Talk to me about wedding favours

I love little details, so always on the lookout for favours and bits and bobs at weddings (Maybe slightly more so since planning my own). I think men are generally a bit disinterested in them to be honest but we're still providing favours for both men and women.

Hey, like you I have never took any notice and only when we'd been to a wedding since we'd booked ours did I notice. They had them, but just went down the sugared almonds route.

We ordered ours yesterday, we've bought the little pails and are filling them with chocolates with a little thank you tag.

You dont have to have favours, I'm pretty sure the majority of people probably wouldnt even realise!

I think they are a nice touch and agree the women love them more. I am giving minibars of chocolates so they won't get left behind

If you didnt want to provide a specific favour for each person, what about foil covered chocolate hearts scattered on the table.

Not only can they come in your choosen colours & complement the theme, but tasty & a little something rather than nothing at all.

There are the traditional wedding favours of five sugared almonds in some sort of packaging (e.g a box, fancy material type thingy etc) to symbolise health, wealth, happiness, luck and fertility for the married couple. Not seen many of these at more recent weddings though.

At one recent wedding I liked the couples idea of 'doubling up' with the favour and place setting name. They baked cupcakes and inserted a cocktail stick with the persons name attached to it on the top....hey presto...family members and friends knew where to sit and had a lovely favour to eat or take away!

What do you think?

We had lollipops.. they where about a £1 but looked so good......

The theme of our wedding is sunflowers, and my H2Bs dad died of cancer, and the local macmillan hospice that he went to before he died has sunflowers as their logo thing, so weve combined the 2 - were giving a donation to the macmillan hospice, but have made little sunflower seeds packets with a few sunflower seeds for each person, and on the front of the packet have written something along the lines of "a donation has been made in your name to the macmillan hospice. plant these seeds and think of this special day." That way, we kind of feel that H2Bs dads also involved in the day.

We're having belgium chocolates, two per person. That way people can have them with drinks afterwards or take them away!

We're having glass jars filled with sweets:

For us, favours were definitely one of the "nice to have" rather than "must-have" things. There was room in the budget for them, so we had them. I'm fully expecting some of them to be left behind, in which case we'll rescue them and give them to people who couldn't make it!

Oooooo - I love them. Can I ask where you got them from please?

We are having cookies with peoples names on them so they double up as place name- saved us a bit of money! There will be a tag on each one with a little thank you note as well. But other weddings we went to have had-

• stick of rock with the bride & grooms names on them
• at easter a pretty box of foil wrapped chocolate eggs
• hand made glass wine bottle stoppers- i imagine these cost a fortune though!
• scratch card- only had this at one wedding, i really don't like it and more so because the bride & groom suggested we put any winners in their card box! I won a £1 but kept it out of principal
• Heart keyring for ladies and mini bottle of JD for men
• Book mark- metal butterfly with B&Gs initials and wedding date

I have never actually had sugared almonds as a favour at a wedding...

I love favours people can keep but a few friends told us that quite a lot of guests forgot to take theirs and we found anything non edible to be quite pricey! We are trying to be as budget savvy as possible so we can enjoy a bit of luxury on our honeymoon!

This is such a lovely thing to do!!!!

These are lovely. Others one's I was looking at looked cheap. These look FAB!

Catann - if you're around, can I ask you where you got those from? They're gorgeous!

I am making homemade jam and filling tiny jars with jam with cath kidston covers - tag on jar doubles as place card too

I love spoiling people and as all our guests are having to travel to our venue I am trying to spoil them every way I can think of and favours are at the top of the list of the ways i can do this. I know I have gone over the top with them but can't wait till people see the favour table and start to pick and choose what they want. I am having bundles of pencils with our name and sate engraved on them tied up with ribbon, magnets saying 'thanks for joining us', handmade chocolate truffles, handmade chocolate hearts, handmade soap, organza bags filled with peppermint creams and raspberry creams (these have been made by my class) and handmade chocolate chip shortbread cookies. I am trying to think of other stuff that I can make to go on the table as well.

Despite having what I am having if you don't want them then very simply don't have them, they are by no means essential and you are definitely not the first not to have noticed whether they were there or not.

Ooooh what a useful thread! I was a bit stuck for ideas too, but then my partner suggested something which I thought was a good idea: I am Greek and M is Danish, so we thought maybe we could have some traditional favours from each country...maybe women get the Greek ones (in honour of me!) and the men get the Danish ones. I just thought it was a nice idea - we would also have a little label explaining the significance. I have NO idea what sort of Danish traditions we could invoke (I will have to check with M's mum I think!), maybe bicycles? Schnapps? Jaegermeister?? But in Greece little china love birds are often used, and sugared almonds are used A LOT (although I know that this is a fairly generic tradition, I have never had them at an English wedding, but have had them at every Greek wedding I have ever been to).

Not sure if this will help! xx

I was all for them but my mum and OH ganged up to try and convince me that they were a wast of money as they just get left on the table.

we went to a friends wedding a few months back and at the end of the meal OH said "so what do you think of the favours?"

i said " oh, i havent noticed them yet" scanned the table to realise that there wernt any. OH smuggly stated that if he hadnt mentioned it then i wouldnt have noticed!

hook, line and sinker!

so we arent having any, BUT i have bought some cookie cutters, one with 2 hearts, one of a guitar (to represent OH) and one a pair or heels (to represent me) and im going to make some gingerbread cookies for people to have with their coffee!!

WSS!

Hi 1Lucie,

what kind of chocolates did you get? I was thinking of buying some at a belgian chocolate shop but they are costly. I'm not sure if it's ok to buy big cartons of belgian chocolate at John Lewis or so and then divide them up into little bags!?!?

Thanks!

Anja