Gifts & Favors in New York

Seasonal/Holiday Favors

• Candy canes

• Mini Easter baskets filled with foil-wrapped chocolate eggs

• Little plastic pumpkins filled with candy corn

• Simple Christmas ornaments

• Blow-up beach balls with your names and/or your wedding colors

• Miniature heart-shaped boxes of Valentine's chocolates

• Miniature watering cans filled with spring blooms

• Chocolate coins in gold foil

• Sparklers

• Easter eggs (that you've colored yourselves)

• Miniature pots of (four-leaf) clover for St. Patty's Day

Keepsake Favors

• A copy of a memorable photo you have of you (or both of you) with each guest

• A pretty picture frame

• Potpourri

• Several sheets of pretty notepaper with matching envelopes, tied with a ribbon

• Engraved silver keychains

• Pretty paper fans (to beat the heat, and/or to represent your Asian or Spanish ancestry)

• Figurines (Precious Moments are popular)

• Mini replicas, or picture postcards, of landmarks in the town where you marry

• Little blank books/journals

• Music boxes

Edible Favors

• The classic: candied almonds (Italian "confetti")

• A single, amazing petit four

• A miniature box of good chocolate or a single truffle

• Gourmet jelly beans

• Chocolate Kisses wrapped in tissue paper (in your wedding colors, perhaps)

• Mixed nuts in little canisters

• Mints with your married monogram on them

• Everyone's favorite: M&Ms

• Licorice (whatever your favorite is, or match your wedding colors)

• Little tins of butter cookies

• Honey or jam- that you've canned yourselves or from a local gourmet shop

"Living" Favors

• Tree saplings

• Flower bulbs

• Donations to the charity of your choice in each guest's name

• Packets of seeds - your favorite bloom, or one with significance to the two of you

• Potted African violets (or any other plant)

• Flower leis

• Aromatherapy candles

Fun Favors

• Pez dispensers (complete with the candy!)

• Decks of cards

• Bottles of bubbles (can be doubled as "rice" when you leave)

• CD singles (maybe your wedding song, or something classic)

• Stickers (silly ones, or have a graphic-designer pal design wedding-memento stickers)

• Super Balls or Slinkies

• Crayons (you might want to cover the tables with butcher paper, too)

• Yo-yos

• Personalized pens or pencils

• Calendars (little plastic ones or funny rip-off-the-date ones)

• Lottery tickets (give them a chance at good fortune)

After you've read through this list, you may have an idea in mind that you love- but the best thing to do is figure out which section you want to work with and find something that really shows off yours and your fiancé's styles and personalities.