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12 Oct 2010 Butterfly Theme

For a spring summer wedding, a butterfly theme is just great. For a light and colorful look, you can choose pastel or bright colors for the bridesmaid dresses and have all kinds of butterflies for your décor. Bridal gowns with accent colors are becoming very popular. Tiaras with rhinestone butterflies are a beautiful touch to a bridal hairstyle. Everything about the wedding should be in tune with the butterfly theme.

The ceremony decorations and accessories as well as invitations should also reflect the central theme. For instance fabric butterflies can be wired into virtually any floral arrangement like bridesmaid bouquets and pew decorations. A popular trend of releasing butterflies at weddings may also sound like a good idea. Whether they are real butterflies or fake ones, they would just give a great overall effect.

Butterfly centerpieces are also popular in wedding ceremonies. A butterfly represents a free spirit and exhibits awesome beauty as it flies. The butterfly wedding centerpiece is a charming and sweat way to get and elegant butterfly look at your wedding. They are elegant and can look great with charming butterflies. With butterfly weddings you can have them all over the place for decorations. To complete the entire look you can have butterfly favors that relate to your butterfly wedding. Finally enjoy your butterfly wedding and make the reception a memorable one.


06 Sep 2010 Classic Christening Favors

A christening party is an important event for a baby as well as his parents. It signifies the act of dedicating the baby’s life to Jesus and the church until he is old enough to confirm his life on his own. The party and the celebration is a way of thanking your friends and family for attending and being an influence in the baby’s life.

What better way to show your appreciation than to choose meaningful and classic christening favors for your guests? Sweet christening favors serve as cherishing memories for your guests to remember your child’s important day. They do not have to be necessarily expensive but should reflect the serene and close-knit feel of the event.

You can choose the Cross Design Candle Lamp Favors and let the true spirit of the day shine through with these cross design candle lamps as your religious occasion favors. They are made of frosted white glass with a shade top decorated with an oval encircled cross design and a base filled with a poured white candle inside. The shade is supported with an internal wire holder. Each comes delightfully packaged in a clear box with a silver heart design staging inside, tied with a white organza bow and an attached round cross design “For You” tag.

The Angel Design Bookmark Favors are elegant and useful favors that are blessed with an angel’s touch. Destined to stir cherished memories each time your guests use them, each bookmark favor features a detailed pewter resin angel shape with an embedded shimmering rhinestone perched at the top of a sturdy metal clip.

Cross Design Curio Boxes make excellent special event keepsakes. Sure to find a special place on your guests’ dressers or coffee tables once they take them home, these Heavenly Favors Collection cross design curio boxes from Fashioncraft are fitting for your christening party.

02 Sep 2010 Choosing Practical Christmas Party Favors

Planning a Christmas or a winter holiday party is definitely exciting and a whole lot of fun. There is a long list of things that you need to plan on and shop for. To start off you would need to decide on invitations, your guest list, location, date and a theme for your holiday party.

Once you have a theme in place, you can choose the food, partyware, games and party favors based on that. If you’re handing out party favors at your Christmas party this year, give your guests something they’ll actually want. Turn your party favors into party savers! These widely available in stores and online during the holiday season, there are also many types of Christmas party favors that can be made at home.

You can choose Holiday Themed Bottle Stopper Favors. These feature a durable poly resin top in a snowman, candy cane or Christmas tree shape, with colorfully painted details and shimmering rhinestone accents, perched on a conical silver metal stopper wrapped in a white rubber gasket for a snug fit.

A Winter Holiday Mint Tins offers something for everyone while keeping them winter cool! These contemporary winter themed mint tins will appeal to both male and female guests. This modern package for your sweets (fill them with mints or candy that you like best) also makes a practical Christmas party favor. Tins come personalized with a winter holiday design, your names and message.

Another popular winter holiday party favors are the Holiday Themed Place Card Holders. Your guests will surely feel the holiday cheer when they arrive at your event and find their seating assignments festively displayed in these Holiday Party Favors Collection place card holders. These feature a durable poly resin round base connected by a wire to a snowman, candy cane or Christmas tree shaped topper with colorfully painted details and shimmering rhinestone accents and place card clip.

02 Sep 2010 Photo Frame Favors

Photo frames and photo albums have always been popular party favors. A photo is the best way to remember a particular event and photo frame favor is an excellent gift for those who attend the celebration. Photos always hold cherished memories. But when it comes to frames, different people have specific choices.

There are many types of photo frames which you can go for. You can find photo frames in silver plate, sterling, acrylic and all sorts of other materials. Your frames can be personalized by engraving them with your name and message. Photo frame favors are practical, beautiful and affordable.

If you are having a beach wedding or a beach party, you can go with Beach-Themed Photo Frames. Great for any beach themed occasion or seaside event, these natural colored poly resin frames feature an authentic sand like textured border adorned with a variety of realistic looking molded seashells.

