10 Destination Wedding Favor Ideas

Summer is the perfect time for a destination wedding. People often plan summer vacations and your destination wedding is an easy way for them to narrow down a location spot. Yes, your big day is a big deal, but your guests will most likely travel for more than just one night so they can explore the big island. If you're having a destination wedding, destination wedding favors should reflect that. Think travel themed wedding favors: luggage tags, sunscreen ... little things that are perfect for vacations. 

Keep in mind, though, that 100 sunscreens can be really heavy. They could potentially take up a good portion of your 50-pound checked bag allowance. To combat this, call the hotel or resort where you will be staying and ask if you can have the favors delivered directly to them and given to you upon check in. If you order any of the favors that are "assembly required," just make sure to carve out a little pre-wedding time with your mom or bridesmaids to hang out (by the pool, the beach, tiki bar, wherever) and put them together.

10 Destination Wedding Favor Ideas 

1. Flip Flop Bottle Opener
2. Themed Travel Suitcase Favor Tin
3. Mini Suitcase Favor Tin
4. Compass Cork Coasters
5. Personalized Beach Wedding Stickers for Hershey's Kisses
6. Personalized Lip Balm Favor
7. Flip Flop Luggage Tag
8. Personalized Sunscreen Wedding Favor
9. Flip Flop Nail Files
10. Flip Flop Chocolate Covered Oreo

Flip Flop Bottle Opener

I love these flip flop bottle openers so much that I actually included them on our bottle opener wedding favors post. They were actually on my shortlist for our wedding favors. They're really practical and cute. Plus, that blue handle makes them really easy to spot when your guests are home and rummaging through drawers looking for a bottle opener.

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Themed Travel Suitcase Favor Tin

Part of favors is just packaging. As long as the package is cute, you can fill it with anything. Enter these themed travel suitcase favor tins. They look like a traditional suitcase. You can personalize it with a different colors, over 50 different images, and you're own text too. Then, fill it with anything you want (M&M's, mints, etc.) in any color. It doesn't have to match anything else because it's tucked inside.

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Mini Suitcase Favor Tin

While I like the other suitcase tins, I love these ones. Personally, I use roller luggage to travel, so this mini suitcase favor tin is just like what I would b packing in for a destination wedding. You can personalize these with 12 different labels, all with your own text. You also get a "Thanks for making the trip" tag, which makes them pretty perfect.

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Compass Cork Coasters

We have a lot of coasters in our apartment (and for some reason, my current drink is actually not on a coaster). They're incredibly useful. So your guests will absolutely love if you have compass cork coasters as your wedding favors. These would be particularly good if your destination wedding was at a vineyard or in Napa.

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Personalized Beach Wedding Stickers for Hershey's Kisses

These personalized beach wedding stickers for Hershey's Kisses are one of those "assembly required" favors. You personalize them when you order, but you only are paying for the sheets of stickers. You still have to buy the Hershey's Kisses and affix the stickers to the bottom of each. That's a pretty simple way to get personalized beach wedding favors without a ton of money or assembly.

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Personalized Lip Balm Favor

When it's hot out, I'm forever grabbing my lip balm ... and then losing them before I finish them. Honestly, is there anyone who has ever finished a tube of lip balm before misplacing it? So a personalized lip balm favor is the perfect practical destination wedding favor.

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Flip Flop Luggage Tag

If these flip flop luggage tags look familiar, it's because they were actually my bridal shower favors. My mom picked them (since our wedding was a destination wedding for everyone but me and Pete) and they were perfect. A bunch of people used them for the wedding and my grandma even used hers again for a family trip to Japan that we just got back from. Such a useful favor.

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Personalized Sunscreen Wedding Favor

We had a sunscreen bar at our wedding and it was a huge it -- especially for our guests who were staying in North Carolina for the week following our wedding. We had about nine bottles, so not enough for everyone to take one. So personalized sunscreen wedding favors would be a huge hit.

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Flip Flop Nail Files

When we were in Japan earlier this month, my mom needed nail files. I had packed one, but she didn't. How many of your wedding guests will remember to pack nail files? Save them the headache of a chipped nail all vacation and pick up these flip flop nail files. They're adorable, practical, and perfect destination wedding favors.

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Flip Flop Chocolate Covered Oreo

I've saved my favorite for last: flip flop chocolate covered Oreo. Well, favorite if I was coming to your wedding (not if I was hosting a destination wedding because I'd be worried about them melting). You can get them in either milk or white chocolate. I think the milk looks and tastes better, so I would go with those if I was you. If you do order them and have them sent to your resort, be sure to let them know it's perishable and needs to be kept cool. The last thing you want to do is shop for last minute favors because yours melted.

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BRIDAL BABBLE: Which of these destination wedding favor ideas is your favorite?