What are you having for favours?

[butterfly86]

I'm stuck on what to give, the colour scheme is ivory and soft pink a bit vintagey but modern with pearl and lace and birdcages filled with flowers as. centrepieces. Instead of favour bags/boxes we are having tiny ivory pails but can't decide what to. fill them with, pink & ivory sugared almonds look nice but are they a bit old fashioned now?

[NumTumDeDum]

What about white and pink jellybeans?
Or bonbons come in white and pink too and are covered in icing sugar so would look lovely.
Alternatively could you turn the pails into mini candles? All you need are wicks and wax. You could make the wax pink and scent it with roses. Maybe alternate a candle and a sweet one to cater to all?

I bought favour boxes but I think instead I am now going with mini chocolate bars tied with a bow using the ribbon I used on the invites.

[NattyG]

Hi,

There are loads of great ideas for wedding favors. I have recently done a blog about the different wedding favors you could have at your wedding. Take a look at it and hopefully you'll find it useful www.lolaandi.com/blog/wedding-favors

You could also try to look on pintrest as there are a lot of different ideas there that could help you to decide.

Good luck!

[Kt1991]

I get married next month :) we've got bride and groom favour boxes and then our theme is red sweets so each table will have their box filled with a handful of the red sweets chosen for that table :)

[watchingout]

I got mini love hearts rolls, printed a personalised label and recovered the love heart paper. Noddy-easy do to, then put 3 or 4 rolls into little voile bags (eBay)

[Crawling]

We are having red chocolate hearts.

[sashh]

butterfly86

bit late, they are the same size as the ikea ones, would probably hold half a jar of jam.

[Crumbelina]

I'm making white chocolate and coconut cake pops. A £20 maker from Lakeland and some sticks/cello bags cost a couple of £ on eBay. I've done a practice run and they're pretty easy. I'll be making them long after the wedding ...

[Scheherezade]

I'm having plates of cupcakes stacked up for people to tuck in to :) no seating plan so it's just a help yourself thing.

[absentmindeddooooodles]

We are having tiny little buckets each with a home grown chilli plant in them :-) then a brown luggage tag attached as a place setting!! I think sugared almonds or anything along those lines would fit in really nicely with your theme. Sounds lovely!

[AprilFoolishness]

Nope. I thought about my guests and thought would they prefer £X amount of sugared almonds or £X amount more wine. We went with wine.

[MummyPig24]

We got little jars and filled them with sweets, covered them in soft pink gingham and tied them with raffia and ordered labels with our names and wedding date on them. The children have little bags with notepad, pencils, chocolate coins, balloon and Lego mini figure/ my little pony/ car.

[1234IDeclareAThumbWar]

We get married in 12 weeks, only 18 of us in total, registry office do and meal at a lovely restaurant (my sister got married at the hotel part 2 years ago). We are flying to Rhodes early hours of next morning.

I'm an 80's child so wanted something to reflect my childhood so we are having a 50p mix in our favour boxes, We bought cupcake boxes and paper bags from ebay and have so far got black jacks, fruit salads, white mice, painter lollies, flying saucers, icy cups, refreshers, anglo bubbly and bazooka bubbly, few more bits to get yet but getting there! Its a bit of fun for us all and handy to take on the plane for the younger ones the next day. :)

[momb]

Cheesy but cute: and that is what favours were originally for, to wish everyone those ficve things, hence the five almonds. I think with your theme and the little pails a little cheese is a really good thing.
The whole scheme sounds really pretty.

[butterfly86]

How exciting purpleblossom are you feeling nervous?

Westcoast & Momb both of your ideas are great too I worry far too much about these little things but I think it's the little things people like & remember.
Found a sweet little poem to go with almonds - five sugared almonds for each guest to eat, to remind us that life is both bitter and sweet. Five wishes for the new husband and wife, health wealth happiness children and long life. Does anybody think that's cheesy?

[momb]

We aren't having favours as such but the table centres are mini jengas and packs of cards, so guests can take them home afterwards if they like.

I think that your little pails sound charming, and coconut ice, almonds or marshmallows would all be fab, and match your colours, so go with whatever costs least and makes you smile!

[westcoastnortherner]

We also had miniature picture frames as place settings

[PurpleBlossom]

I am getting married on Saturday (!) and we're having mini cupcakes in little boxes as our favours! Family friend is a cake maker so doing them for free.

Exciting exciting

[cookielove]

Butterfly - my wedding was so much fun, best day ever

As yours will be for you

[StrawberriesTasteLikeLipsDo]

Nothing, absolute waste of money IMHO

[butterfly86]

I'm going to give it a go :)

[VoldemortsNipple]

Honestly you can't make a hash of it. You just mix all the ingredients together and pop it in the fridge to go hard then cut it up into squares. I'm actually munching on some now that DD made yesterday.

[butterfly86]

Cookie your wedding sounds like it was sooo much fun :) we are getting married in August can't wait :)

Everybody has had lovely things where do you all get your ideas from I think too much about little things like this!

Sashh that's good to know about the jars are they a good size? We are having a candy cart but supplying the sweets ourselves and the jars would be great to fill up.

Cornmonster I like the mini eggs idea that's a bit more modern than sugared almonds but look similar I don't know if it would be right to use mini eggs in August though? I could get hold of loads really cheap at the minute too!

Voldermort coconut ice is a great idea I bet I would make a hash of it though :)

[CornMonster]

Oh and we also had some ivory pails scattered around with love hearts in (next to the guest book etc) Got them personalised from the love hearts website and they come in a lovely ivory box which we now use to store all our wedding cards etc in.

[VoldemortsNipple]

What about making some coconut ice. It's so cheap and easy to make. Dessicated coconut, condenced milk and icing sugar and a few drops of food colouring for the pink bit. That would tie in with your colour theme and are old fashioned enough to be vintage. cut into larger squares will fill your pails quicker.

Or you could do marshmallows as you wouldn't need many to fill the pail, but they're not as vintage as coconut ice.

[CornMonster]

I had the exact same theme as you, but as it was an Easter wedding we filled ivory bags with mini eggs.