Wedding favours

[ButterflyOne1]

Hi all

My sister is getting married and has asked me to organise her favours (I've offered to help and she'll pay). I was trying to think of something different but wanted to ask your thoughts. What's your best favours, here are my ideas so far.

• Soap for the women
• Miniature bottle of whiskey for the men
• Bottle openers for both men and women
• Love heart sweets (personalised) for both
• Luggage tag (couple loves to travel)
• Tote bag

God, a set of three candles! Just why? I’d hate to be paired up with some of these bods in the office Secret Santa, which the logic (or lack of it) they use.
I love travelling - give everyone a luggage tag!
I love Christmas - everyone will love to display my name on their tree!
I love drinking - give everyone a bottle opener!
I love (God only knows) - give everyone a bar of soap!

Just buy everyone a drink, nobody wants this crap.

The best favours I've had were edible! One couple had cupcakes that had each guests name on so doubled as place cards (and tasted amazing!)

We had chocolate bars (either milk and orange or white and raspberry) with lollipops for the kids, there was only a handful left on the tables after the meal and they were added to our dessert table

@HeadintheiClouds we donated to Marie Curie by way of ordering their pin badges and added them to the place cards for every guests as my mum died in a Marie Curie hospice 3 months before the wedding.

Our wedding was 2 years ago, and a lot of our guests still have their pin badges on their clothes!

Hazandduck, I just like my freebies too much to leave them behind😬Mind you, I can’t remember any of them so there is probably very little point in putting too much thought into them.

We did charity donation. It was packs of sunflower seeds and donation went to mind charity. Guests loved them and its nice to look out at the sunflowers and be reminded of our wedding day. Another option we had was wedding day candles (like the yankee ones)

@MsSquiz I think that was a lovely idea!!

Just get something edible, or (radical) don’t bother - save the money and effort. Nobody actually needs favours.

Or a little packet of wildflower seeds - ask people to chuck them on the ground somewhere to help the bees.

We didn't bother with favours. Don't think anyone noticed.

” I had told one of my friends that I would be very disappointed if the guest book didn’t have a penis in it”

Um. Is that an unfortunate auto-correct..?!

OP don’t bother with favours. I never understood the point. Mostly get binned, and the money could more usefully be spent elsewhere I imagine.

We did mini eggs and they were popular - none left at the end.

Other weddings have been sweets or chocs which I like. Can't think of any non edible ones.

We had brown paper sweet bags with a design on, they contained heart shaped marshmallows & jellybeans. A lot of guests pasted the marshmallows on the candles in the centre pieces 😂

BeanBag7, wouldn’t be that much for the spoons if ordered from China😉 But I do wonder if they would be like their wedding dresses, a far cry from what they look like online.

I’m not personalising anything because I don’t see the point, the little message was just going to be handwritten on a tag. I guess it’s so personal to each couple that we will never get a consensus on this, eh.

I just like practical gifts that people might use, rather than random things like perfume samples that someone did for their guests🤭 Like, if it gets chilly, ladies can wear their pashminas. But pick&mix, Haribos etc. are soooo full of sugar and empty calories, plus we have at least one diabetic attending and a few who don’t have a sweet tooth so pointless to give them sweets.

Ferrero Rocher or similar chocolate + a place name on a toothpick= practical and tasty😃

OllyBJolly, that’s Headintheicloud’s thing, don’t be surprised. I have not yet seen a single polite and supportive post from her on this board. Why not suggest something helpful to the OP rather than pick apart and ridicule everyone else’s ideas🤷🏻‍♀️

BernadetteRostankowski.., any ideas what can be used as place cards that can be kept? So far I have only seen Ferrero Rocher and Kinder Eggs with toothpicks stuck in for place names, but not sure if that would look too cheap/small?

@StrongInside how about a little succulent for the placecards?

MsSquiz, so sorry to hear about your Mum... Makes everything we discuss here seem so pointless and insignificant.

I wonder how much it would cost to have personalised chocolate bars as place names. Do you have a rough idea?

HermioneWeasley, I like the helping the environment angle!

Has anybody ever actually used a luggage tag?

Neighbourssitu, that sounds nice. I have been put off anything inedible and bigger than a coin because apparently everyone would bin their favours or leave them behind, and we don’t have the space for 30 succulents at home😂

I'm doing a scratchcard in a named envelope with a penny 2020 (year of wedding) date stuck on it with some sort of 'in riches and poor / lucky in love / some sort of weddingy phrase

Chillisauceboss, the only thing I have against scratch cards and lottery tickets as gifts is most people may be left disappointed when they don’t win anything.

I’m not a fan of weddings to start off with. I detest the giant LOVE illuminated letters and jars of sweets and memories boards (ugh horrid!) most weddings nowadays tend to have the same generic Pinterest style look and feel.

I would do something different like maybe place a note on everyone’s setting saying instead of favours you have decided to donate the cost of them to the local charity of whatever the bride and groom support. It’s a nice touch and as a guest I’d be super impressed instead of receiving some crappy gimmick gift no one wants to takes home.

@StrongInside fair point but I think it may start some fun on the tables. We struggled because I didn't want plastic or edible (we are vegan and we're providing non vegan mains but didn't want to provide more non vegan food (that sounds mental written down lol but we've lots of vegan friends and trying to get vegan and non vegan edible treats bulk bought seemed a hassle)
I've also been provided the following which all ended up in the bin in the months following-
Personalised tea light candle
Key ring with bride and grooms name on it
Sugared almond
Tiny knitted groom and bride doll...
Because of the low cost of £1 per head we may also do a bulk charity donation and put a note on each table

Chillisauceboss, I can see how tricky it would be to get those favours in bulk, so fair enough.

I have seen people give out mugs with flavoured tea bags in them as favours. As much as I like freebies, even I would struggle with that one, unless I was thirsty at the end of the night and the tea bag was normal plain tea😬 At least you can put a tea light in your pocket and light it for a romantic night in with hubby.

Is OP still with us?

The best wedding favour I've received was a bag of sweets - the b&g hired one of those pick and mix carts and bags and had personalised stickers so you could choose what you wanted and seal it! I think it's a great idea - edible, so no tat hanging around for years to come, if you don't want it you don't have to get any and you can just choose the sweets you like!

flowery Not at all. It was someone on here that started it!
I read all the wedding threads and there was one about guest books. Some bride had a random penis drawn in amongst all the schmaltz and it appealed to me.
I only told my friends on the “fun” table and they oblidged No one else had to witness it!

How about a mini bottle of bubbles.