SOME EASY HOMEMADE WEDDING FAVORS

If you are a bride looking for inspiration for your wedding favors, then you have probably read a hundred or more articles telling you that your wedding favors should be ‘unique’. However this implies favors that are one-offs, one-of-a-kind and definitely something that your guests will never have received before or are never likely to again.

If this was the case then most favor stores would go out of business very quickly! Implying that favors have to be unique will rule out just about everything in the favor stores, from candles to photo frames, coasters to bottle stoppers. With millions of these items sold each year how can they possibly be unique?

So now you’re totally confused! How do you create unique wedding favors? Well first I should explain that when people refer to favors being unique what they really mean is that they coordinate to your wedding. As every bride will design their wedding differently, from their wedding color combinations to the graphics on their stationery, no two weddings will be the same. So in order to make your favors coordinate and therefore become unique you need to make them in your wedding colors, add decorative touches that match or coordinate with your stationery and make them coordinate with the style and/or theme of your wedding. Whilst the favor itself maybe something that your guests have received ten times over at previous weddings, it is the packaging and presentation that make them unique.

For something totally unique, from the favor itself to the packaging, then you have to look at homemade favors. For those who are creatively minded this is an easy job and one which they probably have well underway already. But if you are not very artistic or creative then you may already be about to turn away from this article in search of something else. But don’t, there are plenty of wedding favors you could make at home that are so easy your five years old niece could do them!

Here are a few ideas to get you started:

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Printed scrolls – so easy to produce on your home computer. You can print out recipes, poems or short stories. If you have some desk top publishing software (there are some good programs available free on the internet) you can add stylish graphics or photographs. Choose some nice quality paper to print them out on and roll them up like scrolls and secure with ribbon.

CD’s – these have been a popular wedding favor idea for some years now, what makes them unique is the choice of music you put on them. Copyright is something of a grey area so you should do a little further research on this before committing to making them. Many people can produce CD’s on their home computers, but if you are concerned about time and quality of recordings then find a professional to do it for you. You can also get kits which will give you everything you need to produce your own labels and cases.

DVD’s – you could make up video discs perhaps containing a funny message from you both or compilation of short films. Choose something that interests you both and make a short documentary about it.

Plant seedlings – you don’t have to be green fingered to grow plants from seed and these make lovely wedding favors. Choose something which will be present at your wedding, such as a type of flower that will be in your bouquet or alternatively herbs make a great choice and are very easy to grow. Plant your seeds in large trays and when big enough you can pot them into small terracotta pots. Don’t forget to include some details on what the plant is and how to look after it.

Scented sachets – these little smelly bags are the type of thing you might place in your underwear drawer or even just hang on the bed post! Choose some nice fabric such as silk, lace or linen, and then make a template from card. Your bags can be any shape such as square, heart even flower shaped. You will need to cut two pieces for each sachet, then sew them together – you can do this with a machine or by hand. If you want a finish that hides the stitches then sew with a machine with right sides together, if you want to show the stitches or perhaps have a nice border round the edge, then sew by hand with embroidery silk leaving a small border as you sew round. Sew the bag sides together but remember to leave a small opening at the top so you can put your contents in, these could be pot-pourri, lavender seeds or something else which could be scented with essential oils. Before you sew the top up, add a loop of ribbon so your guests can hang them up if they want.

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WEDDING DESTINATION : LUXURY OF GOLF WEDDING DESTINATION

A marriage at a golf resort should be as straightforward or as complex as you wish. Just because you share a love of golf, doesn’t mean that you have to give up the drama of the white gown. It means that the traditional long flowing train and a full skirt is probably not a very good choice. Rather, a Simple Straight Elegant White Dress that allows you to easily move with a Detachable Train would be the best possible choice for your gown, especially if you’re going to swing a club as part of your ceremony. Use special bridal jewelry to enhance the simple elegance of your dress. Picture crystal glistening in the sun, or pearls to accessorize the gown.

