A traditional part of almost every type of party a person could attend in recent years is the giving of party favors. These are usually some small, inexpensive item given as special “Thank you” gifts to the guests. Of course, some parties are more important than others, so there is different value placed on the types of favors given out. Weddings are probably the single most important type of party a person can attend, making it important that the favors say “Thank you” in clear, strong voice. Unique wedding favors have the power to do this.

There are an almost infinite number of items that make good wedding favors. Many of these are sold by bridal boutiques and through web sites that specialize in things to do with weddings. Yet, with so many available options, people seem to give the same things as wedding favors all over the country. One of the most commonly given wedding favors is a pen personalized with the couple’s names and the date of the wedding.

Unique wedding favors are items that are not out of place at a wedding or as gifts, but by their nature, are items that people would not normally consider when shopping for wedding favors. Nobody would come to a wedding expecting to receive these items as Thank you gifts. A honey pot and wooden dipper that sits on a base with the caption, “Meant to bee” or an oil bottle with “LOVE” printed on its side in a box that says, “Olive You” are examples of unique wedding favors. These items are so out of the ordinary range of items people always see at weddings that they surprise people, yet have a theme to them that makes them appropriate gifts for the occasion.

Another way to make one’s wedding favors stand out and be unique is to have some of them personalized. The most common way to do this is to pick one item and have the names of the bride and groom and the wedding date printed, engraved, or otherwise applied to them. Another option that many people do not think of is using initials instead of the names. And, finally, there is the option of having each personalized to its intended recipient. This last is a truly unique way to handle the wedding favors one gives and makes certain that each is in fact a unique wedding favor.

Unique wedding favors will form great keepsakes that people will look at in years to come and remember your wedding because nobody else ever gave that particular item as a wedding favor that they are aware of. These wonderful little reminders of the joy and happiness shared at the wedding also say “Thank you” to the guests at your wedding in a clear strong voice that ordinary “Thank you” cards sent out after the fact can not hope to touch.