Let’s face it – I am going to be a wedding guest sooner and more frequently than I will be a bride. And while I’m happy to help inspire brides for their wedding details, I am also a tad selfish. So today, I’m picking out the wedding favors for this week’s orange wedding. Unfortunately, I don’t think I’ll be able to convince anyone to give away Marc Jacobs bags and/or mini cheesecakes as favors. I thought it was worth a shot.

martha always has great ideas

But I’d be happy with either of these cute little orange favors. I am a sucker for good packaging and these little boxes are adorable. And they’d look great sitting on the tables at your reception. These windowless boxes also allow you a lot of freedom – you can put anything you’d like inside and they’ll still look just as cute. I highly recommend you fill them with dark chocolate covered raisins or yogurt covered pretzels, but that’s just my opinion. Or you can get personalized, pre-filled boxes of bright orange jelly beans. They’d add a great pop of color to the table and are a little more fun.

wedding day jelly beans

Thank your guests for travelling to Georgia by giving them a gift that highlights these juicy regional gems – peaches. Check out these adorably wrapped little peach pie favors.

i love that packaging

If the thought of incorporating must-need-to-be-prepare-last-minute baked goods in your wedding makes you nervous, give customized jars of peach preserves – they have a much longer shelf life and can be prepared way in advance.

homemade preserves mmm mmm

If you can’t actually whip up these treats yourselves, support a local shop in Georgia. A mom-and-pop shop is bound to use the freshest peaches and have better flavors.

Modern brides - here’s a new wedding reception trend that is worth copying (and inexpensive too)!  If you’re going for a fun, energetic, rockin’ reception, check out the following pictures from two wedding that used glow necklaces, glow bracelets, and yes, glow in the dark Kanye West style “shutter shades” to amp up the reception!

The good news about this wedding reception idea is that it’s fun, it’s cheap, and it makes for awesome wedding pictures.

Glow jewelry can be purchased at wholesale prices from various online novelty stores.  For around $50 you can order about 100 pieces of glow in the dark accessories.  Have someone in the bridal party (or your DJ) hand them out and voilia - you’ve got a fun party prop that everyone can appreciate, kids and grandmas included!  Noone is immune

You can also use the the glow accessories as a favor replacement.  Just add a tag or label to each one and your guests will have a memento they can cherish forever (or at least until the glow juice runs out)!

Having a blast with the glow stuff.

The bride in her glow tiara!

Another wedding reception with glow stuff - everybody loved it!

Gotta love the glow in the dark shutter shades!