You are planning the perfect special event or party. You want to give your guests something that they can remember how special your event was with memories. However, do better than that. Send guests home with a special party favor that they will enjoy at home. Letting your guest take a favor home with them will truly remind them of how amazing your party or wedding was, it will bring them back to that very moment. As a part of Wedding And Party Network's cake week, we've found wonderful wedding or party favors that you can do with cake and other sweets! How fun and tasty will that be for your guests to take home with them?

Wedding Cake Tower – What's a wedding cake tower you're asking? Well, it's basically sugar cookies stacked in the form of a wedding cake. All you do is take 3 sugar cookies in a large size, 3 in a medium size and 3 in a smaller size. Ice each one of them with white icing and then stack them according to size. It will create a tier effect that looks like a wedding cake.

Place these in beautiful plastic containers and tie it up with a ribbon. These wedding favors will make absolutely wonderful wedding favors, as well as providing an amazing presentation.

Cupcakes In A Jar - Everyone enjoys cupcakes. Well, why not serve them in a jar for a tasty treat they can take home? All you do is find cute jars, bake cupcakes according to directions and find some colorful icing and ribbon. After the cupcakes have cooled, layer the cupcake then icing and add some sprinkles or whatever else you'd like in the jar.

As part of cake week, you can watch our how-to video  below. You can use whatever type of cake mix you would like and even dye it with food coloring to get the colors of your event. Also, do the same thing with the icing. That way, if you have more than one color to your party or wedding theme, you can combine the two to create a favor fit for just that. To finish it off, tie a fun ribbon on top of the jar!

Themed Cookies -Decorative cookies are always great favor ideas. Whether you are wanting to create wedding cookies or party cookies, your local bakery will be able to fix them up. If you're planning a wedding, let wedding cake shaped cookies be part of your favor. Are you planning a beach themed party? Well, make fun flip-flop or beach ball cupcakes that are colorful and fun!

Tasty Favors – There are actually tons of ideas out there for using food as part of your favors. You can use chocolate truffles and featured them in a cute little box all tied up with ribbon. How divine does that sound?

Are you planning a summer through fall wedding? Is it outdoors? Well, serve up honey in jars that would make such a cute favor! Honey, chocolate truffles, candy and even doughnuts would all make delightful treats that your guests will love!

There's no doubt about it, if you send your guests home with tasty treats as part of their party or wedding favor, they'll definitely remember your event. Whenever they use your favor at home, they'll definitely think of you. Stay tuned for our final day of cake week!

wedding cake cookie photo provided by krystal.pritchett via flickr.

Are you planning an environmentally friendly wedding? If you are, being Eco-friendly must really be important to you and the groom. You want to show the importance to your guests what being Eco-friendly means to you and how you incorporate it into your life. Showing them how you do it, may want them to try to incorporate it into their life. What is the best way to do this? Send them home with a "green" party favor.

Seed Packets: Providing seeds, such as plants or flower seeds in environmentally friendly packaging will definitely get your message across. Your guests will be able to take home their favors and actually plant them in their very own home.

Trees and plants help the environment and placing them all in a recyclable packaging will convey your message of help saving the environment.

Potted Plants: If you're hosting a rustic wedding or party, potted plants can not only serve as great decor, but also a parting gift as well. A wedding outdoors will look great with adorable potted plants.

The guests have probably been eying them all night and come to find out, they get to take them home! They'll absolutely love the idea that they'll be able to take this wedding favor home and place it out in their home. Every time they look at it, they'll think of you.

Donate: Another great favor idea for a wedding or party is to make a donation in honor of your guests. Whether you make a donation to a charity or local foundation that you support, your guests will love that there is a donation out there in their name.

It's a great way to offer support to any foundation through your event, get it's name out there and maybe even recruit some more supporters. Having donations serve as your favor will give so many benefits to the foundation and your guests.

All- Natural Totes: If you're planning an out-of-town wedding, give your guests will an all-natural welcome bag. An organic tote bag filled with natural ingredient filled personal care products will have your guests being so grateful that they came! However, you may think that your guests won't realize that their totes are organic.

