How much would you spend on wedding favours?

[newmummylucy]

Hi everyone!

How much would you be happy to spend on beautiful handmade wedding favours for your guests?

Thanks!

Nothing, didn't bother - most just end up in the bin anyway.

Nothing at all - we didn't have them at our wedding in 2007 as we felt they were tacky.

I remember my friend stressing over her wedding favours in 1999 and even then I thought they were a bit outdated.

People just Chuck wedding favours in the bin. You’re literally throwing your money away.

Nothing. Waste of money.

What kind of food items? We had artisan chocolates but they were from the village we lived in and we went into their small cafe most weekends so it represented us.

The last two weddings I went to had lovely handmade food gifts and favours. People had spent weeks creating them. Most of them were still on the table after the meal and nearly everybody went outside in the sunshine for more photos. While we weren't there the caterers came in to tidy and get everything ready for the evening. They bundled the whole lot up and chucked everything all out with the rubbish including loads of the favours.

Unless they are both cheap and immediately edible they are a waste of time and money IMO.

£0. I think they’re almost always a waste of money. If you must have them then go for something edible that won’t just be thrown out at the end of the night.

(Sorry if I’ve just rained on your business idea!)

Nothing. Nobody remembers them.

Really don't waste your money ..or look up charity type ones

Nothing. Sorry. I hate all that fussy wedding stuff

Nothing. We didn't have then and we had a fairly large, traditional wedding.

Nothing, strange new custom imported from the USA

The ones I liked at a wedding I went to were mini packs of love hearts. Seems like not many other people did though because I ate about 25 packets that people had abandoned and then had to go for a run to get rid of the sugar rush. I don't normally run but was like a crazy toddler.

Zero. They are pointless.

I was about to say nothing, and then I remembered that we named each of our tables rather than numbering them. So we had Rolos (big car drivers), Smarties (the teachers and lecturers), Snickers (the messers) etc and just dumped a little pile of these treat sized sweets in the centre of each table. So pennies per person. Made for great entertainment and interaction later on as guests were bargaining with each other to do swaps.

But we are in Ireland and not really into favours, except maybe a tiny box with 2 luxury chocolates or a note from the couple saying they have made a donation to charity in lieu of favours. I never expect to receive a favour, hopefully they are dying out, I'd much rather the budget be used to provide a memorable meal than a piece of tat.

Nothing. Put the money towards a free bar.

Adults don't really care about favours and children don't miss them if they aren't there.

I would spend nothing, but then we do very budget weddings in our family. Maybe it is because I am older and have everything I want but I really would not want a young couple embarking on married life to spend money on gifts for me that I would not know what to do with. I would much rather they put it towards something they need, or a holiday.

Nil

69p each. We needed to hire glasswear anyway, and mason jars fit the theme so we tied name tags to them as place settings and they did 3 jobs then, bargain!

And we had hardly any left, maybe 3 out of 90!!!

Nothing. People don’t want more food. We are having potted plants to decorate. People can take them home at the end of the evening if they wish.

Y2000 so not exactly topical.

I made bought a box of mixed sugared almonds, in off white and a smaller box of gold foil covered chocolate in the shape of almonds. Had a lovely time cutting out circles of the kind of net used for ballet skirts and tying seven almonds in each with gold ribbon.

They looked great, though I say so myself.

These are traditional where I grew up in Europe and I would not have wanted to be without them. Signifying life being bitter and sweet like almonds and providing a wealth of blessing gif the new couple.

None were left behind, about half had entirely vanished and another half had been eaten and the wrapping left behind.

They looked pretty on the tables which were also decorated with flowers snd a sparse handful of gold letter confetti.

Glad to be in a hotel and have someone else clear it all up.

Our priority was a free bar so we decided to forgo favours as we felt guests would appreciate that rather than a cash bar. I had 6 children at the wedding however and did spend some money on individual activity bags for them. I probably spent £40 in total on those but felt they were worth it so that the children had something to occupy themselves with during the meal and speeches.

Our wedding colour scheme was purple, so I bought a ton of purple skittles from the Mars factory, and a lot of bags of white ‘pride’ skittles. Made some mixed skittle boxes, those were the favours; didn’t bother with anything else. They went down an absolute storm and cost about £80 total including packing.

Honestly don’t spend a lot OP, for everyone who coos over a lovely wedding favour there’s 30 people who DGAF

Zero! Old fashioned idea