For a unique fall favor, wrap tapers in vellum; dress up with blossoms or a matchbox covered with paper, florets, and real leaves. Tie the box to candles with a cord threaded through the box's underside.

Wrap seasonal fruit in tissue for a sweet (and healthful) gift for guests.

Have an office-supply store make a rubber stamp with your names, wedding date, and a drawing or clip art illustration (the entire design should be 3 inches in diameter or smaller). Stamp image onto squares of tissue paper. Cut off stems, center fruit on tissue, wrap, and twist.

In keeping with the autumnal theme of Maria and Robert's wedding, chocolate- and caramel-dipped apples were set out in large copper kettles for departing guests to take with them at the end of the evening.

Undamaged leaves, when covered with a coat of fabric paint in a favorite color, will make unusual and varied imprints on absorbent textiles, such as canvas, cotton, or linen. Give your guests a bag that they will use again and again as a favor or as a welcome gift in their hotel room.

A leaf monogram and custom-made paper wrap the favors, an assortment of bath and body products, in Abbie and Marc's Pacific Palisades, California, wedding.

Tea is twice as nice coupled with cookies flavored the same way. These Earl Grey tea cookies were made by mixing tea leaves into the shortbread batter.

Customize a box with corrugated paper to form sections for cookies and tea bags. Ours is wrapped with damask paper and ribbon. Monogrammed tags, shaped like ones for tea bags, reveal the gift inside.

Favor boxes wrapped in yarn give your takeaways a homespun feel. Many of these ideas use the same technique: Attach an end of yarn to the bottom of a box with a clear round mailing seal; wind yarn around box several times, cut off, and affix the other end to bottom with a second seal. Precut all of your yarn before wrapping.

Lemon, mountain laurel, and rhododendron leave delightful impressions on homemade wax candles.

Favors at this wedding included a baseball cap, Jenni's blackberry-thyme jam, and coffee from Kevin's hometown.

Buy your favorite teas in bulk or devise a blend to your liking, then decant it into packets large enough to brew an entire pot. Attach a homemade tag inscribed with a fitting message to a length of embroidery thread, which can be sealed into the seam of the tea bag.

Wrapped in dried cornhusks, glass votives cast a soft glow and make beautiful fall favors.

Pecans start falling in early September, which is why so many of our favorite autumn desserts show them off.

Miniature pecan pies from a bakery in custom-stamped bags make for tasty favors that are easy as pie to assemble in advance. When you receive the pies, add extra pecans, tuck them into wax-lined bags (ours are decorated with a custom-made rubber stamp), and seal them with double-sided tape.

These earrings for your bridesmaids boast BFF-worthy qualities (they're hip, handmade, and look expensive) -- yet they cost just a few dollars. Plus, they are perfectly fall.

Purchase or make candles in the shape of pumpkins. Your favor table will become your very own pumpkin patch!

Olive-shaped chocolates in rustic fall shades are bundled in burlap as favors for guests to take home. They are both unexpected and delicious.

Candles in three shades of white are wrapped in corrugated paper and tied with waxed twine; written inside are messages from the bride and groom. Choose autumn colors for the candles to make them feel even more fall.

Extend your fall palette with pretty favors in green and brown that are a delight to behold. Familiar materials -- paper bags, cardboard boxes, crepe paper, twine -- are easily made into sophisticated packaging with ribbon or decorative paper.