So, include a little note in the bag explaining the contents and the importance of "going green". Your gift bag can even go with whatever theme you're going with for your party of wedding. Guests will love this Eco-friendly favor.

These 4 wedding and party favor ideas for an Eco-friendly event will be a true hit at your next event. However, there are so many more ideas like soy candles, honey, organic tea or organic candy. If it's for a birthday party, let children create their own party favor out of recyclable items. Personalizing these favors to fit your theme for your wedding or party will be truly ideal! You'll be introducing your guests to how you live your lifestyle so maybe they can incorporate it within theirs. Environmentally friendly wedding favors will be a huge success and help provide a clean environment.

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Our last and final day of Craft Christmas week has come to an end and it's all about party favors! You've thrown the most amazing holiday party with all the right details, now it's time to send your guests home with something they'll remember everything by. You've got all your holiday decorations out, a perfect table setting and all the tasty treats to go with it. So create something spectacular to go along with it. Party favors are such great ideas, not only can you use them as decoration as part of your party, but you can also send them home with your guests. When they use or see it, they'll think about the fabulous party you hosted just for them. Your guests will absolutely love receiving a special party favor from you!

Homemade Treat Just From YOU!

Personalized Holiday Cookies: If you love baking around the holidays, this favor is just for you. Create an adorable gingerbread cookie or sugar cookies that can be personalized towards your event and even your guests. Personalize them with your colors, date and theme or your party. Even go as far as to writing your guests name or initial on the cookies.

There are so many things you can personalize, so take it farther than just the food itself. Personalize the treat bag it comes in too! Even have your local bakery whip up some tasty cookies to serve as party favors. It'll be a tasty treat they can enjoy later at home.

Tasty Desserts: When you think of the holiday season, don't just dream of all the yummy desserts that come along with it? Fudge, peppermint bark, delicious breads, nuts and candy can be easy to make or you can have your caterer create it. The fun part will be how you present it. Wrap the fudge in cute holiday ribbon or present it in a little white box with a simple ribbon.

Even serve up the bread in cute vegetable cans that you buy at the grocery store and create the tin can into something adorable with scrapbook paper you have around the house or visit your local stationery store. If you have old jars or cans around your house, re-purpose them with holiday gift wrap and ribbon. There are so many unique things you can create, from sauces, homemade marshmallows, peanut brittle to spice rubs that your guests will love! If you've served a tasty dessert or used a spice rub on a meat, make extra and serve that up as a tasty party favor.

Holiday Mixes: Another easy and simply party favor are mixes! Mixes can range from anything to soup mixes or dessert mixes. Fill up a glass jar with different dried beans, noodles and spices or fill one up with brownie mix with chocolate chips and nuts. Just attached a personal message and the recipe to go with it. If you are serving a holiday soup, put the ingredients into a jar and let them recreate the magic at home. It's so simple to put together and so simple for your guests to make at home.

Divine Beverages: Are you serving your guests a signature cocktail or holiday punch? Send that home with them too! Again, if you have old jars or even soda bottles around your home, reuse them! Fill it up with apple cider, hot chocolate mix or that special cocktail you concocted. Again, just fill them up with all the ingredients and attach a little recipe card to the bottle. Recycle old holiday wrapping paper or get creative with personalized stickers; make it fit the theme of the party.

Painted Ornaments: Remember the post from yesterday featuring hand-painted wine glasses, well why not paint your own ornaments. You can simply buy them at your local craft store, along with the paint and paintbrush you will need and get to creating. Again, this can serve for two purposes. A beautiful place card setting and a favor that can take home and hang up on their tree.

Paint anything you'd like on it, abstract designs, your guest's name, Christmas tree, ornaments or whatever you like. So simple, you will surely be able to create an adorable ornament for your guests. Plus, to help you along the way, we've created this little Christmas ornament how-to video that shows you how to paint a simple snowflake on an ornament. All sorts of designs that will be a great party favor for any holiday party. Plus, your guests will absolutely love them!

These are just 5 ideas that will help you get started on creating a great party favor for your next party. Get crafty, get creative and reuse. Or, just run out to your local party store and they'll have tons of unique favors for you to purchase. Finding a great holiday party favor will remind your guests what amazing parties you host!

