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What did you have/ are you having as wedding favours?

62 replies

MaMaMaMySharona · 09/04/2019 10:58

I was actually quite keen to not have any, but DP is insisting that we should...

SO - what did you have for your wedding favours? Or what are you planning on having?

We've got around 120 guests so ideally I'd like to keep costs low!

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Feb2018mumma · 10/04/2019 20:19

Miniature alcohol we bought in bulk at the duty free :)

Theonewiththecat · 10/04/2019 20:23

A little silver bucket, filled with love heart sweets, mini bags of haribo, a personalised pen, bubbles, 2 party poppers, an empty magnet that was to be taken to the photo booth later in the night, and a my advice for the bride and groom slip...

hendal · 10/04/2019 20:25

Sweets Grin
We left a bunch on each table and they were cleared.
Been to a few weddings with different favors and sadly, most people left them behind... even the ones that were quite personal to the b&g, ie b&g both from different countries and met & live in a third. Their favours were lovely food items from
each county and from the region of the country they married in. There were so many bags left on the tables, I felt quite bad about it so made sure to take mine and DHs!

mimibunz · 10/04/2019 20:26

We gave mini Welsh love spoons with the date.

littlebillie · 10/04/2019 20:35

Ginger bread shapes for wedding

PlansNotDreams · 10/04/2019 20:37

We had miniature jars with alcoholic beverage flavoured sweets. We had rum and coke bottles, prosecco gummies, gin fizz sweets and another flavour I can’t remember!

HappyHarmonica · 11/04/2019 21:28

@TurtleStar
Our theme is Lego too

I thought about minifigures but was too expensive for our budget.

My mum is a baker and will be making cookies that look like Lego bricks for our favours

user1474894224 · 11/04/2019 21:34

We aren't having any. I like the sweet ones so have bought two big boxes of Ferraro Roche to crack open instead.

Science9 · 11/04/2019 23:25

I bought 100 tiny jam jars from eBay and filled them with chocolate raisins and then covered with hessian and candy stripe string to secure it over the lid and then added a little label with the wedding date and our names. Total waste of time as people just left them but we displayed them in a nice rustic basket with a chalk board sign which looked really nice in a photo for the wedding album lol

hannah9176 · 11/04/2019 23:57

We had mini bottles of flavoured gin that my grandad had made for us (half sloe gin, half raspberry). Got 120x 50ml bottles from the staff intranet sales at work for £10 leftover from their wedding. Then we just put a personalised gold foil sticker on them. Including the gin cost about £90 and we had plenty gin leftover for us too. If anyone didn't use theirs that's fine as we're big gin drinkers anyway although we did see 3 tables of 10 taking them as shots during the meal!

Chilledout11 · 11/04/2019 23:59

We made a good donation to a cancer charity and they provided a tent cards/ sunflower seeds

SheWoreBlueVelvet · 12/04/2019 10:01

We had a destination wedding so people wouldn’t want to carry more stuff back and we couldn’t carry it over.
We had tables named after villages/towns on the Riveria and we put postcards from each place on the table for guests to sign. I bought a job lot of personalised pens from Amazon with our wedding date and a thanks for coming message. Guests were free to keep those.
However a friend also had a job lot of sparkly white flip flops from her wedding so we had a basket of those if anyone wanted a pair. Most of those went

HoustonBess · 12/04/2019 10:06

I think if there's something that you or a friend/family member would actually enjoy making, then go for it. But bear in mind anything fussy like tiny bags will take up time you might want to spend doing other things in the run up.

If it's something for the sake of it then you're better off saving your money and not showering people with small plastic things they'll throw away immediately.

Nice ones I've had include little brown paper envelopes of flower seeds from the couple's garden, homemade limoncello/pickle, biscuits etc.

unlimiteddilutingjuice · 12/04/2019 10:06

I did sugared almonds but I wish I hadn't bothered as people really don't care.
They've had access to a free bar. They've had a good dance. They aren't 5 year old that need to be sent home with party bags.

anangalou · 12/04/2019 10:08

Miniature bottles of whisky and baileys, chocs for the kids. Lots of guests topped up their coffee !

Honeyroar · 12/04/2019 13:54

Daytime - mini bottles of Baileys and a chocolate in a voile drawstring bag (I'm cabin crew, so get them at a discount).

Evening - we scattered foil covered heart shaped chocolates on the tables. In the ladies loos we had tiny soaps carved into red roses that matched our colourscheme and were in tiny plastic heart shaped plastic holders. They looked gorgeous, and went down a treat, but I bought them in a Thai market very cheaply. We also used our ponies horseshoes sprayed silver as balloon weights, plus small vases of orchids on the tables, and we offered them to guests to take home at the end of the night - they all went.

Favours don't matter at all, I just liked the idea of an extra free drink for people and I got everything else so cheaply it seemed too good to leave out.

Whynham · 12/04/2019 22:06

Soap offcuts from the Lush factory. We left them on a big table for guests to pick up if they wanted them otherwise they came home with me.

Mustbetimeforachange · 12/04/2019 22:13

Sugared almonds (90s wedding). Made up the bags with my mum which is a nice memory but not sure I would bother now!

Peanut91 · 12/04/2019 22:15

I made flavoured vodka and tied a parcel tag round each bottle so it was also the name setting. They went down really well and only a couple were left

Jungfraujoch · 12/04/2019 22:16

Sticks of rock as we live in a seaside town.

RainbowMum11 · 12/04/2019 22:24

The latest wedding (BIL & SIL) they donated money to charities very close to us (1 was in memory of my DD) and also gave little shot bottles of booze which were kind of personalised.

ThisIsMeOrIsIt · 12/04/2019 22:25

My mum made 80 Harry Potter chocolate frogs in purple boxes like the film (smaller though). We put them on the cake table for people to help themselves as we didn't have a table plan or even formal place settings.

I think the kids ate most of them Grin

TheCraicDealer · 12/04/2019 22:32

We had personalised fake royal wedding tea towels with our faces on- I only got them as they suited the venue (royal palace) and I knew they'd get a laugh. I wasn't going to bother and would happily have skipped favours if I hadn't found them or couldn't spare the cash for them.

MiniMum97 · 12/04/2019 22:38

I gave everyone a locally made truffle. Everyone loves a truffle so no lonely wasted on shit no one wants.

ChicCroissant · 12/04/2019 22:39

We also had sugared almonds, picked out the colours to match (I had a connection in the sweet trade at the time!) and cut out and made the net bags for them. This was over 30 years ago though.