by Rose Smith

Having a wedding during the Christmas season brings many possible Christmas wedding favors to mind. Here are 10 favor ideas to help you get started.

1. Wooden Napkin Rings

You can purchase wooden napkin rings in most department stores or craft stores. Paint red, green or gold. Add gold foil stickers, if desired, around rings and seal with acrylic sealer.

2 Pot Holders

Cut 6” squares of quilted Christmas material. Sew a contrasting color of seam binding along raw edges to finish. Add a small loop at one corner for hanging. If you like, embrodier your names and wedding date on the pot holders.

3. Cinnamon Sticks

Tie 2 or 3 cinnamon sticks together with Christmas ribbon. Tuck in a sprig of holly beneath ribbon.

4. Christmas Ornaments

Buy or make your own Christmas ornaments. Place in a circle of red, green or white tulle. Tie up with ribbon.

5. Miniature Wreaths

Buy small craft wreaths at a local craft store. Decorate with ribbon, holly berries and small dried flowers. Tie a bow to one side and add a loop for hanging in the back.

6. Small Poinsettia Plants

Buy small plants and tie a large, white bow around the pot.

7. Crocheted Snowflake Ornaments

Crochet (or have someone do them for you) snowflakes and stiffen with fabric stiffener. While the snowflake is still wet from the stiffener, spring some silver sparkles over top of it. Add a loop to the top to be able to hang on the tree. Place in a small flat box and wrap box like a Christmas present.

8. Coasters

Give your guests some nice Christmas coasters. Wrap a big red ribbon around coasters to secure and tie a big bow on top.

9. Hot Chocolate

Give personal packets of hot chocolate to your guests. Make up some holiday/wedding labels on your computer, print out and stick to the packets of hot chocolate.

10. Christmas Recipe Book

If the two of you have some all-time favorite Christmas foods that you love, get the recipes and type them up into a small recipe book.

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Rose Smith is the owner of Wedding Themes and More, a website designed to help you discover your perfect wedding theme. Find more great ideas, resources and articles on our Holiday Wedding Themes page.

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Hope this helps someone...

Looking for cheap wedding favors? Look no further – the solution lies in DIY or doing your own personalized wedding favors to keep your costs cheap. You have got many options to choose from – only your imagination limits you as to what cheap wedding favors you can create with materials all around you. The first step is to brainstorm some ideas. What brings you and your special other together? Was it because you met at the bowling alley or a dance floor at a club or at some school or do you share some common hobby. Wedding favor personalization comes when you put some element about yourself into the resulting product.

So armed with this idea, you can now have a look at some things that you might want to put together as part of your personalized wedding favor set. Here are some ideas to get your creative juices flowing. Are you both gamblers or high rollers?

Did you meet each other in Las Vegas or getting married in Las Vegas? Then how about decks of cards as personalized wedding favors – the decks will come complete with your photos stuck on the front of the deck with your message. You can either ask a printer to do this or simply buy special printer paper that will allow you to print your photos and use the print as a sticker.

Are you both avid book readers, work at a bookshop or publisher? Well how about a personalized bookmark as a wedding favor? All you need is heavy card and perhaps a tassel to value-add to the quality of the favor. You can also use the previous tip about printing your photo and details onto the card.

Did you both meet somewhere in Asia? This cheap wedding favor is a simple twist from an old idea. This personalized wedding favor involves you buying a bunch of fortune cookies, and then having write special messages that you would carefully insert into each cookie shell.

Were you penpals or a distance relationship couple? This would be a unique wedding favor to distribute to your guests. Buy a palette of small clear bottles for this personalized wedding favor. Then you can type up special messages to your guests which you would roll up and loosely place into the bottle opening. These messages can be as personalized as you want.

Hopefully these few ideas will get you thinking creatively on how to make cheap personalized wedding favors for your own wedding. Don’t forget that organising your favors is supposed to be a fun element of your wedding planning.

Janey McKenzie is a staff writer for BetterWeddingIdeas.com, a free wedding planning guide providing couples with hints and tips to enable them to plan every aspect of their wedding effectively. This article can be found in our wedding favors category. You may publish this article on the condition that it is not edited and all html links to our website is kept intact.

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