Wedding favors are small gifts traditionally given to the guests attending the wedding ceremony or wedding reception as a token of the bride and grooms gratitude. Small sweet based gifts make an excellent wedding favour that your guests are bound to enjoy.

Sweets and other sugary treats make for a traditional and versatile wedding favour with a noble historical past. It is believed that the first wedding favors ever given were ‘sugar cubes’ bestowed upon the guests of the weddings of wealthy European aristocrats. Sugar in those days was an expensive commodity and the giving of sugar cubes to ones guests became known as a symbol of wealth and prosperity.

As the price of sugar fell, and the giving of sugar cubes as wedding favors filtered down through the classes and became common place, almonds and sugared almonds replaced sugar cubes as the wedding favour of choice amongst the aristocracy. The almonds bitter taste mixed with the sugar sweetness of its outer coating was supposed to represent the bitter-sweetness of marriage.

Wedding favors were and still are generally presented in elegantly wrapped confection boxes and bags which traditionally act as a symbol of fertility, longevity, happiness, wealth and good health.

Wedding favors today have become a traditional part of almost all wedding ceremonies and receptions, and whilst wedding favors have become more diverse in their range since the days of wealthy aristocrats and sugar cubes, the giving of small elegant sweets and gift bags to the guests still remains an extremely popular option with wedding planners and guests alike.

Wedding Favors – Sugared Almonds

Whilst sugar cubes might be the most traditional wedding favour treat, sugared almonds are a more acceptable and equally traditional treat to present to your wedding guests. Traditional sugared almond wedding favors consist of five almonds presented in a confection box or elegant bag. The great thing about sugared almonds is that they can be purchased in virtually any color from ivory to blue to red to silver and gold so can easily be coordinated to match with the overall wedding theme color(s).

Wedding Favors – Chocolate Hearts

Another popular wedding favor of the candy kind is coloured foil coated chocolate hearts. Obviously being heart shaped; chocolate heart shaped wedding favors fit well with the general tone of the wedding environment and of course chocolate itself is a popular gift and will be gratefully received by virtually anybody. As with the sugared almonds, foil coated chocolate heart wedding favors are available in virtually any colour, so can be chosen to tie in with the wedding colour scheme.

Wedding Favors – Retro Sweets and Love Hearts

More recently popular as an alternative wedding favour are the types of sweets and candy known as ‘Retro sweets’, retro sweets is a term that refers to the types of sweets that were popular in times gone by, and specifically during the period of time within which the bride and groom were children. Retro sweets include popular favourites such as Dib-Dabs, Mojo’s, Black-Jacks, Fruit-Salads, and the most popular of all for wedding favors ‘Love Hearts’.

Love Hearts are a type of candy manufactured by the company ‘Swizzels Matlow’ and are a fizzy tablet shaped fruit flavoured candy that features love related messages engraved onto the sweets.

Love heart sweets come in a mix of six colours: white, yellow, orange, green, purple and red and can feature a wide variety of love based motifs such as: Be my love, New Love, I Love You, My Angel, Hold Me, Hearts Desire, and so on.