Anyone NOT having favours?

Hiya,

I don't see favours as important, but that is just my opinion. We don't have a lot of money and so wont be having 'favours'. We have brought a bag full of single square chocolates which are white and silver and say 'Just Married' on them. We will put one of these for each guest on the table, and that is it. We got these from hobbycraft and they were really cheap. The way I see it is, we are already spending so much on our guests coming to the wedding there really isn't any need for favours, and it's not something I would miss or expect if I went to a wedding.

In all honesty, if I think to the weddings I've been to over the past three years I can only remember one of the favours. I don't think they are essential. I did a quick google and I saw 100 personalised mini love hearts somewhere for about £20 so I'll most likely do that. My Mum told me the other day that at weddings she's been to lots of the favours get left, I'd be gutted if I spent £3 per favour for it to be left.

HTH

Jx

TBH ...I'd not notice and considering how many favours often get left behind after a wedding this is probably one of the best places to save a good chunk of money.

L x

I'm not doing them either, every wedding i've been too they have been left by the majority of guests so I don't see the point and would rather spend the money on something else

If I can find something meaningful and cheap, than I may consider them as an extra. I definitely don't view them as an essential.

As a guest, I wouldn't care either.

Nope not doing them here either. We decided that from the very beginning! OH can't understand why after spending what we are on feeding everyone which is not cheap why we need to say thank you again for coming. They are being fed as a thank you lol

We're not having them either. Its an easy way to cut a couple of hundred £s and put it towards something else!

We didn't.

I'm not sure they add much, if anything, to the day anyway. I'd much rather that the money spent of favours was added to the wine budget for guests ?

Thanks all. This ^ is what we would rather do (well with jugs of Pimms or beer or something, not wine.)

I was just thinking about when I was a guest and either took my favour politely, then threw it away later, or just left it on the table. That was why we went with chocolates as most people would at least eat them, but our new menu has so much cake on I don't think anyone will give two hoots. It will save us nearly £100 that we can put back into our drinks budget instead.

I didnt spend much on my favours i bought chocolate heart lolly shaped moulds off ebay 5 per mould at £3 each i bought 5 as i needed to make a lot but you could manage with 2 or 3 and bought 100 lollysticks off ebay for £2 then 10 bars of white chocolate £10 roll of sellophane £2 used leftover pink ribbon to tie sellophane around made 100 favours for £30 not 1 got left behind

We're doing takeaway boxes at our dessert table in lieu of favours, but I don't think anyone would notice if you didn't have them!! I can't even remember what most of the favours I've gotten at weddings were!

We did have them and they were vital in the day in the end because everyone ended up drinking from them!

On the whole though I do think they are a waste of money- especially the "almond in a bag" sort of things. I couldn't tell you what the favours were at any other wedding I went too last year.

We're having charity pins for a charity which means a lot to oh family and a photo booth I don't think you nessecary need them ! But I thought it was a nice way of remembering family members without bringing it up in speeches and upsetting everyone!!!

We were originally going to do favours but it's going to be too expensive. We've got a photo booth and all guests get copies of their photos so that can be their little present I'd be really angry if I paid out for favours and then they were left on tables at the end of the night x

We haven't even started planning yet but when driving yesterday, we decided favours are one thing we shan't bother with. As Cricks said, more wine is more important to us ?