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Do a search on any search engine for the term unique wedding favor, or for that matter just the term wedding favors. You will probably find that most of the sites listed will have the term unique in the description or title of the page. What are the chances that all of these sites have favors that are so special? We think that if you take the time to check them out you will find that most of them tend to be pretty much the same run of the mill offerings. So what gives them the right to make basis less claims? Unfortunately a large well established site can get away with saying the moon is green cheese. This is due to the way pages are indexed and how the search engines place weight to sites. Usually no human checks them so they run as stated. It really is a shame because the sites who offer what might be unique favors are not as likely to be listed near the top and so they are rarely found. Then what is unique and what makes a favor unique? To start please check out the description of Unique from dictionary.com Did you check it? If you did you would have noticed that the first part of the definition is "existing as the only one or as the sole example." If we were to use this as the standard it is likely that only a few sites could use the term truthfully. Unless that is if a bottle opener was painted a color that was unlike the color of any other bottle openers available but that would stretching it a bit. In our option there are a number of factors that go into making a favor unique. To begin we need to consider the idea or theme. For example a vase, picture frame or bottle opener could not be thought of as unique as these items are so common as to be found on hundreds of pages. In our case we started making wind chimes as wedding favors in 1996. We had been making wind chimes for much longer but it was not until a bride went to our sister site and saw the full size fall wedding chimes. As a matter of fact the idea was so far out to us that we did not even consider them to be a viable product until after 3 more customers bought them after seeing them at weddings. At that time we were probably the only company to be making stoneware wind chimes as wedding favors in the shape of the leaves. The point is we did not cruise the internet looking for the next big band wagon to jump on. To this day there are none other just like ours that we can find. Our designs are protected by copy write and we jealously guard them and our techniques. Next we might consider the method of production. The vast majority of favors on most sites are mass produced in this country and abroad. Such production methods assure a consistent product with no variations. By its vary nature this form of production makes every item exactly like the next and so inherently un-unique, if that is a word. In our case each item is hand produced in our studio, piece by piece. In some cases if you look you can find our finger prints in the clay. Not that we want the favors to look sloppy, but when making say 200 wind chimes we will hand roll, cut, dry, clean, color, fire and hand tie 1200 individual pieces of clay. And so even though we use our original design and hand made cutters, every piece is slightly different from the others. Which brings to the last part and that is the method of business. We make what we sell. We do all the web site work ourselves. We even built the studio where we make them. The roof was put up by a contractor but we did most of the rest ourselves. Our names are in the concrete. We are close to our work and we like to be close to our customers. Over the process of making the favors we usually get to know our customers on a first name basis. And even thought we live in a fairly isolated section of rural Northern New York we have had customers come to our studio to see how they are made. So we don't need to brag that our favors are unique. They simply are, and our customers agree. Phyllis and Tom Roberts |
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