Throughout history wedding favors have become an important part of marriage celebrations around the world. The tradition of handing out wedding reception favors dates back several centuries or perhaps thousands of years. It is said that since the 16th century brides and grooms have presented wedding favors upon their wedding guests at their special event. Wedding favors are small gifts given as a gesture of appreciation or gratitude to guests from the bride and groom during a wedding ceremony or a wedding reception. Undoubtedly, favors have been an important part of wedding ceremonies around the world, symbolizing the appreciation of the newly united couple to their wedding guests for sharing with them such a significant occasion in their lives.

Wedding favors around the world are as diverse as the cultures surrounding them. The type of wedding favors that have been used in weddings of the past depended a great deal on the culture of the families of the bride and groom. Different cultures have various traditional wedding favors that they use. Without a doubt, there are some similarities among many of the traditions. For instance, it is quite common for many cultures to provide each guest with a wedding favor that contains five candies. Each piece represents one of the five common wedding wishes: health, wealth, happiness, fertility, and longevity.

During a wedding, guests were expected to bring home wedding favors. Wedding favors are little things that are being distributed to all the guests to commemorate the said event. If you want favors that your guests will appreciate and partake of, why not plan for edible favors? Since then, edible favors can make any celebration more fun and memorable. Although these edibles can't give tangible memory, but the fact that they were made delicious and very tasty gives reason for the guests to appreciate them. With this delightful idea, you can provide satisfaction to your guests' who loves candies, chocolates, cookies, jams, wine, cupcakes and other edible preparations. The tradition of distributing wedding favors is a very old one. It is believed that the first wedding favor, common amongst European aristocrats, was known as a bonbonniere. A bonbonniere is a small trinket box made of crystal, porcelain, and/or precious stones. The contents of these precious boxes were generally sugar cubes or delicate confections, which symbolize wealth and royalty. Everybody likes to receive wedding favors from the couple, whether it is of the edible kind, the practical type, or the displayable variety. For your wedding, you are thinking along this line and looking at catalogs for wedding favors like cute wine bottle stoppers, quirky scented candles, sweet mints and candies, delectable cookies and cupcakes, sweet picture frames and fridge magnets.

Couples use unique wedding favors to thank their wedding guests. Many wedding party favors are practical gifts such as silver plated bottle opener or favor bags. Picture frames, candles and candleholders are among some of the most popular wedding favors. Both personalized chocolate and Jordan almonds are very popular wedding favors. Brides seek to make a statement with their favors. Personalized wedding favors provide an especially effective way to display a brief message to the reception guests.

Select favors that uniquely reflect your personal sense of style and will create a lasting impression with your guests. Gifts that your guests can actually use are always appreciated. Some couples provide cultural favors that reflect their heritage while others choose gifts that will bring a smile and highlight their sense of fun. The most common wedding favor is a simple bar of chocolate wrapped with a design wrapper. These chocolates can be milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate and topped and dressed with almond raisins and other nuts. Even for the wrapper there are many options available. The wrapper is a very important one as that is the first thing that catches the attention of the guests because of which many a couple make it a point to wrap their gifts with a sheet which has printed their two names along with the date of their wedding. Some brides and grooms can go to that extent where they decide to print their own photos as well as names and date of wedding on the wrapping paper and use it to wrap their favors.

Cocoas, tea, coffee are yet another type of edible favors that can be gifted. Specialty cocoas or teas and coffees can be selected which can have their packing done in different ways or you can have the packing along with your photo and a happy thought written on it. The happy thought could be a saying or a joke or a poem or a limerick or anything.

Again the picture of the couple along with the names of the couple and their wedding date could be printed which would again be a very innovative idea of gifting.