Wedding favour

Rebel1977

Looking at putting some sort of wedding favour on the tables, something not too expensive was thinking along the lines of sweets/something personalised to mark the day etc has anyone any ideas or recommendations or website they could direct me to.

Monife

Ebay has a great selection of wedding favours and sweets. Some of them you can get personalised messages on the wrapper too.

AoifeCork

When is the wedding-maybe you could go with something seasonal?

Failing that, scratch cards, candy hearts, little cute bags of sweets ties with ribbons, anything edible really!! No point in wasting your money on a knick knack that not everyone will appreciate... I've never met a chocolate I didn't like..

I once heard of mini doggy bags being handed out-A little bag with a slice of the cake, a flower, a love heart cookie and a personalised thank you card.. a LOT of effort but very very cute and apparently not that expensive. The assembly was the most enduring part.

John Mason

why dont you make a donation to a charity in the name of each guest.

something along the lines of the Laura Lynn Foundation; ISPCC; Vincent de Paul etc.

so many charities are struggling at the moment and would appreciate your donation a hell of a lot more stupid wedding favours that will just get left behind on the tables by your guests

cyning

I had keyrings and scrolls from the Irish Heart Foundation, and also named my tables after sweets and had the sweets on the tables in jars from here. I had two jars per table of ten... I tied purple ribbons on them then to match in with my colour scheme. They also do the personalised love hearts.

I dont think its fair to call wedding favours stupid no matter what they are. I wanted them and I spent alot of time and effort on them.

For any kids that came I had gift bags with colouring books, lip glosses (for girls) stickers, magnetic games like hangman bags of haribo and taytos... really inexpensive to do but it kept all the kids entertained for hours.

silly

Little star parties online is a great website for little things to keeps kids occupied. I got loads from them for only €20.

Maria's little wrappers online does lots of personalised sweets etc. Very inexpensive and she's a lovely woman. Add her on Facebook, she's very good to answer questions and has loads of pics of what she has.

Cellygirl

We did €1 scratchcards. Got little florist envelopes off Ebay to put them in and decorated the envelopes with tiny crystals also off Ebay. All very cheap and they were a bit of a talking point at the tables. A few people won €4 but two guests won €25 on their cards. So we were delighted with that.

We wanted something that the guests could use, then throw away, rather than having to lug candles or knick knacks around in their handbags all night. We were also at a lovely wedding a year before ours where the bride had organised candles in organza, with the wedding date on them, they were really pretty she did a great job, BUT easily 50 per cent were left on the tables and the staff just gathered them up and they were thrown away. I had seen the same candles at a wedding fiar for €3.99 each and there was easily 200 guests. So the bride spent a FORTUNE on them and then 50 per cent were left behind. We didn't want that.

Chocolates are always a good idea cos people either eat them waiting for the meal, or eat them with their tea/coffee listening to the speeches. They're gone then and nobody is lugging them about all night.

Penny Dreadful

As a wedding guest, I have to say, that I have never once cared about getting a wedding favour. I also think that the money spent on them would be much better spent on paying for the wedding or honeymoon itself.
Harsh as it may sound, I don't want a candle with the names of a bride and groom and the date of their wedding in my house. If there is chocolate there, well yes I'll eat it, but equally I'm not put out if there isn't any. A donation to charity on behalf of your guests is a nice idea but if you want to make a donation just do it anyway.
You are having a party to celebrate your wedding, a very important event in your life. People will eat and drink, dance and be merry with you and have loads of photos to remember the event. They don't need a wedding favour.
However, I would say, that while I've never been put out by not getting a wedding favour I have been very unimpressed with people who don't send thank you cards for their presents. Very bad manners in my opinion.

silly

We didn't have wedding favours. But I did buy ferrero rochers in the cash and carry (€30approx) and had 2 trees made out of them(€25 each).
They were out with the champagne reception and then the left overs brought into the room after the meal. They were all eaten, and loads commented on them.

chiefwiggum

what we did was make a donation to the hospice in harolds cross as my auntie sadly died in it 2 weeks before our wedding,they sent us out a pack of sunflower seeds(sunflower is their logo i think) for everyone to leave on the tables ,it really went down well as i have been at loads of weddings with the scratch card/sweet type of thing and no one even batted an eyelid.some ppl didnt even scratch their cards and ALL the sweets were just thrown round the place.
another interesting take on it was done my my bro in law who likes the horses
he found a race the day of the wedding with the same number of runners as tables,he called each table after a horse in the race and put a tenner on each horse for each table..no one guessed where he got the tabkle names untill he announce during the speech what he had done..winning table got somthing like 200 euro to spend on drink!!!
i thought it was a great idea

Penny Dreadful

silly wrote: »

We didn't have wedding favours. But I did buy ferrero rochers in the cash and carry (€30approx) and had 2 trees made out of them(€25 each).
They were out with the champagne reception and then the left overs brought into the room after the meal. They were all eaten, and loads commented on them.

Yummalicous. Dying for chocolate now! Must continue to fight the good fight:p

chiefwiggum wrote: »

what we did was make a donation to the hospice in harolds cross as my auntie sadly died in it 2 weeks before our wedding,they sent us out a pack of sunflower seeds(sunflower is their logo i think) for everyone to leave on the tables ,it really went down well as i have been at loads of weddings with the scratch card/sweet type of thing and no one even batted an eyelid.some ppl didnt even scratch their cards and ALL the sweets were just thrown round the place.
another interesting take on it was done my my bro in law who likes the horses
he found a race the day of the wedding with the same number of runners as tables,he called each table after a horse in the race and put a tenner on each horse for each table..no one guessed where he got the tabkle names untill he announce during the speech what he had done..winning table got somthing like 200 euro to spend on drink!!!
i thought it was a great idea

The sounds like a cool idea, different and fun.

ABajaninCork

I just had the usual 5 silver chocolate dragees. Got some organza bags from eBay, and off we went. Ate more than we filled, but never mind!