wedding favours

tommyboy26

really struggling to come up with an idea for wedding favours.

anyone have suggestions?

getting married easter weekend.

looking for something nice and cheerful but not expensive

michellie

Do you have to have them? I find they are a waste of money most of the time! Were not going to, would rather put the money towards more food and drink.

jon1981

Don't bother with them. Waste of money, nobody appreciates them and won't miss them. Instead you could donate the money you would spend on them to charity, just an example of what we did, and we didn't tell the guests either, no need to advertise it as some would see it as self serving. The guests will be treated well enough with food and wine and good company . Thats enough in my view.

traprunner

Hangover kit. 2 paracetamol and an emergen-c sachet. Had it at ours and it went down a treat.

fits

We didnt bother with them either. Bought a selection of craft beers and ciders instead.

Toots

Cadbury's cream egg each? Or mini packs of the mini eggs?

ElleEm

I am putting the money that would be used for favours into more wine!

whiskeyman

As others have said, don't bother.
Put whatever money you had budgeted into something else.
I used to hate going to weddings to see favours, that clearly took time / effort / cost, just scattered on the floor and everywhere once the dancing began.
No one cares much for them!

fits

My OH got a waterford crystal bauble at one wedding. I shudder to think of the cost...

jon1981

Some couples go over board with this stuff. We were dropping stuff down to our venue a couple of nights before our wedding. The venue was all prepared for a wedding the next day. I noticed the staff were putting 2 ferrero rocher sweets on every plate along with more in the middle of the table. I enquired why they did this as venue provided chocolates with the tea and coffee and also ppl are fed a good sized selection of pre meal appetizers...it was at the couples request.

Completely unnecessary, People lose the run of themselves when trying to be different and pragmatism goes out the window.

SecretBride

I feel such pressure from favours at weddings! You can see the thought and effort people have put into them but to me they are generally just bits of 'tat' that I never wanted in he first place, don't need at all but feel like if I leave them behind me that I'm insulting the bride and groom! So I end up taking them with me, I feel awful throwing anything away so they sit in a drawer or the back of a cupboard or somewhere in my house until I find them left there forgotten.....and put them in the charity box!

There, I've said it.....no insult honestly to all that effort that goes in but I'm with the others, I think they are a waste of time and money and that people in general really don't appreciate them......

Milly33

Ye could as mentioned if ye do really want to do them, something Eastery... Something nice if ye are using a colourful décor ye could do something like they do in India. Where you get very brightly coloured tull and ribbon and wrap up little sweets in the tull for each table..

Small and simple but effective. You could make little tags with yer names on them or even use the tags as place names (this can turn into a nightmare though placing people in certain seats).

Or what kinda of things do ye like?

Bubbles, arty things, sweets, thoughtful gifts? some ideas

stickybookmark

we didn't bother with them but if you're getting married Easter weekend surely a bag of little chocolate eggs is the obvious choice?

woodchuck

Toots wrote: »

Cadbury's cream egg each? Or mini packs of the mini eggs?

stickybookmark wrote: »

we didn't bother with them but if you're getting married Easter weekend surely a bag of little chocolate eggs is the obvious choice?

Yeah I'd say a small bit of Easter chocolate would go down a treat and it's perfect given the time of year! In the run up to easter I usually see multi-packets of mini lindt bunnies, could be nice.

Arbiter of Good Taste

traprunner wrote: »

Hangover kit. 2 paracetamol and an emergen-c sachet. Had it at ours and it went down a treat.

OP do not do this. Leaving enough paracetamol lying around to overdose a football team is irresponsible in the extreme.

Spanish Eyes

Place names with the necessary info about the B G date etc. is the biz. They can be used for book marks later.

Everything else is for the bin I'm afraid. I have tossed many in that direction.

traprunner

Arbiter of Good Taste wrote: »

OP do not do this. Leaving enough paracetamol lying around to overdose a football team is irresponsible in the extreme.

If someone wants to overdose it's much easier to go into a couple of shops and buy a packet in each. Much harder to go around taking 2 from each persons favours box and quite obvious. :rolleyes:

Arbiter of Good Taste

traprunner wrote: »

If someone wants to overdose it's much easier to go into a couple of shops and buy a packet in each. Much harder to go around taking 2 from each persons favours box and quite obvious. :rolleyes:

You're right, it's absolutely reasonable to leave a couple of hundred of a restricted substance just lying around in a room of drunk people. There's a reason why you would have to go shopping around if you want more than one packet. :rolleyes:

traprunner

Arbiter of Good Taste wrote: »

You're right, it's absolutely reasonable to leave a couple of hundred of a restricted substance just lying around in a room of drunk people. There's a reason why you would have to go shopping around if you want more than one packet. :rolleyes:

But not so restricted that you can go into quite a few shops on the one street and get far more than enough than required.


Maybe I shouldn't drive ever again in case someone decides to jump in front of the car. Alcohol is far more dangerous. People can drive after a wedding and kill themselves or others.

stickybookmark

Arbiter of Good Taste wrote: »

OP do not do this. Leaving enough paracetamol lying around to overdose a football team is irresponsible in the extreme.