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Are you in the process of planning an amazing event or party? You've found just about everything you're looking for, but still need that one decoration that will send your party over the top. How about fun and creative party decorations with balloons? Smiley & Crow Balloon Company offers fun and unique balloons that you will be able to use for party decorations, gifts and even party favors. All of their creative balloon items will have everyone amazed at the amazing parties you host.

Smiley & Crow Balloon Company offers everything you can imagine in balloons. Fun party decorations will certainly make your party the absolute best. Planning a themed party won't be a problem, they offer any kind of theme you can possibly think of! Animals, beach theme, circus, cartoons, over the hill and even holidays are just some of the themes they offer for you. With themes, comes endless possibilities of balloon decorations, such as:

• Balloon Bouquets – Variety of party themes, Holidays and Create your own
• Balloon Centerpieces
• Balloon Arches
• Columns
• Curly Poles
• Kites
• Balloon Trees

Out-Of-The-Box Wedding!

Wow, who would have ever thought there were so many options when decorating with balloons! Your party and even wedding will be so unique and fun with these creative balloon decorations. Are you having a carnival themed wedding, an out-of-the-box wedding or traditional wedding? Imagine yourself getting married under a beautiful balloon arch with balloon columns and centerpieces to go with it.

Fabulous And Fun Party

Planning a fun kid's birthday party? Kids will have so much fun with their balloon bouquets for decoration and as favors, plus balloon trees and balloon kites will be an absolute hit with your guests. Never go wrong with balloon decorations from Smiley & Crow Balloon Company!

When wanting to add a unique decoration at your next party, event or wedding than balloon decorations will be the perfect added touch to get a unique setting. Smiley & Crow Balloon Company London Ontario will offer all the balloons you could ever imagine and create a one-of-a-kind decoration that will create such a fun and unique event!

A new and exciting trend to hit the wedding and party circuit are photobooths! These fun party props add great personality to any wedding or party and can take it to the next level. You have amazing party decorations, delicious party food, fun party music so now all that's missing is a fun photobooth that your guests will absolutely enjoy to the fullest. Photoboothphotos.com is a great shop for all your photobooth needs! Exceptional photobooths sure to offer a night full of fun at your next event.

Why a photobooth?

Fun Photobooth Pictures

This party prop adds a fun aspect to any wedding or party, of course! Besides that, guests will have a fun and unique wedding favor or party favor to take home with them. Sure guests enjoy party favors such as, chocolates, fans, seeds, mints and cookies, but who doesn't love pictures? Guests will absolutely love taking home a personalized photo from your event, it will bring back fun memories when they look at it.

They'll have great entertainment, tons of fun, a unique experience and will take home a memory from your special day. Plus, you'll get all these great photos to take home and have an absolute blast looking back on all the crazy photos from Photoboothphotos. What a fun and unique memory!

Exciting Features!

Photoboothphotos provide larger than your average sized carnival or mall photobooth. The larger the exceptionally fun photobooth means the more people, which means extremely more fun. The booth takes four fun pictures for four unique poses, which prints off in seconds. Each photo can be customized to fit your wedding theme or party theme, colors and date.This makes it even more personalized and special to you.

Also, it makes the perfect guest book. Sorry, signatures of names just won't do. Take it up a level and have pictures of all your guests having such a fun time at YOUR wedding. What a great and memorable way to be reminded of your wedding or party. It just adds that much more to your wedding decorations, theme and the overall feel of your event!

When trying to find the perfect idea for entertaining your guests, providing a unique experience and having something memorable to look back on in Louisville, Kentucky; choose Photoboothphotos.com! Their great photobooth party rental is an amazing feature that will provide a good time and amazing pictures that you will cherish for a lifetime.

Wouldn't it be so much easier if the caterer not only did amazing food, but flawless event cakes as well? Delectable food and yummy cake wouldn't have to be a mismatched mess, but instead could be a flawless pairing. This Lufkin, Texas caterer is an expert on perfect pairings, so let

Steven's Catering be a flawless match for your next event.

