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Candy Wedding Favor Ideas

July 27, 2011
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If you want something sweet for your favors, try some of these great ideas for packaging every sort of candy imaginable.

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It's tough to find a wedding favor that guests crave more than candy. Whether dragées, chocolates, caramels, taffy, or gummies, you pretty much can't go wrong with gifting your guests something sweet for the trip home. Need convincing? Get inspired by these deliciously creative candy favors. 

Pretty Candy Wedding Favors

These tasty takeaways are so beautifully presented, your loved ones will feel extra, well, loved.

Details (clockwise from top): Agave quinoa sesame in milk chocolate bar, $7.50, JCocoChocolate.com; passion fruit marshmallows, $14/dozen; Sweetniks.com; lavender lollipops, $12 for 6, Sweetniks.com; lavender fleur de sel and honey-vanilla-bean caramels, $6 for 10, CalabasasCandyCo.Etsy.com; Les Cinqs Amandes mimosa pure pearls, $18 for 1.7 oz, The5Almonds.com; Les Cinqs Amandes chocolate dragées, $14 for 4.2 oz, The5Almonds.com; Kubli violet candies, $63.50 for a dozen 5.3-oz jars, CrossingsFineFoods.com; Les Cinqs Amandes classic chocolate carré, $2.75 each, The5Almonds.com. 

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Chocolate Candy Favors

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Upgrade your foil-wrapped chocolates as favors by packaging them in gold-dipped muslin bags. Not only will your guests love the chocolate, they can continue to use the chic bag for anything!

Gold Dipped Muslin Bags, $10 for 6, papersource.com.

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Lucite Dessert Display

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Learn How To Make This Candy Bar

A candy buffet this eye-catching isn't just guaranteed to give guests a sugar high—it also looks like it's floating on air. That's thanks to the see-through acrylic holder that put the spotlight on the treats themselves. Pick up several types of candy and desserts that satisfy your palate—and palette: The transluscent presentation needs color to pop!

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Marshmallow Sandwich Favors

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Offer a favor as delicious as your sweet love: Malvi marshmallow sandwiches with a personalized label. Choose from among five flavors including vanilla salted caramel and raspberry hibiscus. 

The Details: Malvi marshmallow sandwiches, $4 per 2-pack, MalviMallow.com.

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Grown-Up Lollipop Favors

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Ain't love the sweetest thing? Keep that feeling going by sending guests home with gorgeous grown-up non-alcoholic lollipops, in champagne (left) and cherry blossom (right) flavors.

The Details: Champagne-flavored lollipop, $13.50 for 3, and cherry blossom-flavored lollipop, $30 for 3, both from ASecretForest.Etsy.com.

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Traditional Wedding Candy Favors

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If you're Italian, it only makes sense to honor the Italian tradition of giving five Jordan almonds (or "bomboniere" as they're known") to signify health, wealth, happiness, fertility, and longevity. Though typically a tulle bag is used, this bride and groom opted for a muslin option stamped with "grazie" as a token of thanks for all of the guests.

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His and Hers Wedding Favors

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Can't agree on the type of candy? No problem. At this May wedding, friends and family went home with custom bars from Chocolate Editions that were half salted dark chocolate (the bride's favorite) and half caramelized white (the groom's pick). The bars were topped with a personalized label.

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Colorful Candy Favors

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Whatever candies you choose, keep them on-palette, like this bride and groom who offered cotton candy-flavored rock candy and Jelly Belly champagne bubbles from OhNuts.com in clear favor boxes that coordinated with their wedding décor.

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Homemade Caramel Favors

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To honor the groom's grandmother, who had passed away when he was young, the groom's mother made her homemade caramel recipe. The couple packaged the sweets into foil-stamped favor boxes with a photo of the groom and his grandmother inside. 

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Festive Candy Favors

Muslin sacks rubber-stamped with either "naughty" or "nice" held peppermint sticks and peppermint-chocolate bark at this December wedding. A nearby sign read, "Please conduct a brief self-evaluation of your behavior this year, and choose one accordingly." 

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Saltwater Taffy Favors

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These little favor baggies were a thoroughly sweet treat—thanks to saltwater taffies inside and a sweet printed note (yum) on the outside!

