Seasonal/Holiday Favors

• Candy canes
• Mini Easter baskets filled with foil-wrapped chocolate eggs
• Little plastic pumpkins filled with candy corn
• Simple Christmas ornaments
• Blow-up beach balls with your names and/or your wedding colors
• Miniature heart-shaped boxes of Valentine’s chocolates
• Miniature watering cans filled with spring blooms
• Chocolate coins in gold foil
• Sparklers
• Easter eggs (that you’ve colored yourselves)
• Miniature pots of clover (four-leaf?) for St. Patty’s Day

Keepsake Favors

• A copy of a memorable photo you have of you (or both of you) with each guest
• A pretty picture frame
• Potpourri
• Several sheets of pretty notepaper with matching envelopes, tied with a ribbon
• Engraved silver keychains
• Pretty paper fans (to beat the heat, and/or to represent your Asian or Spanish ancestry)
• Figurines (Precious Moments are popular)
• Mini replicas — or picture postcards — of landmarks in the town where you marry
• Little blank books/journals
• Music boxes

Edible Favors

• The classic: candied almonds (Italian “confetti”)
• A single, amazing petit four
• A miniature box of good chocolate (Godiva!) or a single truffle
• Gourmet jelly beans
• Chocolate Kisses wrapped in tissue paper (in your wedding colors, perhaps)
• Mixed nuts in little canisters
• Mints with your married monogram on them
• Everyone’s favorite: M&Ms
• Licorice (Twizzlers or the assorted, colorful kind)
• Little tins of butter cookies
• Honey or jam – that you’ve canned yourselves or from a local gourmet shop

“Living” Favors

• Tree saplings
• Flower bulbs
• Donations to the charity of your choice in each guest’s name
• Packets of seeds – your favorite bloom, or one with significance to the two of you
• Potted African violets (or any other plant)
• Flower leis
• Aromatherapy candles

Fun Favors

• Pez dispensers (complete with the candy!)
• Decks of cards (having a Vegas wedding??)
• Bottles of bubbles (can be doubled as “rice” when you leave)
• CD singles (maybe your wedding song, or something classic)
• Stickers (silly ones, or have a graphic-designer pal design wedding-memento stickers)
• Super Balls or Slinkies
• Crayons (you might want to cover the tables with butcher paper, too)
• Yo-yos
• Personalized pens or pencils
• Calendars (little plastic ones or funny rip-off-the-date ones)
• Lottery tickets (give them a chance at good fortune)

After you’ve read through this list, you may have an idea in mind that you love- but the best thing to do is figure out which section you want to work with and find something that really shows off yours and your fiance’s styles and personalities.