By Bridget Mora

If you are a fan of wedding elements with a natural feeling like handmade wedding jewelry, you will love bringing that same feeling to your wedding favors. Instead of a pre-packaged favor, give your guests something fresh and juicy, straight from the earth: fruit. Take a look at some wonderful ways to give fruit as your wedding favors.

Pears are one of the most elegant fruits, and they can make fantastic favors for even a fairly formal wedding. They also happen to have a graceful form which makes them an attractive addition to your wedding reception. One single perfect pear at each place setting makes a lovely gift, as long as you take the time to dress it up with a pretty wrapping (presentation is important for all fruit favors, actually). Take tissue and decorate it with a custom rubber stamp featuring your wedding date and monogram. Wrap each pear in the tissue, tie with a metallic ribbon, and you will have an elegant favor. Another idea is to make small pouches of tiny Seckel pears. Place them in a sheer fabric that will allow them to be seen and tie on a label bearing the phrase ‘the perfect pair’.

Strawberries are a favorite fruit, sweet and ripe. For a decadent treat, fresh strawberries dipped in chocolate are always wonderful. This would be a possibility for a diy bride, or order them from a candy store. A small collection of large berries dipped in white, milk, and dark chocolates are sure to be a huge hit as your wedding favors. For a casual summertime reception, wooden berry baskets can be filled with strawberries and homemade biscuits for a tasty snack (kind of like strawberry shortcake minus the whipped cream). Tie on a red gingham bow for an appealing country gift basket.

Another wonderful summer fruit is cherries. With their rich red color they would make a terrific looking wedding favor. Handfuls of cherries can be presented in any number of containers. Mini galvanized tin pails would be adorable for a farm or meadow reception. Or place the cherries in small white ceramic bowls with a cherry pie recipe attached. Clear Chinese take-out style containers could even work. Add a pretty bow around the handle, and you will be all set with a quick and easy favor that everyone is sure to enjoy.

Fresh apples abound in the fall, and they would make a terrific favor idea for an autumn wedding. Caramel dipped apples would be a great gift for a fall wedding, especially if you will have a lot of kids at your reception. Wrap them up in cellophane and tie a note of thanks to your guests around the stick with raffia or a brown grosgrain ribbon. Delightful! For a more elaborate apple-themed favor, make up little gift boxes with a few fresh apples and a packet containing the fixins’ for apple crisp along with the recipe. That would be a very festive fall favor for a rustic wedding.

If fresh fruit is not feasible, you can always think about a delicious homemade jam or chutney made from your favorite fruit. This would be wonderful for the bride whose wedding is all about lovingly handmade details, right down to her decorations and jewelry. The jam can be finished off with a custom label with your names and wedding date, as well as your wedding motif if you have one. This is a parting gift that will surely be greatly enjoyed by your wedding guests.

About the Author: Bridget Mora writes for Silverland Jewelry about weddings, etiquette, and design. You will love the beautiful

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Finding a drop shipper for Wholesale Products to Sell

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When looking for good quality and trusted wholesale product resource most people are looking for a wholesale drop shipper. Using a drop shipper is a very popular form of product resourcing because you only pay for the items you sell.

This is how it usually works; you find a supplier that will drop ship to your customers and set up an account. Each supplier has a different way of setting your account. The best way is to try and set it up on credit. Most wholesale product resources will still like to set up an account and just pay for the items you sell. After you have set up the account you need to get photos and product descriptions for the items you are going to sell.

If you have a pay-as-you-go account, you receive the payment for the product you have sold, you will then log into your supplier and go through the checkout to pay for it. You will be entering the buyer’s name and details where the product is to be shipped. The supplier will then package up your sold product post it to your account and ship it.

Drop shippers do all the work for you. They take care of all of the stock management and delivering of your product which saves you a lot of time and trouble. Because the supplier does much of the work for you. This is the reason why drop shipping can cost you more for your wholesale products. You could be paying several dollars more per item to cover all the stock management and delivery.

Buying in bulk may seem more profitable at first, but sellers most often forget to fully account for the time it takes to pick up the item package it and have it delivered. When you take into account these factors buying by the bulk or drop shipping should cost about the same. Still many sellers elect to buy in bulk beleaving they our more profitable. They are not taking into account their time and work.

Drop shipping companies give your customers plenty of choices. For a new business venture in selling wholesale products drop shipping is a lot lower risk.

There are risk drop shipping companies. A shortage of stock is one of the most common problems. You might be lucky enough to be working with a supplier and selling a very hot item when they suddenly sell out. This will leave you in a very tough situation. A good place to start is a Wholesale directory like Salehoo, (for those who don’t know) is a directory of wholesale suppliers and drop-shippers. It is a membership site where members pay a one-time fee for lifetime access to a regularly updated list of suppliers. Members are able to contact SaleHoo staff and chat with them online about any issues they might have, and if SaleHoo doesn’t have a supplier for a certain product we will find one when a member makes a request.

You as a seller are ultimately responsible to your customers. If a drop shipper messes up and the item comes in damage or delays shipping or it was shipped incorrectly altogether you are to blame even if there is nothing you could have done about.

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Exsplaining more about Salehoo and a FREE tour.

There is a lively forum where members are able to partner up with other members, and we frequently have suppliers jumping on the forum to offer special discounts to SaleHoo members. For more information CLICK HERE.

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