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!

That's lovely Palomino, i like that

I wouldn't do scratch card. I know someone who did that and it caused no end of trouble. Something to do with people switching seats and then one of them won big but there was an argument because the person who was meant to sit there said technically it was theirs.

I wouldn't do anything breakable or that won't fit in a tiny clutch bag. To be honest, I have enough clutter in my house without bringing back random wedding favours. Things that can be eaten there and then such as love hearts or charity pin badges would be my choice

we had boxes of Jelly Belly jelly beans. The kids traded flavours and hardly any were left behind.

Friends just had a big bowl of sweets on the table, to share. Was quite a talking point.

I made heart shaped shortbread biscuits and wrapped them in little cellophane bags tied with nice ribbon. Probably cost less than £1 a head and they all got taken (and eaten hopefully)

We hired a sweetie Ferris wheel and had it filled with tons of pick&mix sweets. Each guest had a personalised empty sweet bag to go and fill. Got so many compliments and no waste either!

I really wasn't bothered about having favours, as I've been to weddings before that didn't have, and never even noticed! Other weddings that have had favours I usually forget to go back to the table at the end of the night to pick them up.

However, my wonderful maid of honour wanted to do something special for us and made lots of toffee/tablet and tray bakes, and put them in small boxes on the table for favours. They went down a treat and were all eaten before the end of the night!

I like booze or sweets - jelly beans or jelly sweets (definitely not love hearts!!!) but everything else eg seeds or homemade food would be left behind.
Consumables are best imo because they can be used and you have nothing to try and cram into a small handbag if you wanted to keep it.
As you can’t do booze, I’d think about sweets or just not bothering and spending the cash on a couple of extra bottles of drink or something for the meal.

I love how many people are saying “at other weddings the favours were a bit crap but we did XYZ and everyone absolutely loved them!”

We had terrys chocolate oranges which everyone seemed pleased about (fitted with an autumn wedding). Think we had about 6 left behind out of 80.

My job involves workings weddings and I can say that edibles like sweets, choc and cakes go down well as you can eat them then and there.
Scratch cards also good.
Charity pins are lovely as even if people don’t take them home the donation has already been made.

Knick knacks, seeds, shot glasses are the ones usually left on the tables!

bride2be19

I wasn’t mocking you.

I was asking WHY YOU felt it was a ‘nice touch’ when most people have said that most people throw them away (because no matter what it is, any one favour isn’t going to appeal to very many people).

You ASKED...

we want to give our guests favours that they won't just leave behind or bin as soon as they get home

Knowing why YOU think it’s a ‘nice touch’ might help to find something unique that YOUR guests MIGHT keep...but if you’d just rather be offended 🤷🏻‍♀️

Homemade shortbread biscuits with fondant icing on top then have a personalised cookie stamp made up and use food colouring to add your design.
Wrap in large circle of cellophane tied up with pretty ribbon and add a name tag to use as place card.

I got a mini jar of home made chilli jam once. Best ever.

We made little chalk boards and bought tiny easels, and used those as the place settings. Wrote them in silver pen and glued little red heart shaped buttons on. All of them were taken home and we still see them at peoples houses now.

Thanks for all the brilliant ideas! It sounds like things to eat then and there are best.
Chatted to DH to be, and we are going to do homemade marshmallows and fudge (separately) as I can make both well. We'll put them in cellophane bags tied with a ribbon.
It has the personal touch, hopefully won't be too much left and won't cost much to make!
The guests can tuck in whilst the speeches are dragging on

Chutney or relishes: try www.facebook.com/SarahsFeistyFlavours/&ved=2ahUKEwjki_DQiIfhAhVaD2MBHZH4D6IQjjgwI3oECAIQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0PBr4aTbUJp50D7UbY9jJu

We had tea towels that said "I went to X and Y's wedding and all I got was this lousy tea towel". They're still in use at many houses over 10 years on.

We had tea towels that said "I went to X and Y's wedding and all I got was this lousy tea towel".

This sounds exactly like the kind of thing which would get left behind at the venue or promptly put in the bin!

I’m just wondering who uses tea towels for 10 years

My wedding favours were compact mirrors and a box containing nail files, tweezers, mini nail clippers and something else, the female guest got one not both and placed alternatively.

My friend gave out beautiful pens, they were from John Lewis.

Sorry to say but there is absolutely nothing you could give me as a favour that I'd bother to keep. I hate pointless tat. I'd probably eat sweets but anything like seeds or candles or photos or badges I wouldn't want.

Best one I had was 2 after eights, 2 paracetamol and 2 plasters, something to eat and some useful stuff, none got left behind!

My aunt gifted us pens for our favours. Married 14 years. So many of our friends remembered our anniversary the first 5 years or so. We still have a few lying around and my 10 year old found one and was quite emotional about it.

I can't imagine too many people going to the trouble of planting seeds. No one is going to look at the flowers in bloom and have it remind them of your wedding

We had the florist provide gorgeous buttonholes for each guest at £4 each. Only 40 guests. The florist was in the foyer of the registry office and had them in a beautiful basket. She also had beautiful pearl pins for fixing. Guests were advised on the invitation that buttonholes would be provided.