Wonderful wedding favors...

We see a lot of wedding favors around here. It's one of my favorite elements of the wedding day. Last week, a box arrived full of favors for our 1/18/12 wedding and after showing them to my husband he declared, "those are the nicest wedding favors I think I've ever seen". It's nice to have a hubby that has such an opinion on such matters. =)

Without further ado, take a look at these beautiful photo albums:



Each album was wrapped with a name tag & raffia.



Inside was a personalized note to each guest from the bride & groom.

And each album had an engagement picture (taken by Elisha Orin) to start the album off:



I just loved these! And they even made a brief appearance in their wedding video by Andrew Orleans:

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Safe sealife place card holders

This idea is not new to me, I have seen brides do this before and it's always really pretty. But what surprised me when I opened up the box that the bride sent me was the fact that these are resin starfish and sand dollars. You may not know this, but real starfish? Smell crazy bad! And sand dollars? Uber fragile. They can chip like crazy. I loved these so much, I asked the bride where she found them and she got an amazing deal on them from Christmas Tree Shoppes. I tried looking for them online but with very little luck. If you happen to find them anywhere, please post in the comments below for other brides.