Wedding favours. To do or not to do???!!!

We are kind of doing them, have you got a candy cart? We got lucky our venue hired us their nice cart for 50 and they provide the jars and scoops etc and we just provide the sweets and we will order sweety bags online that say something among the lines of "A sweet for you after we say "I do"" or something, the bags are only £5.00 for 50 so will only need to spend £10 on the favors because we were getting a candy cart no matter what

I've had lots of ideas about favours. Personally I think they are a 'nice to have' rather than a 'must have' so be guided by y our budget and how important YOU think they are. I have always liked seeing what the favours are at weddings and they can often be really meaningful and relevant to the couple which is a nice touch - but some I have had are not always used.

For example - anything edible goes down a treat so that is always a winner (be careful if you go chocolate - get something plain. I have been to weddings where I wasn't able to have the favours as they contained nuts and I am allergic). But the garden seeds ones from 18 months ago have yet to be planted....in fact they are somewhere in my shed I think. Must dig those out this year!?

I am getting married abroad so have gone down the 'let's not bother as it will be too much to organise' route. Then I went for - 'oooh we are getting married in Italy - how about bottles of Peroni for the boys. OR what about mini bottled Limoncello!! Or lemoncello for the boys and lemon scented soaps for the girls!' But now I am thinking a lot more simple and easy to transport - little chiffon bags with some lemon bon-bons or lemon sherbet sweets. I can stick them in my suitcase and assemble without too much hassle I think.

I love the ideas people come up with for unique favours - some people really have great imaginations!

Not quite true. What about vegans and those with dairy and in the case of Ferrero Rocher, nut allergies? Plus there are genuinely people who just don't like chocolate (I know, I don't get it either).

The point I'm making is you can never please everyone. So just have what you like, what suits your budget and you find aesthetically pleasing, and don't worry about it. I think you probably just have to accept that some people will leave theirs behind, and you can't really legislate for that. Nobody in my family would eat a Ferrero Rocher favour - I'm vegan, my mum has a serious nut allergy, and my dad and H2B are diabetic - but we wouldn't come away going "well that was a terrible wedding, we had to leave the favours behind!" We'd just accept it, cos we're, you know, reasonable people.

We did favours for our wedding, but I didn't mind if they got left behind as I'll use them myself - they were mini baubles for Christmas trees, in our wedding colours.

They seemed to go down quite well, and I've had a request from my sister for a few of the leftovers to decorate her tree!

That said, it was only because I saw them and fell in love with them that I did favours - I get the feeling they're rather out of fashion these days.

I'd be happy to help you out there! Details are in my signature

We're going for favours :] Hot chocolate in a jar which is costing us around £20 for 50 guests. Another one of our diy ideas :]

We had favours. Striped personalised rock in bucks fizz flavour. I had considered not having them as an unnecessary expense but oddly the husband was all for them. We had about 110 guests and only two were left. In fact, I had a few spares which also got snapped up. If I'd had to guess, I would have said loads would have been left but people are unpredictable it seems!

I wanted rock but everywhere I looked was so expensive. I may just get the individually wrapped just married chunks and fill bowls with them on the bar.

out of curiosity-how much did your rock cost?

Love the idea of charity pins- absolutely going to do that. Was unsure on favours til now but that's done it for me

Why not combine your table place names with your wedding favours? That could save you money in the long run and make you place names that bit more special.

It you want some ideas for wedding favours then there are some good ones here: http://www.braxtedparkweddings.co.uk/blog/2015/wedding-favours/

We're not doing the traditional wedding favours on the table thing. Our wedding will be a mystery to our guests and we'll be taking them on a little trip before the ceremony. We plan to give each guest a gift bag with some essentials for the trip :-)

Oooh sounds intriguing!! ?

This sounds really fun and unusual but at the same time it would bring out ALL my anxieties not knowing where I was going and what exactly would be happening. Just hope you have no crazies amongst your guests

I can just see their faces now when they find there's a snorkel in the bag!!!

Ahhhh we're all crazies.... but that's part of the fun right?? ;-)

Likewise, i'd be a quivering wreck haha

I'd be taking about 5 pairs of shoes with me to be prepared for all eventualities!

Hehe we're not taking our guests anywhere they'll need wellies, or a snorkel, or anything else like that.....

As far as our guests are aware, we're getting married at the same location as our reception. We are actually having our ceremony in a castle and will be hiring a coach to transport our guests there. Each gift bag will be personalised to the recipient (luckily it's a small wedding lol) We'll include tissues for the Mums, confetti, bits and bobs to keep children entertained, pebbles for a special ritual we'd like our guests to participate in at the castle.... that sort of thing.

My HTB and I never do anything by halves, a 'normal' wedding will not be expected by anybody that's attending....

For our wedding last month we made diy crackers.

They doubled up as place names with guests names written on little bits of card and stuck on.

Inside were chocolate coins, a hat, a joke (some personalised) and a couple of tokens for the bar.

When we first sat down the toastmaster announced for everyone to pull their crackers, it got everyone in a festive, party mood with people telling jokes and enjoying their chocolate and free drinks! And having the crackers as favours with their contents meant nothing was left behind or wasted at the end of the evening.