Delicious Food For Every Event

This local gourmet caterer is known for their exquisite food, stunning cakes, beautiful presentation and amazing customer service. You couldn't ask for anything else with Steven's Catering. With such a wide variety of fresh food, you'll be able to pick from an assortment of food ranging from breakfast style food to a gourmet holiday dinner and even to a heavenly dessert menu.

Try an unforgettable Quiche Lorraine or their decadent chocolate swirl cake. There is an assortment of wonderful flavors and cuisines like Mexican to Italian to All-American; you'll find it all! An eye-popping chocolate fountain for your next wedding event is a must, along with flambe table side; it's simply amazing! Visit their website today for all their flavored cuisine, your mouth will be watering just by looking at it all.

Finish Your Event Off With A Delightful Cake

A gifted baker is what you need for your next specialty cake and Steven's Catering offers just that. They offer wedding cakes, groom cakes, birthday cakes and much more. All the flavors, fillings, frostings and intricate designs that they can create will enthrall you. What about an edible wedding favor? One of their delicious themed cookies will be all the rave and make the perfect party favor at your next party, bachelorette party or wedding shower. Your cake will be the perfect pairing for your special event.

Bring Steven's Catering Into Your Kitchen!

Do you crave that delicious food from Steven's Catering? Dry mixes are the answer! This delicious feature offers their most popular entrée, soup, dip and dessert mixes for everyone to cook at home.

If dry mixes aren't the answer, because you're a disaster in the kitchen, then stop by their new location, Sweets and Eats for one of their take and bake meals. Take and bake meals means they prep the yummy goodness and all you have to do is throw it in the oven; it's that simple. Offering daily menus and desserts will make family dinner a breeze.

A professional, dedicated caterer with a local flair is what Steven's Catering is all about. This caterer is for you!

If Green is your theme, or you're just a nature lover, check out these amazing wedding and party favors from Plant A Memory!

If you are planning a wedding and want to incorporate a "Green" theme into it, Plant A Memory products make it easy!

Start by sending Plant A Memory handmade paper wedding invitations. These unique keepsakes, made from all natural botanicals. Shower your guests with the love you share and the beauty of flowers. Flower seeds are embedded in the handmade paper . Each one an original, these unique guest gifts are to be planted completely. They are paired with an elegant 100% recycled paper insert and finished with a raffia tie. You can choose from wildflower seeds, evergreen seeds, or herb seeds to be used in your invitations.

Choose place cards to match your natural theme by using Plant A Memory's beautiful plantable place cards, or one of their other many beautiful designs — all 100% recycled material.

Plant A Memory offers a beautiful selection of eco-friendly guestbooks for your wedding memories. These are made from recycled, handmade paper with pressed rose petals, tea leaves, or flower petals. This makes a great alternative to the over-used, black-with-gold-trim guest books we normally see at weddings. Plus, it is a keepsake that will last for a lifetime!

Don't forget your favors!! Wedding and party favors are a great way to give each guest a small keepsake to remember your big event. Plant A Memory has gone a step above that with her plantable favors. Wedding guests can take their little tree seedling favor, or plantable cards and add them to their garden or landscaping to grow for years to come.

The seedling favors are definitely a favorite! They are adorable and look great any way you want to spruce them up! (Sorry, couldn't resist the pun!) You will feel good knowing that your guests are helping our environment by planting a new tree in the world. The PERFECT wedding favor for an Earth Day Wedding or even an Arbor Day Wedding!

Plant A Memory is more than just weddings too! They have great environmentally friendly gifts and favors for baby bhowers, themed weddings, tea parties, Bar/Bat Mitzvahs and much, much more!

Your bridal shower or wedding is an event you will remember for the rest of your life. With Creative Wedding Favors' unique wedding favors, you can give all of your guests a little something to remember your big day.

Creative Wedding Favors offers an array of fabulous gifts for any style bride or hostess: bookmarks for readers, Eco friendly party favors, coffee or wine lover gifts, creative personalized containers and so much more! With hundreds of styles to choose from, every bride will be able to offer personalized wedding favors that match her personality or the wedding theme.

