Wedding Favours - Ideas please!

[bride2be19]

Posting for traffic and to ask for your ideas please!

Getting married later this year and want to give our guests favours that they won't just leave behind or bin as soon as they get home.

Can't be alcohol based (venue rules). Happy to spend £5-£6 max, less if poss!

I did a basket of paper fans for favours. It was an absolute scorcher of a day and much appreciated

Thanks for all the ideas! Lots of inspiration

@CherryPavlova I love the home made bits, I think I'll do something along those lines, I can make really nice marshmallows and fudge so that might go down well!

@IncrediblySadToo I don't understand why you feel the need to mock what I've said, I was just looking for some ideas. It's our wedding and we both think it's a nice little extra, that's all, it's no big deal.

Small jars of homemade jam were lovely at a wedding we went to.

I used to be a waitress at a popular wedding venue. I used to throw out so many lovingly made wedding favours which had been abandoned on the table!

Unless it is something that can be eaten or drunk I think wedding favours are a pointless waste of money. I would leave personalised tat behind or throw it in the bin. Sorry.

Far better to use the money behind the bar instead.

For the record I have never been to a wedding where there were wedding favours anyway.

Dont bother. Its tat no one needs.

Paper fans ! Now there is a really good idea that I might borrow. My daughters will be a July wedding so might well be warm. She’s having hundreds of origami cranes to hang from the roof, apparently, so fans in similar coloured paper would fit in well.

I agree with PP that seeds are naff and a bit weird. Either don’t bother or do something small and edible - I went to one where mother of the bride had homemade some iced gems and put in little bags. They were cute, cheap to make and something to munch on later in the day.

I second the idea of home made sweets or biscuits - my MIL made gorgeous fancy fudge and wrapped it in a box with a bow. People were coming up to me and asking if there were extra boxes stashed anywhere because they wanted more

I think the idea of seeds is weird too

Nice little edibles - sweets are nice. I’d also agree that no favours at all is fine

I think they're naff. The only one I've liked on here is the RSPB bird pins, that's rather nice.

The groom at a family wedding was a potter. He made little dishes and they were on each place setting.... any left over were quickly claimed by other guests. They make lovely little snack bowls or trinket dishes. I love ours. They were all various shades of the wedding colours. I think he sells on Etsy

Outing, but we bought shot glasses and I used a glass writing pen to write people's names on. We filled them with Smarties. So they were place cards and favours in one.

goes off to NC

Ooh my brother bought a lottery lucky dip for each guest. Someone won a tenner.

The pottery bowls are lovely.

Those bowls are lovely @piefacedClique could you post a link please?

I would leave those bowls behind TBH, and the shot glasses (but eat the smarties )

m.facebook.com/ParryCeramics/
There is a contact in the Facebook page.... I can’t see any products listed on his Etsy. He also made us an oil and vinegar set S our wedding gift. Really beautiful stuff xxxx

If I was a guest , I'd like a massive bowl of little rolls of LoveHearts and a place card telling me that a donation had been made in my name to a Small Animal Rescue .

No alcohol
No jam
No sugared almonds

We also once had glass baubles with a tag for our name. I love bringing them out for the tree every Christmas x

I like the scratch card idea, we did little boxes with our favourite chocolates in which you can only buy in a different country so no one had had them before. I wouldn’t bother spending a lot as no one appreciates them and it’s expense you could put towards something else on your big day.

We had sticks of rock made with our names running through it . They didn’t get left behind .

We did charity pins on a hand printed card

My favourite favour was a temporary tattoo of a loveheart with the bride and grooms name on it, and date of the wedding. They went down really well not only with the younger kids too, but the grooms granny - 94 years young - proudly wire hers on her shoulder. It was fab.

Back in the 1980s a friend got married and she and her husband were successful people but her mother and father were not well off and were not able to contribute financially to their only daughters wedding as they wanted to.

The mum, a lovely woman, went round every restaurant and take away business asking for chicken carcases and bones for weeks and weeks untul she had enough wishbones to equal every wedding guest.

She bought an inexpensive can of silver spray paint and sprayed the wishbones that she had washed and cleaned. Then she made little bows from ribbon and stuck a pearl like bead on the bow and glued them to the wishbone.

She was a very proud woman and her efforts at surprising her daughter with these thoughtful favours did not go unappreciated and everyone made a wish for the bride and groom with the decorated wishbones.

She is now sadly passed away and I've been to countless weddings but I've never forgotten her finding a way to present her daughter with something unique and thoughtful but which didn't cost much money.