Question about favours?

Don't talk to me about favours. I am going OTT and I know I am. Instead of just giving one to each person/ couple I am having a favour table where people can literally help themselves to which ever favours they want and how ever many they want (within reason). The wedding is in 10 days and all I seem to be doing is making favours. So far we have bunches of pencils with the date engraved tied with ribbons, organza bags with peppermint and raspberry creams in (these have been made by my class at school), shortbread biscuits, little chocolate hearts and magnets saying thanks for sharing our day. I still have soaps to make and I would like to try making truffles as well.

We are giving favours, I have ordered 3 assorted flavour mini bars of Green & Blacks chocolate for each guest tied up in a gold ribbon. I also bought bags of mini lovehearts from poundland and may order the personalised labels and put them on. Also putting two bowls of chocolates on the confetti/bubbles table outside the ceremony room as guests make their way out to drinks reception, think I will stop buying now!!

For the daytime guests we had mini whiskey for the guys and 2 Ferrero Rocher chocs in a box for the girls.

In the evening I had a big basket full of about 200 creme eggs as we had our wedding at easter time

Tinks i wish i was coming to your wedding!! If you are thinking of truffles i can recommend this recipe /recipes/chocolate/amazing-diy-chocolate-truffles/ but obviously construc them yourself, i do these with a dash of brandy in coated in crushed toasted almonds and they are delicious, also i love chili with chocolate so i adapt it to make a chili one too x

We are giving everyone a charity pin as we are using the money to donate to Cancer Research. Boring i'm afraid but it means a lot to us

Tinks are you available to hire? ?

I am stuck on favours. I might just be terribly unoriginal and have sugared almonds in a lace bag! Either that or I'm thinking of making my own truffles

I'm gonna go for these for the ladies, I'm having red roses for my bouquet so thought it was in keeping! Not sure about the guys yet, I've a feeling we'll end up with miniatures.

We're having whisky miniatures for the guys and whisky liqueur miniatures for the girls. We've bought a cuddly toy each for the 2 babies we have coming.

We're doing one per person (cadbury miniatures with words written on them which I hear the 5 sugared almods were meant to represent: health, wealth, fertility, happiness & long life)

Wow Tinks wish i was coming too!

I'm thinking of either mini pots of jam and shortbread biscuit (would you give 1 pot jam to everybody?) or shabby chic style wooden hearts with our names and date on (i would give 1 of these per couple) or also like the idea of the seed paper (again would i do 1 per couple?) who thought favours would be so complicated!

These ar lovely, where are they from?

They are from Folksy - https://folksy.com/items/626221

1 per couple seriously would not work at our wedding... most people are not in couples, and our cousins are being invited as part of their family... would the 'kids' of the family be counted as a couple?!

Sorry, I really don't mean to offend by saying this, but I find the thought of giving favours in 'pairs' very odd... never heard of it before, and I think you should give one favour per guest (or alternative forms like tinks) to avoid causing upset to those who are not cosily coupled up. I don't know your guests though, if they really are all neatly in couples then it could work.

Vintageangel, I am thinking of seed paper too but want something that is pretty and vintage looking to fit with my theme, u seen any nice ones anywhere? all the ones i have seen hae been a bit brightly coloured!

The last wedding i went to only the ladies got favours, but we did all get a little set of molton brown minatures, they were lovely

No you didnt offend me i was asking for peoples opinions, I only have 1 friend and my sister that is single everyone else is either married/has a partner, so was thinking if i went with the shabby chic wooden hearts idea they dont really want 2 do they? For the children i am doing like an activity book and little bag with bits to keep them entertained during the meal/speeches etc.

I really like these ones, they do lots of different colours/shapes aswell http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Seed-Paper-Wedding-Favours-Place-Marker-Lilac-Heart-/200408188392?pt=UK_Home_Garden_Celebrations_Occasions_ET&hash=item2ea94245e8

We have different favours for men and women as couples wouldn't want/need 2 of what we are doing.

Ladies are getting homemade soap and men are getting homemade jam.

Kids will not have favours, but activity bags.

Wow you girls are going all out and they look amazing!

I am not giving favours. My experience is that they seem to take a lot of effort, stress, additional cash and unless you are planning to go all out and do something personal and special, I wouldn't bother. No one is going to leave your wedding saying "where were the favours?" If edible they often get eaten before the meal and if not get lost after a few too many drinks in the evening. I would rather buy everyone another drink...

We weren't going to do favours, but now we are - i have got each guest a little white box, tied with ribbon of the colour scheme (turquoise) and their name on the label, so they double up as name places - and i have got sparkly turquoise tissue paper in there with 2 shell chocolates (we recently moved to the coast!) and a 'have a drink on us' voucher as we are not doing a free bar in the evening - so they didn't cost a lot (apart from the drinks!), they are all home made - and who doesn't want chocolate and a free drink?! ?

We are doing favours for everyone, Men are having silver favour bags with choc footballs and women are having pink favour bags with love heart sweets in.

How about a vintage style candy bar where guests can help themselves?

Our daughter has got individual soaps for the gents and bath bombs for the ladies from Lush. They come with a printed luggage type tag with details of the wedding on. Our house smells gorgeous at the mo.