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Personalized Wedding Favors on a Budget

Personalized wedding favors are great way to put your own stamp on the memories your guests take home from your wedding day, while providing a thoughtful memento to say thank you for sharing in your special event. Unfortunately, personalization can be very expensive, and especially so when you are planning to host a large amount of guests at your reception. Luckily, there are many great options that you can explore to create personalized wedding favors for your guests while working from a tight budget.

Do you enjoy taking on arts and crafts projects? If so, you can create fabulous personalized wedding favors with just a small budget. To do so, you'll need to carefully consider the time and resources you have available to create enough favors for all of your guests. Working on personalized wedding favors can be a fun thing to work on with members of your family or wedding party, as well. While it might cost hundreds of dollars to have a business paint your names and wedding date on a souvenir for your guests, you can accomplish the same task for pennies on the dollar. If the thought of planning, designing and executing a project such as personalized wedding favors seems too terribly daunting, rest assured that many craft stores sell kits to help make this task very simple, cost effective and successful. Working from a kit, you can eliminate time in creating patterns and designs and go straight to working on the actual favors.

Not everyone is interested or adept at making their own favors. There are many other options to find the perfect and affordable personalized wedding favors for your big day, however. One idea is to work with a vendor who is already providing a service for your wedding and seek discounts to tie into the purchases you have already made. If your stationery store has provided a bulk discount for ordering announcements, invitations and thank you cards, look into extending that discount to place cards or other paper-based souvenirs. Check with your chosen florist to see what items they might have available for purchase in addition to your flowers - they can often order large quantities of small giveaways that can be personalized while leveraging their volume discounting.

Take advantage of resources that might be unique to your area. Is your city or town known for a particular product or attraction? You may be able to work with local Chambers of Commerce or Convention Bureaus to order mementos that identify with your locale, and again take advantage of their volume discounting to get personalized wedding favors that fit your budget.

Another budget-conscious way to purchase personalized wedding favors without breaking the bank is to call upon any contacts you already have through activities, clubs and your job. If you've ordered customized products for your office in the past, contact that same organization to price out personalized wedding favors. As a repeat customer, you may be able to take advantage of great discounts. If you're associated with an organization that regularly purchases products for events and giveaways look for opportunities to include your own order as a part of a bulk pricing program to save money for your wedding.

Buying in bulk will usually enhance your pricing capabilities as well. This doesn't just apply to purchasing your actual wedding souvenirs, but to personalization of them as well. If you can find a great deal on buying the favor at one place and personalizing at another, ask these businesses to work with you simultaneously to get the most bang for your buck.

There are many ways to stick to a small budget while providing terrific personalized wedding favors for your guests. Whether your choose to do it yourself, leverage existing relationships, or look for ways to save by buying in bulk, you're sure to find great but cost-efficient ways to help your wedding guests remember your big day.