Double Duty

Create place cards that double as favors. Print guests’ names on tiny flowerpots, clear boxes filled with candied almonds, picture frames, and more.

Cultural Giveaways

Give favors that honor your cultural traditions. At Italian weddings, for example, guests often receive five almonds signifying five wishes for the couple: health, wealth, happiness, fertility, and longevity.

Bubbly Decor

Label ribbon-tied Champagne bottles with your names and wedding date for favors that also make great table decorations. Put guests' names on each bottle for perfect escort "cards."

Parting Gift

Ask the valet to place a rose on the dashboard of each guest's car with an attached thank-you note from you and your groom.

Footprints in the Sand

The perfect favor for beach weddings: flip-flops. Guests will be more comfortable without their heels sinking into the sand, and they can wear the shoes all-summer long.

Personal Favor

Make a lasting impression on your guests by handing out personalized favors. Think monogrammed M&Ms or CDs of your favorite love songs.

Growing Favor

A simple way to make Earth a better place? Give your guests evergreen tree seedlings that they can plant in their yards (greenworldproject.net).

Favorable Eats

Pies in all flavors make perfect favors for your guests, as do cookies, candied almonds, and gourmet chocolates.

Interactive Fun

Line a table with bath oil, soaps, and lotions so guests can create their own goody bags. Or set up a flower buffet where guests can make their own arrangements to take home.

Custom CDs

Keep guests entertained during their ride home with a CD featuring the songs played throughout your reception. After the wedding day, they can listen to it to relive fun memories.

Potted Beauty

Tie each guest's name and table number to a small potted plant―mint, rosemary, violets, hyacinth―for a favor, escort card, and place card all in one.

Perfect Picnic

The perfect favor for a country affair? Send guests home with a snack that's packaged like a picnic—red-checkered cloth, basket, and all.

Wine Finds

Where to find the perfect favors for a vineyard bash? Go to blissweddingmarket.com/store/wine-wedding-favors.htm.

Get Cooking

Celebrate the chef in each one of your guests by giving them all potted herbs that they can cook with at home.

Glowing Recommendation

Customize candles for your guests. At UnVail, you choose the color, fragrance, tag, and ribbon, and unique candles are hand-poured exactly as you wish (timetounvail.com).