Unique Wedding Favor Idea - Gourmet Wedding Cookies!

Gourmet wedding cookies are not, in and of themselves, a unique wedding favor idea. Wedding cookies have long been a part of many nations’ traditional weddings. The trick is to take gourmet wedding cookies, and make them a unique wedding favor.

The following 6 ideas may spur your thinking.

1. Unique Wedding Favor Idea from Italy

Traditional Italian wedding receptions feature a dessert table with a large cake, but it is unlike American wedding cakes. The Italian cake is constructed of layers of gourmet wedding cookies! During the reception, the bride and groom head up a line of guests, and begin the “cookie dance”. Leading their dancing guests, they circle the reception area, and arrive at the cookie cake, where each dancer takes a cookie. Non-dancers needn’t worry, as they may take cookies after the “cookie dance” ends.

2. Unique Wedding Favor Idea from Mexico

Butter-type gourmet wedding cookies are served as favors at traditional Mexican weddings. The rich cookies are wrapped in tulle, a material like your veil, and placed on the tables at each setting. To make them yourself, you will need: 1 cup softened butter, 1/2 cup powdered sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 2 1/4 cups sifted flour, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 3/4 cup chopped walnuts, and powdered sugar in which to roll the baked cookies. When cooled, wrap cookies in a color of tulle that will harmonize well with your color scheme.

3. Unique Wedding Favor Idea from China

Although not part of a Chinese wedding, gourmet wedding fortune cookies make another unique wedding favor idea. Tastefully decorated, personalized fortune cookies are delicious, and an original idea for you wedding. Partially frosted in chocolate colored to match your wedding theme, cookies can have a small frosting heart added. You can design your own “fortunes” or have the papers personalized with the couples names and date. When each cookie is packed individually in its own small white box, your unique wedding favor is sure to please.

4. Unique Wedding Favor Idea from Ireland

The traditional wedding ring in Ireland is called a claddagh. The claddagh portrays 2 hands holding a heart, which is wearing a crown. The hands represent faith; the heart love; and the crown honor. Gourmet wedding cookies can be made in the shape of the claddagh, frosted to bring out the symbols, and wrapped in clear cellophane as unique wedding favors. For guests who may not understand the claddagh, attach a tag imprinted with the explanation.

5. Unique Wedding Favor Idea from Armenia

A traditional Armenian wish for the bride and groom is, “may you grow old on one pillow”. Incorporate this into your unique wedding by having your bakery prepare custom gourmet wedding cookies in the shape of pillows. Wrap each pillow in a net “pillow case” and attach a tag with the saying printed in pretty script.

6. Unique Wedding Favor Idea from Camelot

The traditional wedding cake traces its history back to medieval times, and presents a unique wedding favor idea for you. In the days of Camelot, each guest took a small cake to the wedding. As the guests entered, they stacked the cakes on a table, creating balanced layers that grew smaller as they rose. At a point in the reception, the bride and groom tried to kiss over the top of the cakes - without tumbling them! It was considered good luck if they managed the kiss. You can reverse the tradition by stacking layers of gourmet wedding cookies, each in a small white box. During the reception, or at its conclusion, each guest may take one of these unique wedding favors.

Custom Gourmet Wedding Cookies are usually a rich shortbread, but you may order “cake” type, or any other custom made cookie to complete your unique wedding.