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We actually decided to skip favors all together. I polled several friends and none of them seemed to really care about favors at weddings they've attended. I'd decided to take that money and use it for areas guests would appreciate more... food, etc.
My MIL made delicious no bake cookies and put them in small chinese take out boxes. Everyone loved them and begged for more.
I'm skipping favors. (After reading a lot of WB threads, so many people say they're really not needed).
But before we decided to skip them, we were going to make a CD--that's pretty cheap if you own all the music already.
I am doing ornaments because my mom and I love christmas and purple damask ink pens. Honestly if no one takes them I will love them!! And since I got them from Michael's I can still return them as well if I so decide (wink wink). We are also doing a candy buffet because the kids requested it.
@crebre80: Ornaments! What a great idea! That is one favor that I would actually take and use! I usually hate favors because they're often trinkets that I have no use for. I usually keep them for a few weeks till I stop feeling guilty and then pitch them. But, ornaments are the perfect solution! All of my ornaments have special memories tied to them and I would love to have an ornament that helped me remember someone's wedding. Wish I would have thought of that one... 
We did mini-donuts in a box. DH is a cop, so they had to turn up somewhere, and my mom wouldn't let me have a donut cake....
We made cookies. One sugar cookie in the shape of a wedding cake, and one chocolate pixie. It was extra cheap for me b/c we baked at my mom's house so she paid for ingredients! I just put them in little bags that probably cost $5 for 100, and tied them with twine and a favor tag I made out of a stamp and cardstock.
I'm making chocolate covered pretzel rods. I'm packaging them 2 to a bag. Super cheap and super tasty.
When it came to favors, we decided to skip them because all the inexpensive ones were cheesy and/or cheap looking and not something we thought people would want to keep.
I agonized over favors too, then decided to ditch them altogether since the photobooth and all night open bar would probably be more appreciated than a favor! I did come across relatively cheap scented votives...and almost everyone seems to enjoy edible favors!
Don't feel bad if you decide not to do favors...it really isn't something that guests are going to miss. Besides, in my opinion, guests that expect favors are just as bad as brides who expect wedding gifts :)
We were thinking about doing a donation in our guests' honor. I think we might pick an engagement picture of us, have copies made, and add text at the bottom that goes something like this...
"In lieu of favors, we have made a donation to [Charity] in honor of the guests of the [name] & [name] wedding."
or this...
"In lieu of favors, the Bride & Groom have made a donation in your name to [Charity]."
We did chocolate dipped fortune cookies from fancyfortunecookies.com. You can choose the what the fortune says and they have a lot of colors/flavors. We chose red/cherry and used quotes about love for the fortunes. The cookies are tasty and had a thicker layer of chocolate than I expected. We had a Groupon for them so they were extra cheap but I think even without the Groupon, they are inexpensive.
We are doing scratch off lotto tickets. I really don't like favors, edible ones are ok, but I am always the one to throw favors out. So the lotto ticket seems fun and inexpensive for us, and just the right amount of cheesy-ness :)
We are on the skipping favors boat. No one will miss them, they are already getting a meal, drinks, and cake/dessert.
We are doing little chocolates in small white boxes. I personally love favors, I think they are a cute littlen token from the bride and groom. To say no one cares about them is a stretch to me.....I would prefer people to say that they simply just don't feel like doing them......LOL.... I love a little tradition and it does add to my table decor.!
I'm doing lilly bulbs in little colored jewlery pouches. We'll attach a note to it saying how happy we are they shared in celebrating our day or somthething.
We did homemade caramel. It was about $90 for all the jars, and then about $20 for all the supplies. I made 170 little 3 oz jars, and then filled another jar about 800mL and my chef put it out at our dessert buffet.
Food and ornaments are great favors! CDs are neat too, but I have found that they are not always appreciated.
We did a trail mix buffet. We were able to thrift or get vases with coupons to cut the dish costs, and trail mix ingredients are less expensive than most candy. I also got scoops cheap from an online sale. For our bags, we used ziploc style clear jewelry bags from Hobby Lobby.
Like a lot of brides I wasn't prepared to spend hundreds on favors. There have to be priorities after all! However when I came across a diy scrabble magnet I was hooked! We did favors for our 120 guests for about 15 cents a piece! And that included the box and ribbon around the boxes! I even ordered a free business card from Vistaprint to put inside thanking everyone for coming! The upside was the leftover scrabble pieces are now being utilized throughout the wedding for signs and such!
We're having a fall themed wedding and giving straight from the orchard mini apple pies to each of our guests. The pies ended up being $4 each and they will come in individual white boxes. I'll finish them off by tying them with ribbon and adding a label. This is going to end up costing roughly $300 but I know they will be a huge hit at our wedding.
we purchased bulk wildflower seeds ($60 dollars worth will do 200 favours according to the seed supplier) and there are numerous templates for seed packets on the web, or I will just 'borrow' bulk nice envelopes from work and run them through the work copier with growing instructions and a thank you.
We are doing bookmarks with the name of the wedding party on them. They have brown twine string tied in a bow with a little snowflake charm on them. I think they're super cute!!
We are making chocolate on a stick (chocolate lollipops?) I'm doing a trial run right now to see if they turn a funky color after being frozen that way I know how far ahead of time I can make them. For 250 people I'm hoping this will cost me less than about $150/200 total! I bought 4 molds online for $16 and some lollipop sticks for about $4. Now I'm just pricing chocolate and cello bags. We are going to tie the bags with some ribbon and print some tags.
Well, we did hockey pucks. At about $2.39 a piece it ended up to be a good deal. They say "Official wedding puck" and look like legit pucks, and then say our names and dates on them. Adorable. We also are doing mints in little pillows that say "love."
We are doing a photo booth and those pictures will be our favors along with a frame. Our theme is "Picture Perfect"
for our welcome bags we're giving handmade chocolate dipped pretzel sticks :9
@DollyLava: I'm doing chocolate dipped fortune cookies too! I'm curious to know if you put them in little individual favor boxes, or just set them at each chair or what you did...
I'm a teacher in an inner city public school, so we are making a donation in honor of our wedding guests to help the school library. Instead of having donation cards to announce it, I had custom bookmarks made at www.harmonydesigns.com for about $1 each and they turned out super cute! They announce the donation, have a cool graphic and our names and wedding date. I'm excited about it!
We are also doing flower bulbs and bookmarks (all DIY and eco friendly) they are really cute
We did cute little suckers! They were only $0.29 each (plus cost of ribbon to tie bows around them) and surprisingly they went like hotcakes! I saw a few people grab 4-5 of them. :P Here's what they looked like:
@didi0518: Can I ask you where you found the scrabble magnets & boxes? I am in love with this idea and have been trying to find them at an affordable price.
We decided on the wedding favor yesterday! For our wedding, I would like to add something that reflects my culture, plus we want something low cost. So I found a pair of "children red shoes". They comes with a red string. A little decoration that people can use for keychain or anywhere. The cost is only $1.3CDN (including a personalized name tag with our wedding logo on it) Plus, the pronunciation of shoes in my language is the same as harmony, which means something good to our wedding :)
- Low cost
-Special
- meaningful!!
I found this:
we were orginially planning to skip the favors but when I saw this idea on WB i couldn't pass it up! We're having custom 1" buttons made by an etsy seller with fun things on it such as "Team Bride" "Team Groom" Our wedding date, etc ... :)
I found this picture in the WB gallery...
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