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Congratulations, you're planning your wedding day! Now it's time to come up with some affordable, make-ahead wedding decorations and favors to create a romantic atmosphere on your big day. Candles are always a wonderfully romantic addition to any wedding dcor that help set the mood for romance. You'll want your wedding and reception tables to sparkle and look their best, so here are some beautiful (and affordable) accent ideas using candles:

Personalized votives. These inexpensive and versatile wedding favors can give you a lot of bang for the buck at your wedding event. Buy them in bulk, have them etched with your initials or a special picture to set out on tables. Then fill with anything you like - from inexpensive tea-light candles, to scented gels, seashells or colored stones, you can find many ways to use votives to give your wedding dcor a wonderful glow. Guests can then take them home to enjoy after the wedding to remember your special day always.

Gel candles. If you want to have a more modern look to your candle accents, then include gel candles into your wedding decor. These candles usually come in neutral glass votives and may be clear or be in special colors. Some even have silk flowers, seashells or other small items inside to match the theme of your wedding. Gel candles give off a much better scent than wax candles. And they look stunning when lit up in your wedding or at the reception hall. Gel votives are nice to give away as favors too.

Heart shaped candles. If you are planning a wedding that is romantic, you may want to use many heart themed items in your decor. You can get heart shaped candles and votives in all different colors and sizes. Try placing a handful into a bowl filled with clear glass gems and lighting just a few at a time. Or wrap richly scented heart candles in small organza bags and give them to guests as they enter your wedding reception. Then guests can take home the unlit candles for later on to celebrate their own romantic dates.

Floating candle tea lights. These marvelous candles will make your wedding day even more wonderful. If you are having a beach or summer themed wedding, you many want to place them inside plastic sand pails or even frisbees filled with sand or colored water. You can float them in pools, large urns, bowls or glass vases wherever guests may see them. Then after the wedding event, guests can take them home to use in their own decor.

Sand candles. Remember when you were a child and you spent hours playing in the sand and building sandcastles at the beach? Well, you can bring some of those happy memories to your wedding decor by using sand candles in your decor. These are wonderful for a tropical or beach wedding of course, but don't forget that they also look wonderful with a Moroccan or other exotic themed wedding as well. Sand candles burn longer and they make wonderful wedding favors for your guests to take home.

Candle favors are easy and fun to create. Your guests will be amazed at your creativity.

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