Unique wedding favor ideas that will ensure you have unique wedding favors even if someone else uses the same favor idea!

One concern people have when considering wedding favor ideas has to do with originality. Nobody wants to do the same thing someone else is doing. Something like goes through everyone's head:

You've looked and looked, and finally ordered the perfect wedding favors. And then, a couple of months before your big day, you're at a friend's wedding reception where the wedding favors are - gasp - yours! Immediately, you have visions of everyone at your reception saying, "No thanks, I already have one of these."

Okay, come on back. Take a deep breath and relax. This is not going to happen to you. Why? Because your wedding reception consists of much more than your wedding favor ideas. And because you can adapt. Some of the most unique wedding favor ideas have little to do with wedding favors at all. Here's why...

Coming up with unique wedding favor ideas involves not only the wedding favors themselves, but the way they are presented, the way they are packaged/labeled, and even the way they are used.

Concerning presentation, you can change things up a little by doing things like:

Hanging cookie cutter wedding favors with ribbon from a lighted tree.
Filling votive candle holders with candy candles, short stemmed candles, bath salts, or potpourri stones.

Regarding presentation, simple changes in packaging or labelling can make a big difference.

For a do it yourself wedding favor idea, make your own label design to use on your favors or packaging. See our monogram wedding labels page for more info on this idea.
Use cello bags, ribbon, organza bags, custom printed/labeled boxes, tins, tubes, or glassine envelopes to come up with your unique wedding favor ideas.

Finally, using your wedding favors in a unique way can almost redefine them. For example:

If your wedding favor is appropriate, use it as a little wedding cake topper on your cupcake wedding cakes or on each guest's slice of cake.
Use cookie cutter wedding favors or other wedding favors that would work well as a napkin ring.
Use favor boxes or containers that you can stack in a unique way as wedding reception centerpieces.
If you use photo album or photo frame wedding favors, motivate your guests to sign your photo or Polaroid guestbook by having someone take pictures for the guestbook and their wedding favor at the same time.

You can take it from here now that you know how to approach these situations. Armed with these techniques, you can handle any wedding favor or decoration crisis that comes your way. For more specifics, try our page that has wedding favor ideas for specific themes or seasons.