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,

We gave activity packs for the kids. For the adults, tiny gift bags containing a couple of personalised chocs, a charity trolley token key ring and a card with a pin badge on it telling them wee made a charity dibstion on their behalf

**charity donation even!!

I just had wee fancy boxes with a couple of Ferraro Rocher in them. Not very original but it gives people something to nibble during the speeches, I'm always starving at weddings by this stage, before the food gets served.

Have fortune cookies made up for each guest with a personalised note/anecdote inside

The kids I'd just give them colouring book and pens

We had charity pins for the British Heart Foundation at our wedding for the day guests on the dinner table and printed up heart shaped cards with a little note explaining that we pinned them to and pegged onto the wine glasses. My mum made her famous tablet and we bagged that up in fancy bags with a card insert for everyone in the evening.

My friend gave everyone a scratch card!

Hmm, how about the old mumsnet dishwasher vodka? Try new flavours and have fun taste testing them.

I made shortbread (am Scottish and got married in England), put it in a little bag and tied with fancy ribbon.

Hanging wooden hearts with maps on of the area you met/live/honeymooned in?

We've also got pin badges in aid of an Alzheimer's charity as a nod to DP's late grandad

We had mini jars of Tiptree jam with personalised labels. For the kids we had a table full of games/colouring books/bubbles in the corner of the marquee

Nothing. And nothing for children either, thought never crossed my mind. Their parents has brought stuff to keep them entertained anyway, and I'd certainly have a bag of shite activities for my own child.

Favours i have had from weddings are: candles, a book of pics of the bride and groom as children, candy cigarettes, sugared almonds. Everything but the candy fags were chucked (or given away).

A total waste of money and stress imho.

But a charity donation and pin is a lovely idea and easy to organise.

Agree with BlueSky and all the others who have said - don't do anything.
Favours are a relatively recent 'tradition' invented by the wedding industry to get you to spend more. Nobody wants them. Nobody knows what to do with half of them. Nobody remembers what they were. ave yourself the hassle and skip the whole idea.

I wouldn't bother for the adults and I'd get a normal party bag for the kids with crayon, stickers and a colours gift book

A charity donation for a charity relevant to your brothers condition is a lovely idea.

I remember the favours from every wedding I've been to! Love them but I'm a party bag person too.

My favourite was personalised rock with the bride and grooms nane through it but I love the charity badge idea if youvthtow done sweets in somewhere too.

What i did sounds a bit cheesy but people seemed to like it lol
We had teal ogranza bags (teal was my theme colour) filled with a mini packet of love hearts and a mini bubble wand with a heart on top, a fortune cookie and some confetti. Everyone seemed to enjoy the bubbles lol

Organza lol

We're having a very small wedding with just 20 of our closest friends as guests (10 couples) so instead of favours, we're going to send our guests a 70cl bottle of Patron tequila engraved with our wedding date and a framed group shot from the wedding as a thank you for coming.

We're not doing favours either. Have bought box of boards games, colouring stuff and bubbles for kids table to occupy them.

My favourite is none. Spent time every time making sure no one at our table leaves them behind and insults the couple. Usually lots left. One nice chocolate is fine.
Think honouring your db is lovely . Maybe have a photo of him on table with a message about how much ye l9ve and miss him on your day and details of charity donated to. That would touch me. Anything else is unnecessary.
Have a lovely favour free day!!

The nicest wedding favours i’ve come across were live herbs growing in terracotta pots. The pots also had our names chalked on, so they served as place names as well.

My DB and SiL did charity pins in support of a charity close to the family. Practically everyone including the bride and groom put them on and wore for the rest of the evening.

For the kids we had activity books with crayons and a sweet cone each.
The teens and adults had personlised mint chocolates and small pefume / aftershave testers (2 or 3 each). Brought some job lots really cheap from ebay.
The older men had personlised chocolates and seed packets. The older women had personalised chocolates and different teas.

Of the weddings I have been to, I can't remember the favours except for the ones which had charity pins. The groom had chosen Help for Heroes so all the male guests got pins for them and the bride had chosen Cancer Research and the female guests received those. We still have the pins and it is a nice reminder of a lovely couple and lovely day so everyone benefits- charities received donations and guests have little reminders.

shop.helpforheroes.org.uk/collections/supporter-items-wedding-favours