Candy Wedding Favors
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With candy wedding favors, you have many options, from traditional butter mints to contemporary confectionary artistry.
Personalized Candy Wedding Favors
One modern trend in candy wedding favors is personalization. This comes in many forms, so you can choose what's right for your wedding and your budget. You might want candy with personalized wrappers, such as full size or mini chocolate bars, packages of Lifesavers, chocolate Kisses, chocolate coins, Smarties, wrapped mints, and more. The wrapper usually includes your names, wedding date, and may be labeled as something pertaining to the wedding -- Lifesavers are labeled 'lovesavers' as your wedding favor. You may also have the option of a special saying or even a photograph on the wrapper as well.
Another option is to personalize the candy itself. This can be done with a short phrase, your names, or monogrammed with you and your sweetheart's initials. Chocolate, conversation hearts, mints, lollipops, and even M&M's can be customized as a favor for your special day.
Boxed or Bagged Wedding Candy Favors
Another popular type of wedding candy favor is a small box or bag of candy distributed to each guest or couple. You can be as creative as you like and use virtually anything you wish to hold the candy, from a heart shaped tin to a mini martini glass. Ideas of what to fill your box or bag with include:
- Dragee almonds -- edible silver coated almonds
- Jordan almonds -- candy coated almonds in white or your wedding colors
- Candy coated chocolates
- Dinner mints
- Small French mints
- Almond rocha
- Truffles
- Assorted chocolates
- Chocolate covered cherries
- Chocolates covered dried fruit
- Chocolate covered pretzels
- Chocolate coins
- Chocolate kisses
- White chocolate hearts or roses
- Gourmet jellybeans
- Sweet and sour candy hearts or circles
- l'amour candy -- Belgian chocolate covered with a thick candy shell
- Gumdrops
- Gummibears
- Lemon drops
- Wrapped hard candy
- Cinnamon hearts
- Raspberry gels
- Butterscotch buttons
- Nonpareils
- Malted milk balls -- available traditional or colored
- Wrapped taffy pieces
- Wrapped caramels
- Pastel candy covered licorice pieces
Candy sticks, chocolate candy sticks, lollipops, licorice strips, and other long candy can be paired or wrapped individually for a nice candy favor as well.
Specialized Candy
Another trend for wedding candy favors is custom made candy, often very intricate. This includes hand-painted chocolates, handmade chocolates designed in forms such as miniature wedding cakes or presents, and candy bouquets. Floral almonds, chocolate roses, and custom-ordered candies that match your theme are more ideas. Molded candies can also be ordered to match your wedding theme -- chocolate seashells and sand dollars for a beach wedding, white chocolate snowflakes for a winter wedding, or hard candy autumn leaves for a fall wedding.
Pricing
Bulk and filler candy can be ordered from wholesale candy retailers, and it may be less expensive than going through a wedding retailer. This is usually the least expensive route for candy wedding favors. Candy in personalized wrappers may be a bit more, but is generally still reasonable, for example, less than two dollars per custom-wrapped candy bar.
If you have the time, you may want to consider making your own boxes and putting together candy favors yourself to cut costs. Or try making your own custom wrappers to save on the cost of prepackaged wedding candy favors. Specialty or custom ordered candy is the most costly, but you may feel the cost is worth having an intricate or specialty candy favor. Another factor in the cost will be the quality of the candy -- if you are purchasing high quality chocolates, like those from Godiva for example, you can expect to pay more.
Presentation
Even inexpensive candies can look elegant and beautiful when care is taken with the presentation. There is a huge variety of boxes, bags, and wrapping materials available. Choose a box, bag, tin, wrap, or other container that fits your style and wedding, and add special touches such as ribbon, silk rosebuds, raffia, charms, tags, or special messages.
More Tips
- Keep in mind that some candy wedding favors, such as chocolate, may not work in certain situations, such as an outdoor summer wedding.
- Check with the retailer as to when you need to order in order to have the candy favors ready by your wedding date -- they may request earlier order times during busy periods.
- When ordering via the Internet, always be sure to order your wedding candy favors from a reputable retailer -- look for favorable customer reviews, a physical address and working customer service number, and standing with the Better Business Bureau.
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Michelle - The cost of favors depends on where you purchase them from and how you plan to have them packaged. If you want small, individual boxes of almonds, you'll need to plan for the packaging including favor tags, ribbons, or other accents. The almonds themselves can be relatively inexpensive and should be available at local wedding retailers and party supply stores. Check your local retailers for updated, accurate prices, or investigate online retailers for Jordan almonds (the formal name for those candy covered almonds).
-- Contributed by: Melissa MayntzHow much would it cost me for a box of candy covered almonds
-- Contributed by: MichelleThis page has been accessed 5,509 times. This page was last modified 16:44, 26 July 2006.
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