The Heart Shaped Teddy Bear Frame Pink w/ Pink Stones make great baby shower favors. Pink accented with pink crystals. This hand painted resin photo frame will make a great addition to your little ones party.

For a fairy-tale theme party, Pewter Castle Photo Frames make wonderful favors. They are the ideal way for guests to vividly remember the enchanting day. Every last royal detail is stunning surrounding the 3 x 2 opening for a photo.

30 Aug 2010 Choosing Party Invitations

Every party is exciting and leaves back sweet memories of the event which is treasured for life. But hosting a successful party requires a lot of planning. Once the venue is set and the guest list is prepared, it is time for the invitations to go out. Invitations are a great way to let people know about a party or event that you are hosting in a formal and exciting way. Thoughtful invitations have a special effect on the invitees. The invitations speak a lot about your party. Formal invitations would let your guests know that they are invited to a formal event and so on.

You need to carefully choose your party invitations. There is a particular party invitation that is just right for every occasion. Once you decide on the theme of your party, you can choose the invites accordingly. You can find a variety of pre-printed invitations at local party supplies stores or online gift stores.

If you are hosting a stylish shower, then invite your guests with these chic baby shower invitations. The bottom features a bright, colorful couple pushing a baby stroller full of presents. On the top is a lime green border with your invitation wording below.

You can also amaze your guests with the distinguished style of this ecru and mocha invitation. A unique mocha motif is displayed above your thermographed wording and is accented by a mocha base card.

A dream come true is a great way to announce to your friends and family your precious cargo has arrived! This turquoise announcement can be used for a baby girl or boy making it a perfect pick!

28 Aug 2010 Graduation Favors

Graduation is a big day and is a time for celebration and jubilation that calls for a big party. The graduation party favors must be selected very carefully so that it doesn’t end up as a trash in your friend’s drawer but rather is of some use to them. Some cool ideas for graduation party favors graduation personalized frosted glass candles, champagne flutes, graduation cap key chains, bookmarks and more.

Graduation parties are a milestone and a special day of remembrance in a young person’s life. It is a celebration of academic accomplishments and so it is very necessary to make it a party worth remembering. That is where graduation favors come in to play.

Try the Hats Off to You” Graduation Lemonade + Optional Heart Whisk. Nothing is Sweeter than Success, but these appropriately themed Graduation Lemonade Mixes come respectably close. Wake up your guests taste buds with this sweet and refreshing lemonade mix, personalized to perfection. These stylish favors will make a perfect complement to your graduation or commencement event.

The Graduation Personalized Mini Glass Bottles are ideal for filling with your beloved bite size sweets. Get creative by color coordinating your candies to match your school colors as well as adding our personalized labels including graduation designs and sites for your name, date, class year, and school. Spread the news of your success with these refillable favors that will last long after your graduation party.

The Hats Off to You Graduation Notebooks can be used even after the grad party has ended. Each white notebook opens up to reveal a blank white notepad inside, and the white pen conveniently holds everything together in one place.

26 Aug 2010 Light up Your Beach Party With Candle Favors

If you love straw hats, grass skirts and coconut-shaped bikini tops, then you would surely have fun hosting a beach theme party. Whether you are celebrating your anniversary or a bridal shower or maybe even planning on your wedding theme, choosing a beach theme for your party can be a great idea.

While you do up the decorations and plan the beach party, one of the very important feature that you need to decide upon are the party favors. There are plenty of choices available—from bottle stoppers, candles to key chains-the collection is vast and varied. But one of the most elegant amongst the beach themed favors are candles. There are many stylish designs and shapes available that encapture the true essence of the sand and sea.

There’s nothing but smooth sailing ahead when you choose these stylish sailboat design candles for your beach themed event. This elegant and fun glass sailboat design candle holder is sure to please. It features a heavy glass form with a sea blue sail rising up from a clear base that nestles a tea light candle. The candle is positioned behind the blue sail to allow for the ultimate glow from the flame.

Another popular pick is the Sand and Shell Tealight Holder and is a great addition to any beach event. Guests will enjoy lighting these tealight holders to enjoy memories of the shore. Each high quality, heavy glass is filled with authentic seashells and sand. The tealight is included and each sand and shell tealight holder is packaged perfectly as a gift with a rope ribbon and a beach theme hang tag that reads “Thank you for sharing this Day”.

Try this pair of flip-flop candles on for size if you are looking for favors that fit the beach theme. They are sure to bring a smile to a summer-loving crowd, these whimsical flip-flop candles make adorable favors for any seaside event or beach party. Assorted in four bright and cheery color combinations, each of the 2″ long flip-flops has a pair of heart shaped sunglasses as its toe strap.

25 Aug 2010 Cute Favor Boxes

Favors do not always have to be expensive. Simple things can also make nice and memorable favors if they are creatively packaged and presented. You can use elegant and decorative favor boxes to show your gratitude and appreciation to all the guests who take the trouble of attending your party and making it a success.

