is an important part of your Spring wedding reception or dinner. You want to give your guests a little something to take home with them that will remind them of your Spring wedding and what better, and cost effective way to do that but with a small wedding favor or gift.

How do you choose the right wedding favor?

Spring is a time of renewal - new life and new promise. People start to think about what they will be planting when the ground is workable. They think about getting outdoors and enjoying the fresh air and sunshine again after a long winter.

Popular wedding favors for a Springtime wedding may include fresh or silk flowers, flower or bird seed packets, rose or lavender sachets, colorful and fragrant candles, heart-shaped picture frames, seedlings, keepsake photo albums, a jar filled with fragrant bath salts, and the list goes on and on.

Shop around for the best price

Spring wedding favors are available from so many sources, party stores, big box stores, department stores, online, and even eBay.

You should shop around to get the best price. Many of the online wedding favor retailers are selling the same favors so shopping around will let you pick which store has the best price. If each retailer sells the same favor then why not get the cheapest price.

Start Early

No matter what type of spring wedding favor you choose, it is important to shop early for the best selection and the best price and to ensure you will have them in time. When shopping for wedding favors you will want to start early. Many brides wait until the last hour before actually deciding on what they want to give as a wedding favor. You may not be able to get the favor you really want if you wait too late.

While you are working on finding the perfect wedding favor you might also want to get a jump on gifts for your bridesmaids.

Are you picking something that might be out of stock or a flower that might not be in season at the time of your Spring wedding? You will want to plan a wedding and think ahead so you don't get too close to your wedding and may not be able to get the wedding favor you really want.

Where can you find wedding favor ideas?

One of the best sources for spring wedding favor ideas is right in front of you in the form of your family and friends. Your mom or mother-in-law to be will have some good ideas because they have probably been to many weddings and can give you firsthand information. Your friends will also be a good source for wedding favor ideas.

Bridal Magazines are also great sources for wedding favor ideas. You could also win a wedding in a sweepstakes from one of these magazines. You may want to check out bridal magazines such as Martha Stewart Living, Martha Stewart Weddings, Veranda, Brides, Modern Bride, Modern Wedding, or Vogue Sposa. Martha Stewart Weddings will help you choose the right wedding favor and also help plan your wedding on a budget.

What is a wedding favor?

Wedding favors are small gifts given as a gesture of appreciation or gratitude to guests from the bride and groom during a wedding ceremony or a wedding reception. ---Wikipedia

Springtime is one of the most popular times of the year to hold a wedding. Spring is a time when flowers are beginning to bloom and everything is waking up from the cold of Winter. What better way to celebrate at Spring wedding than to incorporate a spring theme into your wedding by giving our Spring wedding favors. After a dull and dreary winter your guests will appreciate a bright, colorful and happy occasion.

Festive wedding favors are fun to set out on tables at the reception. You can fill them will all sorts of things – candy, almonds, dried flower petals, or even birdseed for guests to toss at the wedding couple. Put them in a basket for guests to pick up as they leave the ceremony if you don’t plan on having a sit-down dinner reception.

Let's take a look at some Spring wedding favor you might consider.

Seeds

Try to incorporate Spring flowers and seeds as a Spring wedding favor. Seeds represent a new beginning which is what a wedding is all about. How about giving out wildflower seed favors for your Spring wedding or let guests throw lavender buds instead of rice? What a great way to give back to the environment. Wildflower seed favors are something your guests can take with them and sprinkle in their yard and they are very inexpensive to make. You can also have personalized wildflower seed packets made up as a Spring wedding favor.

Sachets

Lavender sachets or lavender pillows will be something your guests can use in their lingerie drawer and the scent will last over a year. Rose sachets are also special Spring wedding favors and have a sweet fragrance. Every time the sachet is pulled out of the draw they will remember your Spring wedding.

Seedlings

Spring is the time when many people start thinking about the gardens they will be planting soon. Give some Spring bulbs wrapped in burlap with planting instructions as a wedding favor or consider giving a tree seedling with a note attached about planting a new life to help the environment. These are most definitely unique Spring wedding favors you can give to your guests.

Candles

Candle help set the mood and add a romantic warm glow to any table. Votive and gel candles are great Spring wedding favors that will help guests remember your springtime wedding. These candles are often floral scented. Lavender, lily, and orchid flowers are sweet smelling and make great candle wedding favors. Candles with flowers suspended in gel are also a great gift. Not everyone uses candles on a regular basis and having a lovely candle to look at will also help remind wedding guests of your springtime wedding.

Water

Incorporate water into your centerpiece by using a glass or crystal bowl and putting floating candles on top. You can also put floating plants inside of a tall glass container and include colorful beta fish. Use it as a centerpiece for each dinner table and let one guest at the table take it home. Maybe you could pick a winner from each table in a special drawing.

Butterflies

Butterflies are especially popular at Spring weddings. You can give butterfly bookmarks, butterfly glassware, candles or silk butterflies at wedding favors. Butterflies represent new life.

Spring Flowers

Daffodils and tulips make beautiful decorative touches for Spring wedding and they give off a pleasing scent. Wrap a bouquet of fresh daffodils in brown paper and give them out to as wedding favors to all of the ladies who attend the wedding.

I am sure there are many more you could come up with because Spring weddings inspire us to be creative during a season of new life. These are just a few ideas for Spring wedding favors.