It’s finally wedding season, and tying the knot goes hand in hand with a luxury cigar! To help you best celebrate the moments that matter, we put together a guide to selecting the best cigars for your wedding, wedding reception, or wedding gifts.

Samplers Always Win

My favorite recommendation for wedding cigars is to start with a sampler. Whether you’re wanting to bring cigars for the wedding reception, celebrate on your big day, or give cigars as gifts to your groomsmen or bridesmaids, a sampler ensures that there’s something for everyone. These samplers check all the boxes befitting the occasion:

1.) The Davidoff Gift Box pictured above is a best seller for this very reason. There’s plenty of variety from milder to bolder experiences, options for longer or smaller cigars to choose from, and something for every beverage choice. It also doesn’t hurt that it looks amazing and can complement the most humble or lavish wedding. View all of the options for a Davidoff Gift Box here.

2.) The Padrón Collection Sampler is a fantastic way to introduce full-bodied cigars to your guests that you know enjoy a high-octane cigar. Once more, there’s something for everyone with a medium-bodied Damaso all the way to the full-throttle Family Reserve No. 45. View each of our Padrón samplers here.

3.) If your wedding venue and guests require only the best attention, this Arturo Fuente ‘From Dream to Dynasty’ box is a fine choice! Not only will you and your guests be able to savor some of the most sought-after cigars in the world, but you’ll be able to keep the book by Aaron Sigmond to display and enjoy long after the big day. View From Dream to Dynasty here.

Sometimes, however, you just want a full box of cigars that you can share with your esteemed guests and maybe take the rest of the box home to enjoy in time. If you’re wanting to present just one cigar, each of these will impress!

Atabey (Luxury, Milder, 25-ct box)

Atabey is nothing sort of exquisite, and each size offers various nuances to appreciate. My personal favorite is the Ritos size, and it’s the very Atabey that scored a perfect rating from our Blind Review Panel. With over 319 blind reviews, it’s still one of only two cigars to receive a perfect score.

Here’s what our Panel had to say about Atabey, “First few puffs offer cream, caramel, and white pepper on the retro hale.  Hay and butter.  A dusting of chocolate joins the ensemble as smoke billows from this golden dragon.”

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And, “Usually I start by talking about flavors, but this time I'm going to switch it up to point out that the construction on this cigar was absolutely flawless. The draw was perfect, the burn needed no attention whatsoever to keep a straight line through the cigar's entire length. It held its ash like a champ. Smoke billowed from it. A perfect score for construction.”

Also, “There’s still a nice spice to it and a fresh bread finish on the palate.  The dense retro haled smoke is full of more citrus and pepper, providing a very enjoyable experience.  These notes held right through the end!  Not an overly complex cigar, but with zero construction issues and a downright diamond flavor profile, buy high and never sell.”

Meerapfel Richard (Luxury, Medium, 10-ct chest)

If your wedding reception or audience is smaller and you’re going all out, this chest of 10 cigars from Meerapfel is the perfect way to underscore your day! Not only will you enjoy these cigars from one of the most consequential families in the business, but you’ll be able to use the heirloom ash tray for generations.

View Meerapfel Richard here

Last year, halfwheel rated the Meerapfel Richard #1 saying, “While its packaging was impressive, this list is solely about how the tobacco performs, and this was a rare occurrence when a cigar’s overall flavor profile, balance, construction, and packaging all coalesce into a product that is bigger than the sum of its parts. The Meerapfel Cigar Richard Double Robusto is substantial in every way.”

Dunbarton StillWell Star Aromatic No. 22 (Easy Going, Medium, 13-ct box)

It’s no secret: I adore this cigar. It’s currently my go-to when handing someone their first cigar because it’s flavorful, easy going, and the aroma is absolutely fantastic! Steve Saka used aromatic pipe tobacco in the blend, bridging the gap between cigars and pipes. If you’ve heard people exclaim about how much they love the smell of pipes, you’ll understand why this is a great choice for weddings where not everyone is appreciative of cigar smoke.

View Dunbarton's StillWell Star Aromatic No. 22 here

If you want options, Aromatic No. 22 was previously the StillWell Star Holiday Edition. Since the first release, Dunbarton has released another Holiday Edition that uses an Ecuadorian Connecticut wrapper for a slightly milder experience. A box of each should satisfy a wide range of cigar smokers.

Chateau Fuente King T Tubos (Functional, Milder, 24-ct box)

Tubos (tubes) make for wonderful gifts and are the perfect marriage of fashion and function. Carefully secured inside their ornate tubos, these King T cigars from Arturo Fuente will remain properly humidified on your big day even if you leave them unattended for hours on end. Their uniform size and shape also allow you to remove them from their box and set them up however you’d like for your guests to view beforehand.

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These are iconic cigars in their own right, but the presentation naturally lends them to celebrations. And if you’re handing them out as gifts at a wedding reception, you can tuck these tubos inside a gift bag or gift box without worry. The tubos will keep the cigars humidified for quite some time and protect them from being crushed or damaged.

Padrón 1926 Hermoso Natural (Satisfying, Full-Bodied, 26-ct box)

Lastly, if you want a full-bodied treat that tastes and feels like a three-course meal, look no further than the Padrón 1926! This blend is the perfect accompaniment to whiskeys, red wine, and dinner. If your wedding guests are seasoned cigar aficionados, Padrón is a timeless way to celebrate in style with immaculate construction and consistency.

View Padrón 1926 here

The 1964 Hermoso received an incredible 97-pt rating from Cigar Aficionado, saying, "It’s like a ’64 on steroids, but that doesn’t mean that the Hermoso is without elegance. To the contrary, this blend is able to deliver a smoke that envelops the palate like hot chocolate, showing luxurious layers of fudge, ganache, earthy cocoa bean and espresso, all coming together with the charm of a Viennese chocolate truffle. The coffee and earthy qualities remain constant and bold, carrying every fudgey puff to its refined finish."