Wedding Favors – Cheap Tropical Ideas
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Wedding Favors – Cheap Tropical Ideas
Tropical weddings can be beautiful. Tropical honeymoons can be magical. Even a tropical theme at a wedding or reception can be exciting. Whatever your reason for using tropical ideas, you have a budget. That’s why you want cheap tropical wedding favors.
Cheap tropical wedding favors should not be difficult to find, as long as you use your imagination. You can not expect to walk into your nearest mall and find them quickly, though.
Finding Cheap Tropical Wedding Favors
Finding cheap tropical wedding favors is easier if you begin with a few minutes of thought about things that are tropical. What do you think of when you hear the word “tropical” or think of a tropical place?
* Palm trees swaying in warm, humid breezes.
* Sandy beaches licked by gentle ocean waves.
* Sailboats on a turquoise lagoon.
* Flip-flops, loose shirts, sun hats and sunglasses.
* Seashells and sandcastles.
* Colorful flowers and fish.
Draw up your list of the pictures brought to your mind by a tropical theme. These will be the focus for your cheap tropical wedding favors.
Before you begin shopping for your cheap tropical wedding favors, set a budget for yourself. How much can you afford to spend on your wedding favors? How many guests will you have? Divide your total wedding favor budget by the number of guests and you will see how much you can spend on each wedding favor.
We will try here to present tropical wedding favor ideas that are around $1 per guest.
Cheap Tropical Candle Wedding Favors
Many couples plan to use candles at their wedding reception. You might give each guest 2 mini plumeria candles. The colourful, pastel flower shapes will brighten your tables and the candles can be used later by guests. Unscented mini floating plumeria candle can be ordered in lots of 25 for $9.49, making your cost about $0.76 per guest.
Cheap Tropical Lei Wedding Favors
Seashell leis are readily available and inexpensive. We did an online search on the phrase “shell leis” and found 38″ long leis at $5.95 per dozen. These really are cheap tropical wedding favors – a mere $0.50! You could tie a small bow around each lei, using your wedding colour scheme. These are natural tropical wedding favors.
Fern leis made of simulated silk fern leaves are also an option. At $6.95 per dozen, these 36″ leis will cost only $0.58 per guest before you add a bow.
For really cheap tropical wedding favors and a tropical rainbow of colours on your tables, you can give two-tone leis at $0.33 per guest.
Cheap Tropical Flower Wedding Favors
Tropical flower leis are not the only possibility when it comes to cheap tropical wedding favors. Hibiscus napkin rings of simulated silk would be a colourful use of tropical flowers. A set of 4 napkin rings at $2.95 can be divided among 4 guests makes your tropical wedding favors $0.74 per guest. The napkin rings we found had bright pink and orange hibiscus flowers with leaves, each 3.5″ wide. The wire ring was covered in green paper.
Another idea for cheap tropical wedding favors is to purchase hibiscus print goody bags at $0.10 each and fill them with candy. You could also put bulk seashells in your bags. Or stuff each colourful bag with one of the leis above.
Cheap Tropical Island Wedding Favors
Cheap tropical wedding favors can often be found at websites that feature island or luau products. Look, too, at wedding favor sites for island items. We found palm tree placecard holders at $0.99 per guest if you buy 96 or more. Real sand dollar favor decorations can become cheap tropical wedding favors by adding ribbon from which to hang them. We found them priced at $0.50, $0.75 and $1 each, dependent on size. Starfish soap, each 2×2″ and presented in a ribbon-tied box, can be ordered at $0.90 per guest if you need more than 144 and still qualify as cheap tropical wedding favors.
Cheap Tropical Novelty Wedding Favors
Finally, you may want to check online websites that feature novelty items for proms and parties that have a tropical theme.
Flip-flop key chains that cost over $1 each on wedding favor sites can be ordered for as low as $0.20 on novelty sites. Luau leis with flip-flops hanging from them will cost you about $0.70 at novelty sites. Solid colour paper hand fans shaped like palm leaves will cost you only $0.20 per guest but offer 10×10″ of bright colour.
Tip: Cheap tropical wedding favors can be as simple as seashell-shaped or flower-shaped guest soaps available at your local discount store. Drop two into an organza bag (ordered bulk) and you have solved your wedding favor problem.
Anna Hart
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What are some unique ideas for a tropical wedding??
We are having a tropical theme wedding in a couple months and I wanted to know if anybody had any unique ideas as some cheap, but creative stuff like decorations, favors, and everything else. We got palm trees and sandals with everyones name on them as place holders and we wanted more stuff that we could do like that. Maybe crafty things from Michaels or somehting.
Centerpieces could be orchids and pineapples (the orchids put into the leaves of the pineapple)
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swim with dolphins
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There are alot of things that you can do for a tropical weddings. You can decorate the table with a white tablecloth and add a sea blue runner down the middle and place sea shells all over the table and you can also buy cheap fish bowls and add cheap fish in them for people to take if they want them.
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Do the ceremony at the shore, and run for the ocean … then "jump into the sea of matrimony"….
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i just attended a beach wedding in miami.. the ceremony was held in south beach early in the morning, everyone wore white. the ladies wore white dresses and the men wore white button down shirts and khaki pants. everyone had lays around them. it was fun. the celebration was held in their parents back yard. we actually decorated the whole place.
what we did was order some wholesale flowers and use the flowers as center pieces on the tables. make sure u order bright colored flowers. as for their party favors they gave out glass coasters with their pictures in them and their names printed in the back. the pictures were printed from costco and the names we printed on our own. some of the tables we put white nets [ from ikea ] to make it look like sand. on top of the nets we put shells, starfishes, etc. those u can get from michaels or any crafty stores..anyway we saved alot of money doing this wedding but the wedding was very classy and everyone had fun.. for more ideas you can email me at xxh0ney@yahoo.com
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have parrots flying all around
that’s an idea
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Serve drinks in coconuts with little umbrellas, play sound track from rain storm,
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What about some of those Tiki lamps (the wood ones) You could also use some kind of Lily for your flowers, those look tropical.
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how about hibiscus centerpieces(maybe in a hollowed out coconut or pineapple as a vase) with a lttle bit of sand and tiny seashells on the table around it? not to much sand though, you don’t want it getting in the food.
Or, you could use a fish bowl centerpiece with colored gravel, a tropical plant and a different type of tropical fish in each one.Place the bowl on a mirrow to make it a little more dramatic when the reception is over the guest can take the fish home with them. You could even go so far as to put pictures of the different fish on the placecards instead of table numbers.
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Check out http://www.rkeepsakes.com for tropical wedding frames. You can give a give to your wedding guests to remember your weddingl day. They have discount prices.
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what about beach themed wine glass charms, try http://www.stores.ebay.co.uk/handmadeprettythings
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