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Delish edible wedding favors from foods with cult followings

8 delish edible wedding favors from foods with cult followings

You may be thinking about giving out some yummy edible favors at your wedding. Maybe with a local flair (salt water taffy, deep dish pizza, local coffee)? But there are some food brands that just give everyone heart eyes emojis at first glance. These cult food brands lend a bit of nostalgia, a little bit of gluttony, and will not go to waste or get left on the table (even if you want them to!). Let’s peek at some of my favorite cult food brands that make great edible wedding favors…

Untitled 1 alternative wedding ideas from Offbeat Wed (formerly Offbeat Bride)

Are you having an “East Coast Style” reception with dancing FIRST?

A lot of American wedding receptions follow this formula: a grand entrance followed by a meal, speeches, and finally dancing. But in what’s been dubbed an “East Coast Style” reception, dancing happens right away with intermittent boogie-ing down between meal courses, too! It sounds pretty rad to me and gets everyone out of their seats and into mingle and mix mode right away.

light-up wedding marquees

20 light-up wedding signs & marquees for spectacular photo ops (and home decor!)

Lightbox and neon wedding signs are super trendy right now and we’ve been spotting them all over wedding receptions with good reason: they look rad AF! Plus, they light up which means they can point out your candy buffet, favor table, ice cream bar, whatever… in the dark. But the secret reason I want to snag some of these light-up wedding signs is that they can turn into some of the most epic home decor after the wedding. It’s all a big scheme to reuse everything later on.

Find your favorite LED sign, customize it to your names, your wedding hashtag, your motto, your subversive “eff you,” etc. and light up the night…

Check out this gender-neutral "love for everyone" alternative bouquet toss

Check out this gender-neutral “love for everyone” alternative bouquet toss

Julia and Ben had a wedding in Berkeley with a taco buffet, sangria, homemade beer, and rainbow bridesmaids. But one detail we (and the bride!) hardcore loved was her “love for everyone” alternative bouquet toss. It was inclusive, full of sentiment and gratitude for everyone, and just a rad way to celebrate the guests without weirding anyone out with categories or gender or single/married people. Want to hear about it? Here’s what Julia told us about it…

Have guests riff your wedding with an MST3K photo booth

Have guests riff your wedding with an MST3K photo booth

When I saw this killer photo booth idea (or guest book idea!) from Jane and Matt’s wonderfully weird Austin wedding, I knew it was a winner. Prompting guests to roast you Mystery Science Theater 3K-style is a perfect way to snag laughs. I recommend grabbing a camera and making sure to catch it on video, too.

A bucket list guest book to collect ALL the adventurous ideas from your guests

A bucket list guestbook to collect ALL the adventurous ideas from your guests

Caitlinn and Luke included a really fun way to collect adventure and travel ideas from their guests: a bucket list guestbook! They provided paper and pens for guests to write down whatever they thought they should add to their bucket list: travel ideas, adventures, date nights, philanthrophic goals, etc. We figured we’d see what kind of bucket list guestbooks we could find out in the wild that you could snag for your own wedding guestbook purposes. Here’s what we found…