Easy Wedding Favor: Wedding Cookie Table

In Western Pennsylvania, where I am from, a wedding is just not the same without a traditional wedding cookie table. Yes, the wedding cookie table looks and tastes as good as it sounds, with dozen upon dozen of yummy wedding cookies lined up for your guests to eat while at the wedding, and extra wedding cookies for your guests to take home as well. Whether you make your own cookies or buy the cookies from a local bakery, the wedding cookie table can be a fun and easy wedding favor.

If you're thinking about using the wedding cookie table as your wedding favor, first you'll want to consider how many cookies that you will need to provide for each person. If you plan to have wedding cookies for guests during the reception, as well as for your wedding favor, then you'll want to have at least 6 cookies per person, knowing that some of your guests won't have any cookies and others will certainly have more.

Next, you'll want to figure out whether you will make the wedding cookies yourself or whether you'll buy them. In my area, friends and family often pitch in to make many different kinds of wedding cookies such as Mexican Wedding Cookies and Thumbprints, freezing the cookies until the big day. If you want to keep to making this an easy wedding favor, you should consider using a bakery to make the wedding cookies. This can make things more costly, but will certainly make things easier.

You'll also need to determine what kind of package you will provide for your guests to bring the wedding cookies home in. Cake boxes work well, as do small plastic bags. Most wedding favor retailers or craft stores will have either boxes or bags, so you shouldn't have a problem with this part of this easy wedding favor.

Finally, you'll want to consider how to present the wedding cookies. The picture shows one display in which the cookies are on trays, surrounded by boxes and napkins for the guests to use. If you want to be fancy, you can also provide plates for your guests, although napkins usually work just as well. You may also want to add a sign that tells your guests that you have chosen to use the wedding cookie table as your favor, although this may not be necessary as once your guests see the delicious wedding cookies that you've provided, they will won't be able to stop themselves from trying them.