Go Crackers for Wedding Favors!

Festive weddings are so much fun and there choice for wedding favors includes such as wide array of items it can be hard to choose what best fits with your wedding. Weddings should be fun so why not wrap your wedding favors in Christmas crackers to bring some festive cheer to your reception tables.

Crackers are great way of getting your guests interacting with each other across the tables, as they all ask each other to pull their cracker with them. You can purchase cracker kits from most craft stores or you can have custom made versions with your choice of favor and motto or joke.

Of course, your other option is to purchase ready made Christmas crackers from the shops. You could be resigned to choosing crackers with festive wrappers on them though, which may not fit with your wedding color scheme. Crackers do not have to be just for festive weddings and if you make your own you can coordinate them to fit your wedding style.

When it comes to what to put inside this is one occasion where it is advisable to choose the packaging first as many cracker kits will come in standard sizes so you will need to make sure your favor will fit inside the card tube. Consider things like bottle stoppers, corkscrews, candies, chocolates, votive candles, mini soaps and mini photograph frames.

If you really wanted your guests to have some fun look for mini magic tricks and novelties. Little puzzles will keep your guests busy during the lull in proceedings and also provide some good entertainment as they try to figure them out!

You could put in your own jokes or mottos, but why not substitute these for your thank you message or write your own little poem thanking your guests for joining you on such as special day. Some may want to omit the snap, but it is the snap which makes a cracker a cracker so don’t leave it out.

Crackers can give you wedding favors which are great source of amusement and which will delight your guests with their novelty factor. Coordinating them to your wedding is not difficult and you will probably find free templates on the internet to download and cut out your own cracker wrappers. Trim them with ribbon, cord or raffia and add a name label to the front so you can use them as name cards.