How to: Wedding Favors

Wedding favors are small gifts given by the bride and groom to their wedding guests as a token of thanks for sharing their special day. There are lots of options when it comes to choosing your favors. For example, if your wedding reception has a theme, your favors could match that theme. Alternatively, if the wedding is around a holiday, you could make holiday themed favors. Make your own favors to save money and add an personal touch to your nuptial celebration.

INSTRUCTIONS

Scented Bath Scrub

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  Pour the Epsom salts into a large container. Measure the almond oil and slowly add to the salt while stirring. Finally, add the essential oil of your choice to the desired strength.

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  Pour the completed mixture into small containers of your choice. Clear or colored glass containers with a sealed lid are ideal.

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Print customized tags to attach to the jars with ribbon. For example, “Jane and John’s Wedding Lemon Bath Scrub, June 12.” Guests can use the bath scrub and keep the jar as a memento of the day.

Winter Wedding Favor

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  Pour the hot chocolate mix into the jars. Either use store-bought mix or make your own. Alternatively, you could use chai tea, a spice mix, or any other edible or drinkable mixture.

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  Print customized tags. For example, “Jane and John’s Winter Wedding Warmer.”

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Attach the tags with a ribbon wrapped around the neck of the bottle. The ribbon will look like little scarves.

Scented Candle Favors

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  Melt the wax in a large saucepan. Add essential oils for scent and colored wax crayons for color. Try to keep the scent and color matching. For example, if you use lavender scent, use purple crayons and if you use lemon scent use yellow crayons.

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  Pour the wax into the metal candle tins, placing the wick in the center while the wax is still liquid.

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Print customized sticky labels and attach them to the lid or side of the metal candle tins. For example, “Jane and John’s Lavender Wedding Candles.” You can use these wedding favors as place cards on the tables as well. Simply print the person’s name, “Jane and John’s Wedding” and the date.

Organza Sachet Bags

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  Fill organza sachet bags with sweets. Choose from items such as heart-shaped candies, chocolates or mints.

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  Print out customized tags.

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Attach the tags with ribbon.

File Format

Graphics come in many flavors but not all file formats are suitable for all purposes. How do you know which is best? In general, there are graphics formats suitable for printing and those for on-screen viewing or online publishing. Within each group there are also formats that are better than others for the same task.

Use GIF and JPG for online publishing. Although other formats for online publishing are in development, at present GIF and JPG are the standards. Use EPS and TIFF for print publishing. If all your printing is sent to your desktop printer, you may be able to use other formats including CGM and PCX with acceptable results; however, for high-resolution output EPS and TIFF will provide the least hassles and the best quality. They are the standards for high-resolution printing.

In addition to the formats in the chart, below, there are proprietory graphics file formats. These are bitmap or vector formats used by specific graphics programs. Although some desktop publishing software will recognize the more common formats such as PSD from Adobe Photoshop (bitmap) or CDR from CorelDRAW (vector) it is generally best to convert these images to TIF or EPS or other common graphics file formats.

This simple chart outlines the best use for several common formats. Match the format to your job either by starting with graphics in that format or by converting other artwork to the desired format.

Format:	Designed for:	Top choice for:
BMP	Screen display under Windows	Windows Wallpaper
EPS	Printing to PostScript printers/Imagesetters	High resolution printing of illustrations
GIF	Screen display, especially the Web	Online publishing of photographic images
JPEG, JPG	Screen display, especially the Web	Online publishing of photographic images
PICT	Screen display on Macintosh or printing to non-PostScript printer
TIFF, TIF	Printing to PostScript printers	High resolution printing of images
WMF	Screen display under Windows or printing to non-PostScript printer	Transfer vector images via the clipboard

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