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Candied Apple Wedding Favors

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For a fall wedding, what better wedding favors than caramel apples?

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On-Theme Candy Favors

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Sugarpova gumballs served as a fitting favor for this tennis-themed wedding. A deck of racket-adorned playing cards completed the gift.

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Candy Favors in Mason Jars

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We love the idea of packaging candy in jars for a cute, affordable favor. Truffles from Momofuku filled the to-go containers at this wedding.

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Cotton Candy Wedding Favors

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Your friends and family will feel like kids again when they receive these cute cotton candy favors.

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Country Candy Wedding Favors

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Make This Country Candy Favor Label

Horseshoe lollipops labeled "Hitched" are a super cute way to incorporate a country-Western theme at a rustic wedding.

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Lemon Drop Wedding Favors

Make This Lemon Drop Favor Label

Invite guests to pucker up with sour candies.

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Unique Candy Favor Packaging

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Upgrade your candy wedding favors with a simple piece of fabric, either cinched around a cellophane bag or stapled on the fold.

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Candy Cone Favors

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Create opalescent candy cones consisting of Pearl White mini milk chocolate balls, iridescent film, metallic opal paper, and ribbon.

The Details: mini milk chocolate balls, $24/2lb bag, CandyWarehouse.com; Pacon iridescent film, $10.75 for 12½ ft, DickBlick.com; metallic opal paper, $13.50 for 1-3 packs of 50 sheets, PaperPresentation.com; ribbon, price upon request, MobukaNY.com.

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Fun Candy Favor Wrapping

Sometimes, it's all in the presentation. Roll up your favorite sweets (we used almond dragees) in colorful tissue paper, position a strip of sequins down the center, and cinch the ends with a length of thin string for a fancy take on candy wrapping.

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Cookie-Candy Hybrid Favors

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Can't decide between cookie favors or candy favors? Our modern version of the classic "stained glass" cookies is a happy medium.

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Escort Card Candy Favors

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Filled with raspberry gum drops and topped with envelopes containing table numbers, these boxes double as escort cards and wedding favors.

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Candy Favor Display

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Set up a candy bar and let guests choose their own sweet sendoff. This framed heart mosaic is made with gum (!)—an inexpensive way to liven up a blank space—and the vessels are filled with sweets.

The Details: Specialty candies from Dylan's Candy Bar, price upon request, DylansCandyBar.com; letter pops, 3 for $13, VintageConfections.com; yellow and pink jawbreakers, price upon request, Kidz Confections, 888-452-9547.

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Candy Ring Wedding Favors

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You exchanged rings, now give your guests a similar token that's actually a treat!

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Wrapped Variety Box Favors

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A variety of colorful candy in clear rectangular boxes, wrapped with translucent paper, makes for stylish favors.

The Details:  Glerup acetate boxes (T109), $0.75 each, Glerup.com; 3 1/2mm ribbon (ER1540), price upon request, MokubaNY.com; Translucent paper, from $10.50 for 50 pack, PaperPresentation.com; Lavender rock candy, from $7/lb, crystallized ginger from $6/lb, and champagne gumdrops, $10/lb, all TheSweetLife.com; Haribo gummi peaches (C100857), $19.50 for a 5lb bag, CandyWarehouse.com.

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Lollipop Favor Spread

Make This Lollipop Stand

A spread of lollipops encourages guests to tap into their inner child.

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Favor Bags

Sitting alongside a bowl of chocolate pennies, these his and hers grab bags are arranged on risers for guests to choose from.

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Personalized Candy Favors

Make This Personalized Candy Favor

Stackable containers give guests a taste of your palette; we filled ours with sweets in rose, butterscotch, and strawberry flavors. 

The Details: Puffs, by Trolli Candy, $19.50 for 12 pack, GroovyCandies.com. Containers (No. t101), from $0.75 per container, Glerup.com.

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Maple Sugar Candy Favors

Maple sugar candies are a melt-in-your-mouth local specialty sure to be gone before the last dance. Transform a store-bought box of candy by replacing the lid with a paper band printed with a personal message (leave the shrink wrap intact). Finish with a yarn bow.

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Candy Tube Favors