Cheap or Cheaper favour ideas

I got our boxes from the sale counter at a Tesco Extra and we're filling them with mint imperials. I think they were about £2.50 for 10 instead of £8.99. You can also get them from e* bay

I was thinking about doing pink, white & green jelly beans in little celephane bags and tied with green ribbon. What do you think?

Sounds good to me ?

I know someone who gave lottery tickets in an envelope. Works out quite cheap.

A friend gave seedlings of a plant which you could put into a pot or a garden when you got home, a lice lasting gift and eco friendly too. You can buy packs of seedlings at B&Q, etc so it works out quite inexpensively.

Do you really, really want to give favours? If you're not that fussed I would just leave it.

I was a BM recently and my friend had spent ages sorting hers, wrapping them beautifly (sp?) etc, and I would say 85% were left behind in all the excitment☹️

If you do still want some, what about buying a wedding cookie cutter and some cookie dough (or if unlike me you can bake, make your own?) and do cookies wrapped in cellophane (e*bay)?

I agree with samtom.

We're not bothering because they are expensive and people leave them behind. Insted we are going to have bowls of sweets on the tables.

Hi,

I know what you mean, you can spend a fortune! We are having 100 guests to the day so need to keep costs down!
I bought some flat pack favour boxes from confetti in the sale - 50 for about £10, then bought ribbon and little name tags off fleabay all for about £7. I am going to fill the boxes with pink chocolate foil hearts 200 for £18.99 from the Hitched shop - this is actually cheaper than fleabay! For the men, we are buying lotter tickets and I bought 50 pink lottery ticket envelopes off fleabay for £4.99. Both men and lady favours are doubling up as name places - this helps to save another cost too!
All in all, roughly about £100 for the total cost, and thes are all things I have been collecting along the way so we don't notice it!
HTH xx

I'm another in the 'dont bother with favours' camp - as other's have said most of them get left behind anyway and they tend to be quite unappreciated anyway (most people would rather have a free drink than a favour!)

How about having charity pins? Give a donation to a charity that means something to you and you get charity pins to give out. We're doing Cancer Research in memory on FIL2B.

I don`t understand all this fuss about favours-I`ve been to loads of weddings and never, ever noticed them! I`d never even heard of them before I got engaged. It`s a shame cos people obviously put a lot of thought and effort into making them.

Hi all,

Thanks for all your ideas and comments on this subject. have now come to the conclusion of having no favours. Instead we are going to have bowls of sweets...childhood penny sweets like flumps, foam bananas, shrimps, candy bracelets etc. We will do some sort of favours for the kids to keep them occupied, for that I am thinking of the photo challenge that somebody has metioned before and magic tricks. Colouring books for younger children, although most of our child guests will be 10-13.

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Hi all,

Thanks for all your ideas and comments on this subject. have now come to the conclusion of having no favours. Instead we are going to have bowls of sweets...childhood penny sweets like flumps, foam bananas, shrimps, candy bracelets etc.

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This is what we are doing too. Try chocolatebuttons.co.uk for all the 'oldy' sweets.

We have decided to just go for sweets which are individually wrapped, like black jacks and refreshers, just because if lots of people are sticking their hands into the bowls got knows what is going to end up on those sweets!! (spot the microbiologist!)

I "liberated" about a 100 flat white pebbles from the beach and wrote people's names on them. htye looked great on the tables, every commented on them and only 2 were left behind and it cost me a grand total of 4.99 for the pen and varnish. loads of my friends still have them as paper weights?.