Wedding Destination : Golf Wedding Theme

Perhaps, you want to have your wedding be More Informal, and then the choice of clothing is simple. Simple White Golf Clothes for the bride and her bridesmaids can that compliment the wedding colors are a great choice. Enhance a white visor with some beads and a lace veil and you will be ready for the ceremony. The clothes of the groom should distinguish him from the crowd, possibly with a special tie or hat as an addition to his golf clothes. Don’t forget to add elegance by donning  special crystal wedding jewelry purchased just for this special day. The money you saved on your dress should allow you to treat the entire wedding party to stunning jewelry for your wedding.

The wedding can be on the course, if it’s allowed, and the reception right in the clubhouse. Choose a nice vacation site at a higher price to increase the luxury of your golf wedding. Las Vegas golf courses offer a vast array of prices for your wedding that closely resemble the traditional cost of any other type of wedding. Some have packages that often save you a considerable amount of money. If you want to up the ante, consider places like the hotel at Fairmont Banff Springs Golf Course, Banff, Canada. The beautiful setting of the greens against the backdrop of the Canadian Rockies is set off by a hotel that has looks like a Scottish castle. It is nearly impossible to find a comparable setting with such a scenic impact. If your guests don’t golf, there are side trips like a visit to the glacier or a trip on the gondola to the top of the mountain, an especially beautiful event when the wild flowers are in bloom.

Wedding Destination : Luxury of Golf Wedding Destination

The reception can be the most fun to plan for this type of wedding. Why not choose special golf gifts for the guests? They will add to the theme. A golf ball with your names and wedding date is one way to catch the eye of everyone that walks through the door. Golf tees with your names and the date is also a great way to have everyone have a remembrance of the event that they will appreciate. Giving candy golf balls of chocolate and special golf themed cans containing mints are another way to make your wedding unforgettable for your guests.

Wedding Destination : Luxury of Golf Wedding Destination

If you have the reception at the club, normally they handle the food. A catered outside reception is also another way to keep with the theme of the game. Decide whether you would like to have a regular meal or just provide snack food that your guests can take with them when they go on the course. It would be a shame to waste the pleasure of playing golf on a beautiful day when the golf is only a short distance away. If you are serving alcoholic drinks, you should have a special champagne punch and a few drinks a lot of people will like as well as some beer. Be sure to remember to save enough Champagne for toasts to the bride and groom. Use a couple of golfers as a topping on your wedding cake or have a topping that has a golf club or golf bag. Have fun with your reception and enjoy a round of golf as husband and wife.

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Lingerie Bridal Shower the Unique Shower Theme Idea

Bridal shower party is the next event after wedding vows that should be celebrated. In this moment, we should decide something unique and cheerful which can describe our pleasant feeling during this sacral moment. And throwing a bridal shower with lingerie bridal shower theme is a sexy idea to apply. There are many aspects that should be prepared when we are going to have a bridal shower with lingerie theme. Cake is number one aspect which commonly influences the decoration of venue. Let’s see some ideas of lingerie bridal party cake designs.

Black and red lingerie cake looks very sexy to choose. As like baby shower party, it is an ideal way to make your party fun and attractive with decoration. In this case, lingerie cake becomes a gorgeous option. The cake is designed as similar as a part of woman’s body. As basic color, red cream covers the whole surface of the cake. With unique curves to reflect real breasts, this red cake is covered by black chocolate. That chocolate is attractively applied to cover the curves and other part of red in front of the breasts. To make this cake looks very similar with the real lingerie, corset closure and ribbon are drawn in the middle of bra and panty with the chocolate sauce. If you see the picture, the black frozen chocolate reflects black lingerie on the top of red skin tone of cake. This black lingerie bridal shower cake is unique and funny to decorate your bridal shower party.

