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While you would expect to have a fortune cookie after a delicious Chinese meal dont be surprised if they show up as a wedding favor at the next wedding you attend. More and more brides are using the tasty treats as a way of telling their guests about their future plans and to thank them for their friendship.

Instead of reading a standard fortune about your future, brides are placing their own fortune in the fortune cookies. Lucky numbers are often replaced with their wedding date, which might read 12.05.09, kind of a nice twist on the traditional after meal treat.

While you can buy fortune cookies in bulk, take out the original fortune and slip one in of your own there are actually numerous fortune cookie companies who specialize in these cookies and offer them at a very reasonable price. Known as Personalized Fortune Cookies, or Custom Fortune Cookies, these companies allow the brides to be their own Confucius.

If you are concerned about not having enough space on the fortune to properly convey your message, many brides are using a double sided message. In most cases you have 20 words to work with per message. By using both sides of the message you are able to print text on both sides.

Some popular custom messages that brides are using are: Thank you for sharing this special day with us! or In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

Many brides are also adding both their name and the grooms name to the message, along with their wedding date, at the bottom of each message. The custom message would read, In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities. Rachael and Virgil ” August 23, 2010″.

These cookies are similar to those you get in a Chinese restaurant but most companies give you the option to have them chocolate dipped as well. Dipping ” of the cookie in chocolate gives them a nice upscale look and your wedding guests will feel even more fortunate! If you are planning wedding you certainly will want to consider using personalized fortune cookies for your wedding favors.