Favours? what are people doing?

For people attending the full wedding we are doing minature whisky for the guys and 2 Ferreo Rocher in a box for the women.

Then, cos we are having an Easter wedding we are planning to have Creme Eggs for all at night.

We have gorgeous scented candles for the women, but stuck for ideas for the men!

We didn't have favours as such as I wasn't keen on the extra expense. We had thistles as napkin tuck ins, which looked lovely on the tables and tied in with flowers. Lots of people took them away as a keepsake. They were only 50p each from the florist.

I think we are going to do little boxes of alcohol of some kind...maybe little champers bottles although thats a bit expensive. Our way of buying everyone a drink as we're not having a free bar!

We're having hand made lollies, as they remind me of holidays to Derbyshire when I was a kid, and that's where we got engaged. They are about £17 for 50 lollies, making them cheap too.

We got mini crackers from Cox & Cox, they're very sweet, they have a love quotation and trinket inside (no hat!), i'm tying thin silver organza ribbon around the ends...more of a novelty than a keepsake.

We are having Minature welsh love spoons for the ladies and minature whiskies with a sporan key ring around the neck of the bottle for the men.(day guest only)

Im thinking about Breast cancer pin badges and chocolates for the women and havent decided for the men yet!

Not having favours- having bowls of wrapped sweets instead on each table.

We've got charity pins for all the day guests - split three ways Great Ormond Street, Birthmark Support Group and Everyman Cancer. Three charities whom without them, my niece and my OH's brother would not still be with us.

We had charity pins, pinned onto the name plates. They had a message to sa what they were for too. Breast cancer for the women and pancreatic for the men. everyone took theres and most guests were wearing them on the day.

We're having these lollies

http://www.angelbake.co.uk/chocolate-heart-lollies

I'm tying some gold ribbon onto them and attaching a tag with the date of our wedding on, they look really cute.

We're not having favours but more gifts. Because we're only having 14 couples to the wedding we thought it would be nicer to give them more of a special gift to say thank you for travelling all the way to Portugal to be with us, instead of leaving them on the table, we will be giving them out personally.

Each couple are getting a special portuguese influenced gift of some pottery from the famous Porches district.

The ladies are also getting pink fans on their chairs in case it gets too hot during the ceremony.

We're having chocolate hearts in organza bags! Cheap and cheerful! ?

We are having little hexagon boxes with a truffle inside made by my lovely mum !! we decided that were were spending enough on drinks for people so just wanted to do a little something !! plus mums truffles are well know among the family for being yummy !!!!!!

they are white chocolate and tia maria ones !!! ummmmmmm drool

H2b has sorted little bottles of scottish whiskey for the men, and i am yet to sort the favours for the women - it'll probably be hotel chocolat bits. i know someone that knows someone - tenuous, i know! - that works for them, so can hopefully get me some bits cheap!

We're having little pots of jams and chutney and printing our own labels - the little jam jars cost under £50 for about 200 and my mother is making the jam and caramelised red onion chutney to put in them.

We are having minatures of whisky for the men folk tied with a ribbon of our colour scheme (not decided if it will be tartan or plain yet) and hebridean soap (where I'm from) for the women which will also be packaged with a ribbon

We're having boxes of hand made chocolate mint leaves with name tags on them. They're being made by www.polkadots.co.uk

Here are some pics of the mock ups. The name tags aren't right - I made them from a TK Maxx receipt just to see what they looked like!

We didn't have them as neither of us are keen on the idea of favours (just a personal opinion). For each table we bought a box of Hotel Chocolat Caramel Sweethearts for people to have with coffee, they went down well!

I think we are having scratch cards for the guests, not very original but I think it can be used as a conversation started on the tables. Who knows...someone could win big!!