Wedding Favours

It's not essential to give favours by any means and to be honest, as you say, a lot of people end up throwing them away anyway. Favours were traditionally given in the form of almonds which signified happiness, wealth, health etc. These days, it's lots it's relevance really and gone too commercial as most things weddingy LOL! I've been to a few weddings recently where they weren't given and nobody even noticed.

I wouldnt worry about them if u cant afford. Im only having 16 ppl so gonna get a little something, but if i were having a big wedding i wouldnt bother, cos like u say, its hundreds of pounds and it may be left on table! xx

I agree I dont think anyone would notice if you didnt give them - other than maybe anyone that has planned a wedding recently!

I'm giving flower seeds as my favours (and a drink voucher for the bar so people remember to take them!) - I'm very green fingered so it seemed personal and they were very cheap!

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If you are on a tight budget I wouldn't bother... most people do leave them behind unless they really like the favour!

I have heard of someone who handwrote a short personal message to each guest to thank them for coming, which I think is really sweet and much more personal than a standard favour... if you have the time and energy, that might be an alternative for you?

I thought about seeds as well, our theme is now just love and the summer so thought seeds would be lovely and thought the kids would love them too as they could plant them and watch them grow x

We're only having them because OH really wanted mini whiskies as a nod to his Scottish heritage and whisky drinking ways. If he hadn't been bothered, I don't think we would have had any tbh.

I am going to give miniature spirits/liquors with a bow and name tag attached so they double up as place cards as I know they definately won't be left behind. If my budget runs over I will probably put a luxury chocolate at each setting wrapped in colour of my theme. I agree it isn't necessary to leave favours, I just need to incorporate some colour on my table so this will do the job.

I bought my favour bags from ebay 100 for around £5 and for the favours themselves i popped into poundland and bought a bag of imperial mints, get around 120 in each bag so im just going to buy enough bags to put 5 mints in each....also for the kids i've just bought a cheap bag of sugar free lollipops and they can have them instead.....it can be as expensive or as inexpensive as you want to make it really :-D x

Hi there, if you are quite crafty and good in the kitchen then using those skills is a great way save money - I am doing little jars of jam and chutney as favours and seed packets as the name place cards. We are on a budget but more importantly I wanted to do something handmade and unique!

There isn't a bar at our venue which means we're supplying most of the alcohol. Wine, beer, bitter and soft drinks and guests can bring their own spirits.

We'll be having mini gentlemans JD for the men and vodka for the women as I think it's quirky, will DEFINITELY get drank!! lol

We'll have a few kids there so will prob do little puzzle books for them or something.

A wedding i recently went to we were all given a lucky dip/scratch card. Bit of fun and only £1 per person, was just put in a little envelope. I guess if they win and you dont it might be a little bit guttiing lol

We are having cookies with peoples names on to match our colour scheme and it also means we dont need to worry about name places you could always make these yourself which would also be cheaper with a personal touch.

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Interesting forum post as I was wondering if favours were necessary or not... I didn't think you should NOT have them, but now I read people's posts I am changing my mind! OH and I were discussing it just yesterday. He thinks it is a silly idea and waste of money, and I sort of agree as I have never kept a wedding favour yet! I do like the thought of incorporating a gift into place settings. But then again anything personalised immediately adds to the price unless we can do it handwritten.

I am now thinking maybe one of those clip photo frames holding people's placecards, and on the back of the card a nice message from OH and I. But also I think if we got cheap bags and put some sweeties in them everyone would enjoy that and would definitely get used! Hmmm...

We are having disposable cameras and ice-breaker type table quizzes anyway, so maybe just those things are enough without having favours.

I am looking into the love hearts too, purely because I think they are a great idea. There is a few sellers on Ebay for about £7.50 for 50 personalised rolls. x

I have a couple of ideas for my wedding favours. I'm buying moulds that are in the shape of the love heart sweets. They have little messages on them too like 'be mine' etc. I'm not sure which i'm gonna choose yet or might do both but I'm either going to make little hand made soaps or chocolates with the moulds.