Party Supply Tips: Favors

Part of your party supply shopping will undoubtedly include favors. A nice little gift that says "thank you" to all your guests. There are a number of online shops offering invitations and favors for your event, from various price ranges and in various themes.

For informal gatherings and birthday parties, Evite.com allows you to create free invitations to email to all your friends. The Dollar Store usually has cheap invitations to throw in the mail if you don't have time to make your own. At Vistaprint.com, you can get ten invitations for $3.99 or ten custom photo invitations for under $5. At birthday-funcards.com you can design and print off your own cards for free.

A great wedding celebration supply option is chrome luggage tag favors. What a nice way to thank those guests who may have traveled far for your wedding or special event (at $3.95 each). Champagne flutes ($3) or $2-5 bottle stoppers are popular items. Myweddingfavors.com has a neat Asian takeout container light to add ambiance.

For a tasty and original treat, Beau-coup.com will make chocolate-dipped custom fortune cookie favors for your celebration ($1.65 each, plus a one-time $35 typesetting fee). Another cool idea is pairing a mini cocktail shaker with a personalized drink mix (like Margarita, Mojito or Cosmo) for approximately $9 each. Favorwarehouse.com offers a good selection of 99 cent favors like: silver picture frames, bookmarks, keychains, candles, soaps and mints. One great site to check for inexpensive favor ideas is Favorideas.com, which compiles data from several different sites.

If you need party supply items for a work celebration, personalized playing cards at $3.25 per deck, travel pillows, candles or mini lunch coolers from cool-party-favors.com are both practical and fun ideas. Cool-party-favors.com has personalized, themed mint tins ($2.50) for sports, broadway, beach, rock n roll, disco or casino parties and they can even put your own picture on the lid!

For kids parties, your first stop in party supply hunting should be the dollar store. Not only can you find birthday invitations and discount party supply items, but you can also find party favors galore. Need to stuff a pinata? No problem! Looking for goodie bag candy or toys? Need prizes for your games? Everything is $1 or less and depending on which dollar store you go to, you can find really neat stuff. Picture frames, character items like Rugrats or The Incredible Hulk, t-shirts, coloring books, ceramic vases, stationary, jewelry, candles and toy figurines all make great inexpensive gifts for kids parties! If you like online browsing, Smalltoys.com and Partypalooza.com are invaluable resources that sell a large variety of bulk kids birthday party supplies for as little as 10 cents a piece. Orientaltradingpost.com also has bulk favors by the dozen for low prices, as well as eight-piece themed gift bags (8 for $20). Birthdayinabox.com has themed party favor sets for $2-$4 that make party supply purchasing a breeze.

Teenagers will love a photo locker frame with mirror ($3.85 at cool-party-favors.com) or colorful cell phone holders ($2.21). For $1.99, you could get a personalized Carabiner key ring as a practical gift. You might want to combine teen celebration favors with activities. For example, have kids make their own caramel apples that they can take home. For around $20 you can purchase supplies to tie dye ten shirts. Girls might enjoy a mini pedicure set from Bellissimofavors.com at $2.78 each. You might want to also hire a caricaturist who will create drawings as party favors. Other party supply options include: personalized candy bars from Mycandybarwrappers.com, makeup, movie tickets or restaurant gift certificates.

Invitations and favors are the bells and whistles of your party. Don't overlook the details while party supply shopping. You needn't go broke with online resources like Oriental Trading Post or stores like Dollar General. Sometimes it's best to throw a smaller gathering, if possible. You can buy better food, better favors and better decorations.

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