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I put four little truffles in little candy cups into a chocolate brown 3"x3"x1" box, and tied fushia ribbon in a bow around it. I also had attached a tag that said "love is sweet, thank you for coming!" The boxes were really inexpensive at nashvillewraps.com, candy cups from wineandcake.com, and I got french truffles in bulk that tasted amazing from giftshopcafe.com. Very cheap (approximately $1.38 per guest), and it looked like a little present on each placesetting.
Here's a picture of the actual favor at my wedding.
Hope this helps!!
~Emilie
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We are donating a tree in our guests name then making a tree bookmark with this information on it to be at their table.
We're making DIY herbal-infused olive oil bottles. They're inexpensive, easy to make, and practical!
I like edible favors! I think that anything overly monogrammed with your name/date and/or too wedding-ish = won't be used by guests after the wedding day.
Def go with someting edible! You are never going to find something that all your guests will use/appreciate (what if your Uncle Ted hates candles??) so stick to something yummy.
Or you can donate to your favorate charity (that's what we're doing).
we're doing the candy buffet for favors. Definitely glad people won't have to take home a trinket they'll never use and have to store...and enjoy all our favorite candies with us!
I think something sweet is a can't miss. My sister is stationed in Brussels and brought over chocolates for us ( thank you thank you) and we made a pretty box. But i've been to weddings with local sweets , maple candies in NH , salt water taffy for a beech wedding etc. OR you and you FH favorites. I got Razzles once , with a sweet story about how they use to eat them as kids (kinda like 13 going on 30).
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Large majority of trinkets are a wasted IMHO. Go edible unless you have some awesome unique idea! We did a candy buffet in the end - people take what they want, no waste, fun pics, and the personalized part came in putting out our favorite candies and "thank you from X & Y" labels on the bags :)
We're doing a cookie bar, which will feature our favorite childhood cookies made by the fabulous Southern cooks in our families. Guests can have a midnight snack, but don't have to take them. . . and it's saving us lots of money.
I am not getting married until October but we are trying to decide between carbon credits, to offset the wedding, or cake balls (crumbled cake mixed with icing, rolled into a ball and then dipped in chocolate--best thing ever!). I think we are leaning toward the cake balls so that the guests will have a nice snack, although we have to come up with a different name, maybe wedding truffles.
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Mmmmm all these edible favor ideas are making me hungry! lol I didnt know of soo many options for it!
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In the area of "useful" favors, even though these things are useful, I never used them when I received them as favors:
A paperweight
A bottle opener
A wine stopper
I like charitable favors or plant-a-tree favors (although I think handing out a bookmark is an ironic way to commemorate the trees you've planted 
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You just can't go wrong with edible favors! (No wait...you can...almonds...no one seems to like the Jordan almonds...)
I'd do allergy friendly edible favors!
MightySapphire! I never thought about food allergies!! Thanks!!
We also thought about wine stoppers since we are both wine lovers but they are all more then $2 and the ones that aren't more the $2 look chinsy. But we are still looking!
Thanks dannyb417! My FH sisters used the coasters for her wedding last year, and his other sister is doing candles for her wedding this year, So I'm trying to stay away from those two ideas! But Thanks! They are a great idea!
Edible is probably the easiest for pleasing a large number of people.
I've always liked CD favors, but I know others who think they are stupid.
The best favor I ever got was a little jar of herbs de province. I use it all the time and always think of the couple. When I don't have to fly, I love jars of honey/jam or bottles of olive oil. But they can be difficult if you have to fly.
We're doing a buffet of homemade cookies to be set up for the departure, and the favors will be the recipes for the cookies (and the cookies themselves, of course). It's labor intensive of course, but after all is said and done, it's under a dollar per guest, since it's all going to be homemade.
Lottery ticket (1$) with a penny in a small clear envelope with a sticker holding it closed
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hmmm I just thought of a cookie table instead of a candy table!! Lovin' it driftslikesmoke!! I love weddingbee!!
One good thing to do if you're doing something edible is to do something homemade, or something local. We're doing chocolate covered pretzels, but the part that makes it special is that they are made by a candy company that is local to Jacksonville, FL, where the wedding is, and guests couldn't get them somewhere else.
kitty25kat25! We are thinking about doing a candy table and putting out cute take home bags! And that will be the favors! They can fill up the bags and take home candy! I think that is very personal! But we are still thinking about it, not definite if we are going to do that or not!
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@ Almostananderson Please be careful if you are going to be giving homemade flavored olive oil. I was going to do this as Christmas gifts this year but when I researched it I found out it is very easy for botulism to form in flavored olive oils, and I don't want to risk it. Here is one link explaining in more details.
http://everything2.com/e2node/Flavored%2520oil%2520and%2520botulism
I got some tiny glass jars at the dollarstore and will be filling them up with our two favourite kinds of fancy loose tea.
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Right now, the plan is for our centerpieces to double as favors. Since it's a fall wedding, I think we're going to do a display of apples and mums for the centerpiece (it sounds weird, but I've seen one and it was beautiful). Then, we'll have little favor bags with sticks, caramels, and instructions inside. At the end, the guests will dismantle the centerpieces to get the apples for their "caramel apple kit"! Less money spent, fewer flowers wasted, less work on my part...I'm excited 
HL! Thats a really good idea for a fall wedding!! You have any pictures of the one you have seen! My girlfriend is getting married in October 2010! I'd love to show her an example of that for her wedding!!
From the beginning my aunt told me to do somehting that is useful! I still have no idea what we are doing! We are having a Candy Buffet that is more of a blend of all the things that we love to snack on from Puerto Rico! But other than that I would like something else!
We are making donations to two charities that mean a lot to us, and putting a note on each table explaining why we selected these particular groups.
Everyone (well, almost everyone) loves chocolate! I originally wanted to DIY chocolate favors, but got wrapped up in other projects and didn't get a chance. We ended up buying chocolate bars with personalized wrappers.
I gave a charity donation that worked out to be about $2 per person.
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I'm loving the lottery ticket and chocolate ideas!! The only thing I'm worried about with the lottery tickets is my OOT people since the lottery ticket would be for NH or MA. I like the charity idea too but I went to a wedding where they did that and they got bad criticism for it! I couldn't believe it!
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we're having a photobooth and will have the photos double as favors for the wedding. we'll probably make some kind of folder with a ticket and note saying that much. i've been to weddings with a variety of diff. knick knack/candy favors and the only ones i remember getting any use out of were the ones i ate, lol. our venue is also a real stickler about bringing in any kind of outside food, even for favors, and i figured a photobooth was a better investment in the wedding day entertainment anyway. hopefully fun photos serve as a more lasting memory of our wedding to our guests!
charmedbride! I LOVE the photobooth! But the cheapest we could find for the booth was 2K and we just can't afford that! It is such a great idea! I know someone getting married in NH and their photographer gave them the booth for free for booking their photography! I think its a great new bridal idea!!
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We are looking for favors that won't be a waste. I have bells and statues, etc that just collect dust from various wedding's I've been to. So my FH and I decided we want to do something that hopefully at least some of our guest could use. Like ediable favors, coasters, candles, etc...So any ideas? What are you doing for your favors?