Well, besides cake for lingerie bridal shower, we can apply this stylish wedding party theme on the invitation card. Lingerie is not something embarrassing to display, so why don’t we put it on the bridal shower invitation card. The lingerie may be an idea for card shape, pattern or just decoration. Many unique ideas of lingerie invitation card designs to choose. And they are so attractive to bring much happiness to you and the guests. The lingerie pattern or motif is available to decorate your bridal shower venue. Some stickers or murals in lingerie shape are ready to stick on the wall and banner.

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Personalized Wedding Gifts in Decorative Plate Ideas

To create a meaningful gift for the newly wed, we should think differently from other guests. Many guests might have thought about a special gift in their mind as well. In this case, we must think bit different that is usually out of other guest’s mind. Well, we can call this special gift as personalized wedding gifts. It is a gift which is only you who can make it and not many people think the same idea as you. Generally, custom or personalized wedding gift is easy to make. Moreover, many models of it are available to choose such as T-shirt, apron, wall art, photo frame and album, couple watch, couple cups and many more. So, why don’t we try something different by choosing decorative plate idea for your best friend’s custom wedding gift?

The personalized wedding gifts in decorative plate idea are very unique and meaningful. It is easy to get and make. What we have to do is to find the best place where we can print a meaningful wording on the plate. Nowadays, there are numerous places which provide printing service for solid media like plate and cup. And we only have to visit and pay for the service. Finding the plate is the most exiting moment. We can buy a medium size plate from home appliances stores in the downtown. We can choose the plate depending on your desire. However, the plate is available in numerous shapes and colors. It is better to pick the white plate in order to the printed wording can be displayed clearly on the plate. For the decorative details of the plate, usually people can ask the printing service staff to make it for us. In addition, we can choose the design as desire including the color, the wording font and content.

The personalized wedding gifts are also suitable as wedding anniversary gift. We only have to change the wording according to the wedding life’s age. Are you confused in arranging the plate wording? Well, generally, people will write nick name of both groom and bride, date of the wedding, and some wishes among them. Some samples are shown in the uploaded pictures. You may imitate and match the wedding gift wording with your friend’s wedding moment.

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Perfect Wedding Theme : Gold Wedding Theme Ideas

Flowers and Foliage Cake

Grecian Gold headdresses made their mark during the Hellenistic period; here, they make for a fitting cake motif. Made of gum-paste flowers painted with gold luster dust, the wreaths, along with the Corinthian column-inspired tiers, turn this cake into a Greek fantasy. Encircled in real ribbon and topped with a Champagne coupe bubbling over with a necklace, of course.

Dragee Monogram

Representing the union of two lives, a monogram is a natural for any reception. Here, gold dragees compose a single initial, set against a background of white.

Wreath and Monogram

In this formal, hand-engraved set, an embossed Georgian-style wreath and monogram connect the different items. Some of the icons are inked in gold; others are blind-embossed. On the invitation, menu, and place card, the gold is picked up in the beveled edge of the card stock.

Seating Cards

Manzanita branches, with berry clusters attached, were sprayed gold and hung from ribbons. Threaded over them are wide ochre ribbons that hold calligraphed seating cards in place. The contrasting gold ribbon is anchored at intervals with fabric glue. Glittering millinery flowers add the final touch.

Wedding Favor Ring Boxes with Truffles

For this gem of a favor, we nestled sparkly truffles into ring boxes.

Chocolate Bars

A trio of chocolate bars gets an instant upgrade when wrapped in shiny foil and tied with metallic twine.

Chocolate Nuggets

Brushed with edible luster dust, these amazing multifaceted lustrous chocolate nuggets are almost too beautiful to bite into (the operative word being "almost").

Branch Centerpiece

You wouldn't want to gild the lily, of course, but a leafy branch? An altogether different matter. "Gold can add glamour, but it's easy to go over the top with it," says designer Matthew Robbins, who created the arrangement here. Juxtapose opulent gold branches (in the form of faux bay-laurel twigs) with the humble grace of wood (apply gold Rub 'N Buff and drill holes) for a decadent yet simple centerpiece.

