Unique Wedding Favor Idea - Mini CD Photo Albums

Your WEDDING FAVORS are a way to give your guests a lasting memory of your wedding while thanking them for their attendance. They are also a way to show how UNIQUE the bridal couple is. That’s asking a lot of a small bag of candies, a bar of soap, or a candle.

You need a UNIQUE wedding favor idea - like a mini CD photo album.

What Is a Mini CD Photo Album?

This UNIQUE wedding favor is a photo gallery of pictures on a mini CD. The pictures tell the story of your love, from the moment you met until the moment you decided to get married. Slip a short, written love story into the sleeve or envelope with the mini CD photo album, and you have a UNIQUE wedding favor that simply will not be duplicated.

Mini CD photo albums can be ordered online, or you can make your own.

Make Your Own

To make your own UNIQUE wedding favor CDs, follow these simple instructions.

1. Purchase enough mini CDs to have one for each guest and a few extras for practice. Purchase sleeves or envelopes. Several manufacturers offer 80 mm CD-R discs. Look for them in electronics and office supply stores. They may be called “Pocket CD-R” (Memorex) or “Mini CD-R” (TDK). Most blank mini CDS hold 185MB (21 minutes) or 210MB (24 minutes) of data.

2. Scan into your computer the photos you want to use in your UNIQUE WEDDING FAVORS. Include the whole story, alternating highs and lows. Begin with the first date, and continue right up through the proposal.

3. In a graphics software program such as Adobe PhotoShop, crop and sharpen your photos. Darken or lighten them if needed. Add captions to guide the viewer through your love story.

4. Put your UNIQUE wedding favor photos in logical sequential order, and organize them in a single computer file.

5. Run them through a “slide show” on your monitor to be sure you have them arranged as they should be.

6. Burn the file to a test mini CD, and view it.

7. When it is satisfactory, burn all of your CDs.

To make your own UNIQUE wedding favor love story, list the key moments in your courtship. Use your list to write a simple love story. Fill it with laughter, tears, and your dreams for the future. Your story will have to fit on a folded paper inside the mini CD sleeve or envelope, so keep it brief. Print your love story, fold, and insert.

HINT: Instead of standard CD envelopes, look for pastel envelopes sized for thank you cards. Print the envelopes with a small photo of the bridal couple, names, and date. Add a note of thanks, and your UNIQUE WEDDING FAVORS are ready for the big day.