What did you have as your wedding favours

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I am looking for some inspiration for weddings favours and was wondering if people could give me some ideas!
I am getting married in March in a stately home type of venue. We have a pale yellow colour scheme (so quite spring like).
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

We got married this summer and we didnt have them either.

Weddings I've been to over the last couple of years have had things on the table that says they donated to charity, homemade gin miniatures, chocolates

A wedding I went to recently has a circular bit of wood with each guests names on- they worked as a name card and I use it on my desk at work as a coaster.

We opted against favours as such, instead we bought 100 local cancer hospital charity pins for guests to take. I put a little explanation on a black board next to the bowl they were in.

It was to give a little thank you for the excellent care my Dad and DH's mum had both received.

Have a lovely wedding op xx

We’re having chocolates from the place where we got engaged, plus everyone is getting a Lego minifigure of themselves!

RJnomore1, what, actual eggs? What did your guests do with them? Seems so very random as not a lot of people would sit and eat an egg whole, but to each their own, I suppose.

I like the name wooden coaster idea, practical.

We had little brown “wage slip” type envelopes and I got a stamp made where it said “we are asking you to do is a favour instead and put any loose change in here in aid of ....”

Something a bit different & We raised over £700 and it gave us something to write on the thank you cards

Minster2012, I've always understood favours to be little shows of appreciation to guests for joining you on the big day. Did you give it to a charity?

Blackpool rock made with our names and a heart in the middle.

Edible and fun.

@StrongInside yes sorry if that wasn’t clear I just didn’t name the charity above, we put “in aid of St James’s Leeds” for a specific ward as I was looked after there when I was ill. We had a free bar at ours for wines, beers & had a gin bar of homemade gin so we thought it fair enough if ppl didn’t have to spend money they could maybe donate a bit instead! But charity ones are lovely as a whole. Weddings are so expensive it’s really not necessary.

So on the thank you cards at the end of each I put & thanks to your generosity on the day in our favour envelopes we raised over for St James’ Ward 94 which is amazing so thank you for that too!

We had these hearts from Hotel Chocolate here in milk, white and dark chocolate and they were very popular, there were only 20 of us so it wasn’t too much of an extravagance and meant that I didn’t have to worry about forging little boxes.

@Minster2012, ah, you had a free bar, that makes sense then.

I really don't like edible/drinkable favours, hmmmm. What to do, not sure my partner will like the save the bees seeds idea. Any other ideas, apart from wooden coasters that could double up as favours and place names?

Sugared almonds. We made them at work in net tied with a ribbon.

Attended a lovely rustic themed wedding last year with mini plants as favours. When tables got moved for the evening they all ended up abandoned. I managed to save a few but did get a handbag full of soil!
They'd actually taken the bride's mum quite a while to source & she'd decorated all the pots.
I honestly wouldn't bother with them, they're rarely appreciated.

Shame about the plants! I guess they would be hard to carry with you to avoid bags/pockets full of soil.

So aside from edible and charity donations, neither of which are my cup of tea as a wedding favour, do we think that pashminas/scarves in the wedding colours for the ladies and ties or buttonholes for the men (small wedding) would work? I would love everyone to wear those for the photos, and obviously to take home afterwards.

I donated to cancer research, and in return had pin badges for everyone. They were all taken, and plenty of people wore them straight away.
We also had wooden names of each person for their place, which they all took with them too