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Wedding favours

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ButterflyOne1 · 29/08/2019 14:28

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

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LadyB49 · 01/09/2019 22:52

We told guests that buttonholes would be provided. 60 guests - and the florist had the flowers in a gorgeous basket. As guests arrived she gave them out and helped anyone who needed it. Ladies buttonholes were a little fancier than the gents. Went down a treat.

Whoops75 · 01/09/2019 23:13

Definitely chocolate.

Anything else is rubbish imo

llc1983 · 02/09/2019 14:27

check out Lefevre Chocolate - www.lefevrechocolate.co.uk

llc1983 · 02/09/2019 14:28

check out Lefevre Chocolate - www.lefevrechocolate.co.uk lol!!

stucknoue · 02/09/2019 14:37

Save the money! If she really wants something then little organza bags with Ferraro Roche or similar, don't get tat that will be in the bin at the hotel

FenellaMaxwell · 02/09/2019 15:09

This is a lovely idea. I went to a wedding where they did this.

We did bottles of homemade infused gin. They were all drunk on the day and we had some very merry guests!

willieversleep · 02/09/2019 15:17

We donated to Parkinson's disease charity (personal loss for us) and had a Lindt chocolate for our favours. Money well spent in my opinion (particularly compared to some of the other essentials 🙈)

northernstars · 07/09/2019 18:25

We did packets of seeds from Friends of the Earth. The seeds were for bee friendly wild flowers and each pack included a % to charity. Packs had our name and date on. I made some 'bees' to put on the cake also.

Amimissingsomethinghere · 07/09/2019 18:30

We did charity donations to the dogs trust and cancer research and everyone got a sweet little pin.

I think that's a winner whatever way you look at it , and no waste!!

StrongInside · 07/09/2019 20:39

I get why charity donations are a nice thing to do, but personally I don’t know anyone who wears those pins, I certainly don’t think much of them, so I have settled on using chocolates with toothpicks in them for place names that guests can eat/keep. Might add seed packets which we could scatter together if we are in the right spot somewhere. Thanks everyone!

StrongInside · 08/09/2019 09:06

Ah, I have just read the instructions properly and turns out guests can’t just scatter the seeds, they need to put them in the soil properly, light digging and all. I think most won’t bother or don’t have a garden to do this in. Would have been such a thoughtful idea, to help the bees😕

poppy289 · 08/09/2019 21:12

Sprinkle the seems over soil, lightly rake and the water would work. Even just throwing over and watering...maybe!?!

StrongInside · 09/09/2019 09:51

I have decided to give them as favours and hope that most, if not all, guests will do something with them. Still better than mini alcohol bottles or mints, in my opinion.

LutherRalph1 · 09/09/2019 09:54

We've ordered some charity ones (bhf) which are cards you plant and wildflowers grow
Also magnets which came with our photo booth which you take and get filled with your photo booth photo - thought this would be a good idea as everyone I've seen seems to put their photos on their fridges anyway

StrongInside · 09/09/2019 15:53

LutherRalph1, do you mean you plant actual cards or seeds inside them?

I’m going to do Save the Date magnets so that people keep getting reminded about our wedding😬

Electrocute1980 · 09/09/2019 16:19

We had personalised wild flower cards which everybody seemed to like. You plant the card and beautiful wild flowers grow :)

StrongInside · 09/09/2019 19:39

I have found them online, sounds so cool!

Charlottejade89 · 15/10/2019 05:04

My sister got married on Saturday and she did little bags of homemade honeycomb, it went down a treat! so much so that I think I'm gona ask her to make some for my wedding next year

thatmustbenigelwiththebrie · 15/10/2019 05:06

I am scared of honeycomb (weird I know but the way it looks with all its awful holes makes me want to be sick!) so that would be my worst nightmare.

Cookit · 15/10/2019 06:22

Please remember the environmental aspect of these favours -
100 pieces of tat. Mostly thrown away within a day or two of the wedding.
If it must be done I’d be just doing something edible and not in any kind of single use plastic box. The charity donation one is good too.

Cookit · 15/10/2019 06:23

Wildflowers an excellent idea also!

StrongInside · 16/10/2019 09:12

If people choose to be rude and throw away a gift that the bride and groom had put thought into, that can't be helped. We are having only 25ish guests. Our wedding isn't a fundraiser so definitely not doing donations, they are done throughout the year. Favours are meant to be little thanks to guests for coming. And we won't please everyone. For example, I don't like honeycomb at all, while one of the PP did. But I wouldn't throw it away, I would just pass it to another guest.

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