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Sensible Wedding Favors: Beach Gifts Your Guests Will Love

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Whether you are planning a beach wedding, or simply planning to incorporate a beach theme into your ceremony, it makes sense to give your guests wedding favors. Beach themed favors that reflect the ocean-side setting are best. This helps create the ambiance for your wedding and serves as a fashionable reminder of your big day. Each time your guest sees your wedding favor in their home, they will remember your wedding lovingly.

You want to please your guests but also be easy on your budget. This article will help you choose beach-related wedding favors that can do this.

You can easily make a simple and enjoyable seaside wedding favor by placing a small votive candle inside a small beach pail, which you can purchase at hobby shops. Buy several in assorted colors. Fill each of them about one quarter of the way up with colored sand, which you can also get at hobby shops. Put a candle into the sand and tie a colorful ribbon around the pail. That’s all there is to it! These are simple and inexpensive wedding favors, but they perfectly convey the ambiance of your outdoor wedding. Your guests will remember your wedding fondly when they see these favors in their home.

Seashells are another tasteful, inexpensive choice for wedding favors with a beach theme. Hobby shops, craft shops and party supply stores carry unbroken shells. You want shells which are all roughly the same size. While you are still in the store, also pick up some inexpensive fishing net material. Cut the fishing net into small squares and place a few seashells in the middle of each one. Pull each square’s corners together and then tie up the corners with a piece of pink, blue or coral colored silk ribbon to create attractive favors. Your wedding guests will cherish them.

You can also use magnets with a beach-related shape and design to make lovely favors for your beach wedding. Use magnets shaped like seashells, starfish, palm trees or some other object that evokes your seaside location. Your guests will probably prominently display your favors on their refrigerators. They’ll see your favors daily and will be reminded of your wedding day.

Place-card holders are another type of favor for a beach theme wedding. They will brighten your reception and at the same time, provide a treasured keepsake for your guests. Wedding and gift shops often stock inexpensive place-card holders that have shapes related to the beach or ocean, such as starfish, seashells, sailboats, dolphins and so on. Use these on your reception tables to hold small cards that specify the names and table numbers of your guests. When they return home, your guests will be able to replace the card with a photo and use your favor as a delightful alternative to a traditional picture frame. They’ll appreciate how they can put your favor to use, and they’ll often be reminded of your ceremony.

For practical, inexpensive favors, beach themed bookmarks top the list. Look for something durable and chic like plastic or chrome bookmarks instead of simple paper. Bookmarks topped by palm trees, starfish or even flip flops are easy to find and perfectly match your beach wedding theme. Bookmark favors are practical, too, and guests who love to read will especially appreciate receiving them. The bookmark will be even more treasured if you place it in a small album of photos from your wedding or a book of romantic poems.

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Homemade Wedding Invitations Are Cheaper And Can Be Just As Good

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Wedding invitations can be made at home. Your home has all the equipment you need to do a great job. If you have a fairly new printer you can print invitations that are similar in quality to professional designs.

Designing them is a matter of using software on your computer. These software are cheaply priced and some are even free on the Internet for download.

For those on a budget or if you simply have a unique design in mind you can design your invitations in no time. You’ll definitely need some stationary but this can be purchased at your local stationary store.

Your design should be one from your imagination that suits your needs and is aesthetically pleasing. You could include the bride and groom on the invitation since it’s for a wedding or a picture of the bride and groom’s family.

Be creative and use a theme for each of the seasons for example flowers in springtime, leaves in the fall and snow for the winter. Thematic designs are great for illustrating themes you have in mind for the wedding.

Just imagine telling your guests and friends that you designed the invitations. They’ll be amazed at your creativity not realizing you used cheap software, with your home printer and stationary from a ninety nine cents store.

You can get free designs on the Internet for your homemade project. If you have a digital camera you could take photos and import them into your computer and use them as your design. All you will probably need to do is minor editing.

Invitations can be costly especially if you have a large guest list. But you can reduce that cost by using the resources at your disposal and your ninety nine cents store. You’ll amaze yourself at the great job you can do.

Save a bundle on homemade invitations while using your creativity to come up with a great set of invitations. If you have the budget go for professional designs but if you don’t then all you need is access to a computer and printer to make them at home. You’ll also have fun in the process too.

Jacob Brown is a wedding planner who loves to plan weddings. Visit his wedding invitations to learn more.

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