Wedding Favours

I was dead set against favours as at most weddings I have been too they get left behind. My cousin really wanted to do something towards the wedding so is making a cupcake for each guest which we are going to put in a box with each persons name and so they double up as placecards. If you want them and can afford them then go for it, but if you think the money can be better spent somewhere else then I don't think your guests will care if you don't have them.

Not essential at all. They can be a nice touch, but they're often just forgotten about, or food, which your guests will have enough of anyway! I was looking at favours until my mum asked why on earth would you bother, your guests don't need a cheap present, you're giving them a lovely day with food and a party and they'll have photos to remember the day, they don't need anything else. Haha, so that decided it!

I do think its essential. Its your way of saying thankyou to your guests. If you can afford them i would definetly do them!

I dont see the point in favours, youve invited them to share your special day, have provided food and normally a couple of drinks, why do you then need to 'thank' them for coming?

We are having a 3 course sit down meal, buffet later on with possibly a hog roast, sweet buffet, popcorn stand and lots of cake. i really dont see anyone complaining that they didnt get a favour, like other people have said they normally get left behind

I really don't think they are essential. We have been to a lot of weddings and its not something l think about as a guest. If you think your money could be better spent elsewhere them go for it. Wedding guests rarely have it hard with 3 course meals, sweetie buffets, chocolate fountains, wedding cake etc!

Nah they are not essential, it is a lot of money to spend on little things that may get left behind or chucked in the bin, not everyone is sentimental!!

If you think the money is better spent elsewhere, then do that. As a guest, if I didn't get a favour, I probably wouldn't notice! Lot's of people say favours exist to say 'thank you', personally I would rather a card afterwards or the spoken word itself!! Before planning my own wedding, as a guest I didn't realise these things meant thank you, I just thought they were there for the sheer hell of it!!

If you decide to go for a favours - how about a £1 scratchcard? You never know, someone might win a big prize

I agree its a complete waste of money - they usually get left behind or thrown out. I find stuff from weddings in bottoms of handbags months or even years after the event and end up just chucking them.

Definitely not essential. The only favours I see the point in are ones that are edible, for charity, or maybe scratchcard type ones. Others might be nice keepsakes for some but I suspect more often than not get left behind or binned.

Not essential. I didn't want them, but we were looking for ways to incorporate those who aren't with us any more and so decided to do favours along those lines, so we have some little gifts (pens, notepads, keyrings etc) from Cancer Research and Animals In Need in memory of OH's Mum & brother and our past rats. Otherwise I wouldn't have had them.

I don't think they are essential either to be fair. I went to my best friends wedding in April, she didn't have any, and I have to say I didn't notice at the time! Rather than doing favours I will do a sweet table and people can help themselves I'm hoping it will be cheaper and nicer anyway!

I don't see them as essential at all. I'm still going between wanting them or not, so I'm not sure what I'll end up doing yet. I think it will be something closer to the time we'll see whether or not we have the budget for them.

Last night the other half was saying he didn't understand the point of favours and wasn't sure if he wanted them, as it seemed an unnecessary cost. I agree that sometimes they may get forgotten about or be unwanted, so AI was trying to think of something cute and a bit different and maybe personalised that I could hopefully make myself for a not too big cost!

At my sister's wedding she had llittle tubes of Love Hearts with personalised labels and those little paper fortune teller things ('cootie catchers' as AI have heard them be called) but to be honest, her tables were generally quite busy so these got a bit lost amongst everything anyway (and even now I don't know if the paper things were intended to be favours or just decorations/something to do at the table). A friend had Kinder Eggs which went down very well actually; and one wedding I went to had a sweets table to make your own favours to take home but everyone forgot, haha. So that is one way to combine a sweetie table and favours!