Aibu.. Not to do a wedding favour for these reasons.

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So it's a while off yet.
But been collecting bits to spread the cost.

So was just going to do the little organza bags with maybe sugared almonds for adults and something diff for the kids.
The reception is at a pub.. The pub holds maybe 180 people but seating for 100. Some other seats at benches etc.
So would be difficult to lay them out.

Also we have a sweet cart so therws plenty for people to take home. Which there will be loads as doing wholesalers for them
Don't want to spend unnecessarily
But don't want to look tight

I've never been to a wedding that had "favours". Certainly didn't have them at my wedding. I thought it was an American thing?

Honestly I don't remember the favours from the vast majority of weddings I've been to and often the majority of guests leave them! You can definitely leave them out and it really won't look tight

Just don’t do them at all! I’m not planning to. They always seem like an utterly pointless waste of money. More tat that ends up in landfill.

There's no need. Save your energies and money.

I married DH ten years ago. At that time there was a bit of a trend for making donations to charity in lieu of favours. We did that and put a small note on the tables explaining that.

I think they are going out of fashion again. I hardly see them anymore. A sweet cart covers it or people now also make a donation to a charity instead.

I had favours at my foray wedding but they were left, so didn’t bother at my second. We spent extra money on food and booze instead, that seems more important!

Love the charity idea!

I didn't do wedding favours because a) I couldn't be bothered and b) no one cares anyway.

The only wedding favour I remember from someone else's wedding was a lovingly baked and decorated biscuit which I left in the hotel room because I was too hungover to look at it the next day. (The bride in question is an excellent baker so I now look back on this with regret, but that's life.)

I went to a wedding where the favours were the little charity pin badges which the b&g had bought for their chosen charities which I thought was a nice idea.

The vast majority of the time they're a waste of time and effort.

Favours are just a pain; nobody wants to cart them about all night in their tiny handbag, and nobody likes sugared almonds!

We made a donation to a charity instead and then everyone had a card that said a donation had been made on their behalf in memory of lost loved ones. It was a token favour and meant something personal to us. You don't need to do anything if you don't want to, don't feel pressured.

Charity donation was what we did and people seemed to like it! Everyone got a lapel ribbon from the charity and a little card with some info about it.

Sugared almonds are rank!

My sister had little packets of wildflower seeds. I have no idea why lol

With that many guests I'd be worried about someone having a nut allergy or breaking a tooth on a sugared almond.

I've never been to a wedding with favours. Spend the money on something else!

We are just gonna go for a sweet cart.
And personalised colouring stuff for the kids

Wedding favours add nothing worthwhile to a wedding. It will belovely without them.

I think favours like sugared almonds are quite old-fashioned these days. Your sweet cart idea is much more 2018.

Do not do it. Having worked a load of weddings, I can tell you that they nearly always get overlooked. At one, a bride had bought every single person a book she thought they might like - some new, some from old bookshops, but all really personal. Some she got fur a couple of quid; others were nearer twenty. Most of the guests got twatted and left them on the lawn, and we didn’t notice really them when clearing glasses. Next morning, after it rained, they were mush. Fifty-odd books just - buggered. Spirit miniatures get necked instantly. Chocolate melts. Seed packets get binned. Seriously - save yourself the money and the bother.

Most people don't do them anymore, no one wants sugared almonds. We had a sweet cart and added personalised mini rolls of love hearts with the date and our married names, they went down really well and lots of people took them home. Tip get them from eBay not direct from the company.

Thank you. Am. Planning to do gift bags to keep kids entertained anyway just have to do them for different age ranges 18m - 13yrs.

Agree NO favours lol..

I did Cadbury mini eggs instead of sugared almonds, everyone was hungry by then so they went in two seconds!

Don’t bother. I have been to a lot of weddings and have taken one favour Home.

We didn’t have them and I really don’t think anyone noticed!

I didn't bother with favours. Sugared almonds always seem to get left behind so I don't really see the point in them.