Wedding Favors for a Summer Wedding

With the warm sun and sweet breezes full of fragrant flowers, the summer months are a beautiful and perfect time to host a wedding. The aesthetically pleasing atmosphere can perfectly compliment your elegant outdoor ceremony and reception. It is an ideal time of year to celebrate the love of a bride and groom along with the beauty and awe of the surrounding nature.

Options for summer wedding favors are plentiful and can include both general and specific items including but not limited to candles, soaps, flip-flop photo frames or even packets of wildflower seeds.

Should You Choose Themed Favors?

It is not always an easy feat to decide whether to choose themed or generic wedding favors. When planning a wedding you already have hundreds of decisions on your plate to make, therefore choosing your wedding favors should not be an added headache. One good general rule to follow is that if you have decided on a themed wedding, your wedding favors should incorporate that theme as well. If your wedding does not have a particular theme, then you have free reign to choose any wedding favors that you feel are appropriate.

Summer Wedding Favors: What Are Your Options?

Whether you choose to use themed favors or not, your options are virtually endless. There are countless different types of wedding favors you can choose from on the market today. Most of the time a few favors will catch your eye and it will be hard to limit yourself to just a few! When it comes to choosing wedding favors, picking a theme really does have its advantages. Having a themed wedding can often help narrow the choices of wedding favors, making it easier for you to decide on the perfect one for your summer wedding.

If you are having trouble deciding on a themed summer wedding, many choose to have beach or garden weddings during these appropriately warm months. With these themes, along with others, there are a lot of great choices for wedding favors.

Favors for a Beach Wedding

These days, beach weddings are more popular than ever. The romantic combination of the sun, sea, sand, spectacular scenery, fresh air and the party atmosphere all work together to create a perfect setting for a casual-style wedding ceremony. A beach-side location is great for the reception too, and if you opt to continue the beach theme with your selection of wedding favors, you have a wide variety of items to choose from.

• If you love candles, there are some beautiful beach-themed candles available. There are also adorable trinkets available from tiny sandcastles to sand and seashell-filled glass bowls with a tiny goldfish that have floating tea lights.
• If your wedding includes a tropical beach theme, choose mini margarita glass candles for a fun touch to your reception. For a cute alternative to the more traditional candle holders, consider mini-lanterns that house scented tea lights.
• Candles do not provide a lasting reminder, so choosing an attractive candle-holder is a great way to give your guests a gift they can keep using.
• Glass coasters imprinted with a starfish and seashell theme are especially cute, and they will provide a lasting reminder for your wedding to your guests.
• Another great way of providing your guests with a permanent keepsake is to get them a photo frame or album in which they can insert wedding pictures. Stick to the beach theme with frames that include seashell motifs or are finished in beach colors.
• Choose “favor pails” instead of gift boxes for your guests to take wedding favors home in. Favor pails are tiny buckets, perfect for making miniature sandcastles!

Garden Wedding Favors

Gardens are a perennial favorite for summer wedding ceremonies and receptions. The beauty and romance of a well-tended garden just cannot be overlooked if you are in the market for an attractive wedding location. With the great variety of wedding favors available, choosing favors for a summer garden theme is easy and fun.

• A beautiful candle complete with a pretty candle holder is ideal for a summer garden wedding. Guests can even choose to use the candle at the reception and then take the holder home to serve as a keepsake from the wedding.
• Mini flower pots are a new type of wedding favor that can serve as a place card, and then double as a gift that guests can take home with them. The mini contains a molded shape made of recycled cotton embedded with wildflower seeds. Guests can take the pot home than grow the flowers over the few weeks after the wedding.
• Cute garden-themed ceramics ideal for garden weddings can include honey pots with wooden dippers or even ceramic apple salt-and-pepper shakers. Alternatively, choose from a range of magnets, including a pair of “Love Bug” ladybirds that can be personalized with the date of the wedding.
• Bottle-stoppers are another useful item that can be found with a garden theme. Choose from stoppers topped with whimsical daisies, tiny pink hearts, and other garden related motifs.
• Bud vases are also a great option for wedding favors. Add a single rose or another traditional romance-themed flower to each vase. Guests can then enjoy the floral display during the reception before taking the vase home and remembering the fabulous time they had at your wedding while watching the flower bloom.









Stephanie Larkin is a freelance writer who writes about event planning and weddings, often discussing a particular aspect of weddings such as wedding favors.