Favours

I have made keyring/bag charms for the girls and guitar pick keyrings for the boys. I made one for everyone coming, inc. evening guests, but we only have an extra ten at night. For evening guests, I will put them in a bag with a name tag on the cake table. I made everything myself and it cost about £1.30 per favour.

We are having love heart sweets (the mini packs) somehow entwined in our table flowers with "pick me" signs so the guests have to take them out.

Not too expensive either about 50p per pack i think, the outside of the pack is all personalised too and i'm only doing them for the wedding breakfast

Yeh I was thinking of having love hearts. Either that or scratch cards coz both sides of our family like that sort of thing so think it would go down well.

Traditionally they were for the weeding breakfast and was a bag of sugared almonds, probably costing a few pennies.

Nowadays you can give what you want, to who you want, or give nothing at all (except for their dinner etc.!)

I'm going to be making cookies (I run a cake/cookied business) and putting them in little cellophane bags with tags on that will double up as name places.

I don't know what to make of wedding favours really - do people really expect them? Would it go unnoticed if you didn't have them? Don't get me wrong, it's nice that people want to get a little gift for their guests but for me I don't think I will have favours - free food & drink is enough!

If you're wanting to do it yourself, I know people who have made allsorts (soaps, little choc hearts, biscuits, etc) A good one of doing it a bit cheaper but adding a nice personal touch.

i like the idea of something homemade, or edible as then it can always be taken home by the B&G if its not eaten!! we are (i say we, i mean me obviousdly lol) will be making cupcakes and serving them in little boxes like so with tags for names

My favours arent expensive at all:

Men are having kinder eggs with tags and ribbons saying Toys for boys

I brought the 3 packs of kinder egss for £1 and the tags I am making myself from Card (table name cards cut in two £2.50 for 50) , stickers printed off my work comp and a hole punch with some ribbon (ebay £1.50 for 20mtrs)

PRICE EACH

Eggs 33p each, card 2.5p each ribbon 2p for the 30cm (mens each 37.5p each)

Women are having seeds to throw in the garden:

I brought florist envelopes (100 for £2.75) seeds love in a mist (£4.53 for 2400 seeds) then personalised stickers on the front (works comp)

PRICE EACH

envelope 3p each, 48 seeds 9p (women 12p each)

My theme is country garden/vintage

Flowmojo - I love your cupcakes in boxes. I really want to steal your idea but I'm already making cupcakes for the afternoon tea part of our reception and I think two lots might be a slight overkill ?

Im having favours i think it just adds that little touch to my tables but im amiking them myself. im making boxes coloured in with the theme. purple ahite and silver with tags on for the place names.

my young children are melting Cheap chocolate bars and putting them into shaped moulds eg ice cubes trays in shapes of hearts etc.

cheap and personal with the children

The BM's dad gave us 4 litres of homemade alcohol as a wedding present so we're hoping to get rid of some of it by decanting it into miniatures bottles (few pounds for the lot off ebay) and sticking on some vistaprint labels. Not sure whether the venue will let us do this though, just waiting for them to e-mail us with an answer (we 'forgot' top tell them it will be homemade cos it sounds a bit dodgy). If not then we're going to pick up some cheap chocolates from OH's home country next time we're there and put them in some nice boxes from ebay. Hoping not to spend more than 50p pp.

I'm doing little pots of homemade chutney and jam which should work out about £1 or less per person. We're just giving them to people who are coming to the meal, but for us that's nearly everyone anyway as we don't have many evening guests. We are doing a free bar too, so I reckon the evening guests will be plenty satisfied by that anyway!

We had seed paper, wanted something that they could keep and grow, that came in a nice personalised envelope, was £1.75 per person, but we only had 15 guests, I think if we were having a bigger wedding would have probably make something.

Last wedding I went to apart from mine they had molton brown mintures sets for ladies and nothing for men, i dread to think how much that cost but they were lovely!

We are giving 3 miniature Green & Blacks bars of chocolate in different flavours tied with gold ribbon. Our guests will hopefully eat them with their coffee or as they are small can be slipped into a pocket of clutch bag to take home and not left behind on the tables. I chose them because they match my colour scheme and come already tied up and prepared to lay out.

I love the cupcake idea too!

We're having our place settings as our favours. I've seen these awesome snowflake baubles that are place settings, but they can be hung on your tree too! I think we'll be about £10 for 6 (including name card which we're making ourselves), so their quite expensive, but i love them.

We're doing the following:

Womens favours - aromatherapy bath melts from KAT Aromatherpathy - all mixed sorts, http://www.kat-aromatherapy.co.uk/catalog/Bath_Melts-8-1.html about £1.65 each

And for the men we are doing miniature port bottles (we are not having an evening buffet, we're having a cheese platter/chutney/biscuits thing) and they were from 99p to £1.52 each

Kiddies favours we're doing bags of sweeties from Cocoapod for £1.25 each https://www.cocoapod.co.uk/index.php/main/category/48 (worms/flies for the boys and ice cream cones/strawberries for the girls)

And we jhave a few babies coming so we got some knitted cupcake rattles!! So cute. http://www.littlemissboutique.co.uk/google-feed/bright-knitted-cupcake-set.php bit more at £4-6 each but worth it as they babies arent being fed by us so evens out on the cost front.

Naboo - Where did you get these from, if you don't mind me asking? We were looking at seed sticks, but it was working out pretty pricey xxx TIA!

really?! really?!?!? think about it, people love cake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I seem to be the only one not bothering with favours! ?

I think i am going to buy m&m favours..expensive but cute.

lol WSS!!

some really good ideas here ladies, stuff i'd not really thought of. my MIL is amazing at making cupcakes and think they would go down really well so thats a really good option.

thank u x

Sounds great, especially the kids' stuff, but as a girl I'd be dead jealous of the port miniatures... Especially with the prospect of cheese and port - my favourite!

I always got jealous at competitions in the past when the boys got useful things like tankards and decanters and I got a vase which wasn't particularly useful as I'm very good a killing flowers