Wedding planning for a destination wedding can be fairly simple as there is often a wedding coordinator at your destination busy organizing everything for you. Aside from purchasing your wedding attire, you may also want to consider taking out your wedding favors with you rather than trying to purchase them there.
There are a few factors you will need to consider when taking wedding favors overseas. Firstly, there are some restrictions over food items and toiletries in light of terrorist attacks in recent years. Check out what you can and cannot take with you, either in your luggage or in your hand luggage.
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Next think about the climate in your destination – chocolate wedding favors could prove to be the wrong choice! In fact many edible favors such as candies, cookies and preserves are unlikely to fair very well in a tropical or temperate climate, so are probably best avoided.
Think about the size of your favors, packaging and how easy they will be to pack and transport. Will they suffer from being squashed in a suitcase? Are they breakable? How much extra weight will they add to your luggage and will you be charged a surcharge because of it?
When you take these things into account favors such as mint tins seem the only solution! Nice square tins pack easily, mints won’t suffer in the heat and tins won’t break! But there are a few options open to you:
Folded fans make nice favors for your guests and will help to keep them cool whilst the ceremony is going on. Sachets of refreshing lemonade mix or lemon tea leaves are so easy to pack and transport, and won’t take up much room in your luggage.
Small photograph frames should pack easily, as long as they are not a peculiar shape! Or chrome luggage tags in the shape of planes or boats make a favor with a destination theme! Mini photograph albums are perfect for your guests to add their snaps to after you’re wedding, but could prove a bulky favor to transport.
As a compromise you could risk leaving your wedding favors until you get out there and then choosing something local to the area. You could take packaging, ribbons and tags with you, however, without knowing what your favors will be you could end up having packaging which isn’t suitable and have to purchase more!
Have a talk with your wedding coordinator about your wedding favors. If you are getting married in a hotel then perhaps they could arrange for the hotel kitchen to make you some cookies or arrange for some chocolates to be delivered for your wedding favors.
Author Resource:-
Georgina Clatworthy is a dedicated full time writer who composes informative articles related to wedding favors and wedding. She is connected with 1WeddingSource, today’s leading wedding social networking planning site.
