Wedding Favors That Are Uniquely Creative

With online resources, it is easy to find gifts that are a product of true creativity. Review online retailers and forums to check out the latest ideas for creative wedding items. It is more difficult to find creative supplies at local retailers because many of your guests may have already seen them or even used them for their own celebrations. Shopping online gives you unlimited place to find the most unique keepsakes for your guests.

Your guests will appreciate the effort you make to find creative wedding favors. Instead of receiving the same favors they got at the last wedding, your token of appreciation will stand out as special. Your guests will feel your gratitude when you give out special, novelty, and creative favors to remember the day.

Favors should match your wedding theme in a unique way. Your wedding favors may be useful, elegant, and whimsical or personalized depending on your preferences.

These keepsakes will continually remind guests of your big day. Imagine how excited your guests will be to receive “A-Peel to My Heart” stainless steel peelers as wedding favors. Whenever they peel potatoes or vegetables in the kitchen, they will think of you. Another unusual, practical item is a “Have a Ball” stainless steel melon baller. As guests prepare for their own future parties by making melon balls, they will remember your wedding party like it was yesterday. Your guests will be able to time their meals perfectly with “Love is Brewing” teapot timers in classic retro gift boxes.

Besides kitchen tools, there are other creative wedding favors that fit in perfectly at your guests’ homes after the reception. Your guests will proudly display and use “Apple of My Eye” ceramic salt and pepper shakers on their dining or kitchen tables. “Spread the Love” signature spreaders make serving wine and cheese easy. Palm-tree cookies cutters in beach themed gift boxes are perfect for waterfront weddings and make adorable cookies when you guests get home.

Think unique when you choose favors for a beach ceremony. Your guests will smile when they see margarita glass gel candles in their own tropical tiki hut gift boxes near each place setting. Flip flop photo frames with flower accents add a bit of humor to your gifts celebrating nautical nuptials.

Your guests enjoy receiving wedding favors they can use right away. “The Cosmopolitan” monogrammed 5-piece manicure set is personalized and comes in handy to take care of broken nails on the go. Guests can take notes and exchange their latest contact information when you give out “Love Notes” sticky notes in their own nostalgic dispenser gift boxes with dainty heart charms. Add a touch of tradition with “Write from the Heart” calla lily pens in gift boxes.

Candles can be creative favors when you choose unusual shapes and designs. Imagine how delighted your guests will be to receive “Sweet Treats” glass sundae candles in ice cream parlor gift boxes at a warm summer wedding. Capture the cake cutting ceremony at your reception forever with “Buttercream Dreams” cake candles on porcelain pedestal cake plates. Express the sentiment of your special day simply with “L-O-V-E” engraved and scented votive candles.

You can also make your own affordable favors creatively by using decorative bags and boxes. Give your guests treats such as hard candies, nuts or chocolate in themed wedding favor boxes and bags. “Enchanted Carriage” favor boxes are fabulous for a Cinderella princess wedding theme. For Vegas weddings, “Lucky In Love” dice favor boxes with imprinted ribbons turn the tiniest treasures into a jackpot for your guests. Let your guests know how you feel about their attendance with “Welcome To Our Wedding” personalized wedding bags with white satin ribbons handles.

Creative wedding favors make your big day more fun and memorable for everyone.

A Gift That Keeps On Giving

If you are already married, you know all about that one cupboard in the kitchen or shelf in the pantry that holds the wedding fossils. Far from being unusual wedding gifts, I am talking about the wasteland of toasters, kettles, dishes and candlesticks that you received as wedding gifts in multiples and never, ever use.

You don’t have the heart to get rid of them and it may be too soon to re-gift them, so there they sit collecting dust and taking up space. So, then why would you inflict the same fate on a new couple and purchase them a useless, unimaginative gift that they will never use?

Unusual wedding gifts, that are bought and given with imagination and excitement, are available everywhere. You just need to know a little bit about the couple you are buying for and be brave enough to step outside the norm and choose a gift that has a little oomph! Perhaps a gift that keeps on giving for a full year will do the trick!

Gift of the month clubs are cropping up all across North America and come in all forms and functions. You can pay for a few months or a whole year and once you set up it and pay, it is done and effortless. Whatever you choose will be shipped to the newlywed couple’s home every month for as long as you purchased the gift.

It is generally customary to do a full year, 12 months, and if you choose something smaller, like chocolates, it can be as little as $200 for the whole year including delivery. If a gift of the month club sounds like something you would like to give as the perfect unusual wedding gift, here are a few ideas:

Wine of the month club – wrap up the gift certificate for the service around a bottle of wine or a set of nice wine glasses from the couple’s gift registry list. Or personalize a wine gift set with their names on the wood box, and tuck the gift club notification inside it.

Cigar of the Month – if the couple has a sense of humor, and enjoys cigars, put the gift notification inside a silver plated brass cigar tube and have the tube engraved with their names and wedding date on it. An unusual gift that also has keepsake value.

Fruit of the Month – For health nuts, fresh fruit every month is an awesome idea. Perhaps to wrap the gift, purchase a set of heart shaped fruit serving plates, arrange them in a picnic basket and include the gift notification inside the basket.

Monthly Chocolate – Yummy! Not only unusual, but this gift will be appreciated every single month it arrives. There are a million ways you could wrap up this monthly gift notification on the wedding day. Perhaps include the card inside a heart shaped fondue set or purchase a box of chocolates at the store, but empty it out and include only the gift notifications.

Candle of the Month – This would certainly be classified as unusual wedding gifts, and for the candle lover, a wonderful present. Each month, the couple would receive a new gift set of wonderful, high quality candles. In the first year of marriage, candles are big on the list of things to have in and around the bedroom and bathtub area!

To wrap this gift, include your notification in a nicely arranged gift box. Include things like scented votive candles, love set glass candle holders, a few romantic wedding luminaries, silk rose petals and some heart shaped wedding confetti. Could a wedding gift be more unusual, unexpected or perfectly romantic?

These are just a few of the monthly clubs available for gift giving. If you want to tread out to the outer fringe with unusual wedding gifts, there are also barbeque sauce club, tie of the month, cheesecake of the month, movie of the month, cheese of the month and salsa of the month. Just look around on the internet and search for the keywords “gift of the month” and you will find all kinds of wonderful and unusual wedding gift ideas.

If you can only afford a few months, that is perfectly fine – most clubs do require a minimum of 3 months. However, if you can manage it financially, a full year that keeps right on giving until the couple’s first wedding anniversary is really a wonderful gesture.

Just a tip but to make the gift extra special, have it delivered starting one month after their wedding, so that the delivery lands on their doorstop on the monthly anniversary of their wedding day – newlyweds tend to count anniversaries in months… at least for the first year of wedded bliss!