Some couples like to give photo albums out to guests as they aren’t just practical but often nicely designed and attractive to look at. Albums with detachable cover photos are recommended so your guests can personalize your gifts themselves.

These days, beauty and practicality are priority qualities for favours. For reasons like these, wedding favours like photo albums and frames are common. They are not just pleasing to the eye, they are also versatile enough to be usable in both an official and unofficial capacity. Souvenirs like these will be appreciated by guests from all walks of life – from the student who is your guest as well as the family man or single, career woman.

Photo album favours are a wonderful way of equipping your guests with the right tools to remember their best moments – page by page can be filled with seemingly endless pictures of beloved people, things and events. When giving them as favours, it will be best to concentrate your efforts on their designs – both on the covers and inside pages, if possible. Fit them to your wedding theme and seasonal colors so they gel with the whole event.

When picking the style of albums, you have a few to choose from. There are the conventional ones with compartments where pictures are slipped in and out of. These are the most common in the market and usually preferred for their capacity to carry lots of photos. Other types of albums are those with thick, sticky cardboard-like paper and thin plastic cover on each page to protect the photos that are stuck on. For a more rustic, old-fashioned feel, you can have the old-style albums which need some kind of glue or adhesive corners to attach your pictures on. This last style is the most uncommon and impractical, as it will require some amount of time and effort to stick on each photo. Some people, however, see the effort and time needed to do this as a sign of commitment and dedication so it may be appropriate for your festivities. Just remember to include the photo corners with the album so you can save some trouble on your guests’ part.

For your wedding favours, a small photo album to hold between 4 and 10 pictures will be sufficient as they are a lot easier for you and your guests to cart around. As a souvenir, slip in your wedding photo on the first page and leave the rest empty. This saves you time on having to print the pictures upon request and sending them over. It also ensures that they have a nice keepsake of your wedding.

Photo album cover designs can be elegant, casual or fun, depending on what the feel of your wedding. For elegance, photo album favors that are made of satin or silk covers with embroidery and tied with a satin sash are beautiful to hold and look at. More casual versions can have cushioned covers while plastic or cork. To add a touch of class, tape their corners with silver steel. You can also have your wedding photo on the cover – either permanently or detachable. The latter is better as it means your guests can change the pictures on the cover as they wish. To stamp the fact that the album is YOUR wedding favor, have them personalized with inscriptions like “Love Always, Tom & Erica” so everyone will always remember who the album was from.

Candles are also very common as wedding favors. Just like photo album, they come in various types, sizes and scents – from tea lights to votives to specially molded wax creations. Candles are also very easy and practical to present your guests with. Flexible enough to be designed to suit specific wedding themes or seasons, they are easy to carry around from ceremony to reception and appropriate for both the indoor or outdoor wedding.

For the more formal weddings, elegant candle wedding favours are white, ivory or beige in color and elaborately decorated with motifs of vines, hearts, rings, petals or flowers like lilies, orchids, roses and tulips. Decorations can be on the candles themselves or their holders. For votive candles, frosted glass is used for those with silver or white designs.

Other types of candle wedding favours are tea lights. These are small and normally used for aromatherapy so pick your scents carefully. To not seem too miserly, give them out in sets of twos to each guest and use colored tea lights so they are a little different from the norm. Or you could actually have them made into specific shapes like sea shells, stars or hearts, which is not too difficult to do. All that is needed are melted wax, a hot fire and some shaped tins.

Sometimes, a well-designed candle holder will mean you can afford to have simple, plain candles. If you have decided to design your candle holders instead of your candles, do pick holders that are a generic size. Holders that are specially made for bigger or smaller-sized candles will be difficult to put to use later as it may be too problematic to find matching candles.