Wedding favors are the exquisite little gifts that sit on your reception tables and can often act as place cards and table decor. Depending on the theme of your Utah wedding, whether you’re in the alpine mountains, downtown near the Great Salt Lake, or wandering the vast southern deserts, there’s a wedding favor in Utah that’s just right for you.
Utah’s Edible Wedding Favors
There are so many
traditional and unusual edible products to incorporate into your wedding favors that you may have trouble choosing. For example, there are always popular chocolate bars, chocolate candies, or chocolate truffles that can be personalized on the wrapper or show the guest’s name as an edible place card. Of course, coffee beans and flavorful teas are always a hit, especially when they’re Utah-made by the
Beans and Brews Coffeehouse in Draper, which boasts high-altitude roasting and has an online store with many possible gift items. You can personalize coffee or tea orders by finding some square or rounded tins from your local grocer or candy shop that come in different designs and can be personalized with labels or ribbons to contain the bride and groom’s wedding day information. Some other edible wedding favors include either
maple syrup or honey that’s Utah-made in traditional pioneer style. Ask if small maple syrup or honey jars can be made with personalized labels or consider creating your own labels to place on the jars once you order them. In this Beehive state, everyone will be delighted to have their own little jar of heaven and will appreciate the extra-sweet touch you’ve added to their table.
Utah honey is produced by many family companies, in addition to being produced in the Ogden Valley by
The Abbey of the Holy Trinity Trappist Monastery.
Utah’s Flora and Fauna Favors
A popular trend among wedding favors today is to “go green” by giving favors that keep on growing along with your marriage. For instance,
seed packets have been introduced into everything from an insert in the wedding program to
a seeded-wedding favor that can be planted directly into the ground. These come in many wonderful shapes like hearts, bells, and butterflies, and turn out to be many scented herbs and wildflowers when planted. Also consider an earth-friendly
sapling tree wrapped in burlap and tied with a colored ribbon. Utah is known for its Douglas fir, pine, and western spruce tress, so consider giving the type of tree that will fare well in Utah’s alpine and valley climates. For a brilliant display that will awe your guests and leave your heart soaring, consider placing a mysterious pyramid boxes on reception tables that, when opened at the right moment, reveal a
beautiful butterfly that flits in front of your eyes and soars into the sunset. Ordering wedding day butterflies must be done in advance in order to care for the butterflies and ensure they’re alive and healthy upon release.
Truly Authentic Utah Wedding Favors
For a Wild West wedding favor that lasts for decades, imagine how much fun it would be to create mini rock and cactus gardens with personalized stones in them for your reception tables. These could act as favors and as place cards with names of your guests etched into a small rock at the front of the mini-garden. Cactus gardens are easy to make at your local outdoor and garden store and require little maintenance after they’re planted. Since Utah is also well-known for its tech industries, you can probably find great prices on the latest trends in technology to gift to your guests as interesting favors. This includes everything from the popular idea of placing
disposable wedding cameras on your reception tables to gifting small digital photo albums with a slideshow of pictures of the bride and groom.
Mini photo albums are also an option and can be personalized for the guest on the cover and filled with small pictures. Another idea is to download pictures onto a
custom flash drive, also known as a USB key, which come in many fun shapes and memory sizes so that your guests have a photo slideshow they can put on their key chains and view on any computer or print however they please.
