Favours - cost of?

Hi

I think the cost of favours varies so much these days as the choice of favours is now so huge! It really depends what you want to have.

To give you an indication, our favour boxes matching all of our designs start at £1 (unfilled).

Anna

I managed to get some boxes of scented candles in tx maxx , then changed my mind and decided to get some food grade bags and I am going to be baking come butterfly biscuits and I am going to ice everyones initials on them for place settings?

What's your theme and I'll see if I can come up with any ideas?

Bags of mix up sweets are always a good bet, there's a big kid inside everyone!

I didn't want traditional sweets, although we will be having a token miniature cadburys choc bar (colour theme).

No main theme really, having butterfly decorations and tables are named after our surname. We quite like love spoons, my family is all of Welsh descent, although we're all English now, and OH's family is of Irish and Welsh descent so found a nice one with a clover/shamrock and hearts on it, but they are approx £5 each.

Would love some way of recognising OH's Irish dad somehow (who died 6 years ago) and my Welsh grandparents who are also not with us, but not in a majorly obvious way IYKWIM.

We originally like plantable seeded papers but not so sure now?!

It depends on how important they are to you... and whether you think people will actually take them home/eat them or if they will be left behind.

I spent about £20 on mine and made 75 wine glass charms.

I got favour boxes for 10p each. £1 for 10 at poundland for bride and groom shaped ones. Will get foiled chocolate hearts or other nice chocolate for inside. Maybe 5 chocs each, so not spending much at all.

Honestly. i spent about £20 for 50 favours. i got everything off ebay. organza bags, love heart sweets and little drages.

Someone told me favours should cost no more than £1 per person but I think it depends on what each individual wants at their wedding! We are having butterfly cookies that have peoples names iced on them and a card attached with an individual thank you note to make them personal. They have cost about £1.35 each but double up as the name place as well so I thought we had saved a bit of money this way! Grand total of about £80 for 59 people.

Ours are £3 each!! Much more than I wanted to spend, but we just couldnt find anything we liked! Our cake lady is making us heart shaped cookies that will be in cellaphane bags with ribbon to match our theme. She is icing them, and will also be icing guests names on to the cookie..which I imagine will be very time consuming hence the cost. But at least i dont need to worry about place names x

I'm buying chocolate moulds from ebay and making my own chocolate i'm thinking

either chocolate love spoons or maybe some love hearts, the mould are around £6

Chocolate i can pick up from the supermarket and melt down, i'm going to get my

daughter who's 5 to help, i'm sure she'll enjoy it too,

Im making cupcakes and putting them each in an individual box with a tag on with their name.....all in al for aroudn 75 daytime guests this will cost no more then £20!!!

alot of favours get left on tables so i think food ones are always good as theyl get eaten

We've spent about £25 on 100 favour boxes, a few pounds for ribbon and OH is making homemade marshmallows. I think we've done quite well, it works out as less than £1 per person.

Seeing as we're getting married at a brewery we're having boozy favours. We're having 'wedding ale' specially bottled and labelled with our own design, and cream liqueur from Just Miniatures.

Beer is £4 a bottle, liqueur is about £3. So quite expensive really. But our guests wil appreciate it - and we get to take any spares home!

We arent really doing favours - no wedding i've been to recently had them

Flo - if any of yours do get left behind, feel free to send them this way - sound delicious!

We didn't put favours down as anything imortant on our list so our favours were £20 for 100 - little mini scrolls, secured with a red rose. Bring a bit more colour to the table if nothing else - I am certain many will be left behind, but at £20 - I don't mind, and then I know those who did want a keepsake (aunties, uncles etc) have one.

haha wer hoping for some left overs so we can take upstairs when we retreat to our wedding suite, cos im sure wel be starving by then!!

I'm trying to keep the favours as cheap as possible - I always love seeing what people have at their weddings but unless they're edible people tend to overlook them. For my SIL2B's wedding last year we spent ages making little cartons for seed packets to go in and I'm sure that most people ignored them - I have got the packet in a drawer but didn't even bother planting them myself!!!

At a wedding I went to before Christmas, the bride had got some plain organza drawstring bags and a big Swizzels mixed tub and given everyone a few sweets - it was great, everyone on the table was swopping sweets etc and it worked a an ice breaker as well as something to take the edge off the hunger while the speeches were on before we got fed.

I'm flitting between ideas for ours at the moment - I don't want to spend a lot of time or money on something that nobody is going to care about, or is a bit naff really. We're going to give the blokes a 50p betting slip for the Bradford City game that's on that day (we're having our do at the football ground, so Bradford will be playing away somewhere!) and a couple of maple cream bisciuts - we're getting married in Canada and having a fake wedding over here - but there's nothing so all encompassing for the ladies - my auntie makes bath bombs and things and was trying to get me to do those but most people have showers and to be honest, they're a bit twee for my liking. Maybe we can just give everyone a betting slip and some biscuits.

Not on cost yet but my current ideas are to have two different ones, one for men, one for women.

Women will get some sparklers to come outside and light them up with me for photos after the wedding breakfast, or take home with them for Bonfire night the following weekend.

Men will get two/three mini toffee apples something like this, in a nice little bag or something.

Ill get the sparklers for a decent price online I think and will get plastic bags etc to put the apples in from ebay. Hopeing to not spend more than £1.50 per favour.

Need to do a trial run of the apples soon to see if it is achieveable. I wonder how long in advance I could do them too?

Went to a wedding fayre at a hotel in Scunthorpe last Autumn (while i was visiting the parents) and found a company that make personalised chocolate bars (she does chair covers and stuff too) and I thought it worked out a lot cheaper than making anything myself. I'm having 150 large bars and it works out at £1.30 each bar. You can use them as place names if you want but we're just having our names and the date on the front with a butterfly (our theme) and on the back we're having 'thanks for sharing our special day'. I didn't want to use them as place names cos i thought if someone doesn't turn up and i have any left over then they don't have to be given to a specific person.

Ours were quite expensive at about £3 each for 90 guests. However OH really wanted them (whisky miniatures) and the best man will be suggesting the guests use them for the toast to us at the end of his speech. We'll be quite happy to drink any that are left over ?