Summer

• Line small flower pots with Spanish moss and fill with fragrant lemongrass and poppy-seed soaps.
• For an outdoor wedding, provide some shade with Chinese paper parasols. Include name tags stamped with your wedding date.
• Collect sand and seashells from a special beach and place in little corked bottles. Attach a tag with your names and wedding date.
• Offer exotic citrus teas in mini Lucite boxes in your wedding colors.
• Give little jars of fresh-fruit jams in wicker baskets and attach make-them-yourself instructions.
• Offer beach ball-shaped cookies and Frisbees printed with your name and wedding date.
• If you're going with a nautical theme, use small, hand-painted sailboats as a combination favor/escort card.
• Have a glass mug or goblet etched with your new monogram and wedding date; place a small bottle of custom pear- or apple-cider blend inside.
• Present guests with copper-dipped leaf ornaments tied with burnt-sienna ribbon and engraved with your names and wedding date.
• Hand out candied apples coated in nuts, wrapped in colored cellophane, and tied with a raffia ribbon.
• Label vanilla-and-peach preserves with monogrammed stickers and place jars in fall-hued fabric pouches.
• For a Halloween wedding, leave sophisticated handheld masks at each guest's place setting.
• Fill mini copper pails with candles in autumnal scents, such as apple, pumpkin, and cinnamon.
• Set out personalized jars of honey in a dark-colored basket at each table.

Winter

• Place heart-shaped marshmallows and packets of hot chocolate in a muslin bag and tie with a note that reads, "Keep warm!"
• Have sparkly prism-glass snowflake ornaments etched with your names and wedding date on the back.
• Give mini snow globes in small silver pouches. Be sure to put your picture inside!
• Place homemade peanut brittle in pretty, personalized boxes with a recipe.
• Make mini gingerbread houses as centerpieces and encourage guests to take them home.
• Transform traditional sleigh bells by tying on a scarlet cord and tag noting your names and wedding date.
• Place balsam-scented votives in small silver or white gift bags and tie with a festive ribbon.

Spring

• Pass out mini cupcakes topped with candied violets or peach blossoms.
• Give hyacinth, tulip, or daffodil bulbs planted in white porcelain pots.
• Combine pear- and peach-shaped scented candles in gauze bags as a sweet, fragrant gift for guests.
• If you and your fiancé love baseball, give bags with balls featuring your team's logo, Cracker Jacks, and custom-made baseball cards (include your pic and "stats"—names, engagement and wedding dates, wedding site, etc.).
• Place small potted herbs, such as baby's tears, euonymus, and rosemary at each place setting.
• Put multicolored Jordan almonds in a straw "bird's nest."
• Give guests a calorie-free treat: a chocolate-garden kit sprouts flowers that smell like chocolate (available at Windowbox.com).