Newer types of candle wedding favors are tea lights. These may be small so if this is your choice, you will have to pay more attention to their holders. To avoid your tea lights from looking cheap and miserly, it will be best to give them out in sets of twos to each guest. The conventional, simple white tea lights will look boring so have your tea lights in colors so they stand out a little bit more. Better yet, have them made into particular shapes like sea shells, stars or hearts, which is not too difficult to do. All that is needed are melted wax, a hot fire and some shaped tins.

There are also other types of candle wedding favors like ball candles, which are more decorative than functional. These are single candles shaped into balls and intricately designed on the outside. They are usually colored and scented, and often used as an air freshener. Candles resembling objects are also not uncommon, although these may be little costlier than the rest. These are specially sculpted candles that look very real-life – the single stalk rose, wedding gown, starfish, bride and groom, even the wedding cake, and are even colored as such.

Wedding candle favors can also look like the actual wedding candles. Ceremonies which have unity candles often use wedding candle favors as they remind the guests of the ritual and are cute copies of the ones they use. Just as the bride and groom get to keep their wedding candles as a souvenir, so do their guests, who can now go home with their own miniature copies.

The best thing about having wedding candle favors is that no elaborate wrapping is needed. These candles are often so pretty that they look good presented as they are, with just a matching colored ribbon, bow or lace around it. Many couples who pick more elaborately styled candles do not even bother with ribbons – they just leave the candles on the table at the reception and leave it up to the guests to pick them up when they leave.

Being such pretty, functional and easy-to-cart items, it is no wonder that wedding candle favors are the choice of many couples today.