Edible Wedding Favors

A great many of our New Jersey wedding couples have gone back to the tradition of offering wonderful wedding favors for their guests to take home as they leave our wedding reception venue. (In the past few years, some couples chose to skip the favors as a way to save money, but thoughtful take-home favors are now back on the Must list!) What the couples choose to give as wedding favors has evolved from those tiny photo frames and wine glasses embossed with the bride and groom’s name to a new trend that makes guests much happier – edible gourmet treats.

Your wedding reception lasts several hours, and the wedding cake and desserts may have been served an hour or two before the close of your celebration. So when guests find that their wedding favors are delicious frosted brownies or theme-decorated cupcakes, they very often treat themselves to these treats before they even leave your reception! That’s the mark of a great edible wedding favor. Guests can’t wait to enjoy them.

Here are some of the most popular edible wedding favors that we’ve seen, and made, for our New Jersey wedding couple’s take-home treats:

•Frosted brownies
Frosted cookies, in heart-shapes or cut into wedding theme shapes like a bride’s dress or a wedding dove

• Chocolate-chip cookies

• White macadamia nut cookies

• Gourmet truffles

• Theme-shape chocolates, such as hearts or butterflies

• Pastel sugar-covered Jordan almonds (a traditional, symbolic favorite of our New Jersey wedding couples!)

• Gourmet flavored wedding cupcakes

• Hazelnut cream-filled cookies

• Personalized candies, such as M&Ms sporting the initials or names of the bride and groom

• Wedding color-matched jelly beans

• Chocolate bark

• Fudge squares in a variety of flavors

• Seasonal-matched wedding favor treats, such as maple brownies for a fall wedding

• Baggies of gourmet-flavored popcorn or kettlecorn, the couple’s favorite snack

• And more…

Presentation is key for wedding favors, so package each edible treat in its own ribbon-tied box or cellophane baggie, and affix a thank-you message label right to the package, expressing your gratitude that guests came to share your day with you.

All the best,
Caitlyn Bradley, Director of Private Dining, Ram’s Head Inn