Send Home The Magic With Just The Right Wedding Favors

Wedding favors are a customary way of thanking your wedding guests for joining you to celebrate your love and marriage. If you've planned your wedding based on a meaningful theme, the wedding favors you choose for your guests can be a reminder of the special meanings you built into your wedding day. You can find theme wedding favors to suit any wedding from a formal traditional service to a casual backyard barbecue with a flowered wedding arch.

You can draw unique wedding favor ideas from the theme of your wedding, or use your wedding theme colors or flowers as accents in wrapping and presenting them. Most commonly, brides choose a knick-knack of some sort that can be displayed or used in the homes of their guests after the wedding.

Salt and pepper shakers, keychains, pretty ceramic or metal boxes and picture frames are some of the most commonly chosen wedding favors. If you're looking for something different, though, you can shop the dollar and discount stores near you for pretty and different items that aren't marketed as theme wedding favors.

Buying from a non-wedding supplier and buying in bulk can often save you money. On the other hand, you'll spend time you may not have putting them together into attractive presentations if you choose to make your theme wedding favors yourself. Whether you choose a wedding supply house or do-it-yourself, here's a handful of wedding favor ideas for some of the most popular theme weddings.

For a Country Western style wedding, wrap Jordan almonds in gingham or flower-sprigged quilting squares and gather with ribbons in wedding party colors to create appropriate theme wedding favors. Tuck the bundle into a sterling Stetson hat or a single ceramic cowboy boot. Tuck a little sprig of lily-of-the-valley into the bow knot for a pretty, feminine touch.

Conch shells and sand make a lovely theme wedding favors and table decoration for a Caribbean themed wedding. The pale ivory and pearly pink interiors are the perfect accent against a sea-blue tablecloth. Instead of the more traditional Jordan almonds, wrap speckled candy-coated chocolate eggs in rounds of tulle and tuck into the lip of the shell. Add a ribbon personalized with the name of the bride and groom and the date of their wedding.

A traditional flower lei is the perfect theme wedding favor for a Hawaiian theme. Choose plumeria in the wedding colors and make them part of the centerpiece by wrapping each loosely around a branch of a silver-flocked tree. Other Hawaiian themed wedding favors might include chocolate macadamia nuts instead of the more usual Jordan almonds or dinner mints.

If you've planned a fairy tale wedding, why not send some of the magic home with your guests? Pewter figurines of dragons, castles and fairies are popular theme wedding favors for guests. Present them on a mirror etched with the name of the bride and groom and the date of the wedding for a memorable keepsake of a special day.