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We decided not to do favors at our wedding.  We're donating to two different charitable organizations, one to honor my parents (heart association) and one to honor my fiance's brother (gift of life).  They will give us cards to put on all of the tables letting everyone know that we gave to these organizations in lieu of a favor that will probably end up sitting in your drawer for years to come or will just be thrown out. 

rol769, I'm doing the same thing at our Oct wedding, next year. My brother passed away 2 years ago, he was diagnosed at 11 with juvenile diabetes. I contacted JDRF and they are going to print the cards that we will be placing on the tables at the reception.

Here is an example of our cards, there needs to be editing (i.e. the date is wrong, and the wording is going to incorporate my brothers name as well)

We also considered something like that, but my entire family booted the idea. I still really love it. It's spending the money that you would've spent on cheesy favors for something where others will benefit. I think it's selfless and caring. Go for it! People who will benefit from this gift will thank you in the long run and I'd feel much better about that than giving money toward pictures of us or something with our name on it that guests would not appreciate and throw away after a couple of days anyway.

 Best of luck!

Thanks for the input everyone!  I remember when we got engaged looking at those favors and thinking that they were either cheap looking or just something that people probably would never use again.  Now we're going to give to at least 2 organizations to honor our family members who unfortunately cannot be there with us on our happy day.  I went to a wedding in April and they didn't do anything, but I really didn't notice until after the wedding.  Good luck to you all in your weddings!