The tradition of bride and groom giving small gifts as wedding favors to their guests is being followed down from generations. Earlier the tradition of offering wedding favors prevailed only among the European upper class people. The culture of wedding favors started with couples offering small decorative boxes filled with the royal treat of confectionery delicacies at a time when sugar was considered to be very costly.
Nowadays many couples are preferring sugary delights as wedding favors since they are affordable and its a novel idea compared to traditional wedding favor gifts. The most popular sugary delight are cookies that come in a wide range of recipes, icing options and inscriptions. Cookies definitely makes an appealing choice for a wedding favor.
Brides should select wedding favors that best expresses and conveys their sentiments to their guests. The multi-faceted cookies can be used to replicate the role served by other traditional wedding favors. For instance cookies can be decorated with guests name written with piped icing to serve the similar purpose of wedding placecards that help guests seat themselves at reception tables.
Cookies can be designed and decorated in a number of ways. There are heart or flower shaped cookie decorated with frosting used as edible centerpieces of a delicious cake. The cookies can also be baked on lollipop sticks before being arranged on the cake.
Rose shaped cookies can be used to compliment your wedding table decor. Wedding favor boxes intended to hold additional delights, can be created from gingerbread and appropriately decorated.
Cookies can be purchased in wholesale and wrapped in separetely bought wedding favor boxes. Cookies available in bulk include Danish shortbread, fortune cookies and Mexican wedding cookies. Fortune cookies can be adorned with frosting and sprinkles. If the bride and groom desire they can get the cookies personalized from various companies that offer this service.
Custom made cookies can be purchased from local bakery or ordered online. Custom cookies are shaped and frosted sugar cookies. Cookies can be given various shapes like wedding cakes, wedding bells, bride and grooms, wedding dresses and floral bouquets. Frosting can be either simple or elaborate. Symbols or short messages can be inscribed on cookies. The budget of cookie wedding favors depends on how intricate or elaborate the details are. If there are budget problems the bride can easily bake cookies at home for a lesser expenditure.
With the advancement in technology couples can get their photo transfered onto the various shaped cookies like hearts, circles, squares and triangles. This technology is available in bakeries and it is suggested that brides dont try to make them at home. The bakeries use edible ink that works on most ink jet printers and is applied to sheets of frosting.
There are innumerable ways in which cookies can be used as wedding favors. The couples can introduce their originality to create cookie wedding favors.