I totally agree. Do not leave over-the-counter drugs as wedding favours! There could be kids at the wedding imagine if they got their hands on them.

Broken Strings

We're having small boxes with sweets. My cousin had them at his wedding and they went down a treat. None got left behind, no one will turn down free chocolate!

I got 200 favour boxes on Wish for €24 which are being delivered at the end of the month. Getting some bags of foiled chocolate hearts from an Irish confectionery website which aren't too expensive.

I also have individual placecards with bronze keys attached so people know where they are sitting. 210 bronze keys on wish for 18 quid and got the 200 placecard tags for 4 euro. Takes 4 weeks for these things to arrive but they are as cheap as chips to get and they don't look as cheap as they are thankfully!

There are ways to do favours without being expensive

Broken Strings

jon1981 wrote: »

Some couples go over board with this stuff. We were dropping stuff down to our venue a couple of nights before our wedding. The venue was all prepared for a wedding the next day. I noticed the staff were putting 2 ferrero rocher sweets on every plate along with more in the middle of the table. I enquired why they did this as venue provided chocolates with the tea and coffee and also ppl are fed a good sized selection of pre meal appetizers...it was at the couples request.

Completely unnecessary, People lose the run of themselves when trying to be different and pragmatism goes out the window.

We're doing Ferrero Rocher but on stands at the drinks reception rather than on plates.

We got 180 Ferrero Rocher on special offer for £30 in total when coming through Duty Free coming back from Manchester.

Bought 2 large wodden Birdcage Ferrero Rocher stands online for £25.00 each so that came to £50

Total cost was £80 and that comes to €105 in euros. We get to keep the stands and maybe pass them onto someone else we know who's getting married afterwards and we get nearly twice as much Ferrero Rocher by doing it this way rather than renting one of these large heart shaped stands for the day from an events company which can be up to €250 and some only have 100 Ferrero Rocher with them.

jon1981

Broken Strings wrote: »

We're having small boxes with sweets. My cousin had them at his wedding and they went down a treat. None got left behind, no one will turn down free chocolate!

I got 200 favour boxes on Wish for €24 which are being delivered at the end of the month. Getting some bags of foiled chocolate hearts from an Irish confectionery website which aren't too expensive.

I also have individual placecards with bronze keys attached so people know where they are sitting. 210 bronze keys on wish for 18 quid and got the 200 placecard tags for 4 euro. Takes 4 weeks for these things to arrive but they are as cheap as chips to get and they don't look as cheap as they are thankfully!

There are ways to do favours without being expensive

I really hate placecards. Why is this necessary? They tend to get moved around anyway and if the hotel/venue misplace them (which happens) it just defeats the purpose. Perhaps if you need to keep certain people away from each other, but otherwise I think people naturally find their place.

IrishAlice

Broken Strings wrote: »

We're having small boxes with sweets. My cousin had them at his wedding and they went down a treat. None got left behind, no one will turn down free chocolate!

I got 200 favour boxes on Wish for €24 which are being delivered at the end of the month. Getting some bags of foiled chocolate hearts from an Irish confectionery website which aren't too expensive.

I also have individual placecards with bronze keys attached so people know where they are sitting. 210 bronze keys on wish for 18 quid and got the 200 placecard tags for 4 euro. Takes 4 weeks for these things to arrive but they are as cheap as chips to get and they don't look as cheap as they are thankfully!

There are ways to do favours without being expensive

They sound like great deals! I've never heard of this website before, is it wish.com?

OP as your wedding is around Easter I think a packet of mini eggs per person or some crème eggs would be lovely. Everyone loves to get chocolate.

fits

How about these. Might be too expensive but would be a talking point. (chocolate in real eggshells)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mignon_(chocolate_egg)

Broken Strings

jon1981 wrote: »

I really hate placecards.

Good for you

jon1981 wrote: »

Why is this necessary? They tend to get moved around anyway and if the hotel/venue misplace them (which happens) it just defeats the purpose. Perhaps if you need to keep certain people away from each other, but otherwise I think people naturally find their place.

They won't be placed on the place settings by the hotel, we'll be pinning them to 2 boards in the drinks reception area grouped by table number. It's just a different spin on an official printed table plan

Similar concept to this:

Broken Strings

IrishAlice wrote: »

They sound like great deals! I've never heard of this website before, is it wish.com?

OP as your wedding is around Easter I think a packet of mini eggs per person or some crème eggs would be lovely. Everyone loves to get chocolate.

Yep! There's an app for it in the app store or you can just go to the website. I was unsure of it at first (especially with the prices being so cheap) but I made sure to do all my transactions through PayPal instead of card. Most of the stuff I ordered in December has arrived and I've been happy with everything

There's probably a few things on it that are hit and miss, like I wouldn't be buying electrical goods or make up off it. But I got the favour boxes, place cards, bronze keys and a whole lot of clips and embellishments in bulk quantities for my silk bouquets for my bridesmaids which would have cost me a lot more if I were to buy them in shops.

jon1981

Broken Strings wrote: »

Good for you



They won't be placed on the place settings by the hotel, we'll be pinning them to 2 boards in the drinks reception area grouped by table number. It's just a different spin on an official printed table plan

Similar concept to this:

So they're not really placecards then are they