Personalized Party Favors
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Why should you make the effort to personalize party favors? Because it's fun, easy and a memorable token of the occasion you're celebrating. With minimal effort and a little creativity you can share a unique sentiment and small gift with your guests, accomplishing two things at once: honoring the uniqueness of the person(s) being celebrated and providing a thoughtful token of thanks to those joining you at the occasion.
How to Create Personalized Party Favors
Many pre-packaged favors are available at your local party store. Though they obviously don't come as personalized party favors straight off the shelf, many of them can easily be "doctored up" and turned into something unique.
Personalization comes from taking distinct information about the guest(s) of honor and incorporating it into a design. The information can be as simple as a name, but can include a number of other details including:
- The event date
- Unique facts, like the height and weight of a newborn
- The type of event
- A symbol that represents an interest, specialty or skill
Ideas to Get Started
Creating personalized party favors need not be expensive or elaborate. In fact, they can be quite easy and inexpensive to create. Simply brainstorm a few ideas and ask yourself what makes this person(s) unique, what you are celebrating (a wedding, graduation, etc.) and determine how you can incorporate this info into a small gift that will bring a smile to the faces of your guests. Here are a few ideas for specific personalized party favors.
Newborn Babies
The first thing people want to know when a baby is born is if he/she is healthy. With that information behind them, people seem to naturally burst into an entourage of further questions… How much did she weigh? Does he have hair? Who does she look like? What time was he born? How tall are they?
With personalized party favors for baby showers or welcome baby parties, details are welcome. Satisfy the insatiable need for all that information by putting them on a personalized favor. Here's a couple ideas:
- Chocolate bars with personal wrappers
- A magnetic photo for the fridge that includes all the facts
- Bracelets with bead letters that spell out "Grandma, Aunt or Friend" as appropriate. Add a charm with the newborn's photo.
Wedding Couples
Commemorate the occasion by creating a personalized party favor that incorporates the name of the bride and the groom, the date and a simple line of poetry. If possible, reflect the feel of the wedding in your favor. Was it an elegant event or a beachside party? Choose your favor accordingly:
- Engraved wine glasses for formal weddings
- Packets of birdseed with a sticker on the back that has a "thank you for coming" type message and the personalized information of the bride and groom
- Sachets of lavender tied in ribbon with a little hangtag holding the wedding information
Retiree
- A mini flashlight with years of service, the retiree's name & a saying he/she was infamous for.
- For salon owners, barbers, beauticians print details on a pocket mirror or little comb.
- For military retirees, print U.S. flag stickers with the retiree's name, dates of service and a phrase that honors them for their service.
Graduate
Graduation parties don't necessarily require favors, but it's the perfect opportunity to create favors that honor the successful student. It's definitely an event where you should make someone the center of attention for a few hours and personalized party favors can help make that happen. How about:
- A package of postcards that have images of the graduate and are pre-printed with his/her new address.
- Masks made from an image of the graduate's face so all the guests look like the graduate.
- Buttons with the graduates face made from photos at different ages in his/her life.
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