Favours and Invitations

Wedding Favours:
It has always been customary for the bride and groom to buy wedding favours for their guests and the tradition actually dates back to the 16th century. Wedding favours allow you to thank your guests for taking part in your special day.
You can make your wedding favours as personal or hilarious as you want to, below are a few suggestions of wedding favours that are available:
© Personalised whiskey bottles
© Lottery tickets
© Personalised Fridge magnets
© Heart shaped candles
© Personalised key chains
© Wooden Celtic love spoons
You can also create wedding favours by choosing from thousands of favour box designs, or making your own. You can have anything from a classic square box with a bow to taller boxes decorated to look like the brides dress and grooms suit and you can fill them with whatever you wish to, such as:
© Love heart sweets
© Fortune cookies
© Flower seeds
© Sugared Almonds
© Foiled chocolate hearts

Invitations:
There is now an endless choice of designs for wedding invitations. You can not only choose your style of invite but the colour of the paper, the type of paper and make the designs as personal as you want.
The best way to create exactly the design you want is to make the invitations yourself (you could even design your own meal menus and name places for your guests). This can be a great way of bonding with your bridesmaids and mother in law to be. You can choose from hundreds of designs for your invitations and choose a theme that will run right through your wedding. For example, if your theme is red and white this can be reflected in your invites, place settings and balloons.
The internet is a useful tool as you can search and find images for your invitations such as the one shown below.



If you aren’t feeling creative there are loads of companies that are willing to create your wedding invitations for you. Most set a price depending on how many you order. The internet is a great place to start whether you are making your own or buying them ready made, websites that offer these services will also offer balloons and place settings.
The seating plan tends to send brides to be into a whirlwind of panic, but remember it’s your day, be sensible, don’t sit people together that you know won’t get along but don’t let little things like this take over. Lots of places also offer to create your seating plan for you and make all the place cards as well as a chart which can be displayed outside the main room so people can see who they are sitting with.
High street shops also stock some fantastic designs so make sure you shop around before you buy.