Aside from favor boxes, you may also consider small favor bags that can also be filled with various trinkets such as candies, almonds, soaps, potpourri and many more. These gift containers come in a variety of shape, sizes, and colors. There is a wide variety of favor boxes available like Chinese take-out boxes, clear plastic boxes, satin boxes and heart-shaped boxes. These cute and beautiful containers can be filled with candies, mints, marbles, soaps, confetti and etc.

The Heart Shaped Boxes / Mint Tins are perfect for weddings or anniversary. These heart shaped boxes / mint tins can be filled with Jordan almonds, mints or any number of surprises. They come in a silver matte finish with a clear acetate cover.

The Embossed Elegance” Snowflake Favor Box will surely remind you of those glorious snow showers on a chilly winter’s day when you were young, and you’d catch those gently falling snowflakes on the tip of your tongue? Bring that heartwarming ambience to your beautiful winter wedding reception, Christmas dinner table or holiday party buffet table with these elegant favor boxes.

To add a personal touch to your favors, you can choose Chocolate and Turquoise Damask “Make It Yours” Personalized Favor Box Kit. This is distinctively different down to the last detail! The beauty of this charming favor box begins with the elegant damask pattern in rich, dark chocolate that is softened by the joyous shade of turquoise on the overlay. Surrounding the white favor box beneath with a classy, confident sense of style, the personalized label that can be seen through the die cut opening is the perfect finishing touch.

A range of designs in these cute little boxes can accommodate any little treat for each of the guests.

20 Aug 2010 Practical Bridal Shower Favors for Casual Weddings

A wedding is no doubt the most memorable event in one’s life and the most treasured as well. But the unforgettable ceremony is never complete without the supporting players. You should actually show your gratitude to the members of the bridal party for their time, friendship, advice and help. And of course there is no better way to express your appreciation than practical yet heartfelt bridal shower favors.

These party favors are nothing but tokens of your sincerest gratitude. If you spend a little time in choosing gifts that are practical, thoughtful and within your budget, then you can really light up your guests’ faces with a smile. They would fondly remember your special day forever.

Favors such as the Pink Polka Flip Flop” Five Piece Pedicure Set with Matching “Thank you” Tag are cute and extremely useful. The unique flip flop doubles as a PEDICURE SET with a cheerful pink and black polka dot design. This charming keepsake is ultra-chic with a modern flair. Pull the zipper to reveal the essentials: nail file, scissors, clippers, and cuticle instrument.

Another fantastic gift for your bridesmaids is the Love is Brewing” Teapot Timer in Classic Retro Gift Box. Kate Aspen’s nostalgic, silver-tone teapot kitchen timer is as quaint, cute and endearing as its gift box, a presentation that will “tea-light” your guests! The “Love is Brewing” teapot timer measures 3″ high x 3″ in diameter and has a black handle and lid, a tiny, black pour spout, and the black-and-white timer numbers appear in a small window on the side of the teapot, with the winder on the bottom. And where else would you find a classic teapot but in a retro kitchen?

Another classic yet very functional bridal party gift is the Meant to Bee” Ceramic Honey Pot with Wooden Dipper. It is deliciously sweet inside and out, so it’s a splendid complement to your affair! Little yellow-and-black bees zoom around this wedding-white, beehive-shaped honey pot – a favor dripping with charm and practicality. There’s a notch in the lid where a white, fingertip-size, ceramic heart attached to a wooden dipper provides easy access to the golden treasure your guests will pour within.

No matter what you choose, always try to infuse your gifts with your own style and personality to leave your best friends and family with useful items that will make them fondly remember your special event.

16 Aug 2010 Calla Lilly Themed Weddings

Calla Lily is a flower that represents magnificent beauty, purity, rebirth and marriage. The beautiful trumpet shape of this flower gives it a very elegant look that is perfect for weddings. When you plan your calla lily inspired event remember to have the following items.

Guest Book and Pen Set

elegant calla lily guest book elegant Calla Lilly Pen Set

This beautiful guest book and matching pen set is sure to make your guests smile as they sign their well wishes. Add your own photo to this guest book to personalize it even more.

Toasting Glasses

These beautiful toasting glasses keep all the elegance and beauty of the calla lily. These are used during your guests toasts to you and a happy future and for the united drink.

Cake and Knife Set

Cutting the cake is usually a wonderful and playful time for the bride and groom. You might find one of them smashing the cake into the others mouth or tapping them on the nose with frosting. I once even saw a couple throw a piece at each other! Before you can feed each other the cake, you need to take pictures of cutting it together. These wonderful knife and serving set give the tradition of cutting the cake an elegant look.

Calla Lily Favors

There are so many options of what to use as favors now days. When it comes to calla lilies, there is no exception. When you choose a favor, think of your guests and what you think will be used. If you have a group of people who don’t drink wine, it is probably a better idea not to give them wine bottle stoppers. Here are just a few of the calla lily favors out there. Click on each one for more information.