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Wedding favours are small gifts from the bride and groom given to the wedding guests as a token of their appreciation and gratitude – after all, it is the guests who help to make the big day so marvellous. Traditional wedding favours can be pretty little boxes or small decorated bags of sweets, small candles in votives, and specially wrapped small bars of chocolate. With anything packaged, it is popular to personalise the item by putting the names of the bride and groom, with the date of their wedding on the gift, which makes it something to treasure.

It seems that wedding favours are becoming more and more imaginative, with some quite unusual and lovely things now being given as favours. Miniature bottles of wine or spirits are now coming into vogue as wedding favours. And do you remember blowing bubbles as a child? One of the new ideas in favours is a small bottle of bubble making liquid with a blower, made especially appropriate by the bottle being made in the shape of a wedding cake, or a bell. Another idea is small ceramic pots, with the names and date printed on them. One unusual idea for a wedding favour is to give each of the guests a lottery ticket in a special envelope. Another beautiful idea is to give each guest a small pewter item, such as a keyring, pendant or tie pin. Small Celtic lovespoons are now becoming popular too – with every guest receiving a tiny carved wooden spoon which symbolises the newly married couple’s love for one another.

There can be wedding favours especially for children, such as personalised teddy bears.

It seems that when it comes to wedding favours there is plenty to choose from, and plenty of imaginative ideas that will help to give your guests a day to remember for a long time to come.

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