For years to come, Brad and Tiffany's wedding guests will remember their beach wedding when they look at the Thank You Seashell Candle given as a wedding favor. Special momento's can be created with a variety of items from Creative Wedding Favors. Maybe one of their engagement portraits in a White Rose Magnetic Frame to match Jennifer and Scott's lovely, all-white traditional wedding theme? The possibilities are endless!

Creative Wedding Favors also offers a large selection of invitations and save the date cards (Including magnetic photo frame save the date cards!). Their best sellers are themed wedding invitations; the Las Vegas wedding invitations are the too cute!

These little gifts make great party favors too! Use these for many great parties: unique themed parties, anniversary party favors, baby showers, birthday party favors, graduation or Quinceañera favors, and so much more.

When eco-friendly wedding favors and eco-friendly party favors are high on the shopping list, where do most people turn? For the best quality and service across the entire United States and Canada, most wedding and party planners turn to Plant A Memory.

In the age of eco-friendliness, brides everywhere are going green! All across Canada and the United States brides are turning to people that provide high quality eco-friendly wedding favors and other accessories/decorations for the wedding.

What kind of eco-friendly wedding favors are you in the mood for? Plant A Memory carries many different styles of wedding favors that the eco-friendly bride will love. You can have personalized seed favors adorning the tables at your reception. For a more classy look, try the seed wedding favors in eco-friendly boxes. That's just the tip of the iceberg though. For more great favor ideas, contact Plant A Memory (US) or Plant A Memory (Can). You can also view examples of their eco-friendly favors!

Plant A Memory knows what it's like to be the bride looking everywhere for the right wedding favors but coming up short. That's why they provide their eco-friendly wedding favors to brides throughout both countries. Whether across the country in Hawaii or a local bride in New York/Ontario, Plant A Memory ships the finest eco-friendly wedding favors that brides have ever come across.

Eco-friendly party favors are also a huge hit. Plant A Memory provides these as well along with the same great service that has earned them such an amazing reputation. When you're in the mood for eco-friendly wedding favors that get the crowd excited about attending your party, contact Plant A Memory.

la fiesta Quinceanera- A Young Woman’s Fifteenth Birthday Celebration

In Spanish "quince" means fifteen and "años" means year. Originating with the Aztec culture, the la fiesta Quinceañera or Quinceaños is the custom of having a special 15th birthday celebration. Later the celebration was incorporated into the Mexican and Latin American cultures.  Through the years these cultures have added their own traditional elements to the celebration.

Historically the celebration has been referred to as Quinceaños and the celebrant as the Quinceañera.  Many today refer to both the party and the participant as Quinceañera.  Although this is a cultural celebration, the symbolic atmosphere surrounding this coming of age party offers a way for any family to recognize the importance of family and community in the transformation of a young girl in to a young lady.

A Quinceañera - Where It Begins
Traditionally, the quinceañera begins with a very important ceremony held in a church where a special mass is celebrated. During this ceremony, the priest presents the young lady as an adult member of the congregation.  This begins the formal recognition of the young girls transformation into adulthood.

After the church service (similar to a Bat Mitzvah), the young lady continues on to a reception similar to a sweet sixteen party. Since community and friendship play an intricate part in this celebration, she is accompanied by seven female attendants (damas) and seven male attendants (chambelánes) as she makes her entrance at the party. Every component of this celebration plays an special part in the symbolic nature of this young girl's emergence into adulthood.

Appropriate Attire For A Quinceañera

In keeping with the formality of the celebration the attire is also very formal. The young lady shows her respect and honored status by wearing a beautiful ball gown usually with a petticoat or hoop slip. Pure or soft colors, such as white or pastel colors like pink, blue or yellow, are often the dress colors chosen.

Customarily, the quinceañera girl chooses to wear a white dress and has her damas wear a pastel color in the same style of dress. With cumber buns that match the damas' dresses, the chambelánes wear tuxedos. Although these are the more traditional colors, this celebration is defined by the personality of the young lady.

Many young 15 year olds want their special celebration to be unique. So, you may see them wear dresses that are red, purple, or even a mixture of colors.

