Monogrammed Votive Candle Favors

Inexpensive votive candles are an easy elegant way to make meaningful wedding favors.

Easy elegance with votive favors!

Votive candles may be the easy, great-looking favor solution you've been looking for. When it comes to making your own wedding favors, sometimes simplicity is the best way to get your message of thanks across to your guests. An easy, low-cost yet beautiful wedding favor idea makes perfect use of these candles.

Votive Candles may seem fairly common as wedding favors go, but part of the simple beauty of them is the ability to dress them up or package them in so many unique ways. They come in such a wide variety of colors and scents, and can really add to the elegance and significance of your wedding theme. Clear glass holders with shimmering candles in them are a gorgeous addition to reception tables, and they do a wonderful job of creating a romantic ambience for your guests. And as an added bonus, everyone looks better by candle light.

Votive candles also have another, more spiritual significance. They are known as prayer candles and are typically used in religious ceremonies, being lit as a “votive” offering. This is a sacred ritual that dates back to ancient times and is still used today to symbolize the completion of vows. Given as a wedding favor, votive candles symbolize the vows you and your beloved have taken; and also the desire for your guests to keep you in their prayers of health and happiness. And these small, simple and elegant votive candles can hold all of this in one tiny glimmer of flame.

Make this simple yet elegant votive candle favor!

YOU'LL NEED:
- Votive Candles - clear glass votive candle holders
- printed labels or adhesive backed label paper to make your own labels
- organza drawstring bags in a color that works with your theme

STEPS:
- if making your own labels, design a label using your favorite word processor. Print the labels on adhesive-backed paper, cut to size and stick one on each votive holder.
- Place one candle in each votive holder.
- Place each votive candle favor in its own organza bag, and pull the drawstring tight to tie it closed.

Each of these items can be found very inexpensively online, and the finished look is extremely elegant!