I need ideas for favours

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The wedding is in 11 weeks so I've now hit bridezilla stage. I need some ideas for favours. Still waiting on a few rsvps but will need circa 65 adults and 4 kids. I don't like lottery tickets, jam, almonds, scratch cards,

Depending on the ages of kids I would get them a little colouring book. Poundworld do little square ones with crayons attached, they come in characters like Spider-Man, Mickey Mouse, princesses, trolls etc will give them something to do whilst speeches are on

My friend gave out wax melts x

I wouldn't bother. It is an unnecessary expense and people will just leave them lying on the table.

Little bottles of spirits, or a few nice chocolates.

Tbh I've been to about 50 weddings and can't remember what favours any of them had, so I wouldn't worry too much or spend a lot

Because I clearly had nothing better to do, I made lemon drop cocktails and bottled them up. It was, honestly, v easy and pretty cheap. They pretty much all got drunk too.
Kids got a colouring book and pens or a small toy - I can remember, but something age-appropriate anyway.

Decent chocolates always go down well

We gave a donation to a hospice who provided tent cards for the table in lieu of favours.

You can get personalised sweets like love hearts with your name and wedding dates on the wrapper. Also give to charity and get something like the Breast cancer ribbon pin for everyone to have.
I would agree with others tho Ive often seen them left behind and I never remember what the favours were so I'm not doing them for my wedding

Yankee candle 'Wedding Day' votives? And some sweeties for the children?

We bought each guest a pin badge from a charity really important to us and printed up our own little cards to attach the pin badge to, saying that we had made a donation on behalf of our guests, which charity it was and what the charity does (slightly less well known charity so we thought it was nice to say a few words about it). All our guests wore them for the rest of the day and as it was in memory of my sister it was a nice way to include her.

Also if you do a charity donation it doesn't matter if people leave them behind because the money has gone to a good cause.

We bought charity pins (cancer research) bed printer off our own card to stick them too

We gave adults a mini jar of jelly beans each- children had activity bags. I was really surprised that out of 80 jars of jelly beans, only 3 were left on the tables.

Another wedding we went to had party rings as favours. They went down really well.

We got small rolls of love hearts, Parma violets etc and some mini bubbles and put them in little purple bags that we bought in bulk from ebay and amazon.
Worked out very cheap to do and people seemed to like them.

You could buy/make plain organza bags, with personalized tags, and you don't have to order from here but could give you ideas of what to fill the bags with?

We had charity pins, miniature bottles of alcohol and sachets of hangover cure. The children had activity boxes to keep them occupied during the speeches.

Don't bother. It's such a wasteful and useless expense.

Lots will get left behind on the table, the rest will likely be taken home out of politeness and then chucked in the bin. I've taken home many a wedding favour and then chucked it later on when it becomes a dust-gathering nuisance.

Don't wast your precious money on tat. I've been to a few weddings now where favours werent don't and honestly, no one will notice the lack of them, in fact, I've only just realised that there weren't any at the last 2 weddings I've been to by reading this thread!

P.s I didn't do them for my wedding and no one commented about it.

Agree with don't spend too much on anything fancy. A friend had a wedding in wales and they gave out Welsh cakes. They were lovely but most were left on table and swept up by staff into the bin before the bride could see.

I combined favours with place settings and used personalised mini toblerone from eBay. They were cheapish, made table look nice but were a waste I think

Don't bother. Expensive and no one misses them.

Activity bags for the kids - a colouring book, some pens, a puzzle or storybook, chocolate buttons or similar, bubbles. For the adults we used packets of sweet pea seeds, and one of DH's relatives bought each guest a pin from a charity they support for £1 each (which by the time you've piddled about buying favours and boxes or bags for them worked out about the same cost)

We bought oxfam unwrapped gifts and put a card on each table. So one table had a goat, one a well, a loo, 6 chickens etc.

Green and blacks do lovely little bundles of 3 chocolates wrapped in a ribbon and you can choose a ribbon colour that matches your wedding colours. You can order them on their website. Not expensive and I find that nice choccies usually are a good option.

What's your budget?

Don't get anything "branded" (IE Yankee Candle) unless it's top top end. Handmade (by a professional) chocolates or macaroons or home made alcohol in personalised bottles goes down well.

I love the charity pin idea. My brother sadly won't be able to attend the wedding due to his condition so I love the idea of honouring him and raising awareness through donation.

Sorry to hear of your brothers condition but it would be great to raise awareness through donation. Have a wonderful wedding day and life together