Invitations For A Quinceanera

Quinceañera invitations are just like any other party invitation. Styles can vary from very formal to theme invitations and sent several weeks in advance of the party.  Invitations should be sent no later than a month before the quinceañera.  This will give guests plenty of time to find a formal outfit for the party.

Formal invitations are sent inviting special friends to be the attendants for the celebration. These invitations are sent several months prior to the celebration.  This allows for coordination of all the participants as well as time for dress and tuxedo fittings.

Accessorizing The Quinceañera

You will find accessories hold great importance in this celebration. Some important accessories are gloves, scepter, tiara, a quinceañera doll, as well as ring or bracelet. A tiara and scepter signify not only that she is a princess, but that she reigns over her past childhood and looks forward to being a responsible young lady.

The quinceañera doll is usually given to her by her grandparents and will often be made of porcelain and have the same style and color dress as hers. The doll symbolizes the last doll she will ever get as she has now stepped into womanhood.  This is only one of many symbolic gifts given to the quinceañera.

Her "padrinos" (godparents) present her with a very special gift of honor; usually a bracelet, necklace or earrings.

Celebrating the Quinceañera – Decoration, Music and Photo Ops

The party can be a very lavish affair or a simple get together. Decorations can be anything from balloons to streamers as well as candles and flowers. Yes, even themed quinceañera parties, such as a 50’s theme, can be found at these celebrations. Basic traditions still apply. However as with any party, each girl has her own unique way of celebrating her fifteenth birthday. Some young ladies choose a horse drawn carriage to take them from the church to the reception area. Others may choose a limousine which can transport all her attendants.

The celebrated young lady often takes her first waltz or dance with her father. After she has danced with her father, the quinceañera is free to dance with her chambelánes or even her damas. You may even find a bit of a new twist on the dance floor with a choreographed dance done by the quinceañera girl and her damas and chamblanes. This is often done to more contemporary music played by a live band or by a Disc Jockey. Video is recommended for this part as photographs don’t capture the fun movements of the dance. You will also want to make sure that you have hired a photographer for formal pictures of the young lady with her damas and chambelánes as well her family.

Treats For Quinceañera Guests – Party Favors, Food and Drink

Most quinceañera celebrations are catered. While any food can be served for the party, Latin food is often served. Items such as enchiladas, peccadillo, and tamales make great choices. The main attraction at the food table is the cake which is ornate and similar to a wedding cake. Some cakes have cute cake toppers, while others are elaborate multi-tiered cakes with artistic ornamentation. Beverages run the gamut from  punches to soda and from wine to champagne.  You will often find punch fountains, champagne fountains and even chocolate fountains at these celebrations.

Just like any birthday party you will find party favors. Decorate the tables with party favors such as little mint tins with the name of the young lady and the date, chocolates that go with the theme, or even place cards held up with commemorative take home candles. All make sweet gifts to say thank you for celebrating this special day with me.

A quinceañera is a very special tradition that many Latin cultures hold dear. It is a time to say goodbye to their young daughter, cousin, sister, or friend and say welcome to the beginning of adulthood and responsibility. It holds religious significance as well and often the priest will ask the young lady’s friends to commit to her, to help her in making good decision as she grows older. It is a time to say goodbye to her childhood and embrace her newly found womanhood.

While rooted in Latin American tradition, you can have a quinceañera party for any one who's turning fifteen. Taking the basic idea of this tradition and making one of your own for your teen, will make an outstanding party any teen will proud to have. Since "quinceanera" is merely Spanish for fifteenth year, all you need is a beautiful party dress, some attendants and of course a soon to be fifteen year old and viola! A quinceañera party is well on its way.

A special thanks goes to:

Get The Picture Inc , an Austin Texas Photographer, who shared their beautiful photo of a Quinceanera with tiara.

Ella Park Bridal, a Wedding and Quinceanera dress company in Newburgh Indiana, who gave a gorgeous example of a Quinceanera gown.

Festive Ice Sculptures and The Chocolate Fountain Co., a provider of awesome chocolate fountains in the Watford Ontario area, for the fantastic photo of the chocolate and fruit table.