Sunday, May 3, 2009

Fortune Cookies Made Great Wedding Favors

By Rufus Sprague

More and more brides are using fortune cookies as a way of telling their guests about their future plans and to thank them for their friendship. While you would expect a fortune cookie after a Chinese meal, dont be surprised if they show up as a wedding favor at the next wedding you attend.

Creating a nice twist to the traditional after meal treat, brides are customizing the messages in the fortune cookies. Many will replace the Lucky Number with their wedding date. For example one fortune might read, Lucky Numbers: 05.10.10.

While you can buy fortune cookies in bulk, take out the original fortune and slip one in of your own there are actually numerous fortune cookie companies who specialize in these cookies and offer them at a very reasonable price. Known as Personalized Fortune Cookies, or Custom Fortune Cookies, these companies allow the brides to be their own Confucius.

Each message can usually fit around 20 words and many companies offer double sided messages. Twice the amount of space is allowed, by using text on both the front and the back of the message.

Some popular custom messages that brides are using are: Thank you for sharing this special day with us! or In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

Many brides are also adding their name and grooms name along with the wedding date to the end of each message. For example one common message would read, Thank you for sharing this special day with us! Ross and Wanda " October 23, 2010".

While the traditional fortune cookies are very popular with soon to be brides, some of these brides are making the fortune cookies ever sweeter. Many custom fortune cookie companies have the option of having the fortune cookies dipped in premium chocolate. Just " of the cookie is dipped. If you are planning a wedding or bridal shower you might want to consider custom fortune cookies. - 15790

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