HELP! What to put in favour bags?...

What is your theme??

Have you considered doing charity pins??

This is waht we did, for the ladies we gave Breast Cancer pins (MIL was diagnosed with breast cancer just over 5 years ago. She had to have a full masectomy and just recenlty came off her tamoxifen.

For the men we did everyman cancer charity keyrings (available from Asda) as both of us experienced losing a close family memeber to cancer.

They cost us £1 each, we breast cancer ones we bought from the website and the men's ones we bought from Asda.

Obviously there are hundereds of charites that do pins/keyrings so you can customise to something personal etc or a pick a few different charities. For example if you have 100 guests then pick 10 charities and buy 10 badges from each.

Other suggestions would be the traditional 5 almonds, choclate dragee's, candles for the ladies, bath bombs, love heart sweeties or try this website for inspiration: -

http://www.efavormart.com/wedding-favors.html?referral=adwords&kw=WeddingFavour&gclid=CJfgi8uAhZgCFUob3godRnJCCg

HTH

Luv Victoria

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Hello again... yes this is a lovely idea., my friend had already mentioned it & i am keen. but did you put yours in a box.. just that or a choc?

no-one in our immediate family (parents) have died or diagnosed with this terrible diease.. but as it affects 1 in 3 of us i do think everyone would appreciate a cancer badge.

thanks again. xx

Personally I think favours are a waste of money. The charity donation is great, and quite a few hitchers have done the charity pin badge.

However, in the weddings that I've been to where there were favours, more often than not, they got left behind at the end of the evening. Unless you have something you desperately want to give to your guests as a gift, I'd save the money, or if you want, make a charity donation instead.

This is just my opinion, I'm sure others will disagree.

I made these scented favour bags for a friend as their wedding gift. They were really popular and I have had so many requests since that I set up website for them along with the childrens favour/activity bags.

You can choose from any of the designs or have your own labels custom made and the beads fragranced to your requirements. They give the room a wonderful aroma and can be used in the car, wardrobe, office or room decoration afterwards. I can also supply a wide range of organza bag colours to compliment the theme of your wedding. Personalised Bags start from £1.75, Off the shelf designs from £1.10.

Would love to hear your thoughts.

Beaten to it! Favours are a waste of money. We didn't have any and nobody noticed. Unless you have a charity you want to support (in which case the pins are a fine idea) there's no point in spending three figures on something that, in many cases, will get left behind. If your guests want a memento, they can take their place card.

We attached ours to a bit of card, however the ladies ones did come attached to a bit of pink card, but we changed it for this: -

These were the womens ones we bought -

The mens keyring came in a cellophance bag with a leaflet explaining about the different types of male cancer and how to spot them, so we kept them in that as they were too fiddly to attach to card.

It doesn't have to be cancer one's, another that springs to mind is PDSA or NSPCC.

Luv Victoria

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ETA - No one left them behind at our wedding, but it was probably because it was all family at our wedding or very close family friends who were affected by the cancer deaths/MIL treatment as much as we were and therefore knew what it meant to us and the reason behind our decision to do this.

My sister got married in 2006 and made everyone personalised keyrings with their own name on them, which was a good touch as we have a few unusual names/spellings in our family that meant they would have something with their name on.

Ultimatley I think it depends on your guests and what you give if they'll get left behind, my sister knew that alot of our family were unable to get items with their name's on (my sister can't) so knew it would go down really well and we knew the charity pins would be well recieved. However my H cousin got married 3 weeks before us and gave candles to the ladies and chocolate dragee's to the men, out of our table of 10 people we were the only ones who took the box, my MIL who was sitting next to me later admitted she didn't even notice the box placed next to her name card, but she did lift the name card as a keepsake.

Its a tricky one, I'd say if you have budgeted for it and are sure that the guests will take them/use them then go for it. If not then as Melancholie has said, save your money, use it for something else and if people want a momento then they can take their place card.

Luv Victoria

xx