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Wedding Challenge Coins

Wedding challenge coins are often given as favors, bridal party gifts, or keepsakes for close family and friends. Whether presented during the ceremony, at the reception, or as a thank you after the event, these coins serve as lasting reminders of the day two lives were joined and a new chapter began.

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Looking For That Perfect Gift

Deciding on the perfect wedding gift takes thoughtful consideration and careful planning. It’s customary for the bride and groom to have a special gift for their bridesmaids and groomsmen, as well as their parents and soon-to-be in-laws. In addition to this, there are often wedding favors to consider. For those of us that have seen our fair share of weddings, it’s easy to think we have seen it all when it comes to wedding gifts, but there are still ways to create something meaningful for everyone attending the ceremony.

Commemorative challenge coins can be designed to match wedding themes and show appreciation and love for everyone that has come together to make the ceremony special. They are sometimes ordered by family and other times by the bride and groom as a meaningful and memorable gift that serves as a reminder of the day for years to come. What sets them apart from other wedding gift ideas is their sense of character and personality, as well as their emotional value.

Sharing a Bit of Yourself With Family and Friends
Sharing a Bit of Yourself With Family and Friends

When it comes to designing a custom coin, anything is possible. We are most often contacted by the bride and groom about making wedding coins, but sometimes close friends or family members connect with us as well. In either case, our art team handcrafts custom artwork that captures the personality of the soon-to-be-married couple. Popular things to include are names, wedding dates and either a favorite photograph or a stylized representation of the couple. These coins, for example, were ordered by the bride and groom as a gift for everyone attending their wedding ceremony.

Everything about this design shows off the personality of the couple, from the Batman and Catwoman romance on the back of the coin to the movie quotes inscribed around the edge of each coin face. The two dates represent the day the bride and groom met and the day of their wedding. Designs like these are a perfect way for a couple to share a small piece of themselves with everyone at the ceremony. They can be displayed forever as a symbol of love and a memory of an incredible ceremony.

Coins for Grooms and Bridesmaids
Coins for Grooms and Bridesmaids

One of the hardest things to shop for is bridal party gifts. For the bride and groom, the people standing with them during the ceremony are their closest friends. Any gift they give should be a symbol of that lifelong friendship and should possess a strong emotional weight. Custom coins are perfect for capturing these lifelong relationships, and they become a symbol of shared experience that friends can share long after the wedding is over. These coins are an example of a small set of custom coins made for a group of groomsmen.

Keeping Your Wedding Theme in Mind
Keeping Your Wedding Theme in Mind

Some of the popular gift ideas for groomsmen include things like bottles of whiskey, matching flasks or engraved mugs. Custom coins like these with each person’s name engraved into the design are a much more meaningful alternative that serves as a testament to how far a group of friends has come together. They are carried on the actual wedding day and then shared for a lifetime afterward.

Not only can designs be personal, but they can also match any sort of wedding theme imaginable. Artwork can include references to the destination of the wedding, the venue or just the overall style of the ceremony. Sometimes our customers go all out and create something like these Las Vegas wedding coins. Everything from the poker chip style to the dedication, “Lucky in Love,” featured above the couple’s names was included to match the extravagant theme and destination of the wedding. Other times, couples make a more simple design like this bottle opener coin that gives their guests the only tool needed to pop a cold one at the reception. In both of these cases, the coins help people feel the mood of the ceremony.

Las Vegas Themed Wedding Coins

Not all weddings are as rowdy as a Las Vegas wedding. This coin was made to celebrate a much more formal military ceremony. Military challenge coins have been around for years. Marines earn custom coins like these for courage in the line of fire, for setting the example of excellence and for earning the right to be called a United States Marine. These coins were made as a gift for the couple as a testament to their strength together and a reminder of their love. For the groom, Danny, it is the most important coin in his entire challenge coin collection.

Wedding Coin Customizations
Wedding Coin Customizations

When wedding couples come to Signature Coins for their challenge coin customizations, they can expect to get their challenge coins created in three easy steps:

  • First, send us your ideas through an online form submission anywhere on our website, or by giving us a call. We will then contact you and send you a free proof between 24 and 48 hours, along with a free price quote.

  • Second, review your challenge coin for any possible spelling errors, or other modifications you would like to add and get free unlimited revisions during this phase.

  • Third, when your coin passes your approval, submit an online order form, and we will start custom coin creation and shipping phase. You can expect to have your challenge coin in 14 days or less.

As an optional follow-up, we would be very appreciative if you reviewed our great work on Google and Facebook. We take great pride in our artwork and designs and hope that our customers do too. Show off a picture of your challenge coins on social media and review us to show your appreciation.

At Signature Coins, we provide the easiest, friendliest way to create high-quality challenge coins online, period. With over 15 years of experience helping couples, schools, police departments, and other corporate organizations create custom challenge coins, we have learned the likes and dislikes of each type of customer. With this, we are able to create the perfect challenge coins for each customer, and ones they can take pride in.

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When you are ready to proceed, use the convenient Order Form on our site to place your challenge coin order.

