There are so many important things to think about when planning for your wedding day - a venue, outfits, a colour scheme, what sort of food to serve, what music to play music, table settings, decorations, flowers and so much more that it can all become totally overwhelming rather quickly. Here is a short guide to help with selecting one of the very important features of your special day - your wedding favors.

Wedding favors are one of the things that many couples often leave to the last possible moment, believing them to be not as important as many other larger elements of the wedding day. While this is essentially true there are other factors which are far more important such as the venue, it is finishing touches like your wedding favors that will add to the overall quality and yorur guests’ impression of the day and thus reflect upon you as a couple.

Wedding trivia boxes are a classic wedding favor and are shown in the photo above.

Your wedding favors should be good quality and should also match with the colour scheme which you have chosen for your wedding. UK Wedding Favors is an excellent online company which specializes in wedding favors and has done for over 15 years, making them well qualified to assist you with making choices and picking favors for your wedding day. Their website is very user friendly and allows you to personalise your wedding favors if you so desire.

It is important to think of your guests when choosing wedding favors. Do you wish to have unisex gifts that both male and female guests would like or do you wish to have separate gifts for the sexes? Do you wish to have special wedding favors for the children present at your wedding?

An example of a Children’s wedding favor, featuring Disney characters.

Having special wedding favors for any children who will be attending your ceremony is a very thoughtful touch, and shows you have really thought about your guests. Special wedding favors for children could be some delicious sweets, which they are sure to love or perhaps a small toy as a gift which will keep them amused and take their mind off what is sure to be a long day for them.

Personalized wedding favors are another great idea as again this shows your attention to detail and serves to further improve the quality of your day. Personalised favors could be anything from ribbons with your married names and the date of your wedding day tied around other gifts or gifts which mean something special to you as a couple and have your names printed on them which you wish to share with your guests.

Good quality wedding favors can be that added final touch which sets off your special day, the biggest day of your life. In order to make this as easy as possible make sure you get exactly what colours, finish and quality you want. The wedding favors you choose will leave a lasting impression on your guests and you will be able to enjoy your day more fully if you know everything has been taken care of in advance.

This article was written by Emma Gray, to read more articles from Emma visit her travel blog, Emma’s Travel Tales.

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With so many choices, where in the world should you have your Kansas City wedding? We have some experience with many, many churches in the area. There are many good ones - more than five we can tell you about. But for brevity’s sake we picked five. These were chosen based on a variety of criteria including but not limited to beauty of sanctuary and church grounds, amenities for the bridal party and the overall quality of experience there. Last but not least was the church’s lack of fussiness towards photographers. That’s a big deal in our book.

• Asbury United Methodist Church 75th & Nall in Prairie Village, KS 913-432-5573 We’re suckers for wedding ceremony sites with great light. Boy, does Asbury have it! It’s not as close to downtown reception venues as other churches but the distance is manageable. The upstairs dressing areas are spacious with magnificent circular windows that provide plenty of light to help with make-up. The windows provide some fun portrait possibilities for your photographer, too.

• St. Elizabeth Catholic Church 2 East 75th Street, Kansas City, MO 64114 816-523-2405 When we shot our first wedding at St. Elizabeth we were amazed at the enormous sanctuary. From the exterior it just doesn’t seem possible this church could have such an expansive sanctuary. Not only is it huge but it is beautiful with a wonderful bright white interior that makes it seem even larger than it is. The church coordinator was a delight to work with and sought to make everyone’s experience - including the photographer’s experience - worthwhile.

• Redemptorist Parish 3333 Broadway St., Kansas City, MO 64111 816-561-3771 We do a great many Catholic weddings every year (hmmm…. future blog post about our favorite Catholic churches? Stay tuned.) Redemptorist is the show stopper. This space brings a ton of Kansas City history to your event. It is centrally located in Midtown Kansas City, making this site convenient to the downtown reception venues that are so popular. The church features ample room for the bride and her retinue to get ready in the next door church offices. We’re not sure the grooms and groomsmen have the same niceties. The church administration are good to work with and have common sense and reasonable restrictions for photographers during the ceremony.

• St. John’s United Methodist Church 6900 Ward Parkway, Kansas City, MO 64113 816-523-6788 This place is pretty much a closely related sister to Asbury United Methodist Church in Prairie Village. Good light, spacious amenities and a great location that is an easy ride to the Country Club Plaza and downtown Kansas City. There’s a garden area just to the north of the church ripe with picture potential. The church is surrounded by plenty of colorful foliage during Spring, Summer and Fall.

  Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish 4503 Frederick Blvd. St Joseph, MO 64506 816-232-2847 O.K., so it’s not in Kansas City. So what? Great stained glass, lots of space and a wonderful, wood-carved altar are big positives at this church. With those wide hallways, the post-wedding exit won’t make your guests feel like sardines. We like churches with gardens, too. Our Lady of Guadalupe has ‘em.

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So much of your wedding is so fleeting. The cake is devoured, the first kiss is done and the music fades. Within minutes of the couple’s departure the ceremony and reception halls are dressed down. Within days a bouquet of flowers can be just a hint of its former glory.

Wouldn’t it be nice to preserve some of those pretty things? Someone like Loreen Hospodar of Reenie Rose can really help. Loreen is an artist who paints wonderful oil on canvas paintings of bridal bouquets.

Loreen has spent her life connected to the art world. She is a graduate of Grand Valley State University in Michigan where she graduated with a Fine Arts degree in illustration. Loreen now lives and creates her artwork in Chicago but serves brides and grooms nationwide.

Check out this wedding artist’s website and blog.

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