This couple gave guests refreshing bottles of Limoncello, made specifically for their wedding in Italy. To create the favors' bright paper tags, the couple punched letterpressed tags, embellished them with vintage stamps, and strung them with baker's twine.

Use our design to learn how to get the look of screen-printed totes for less.

Canvas tote "10101" (bagworks.com), Tyrrells "Lightly Sea Salted" chips (chelseamarketbaskets.com), Gerolsteiner mineral water (nutricity.com), Martha's Vineyard Cookie Company cookies.

For this Monroe, Georgia, wedding, the couple gave guests an unconventional summer jelly made from mayhaw fruit, a "kissing cousin" of the crabapple.

Wrap favors in brightly colored tissue paper and top them off with a paper flower -- a low-cost alternative to the real thing.

Seasonal fruits make wonderful (and delicious) favors. Each of these sacks holds a handful of juicy red cherries, perfect for an outdoor summer wedding.

Buy glassine bags, and trim tops with scalloped scissors. Fill bags with enough cherries, or other small fruit, so they peek out over the top. To help the bags stand up, turn corners under at bottoms. Display favors in wooden crates.

Muslin pouches filled with sailboat-shaped sugar cookies and saltwater taffy are tied with grosgrain ribbon.

Send wedding guests home with fresh strawberries and scones to enjoy the morning after. Wrap scones in cellophane and line a wooden berry basket with parchment paper. Tie on a note stamped with a strawberry design.

To take inexpensive boxes from basic to vibrant, wrap pieces of colorful adhesive around each, creating a graphic pattern. You can also use the tape to punch up plain pieces of bulk taffy -- or to cover a lackluster label.

Thank guests with P&H soda Co. soda syrups, which make mouthwatering, naturally flavored drinks when added to seltzer (pnhsodaandsyrupinc.com).

Salute nautical Nantucket or Cape Cod, Massachusetts; Mystic, Connecticut; or other coastal areas with sailors' rope bracelets that shrink to fit (1856countrystore.com). Or bestow "The Arts of the Sailor: Knotting, Splicing, and Ropework" to show guests the ropes.

The Romans showered newlyweds with almonds, a symbol of fertility. Include them in your celebration by giving guests jars filled with almonds and honey as favors. Decorate the caps with squares of fabric in playful colors and patterns (we used stripes, pink linen, and florals), and secure with twine. Line up the jars on a tablecloth made from matching fabric, and label them with your first initials and the wedding date.

Ornate wooden fans kept guests cool during a summer ceremony in California.

They may look like the real thing, but candy pebbles in small galvanized pails are a sweet and delightful favor for an outdoor wedding -- a note lets guests know they're for eating.

Send guests home with sweet memories and even sweeter treats in the form of miniature cherry pies. Enlist the help of friends who bake, or have a bakery make them. To personalize the packaging, print or photocopy a message or the bride's and groom's names onto self-adhesive labels.

These favors will soar though the summer breeze, though perhaps not as high as your spirits on your wedding day.

This couple picked raspberries the summer before the wedding, and the bride and her mother made jam. The jars were covered with smaller pieces of the same fabric found on the reception's tabletops and were finished with twine. The custom stickers and handwritten labels double as place cards.