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Custom Challenge Coin Pricing

Color on Both Sides

(Up to 7 Colors per Side)
Size 50
1.5" $6.03

Color on One Side

(Up to 7 Colors)
Size 50
1.5" $6.03

No Color

(Metal Only)
Size 50
1.5" $6.03

Mold Setup Fees

Molds are FREE on all orders over 300 pieces
(on coins up to 2.5")
Size 50
1.5" $6.03

Custom Challenge Coin Edge Options

Standard Flat Edge
Price: per coin
Rope Edge
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Spur Edge
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Flat Weave Bevel Edge
Price: per coin
Oblique Edge
Price: per coin
Cross Cut Edge
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Custom Challenge Coin Plating Options

Antique Gold
Price: per coin
Antique Silver
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Antique Copper
Price: per coin
High-Polish Gold
Price: per coin
High-Polish Silver
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Dual-Plating
Price: per side per coin

Additional Challenge Coin Options

Spinner Challenge Coins
Interactive coins where part of the coin is designed to spin or rotate freely.
Pricing depends on size and complexity
Challenge Coin Cut Outs
Not only can the outer shape of the coin be customized, but the interior areas can be “cut out” as well
Price: per cut out
3D Challenge Coins
3D coins have an unlimited number of sculpted levels. We can round edges and create smooth gradations.
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Sequential Numbering
The perfect option for anyone looking for trackable coins or just a fun way to make every coin a little more special.
Price: per coin
Glow in the Dark
Choosing from our selection of glow enamels ensures your design will continue to shine even when the lights go out.
Price: per coin
Edge Engraving
Not only can you design the front and back of your coins, but the true edge can be engraved with messages as well.
Price: per coin

Common Challenge Coin Questions

A challenge coin is usually a metal coin or medallion, bearing an organization's insignia, emblem or logo and carried by the organization's members. Traditionally, challenge coins were used by the military and displayed by service men and women to prove exclusive membership when challenged, and to enhance the military units' morale.

Historically, challenge coins were awarded by military unit commanders in recognition of special achievement made by a member of the unit. They are also known to be exchanged and traded during recognition visits to different international organizations, bases and service tours. These coins have been heavily collected by active and retired service members and law enforcement personnel for years.

Modern challenge coins are made in a variety of sizes and often include popular culture references such as superheroes as well as known characters in a parody. Many companies today are using them to build morale in teams, link people with similar interests and even to promote their brand. Challenge coin designs today are pushing the boundary of what a challenge coin could mean or be used for. One thing is for sure, personalized coins further strengthen the sense of bond within people that both give and receive them.

Challenge coins are often used as a physical token or symbol to represent membership to an organization, unit, or team.

Challenge coins also serve as a lasting personal award for anyone that has received one. Since they are custom and long lasting, challenge coins serve well to commemorate the time and experience put in to overcome overwhelming obstacles or the extraordinary effort and sacrifice needed to reach a given achievement. These keepsake coins become a life long reminder of the achievements made.

Challenge coins can also be used as a token to commemorate a special event or anniversary. You can view some of our commemorative coins here.

Our bravest first responder services also have a history of using challenge coins. Whether for fire departments, emergency medical technicians or law enforcement officers, challenge coins have been used to award bravery, acts of heroism and department camaraderie.

Many companies today have been started by veterans, or are veteran owned and are beginning to use the challenge coin tradition to help represent accomplishments in their businesses. This modern approach to awarding challenge coins has garnered some criticism from the traditionalists. Signature Coins has been making challenge coins for 20 plus years, and we see more and more companies joining in on awarding custom challenge coins to customers, staff, and volunteers. They are using them to build morale in teams, link people with similar interests and even to promote their brand or charities.

Generally speaking you give someone a challenge coin when you want to honor them for a good deed or for their hard work.

Challenge coins still play a major role in the military today, much like a "Thank you Plus" or "Great Job Plus". In the armed forces not every action rates an honorable medal or certificate, for those moments when someone is deserving of more than a thank you, awarding them with a challenge coin fills the gap.

As a very simple miltary example. You're out on a 3 day field op. One of your guys or gals busts their butt during a particularly stressful couple hours of it. Shows great attitude, effort, and was overal top notch. If you tried to write it up, it wouldn't "quite" be "award worthy" but definitely deserved "recognition."

Now even if you're not a veteran or a member of the armed forces, you can still recognize and award someone with custom challenge coins.

You can use challenge coins to reward employees after the completion of a special project or if huge accomplishments have been made company wide. The coin design can be representative of the achievement, the employee or the company goals. Studies show when employees are recognized for a job well done, they feel more satisfied with their job performance, are more likely to reach for higher goals, and are more loyal to their organizations.

Finding the right time and place to give someone a challenge coin can be, well, a bit challenging.

  • Military tradition has a few ways of approaching this honor. One being "The Secret Handshake" where commanding officers, department officials or the president himself would shake a soldiers hand and "slip" them the coin via the handshake. Transferring the coin shouldn't be dramatic or obvious, like a quiet wink and a nod, this honor is more personal to the people giving and receieving the award and less ceremonial. Although a bit more obvious, another military tradition is to hand them out in front of a formation or during a meeting, but it's more commonly done one on one.

  • As more civilians and businesses use challenge coins, they have taken a more ceremonious and inclusive approach to awarding them. When looking to give a challenge coin to an employee or team member most businesses will do it during a team meeting. Some businesses have even integrated their employee award recognition into their annual and quarterly ceremonies. Awarding their employees in front of others can be a great way to show the rest of the team that you too can be "recognized" if the effort is there.

  • Modern marketers are also finding that custom challenge coins make for great business cards, so many high end service providers, such as lawyers, accountants and commercial developers are now giving their custom coins out as a means of promoting themselves or their business offerings.

Challenge coins typically cost $3.00 -$5.00 per coin for a full production run of 100 coins generally speaking.

More specifically though, it depends. Challenge coin pricing is dependent on a variety of factors including size, quantity, and coloration. Your organization's insignia or logo, as well as the brand standards surrounding it, will often dictate coloration. The level of complexity, industry standards, and personal preference will dictate the size of the coin.

You can view our challenge coin pricing here.

Designing challenge coins is a lot of fun, but there's also a ton of things to think about before getting started. Luckily, we have years of experience making custom coins, and we're happy to help you every step of the way.

We have put together a how-to guide that will tell you everything you need to know about challenge coin design.

Challenge Coin Design 101: A How-To Guide For Creating Challenge Coins