Rustic Chandelier

Adorned with vintage fabric flowers and dried protea leaves, this manzanita branch makes for a bold "chandelier," especially when spray-painted gold, perfect for highlighting a particular area in a large room (wedding cake over here!).

Guest-Book Table Display

This easy yet elegant idea transforms an often overlooked spot into a glowing focal point. For a gold-leaf effect, affix candy wrappers with silver backing to the outsides of glass hurricanes using spray adhesive, then pop in pillar candles.

Wedding-Band Cake

Inspired by 19th-century fine white china that was shipped plain from France and trimmed with gold paint once it reached the United States, this white cake is dressed with metallic ribbons.

Bow Accent

Ribbons, hand-dyed in tea leaves, drift down the back of an A-line organza gown to give it a gilded touch.

Bouquet

A gorgeous grouping of mini phalaenopsis orchids and ocher garden roses, yellow tree peonies, fuzzy bunny tails, and millinery flowers feels as if it has just been picked from a field of dreams. A gold satin ribbon ties it all together.

Source from : http://www.marthastewartweddings.com

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Unusual Wedding Gift : Few Ideas that Make Your Gift Unforgettable

Unusual wedding gifts are always memorable to the wedded couple, and such gifts are mostly kept on display thereby reminding them about the person who gave it too. Marriages are the most memorable incident for any couple in a life time. Getting married is about starting a new phase of life and weddings are usually celebrated with the company of near and dear ones from the bride's side and the groom's. They seek the blessings of their guests and the guests wish the newlywed couple for a happy life ahead by some special and meaningful gifts. An ideal wedding gift for the couple would be something that adds value to their memories for the rest of their lives. It has to be a lovely gift too. To come up with ideas for unusual wedding gifts is not an easy job, because gifts are the ways of expression of what you want to say to your beloved ones.

Cross-stitched clothing on Wedding Theme: This is one of the sweetest gifts of all. It is unique and each part is made by you especially for the couple. It can be a small tea cloth or a pillow case done very specifically with the couple in mind. A towel, napkin, blanket, quilts, wall-frame or any other thing with the wedding date or the names of the bride and groom along with some landscape or floral themes, is one of the most unusual wedding gifts.

Holiday Tickets: If you are really close to the couple or friend of couple, then you as an individual or a group of your friends together can offer them their honeymoon package. If that is not possible due to the huge costs associated, then simply offer them a holiday package on the weekends when they are free to go. Consider the couples' desires when choosing destinations for this holiday. Make special arrangements for them at the destination and surprise them. That will be a double treat and your joy of gifting will be double too making it one of the best unusual wedding gifts.

Jewellery: One of the unusual wedding gifts that you can present to both bride and groom are rings of the same design. It can be a bracelet or a watch also but make sure that they match. The couple are likely to feel great wearing jewellery of the same design.

Customized gifts: One of the customized, unusual wedding gifts was discussed above. Some other customized gifts can be a scrap book representing memorable moments, picture frames engraved with your heartfelt comments, pottery, paintings or even a few poems written by you that are engraved on a tablet. All these are the excellent unusual wedding gifts ideas that will bring both smiles and tears from the couple.

Gift Certificates: If you do not want to gift the couple with accessories and would rather give them something useful but don't know how, the best thing would be to give them a gift certificate, with which they can exchange products in a shop or supermarket. It will ease their initial financial burden of setting up a new home and would definitely be worthwhile.

Ancestral Gifts: One of the most unusual wedding gifts is to gift an ancestral heirloom. It can be some jewellery, accessories or even a property. These are usually gifts by the parents or other elderly people of the family.

Accessories: You can give accessories in some unusual ways, like giving them similar cell phones with an option of making unlimited calls between them or giving them similar types of bag with writing pad and pens, etc. Regardless of the gift you choose, make sure that you wrap them in some customized and unusual way. You can bring customization in wrapping papers, ribbons, knots or even the wish written upon the gifts. It makes the couple feel more special and your wish of unusual wedding gifts will also be honoured.

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