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I made granola, and it was a huge hit! The supplies only cost about $65, and I had more than enough. I think I made 100 packets (for about 90 guests), and I had a lot left over.
My husband & I bought our favors at the dollar store! No joke!
They had a bag of homemade suckers shaped like snow flakes. They was light blue with white on them & soo pretty! The bag for them was ONE dollar! :-) We also bought holiday cards & envelopes for probably 3 bucks or something. So for everything we paid 5 bucks!
We are putting tiny boxes at the candy buffet for them to grab some candy to take home as their favor. If you just count the boxes because the candy buffet would be there anyway $10 for 100 boxes! If you count the crystal candy dishes and the candy though it's something like $650 all together.
Were having a few favors. Were putting fans on each of the chairs for the ceremony. I think they were 1.50 each or so? And then for the reception, were doing these bud vase place card holders for each of the guests: http://www.etsy.com/listing/76039784/whimsical-silver-bud-vase-wedding-favors?ref=pr_shop
They're from etsy (that's prob obvious from the link). The awesome seller gave us a discount since we were getting so many and made them for 2.50 each.
And then fiancé and I are making donations to 2 organizations that are important to us. On each persons place setting, there will be a letterpress card (our letterpress stationers did the cards for free for us, since we were doing a donation as a favor!!) that says something like "thanks for sharing this special day. In honor of your presence, we have given a gift of love to....". we'll probably do a double fold in the napkin and have the the smaller donation favor card in the first fold and the menu in the second fold.
We gave our guests mini apple pies from a local apple orchard. They were $5 each and worth every penny.
@ReyDar64: We had about 70 guests but we bought 75 pies just to be safe.
We paid around 5 dollars for each...and with 300 guests it added up quickly!
Edit- I just wanted to add that the favors are raw silk pouches with jordan almonds with different flavors inside. There is a crystal pomegranate charm hanging from each pouch.
@Evie19: WOW!!! I bet they looked great. I could never afford $1,500 for favors.
We did smores, so I think it worked out to something crazy like $.31 cents a person? We made a 110 of them. And all of the supplies cost us around $35.00 Here's a picture:
Ours were about $5 per person because they were split bottles of wine. I loved the favor and they were definitely a hit- we didn't even get a bottle for ourselves at the end of the night!
We filled glass bottles ($1 from Jo-Anns) with bottles of DH and I's favorite hot sauces from a local restaurant ($4 per large bottle, which made at least 10 little bottles). We had about 80 guests, but I'm not sure how much we spent total because we collected the bottles over a long period of time.
@AnneTossy: OMG....I LOVE that idea!! Who doesn't love S'mores!! I bet they were a hit!!
Our escort cards doubled as favors. I probably spent about $25 on cake ball supplies and made them (with bridesmaid help!) the Wednesday before the wedding. Not tough to make, and they were a big hit!
We paid $10 per favor for custom made cookbooks. One of the many advantages of having a small wedding is that we got to splurge on things. :)
I am planning to make these amazing homemade sea salt caramels for our favors, which will be very economical. 
We're aiming for about 130 guests, so with 3 or 5 (?) caramels per guest, it will take quite a bit of time to make/assemble... But I think it will be fun & people will love them!
Exactly $1
My father used to give gold dollars to kids when he saw them, and he dropped one in the poor box at church every time he went to Mass.
We'll be giving our guests gold dollars on their way into the church and inviting them to donate them on their way out.
I might have gone a little crazy with the wedding favors. I made each guest a set of wine-glass charms (4 charms per set to match our theme). My mom and sister made the guests each two rasberry white-chocolate covered Oreos (yum!) and we gave everyone bags of personalized M&M's. I'm not sure about the cost of the edible stuff, but when all was said and done with my DIY stemware charms (wire, swarovski crystals, pewter charms, tins, and ribbon), I was up to about $8 per guest (shhh...don't tell DH!! It was supposed to be a money saver since it was DIY, but I went all "Martha Stewart nutty" on the project!!).
ours were mix CDs, and they cost about 45 cents each to make. we had about 120 guests, and made 100 CDs. we had about 10 left over
Mix CDs
@themusicjunkies: I've contemplated doing CDs on top of my original favors.
For our favors, we are collecting all of the salsa jars FMIL and FFIL buy and I am going to put a sticker label on each one with each guest's name on it. They will serve as place cards and the guests will fill them at the candy buffet to take home. I haven't had to pay for the jars. A family friend is making the sticker labels for me for free. All I bought was a little over a yard of fabric ($10.00), ribbon ($3), and polyester fiberfill ($3.00) because I am going to turn the top of each jar into a pin cushion sort of thing. The big expense is going to be the candy, so I'm not sure how much they'll really end up costing. As it stands already, though, that's about $0.32 per guest.
We did sangria drink favors.
We were able to get the bottles for .45/each and then bought the supplies and made the drink, which put it at about .75/each. They have a cork in the top.
We're planning on spending $10 per favour for ~30 guests. Our office has a chef to provide lunch to our clients during the week and she has a gourmet candy apple business so the plan is to have her make them as favours. They're seriously works of art, both gorgeous and delicious.
In the end, I paid about $2 per favor, and I made 175 of them, though we ended up having 150 guests. They were japanese teacups ($1.50 each) stuffed with candy and finished with tulle circles and personalized ribbons (let me know if you need a recommendation on seller - she's on amazon and WAY more affordable than anything else you'll find).
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Ours average out to be $.28/guest. They're honey sticks in either blueberry, grape, clover, or peppermint. Each guest gets 2 that are kept together by a cute little bride and groom lable with our photo on it, names and date, and a thank you. We have enough for 400 guests, so we'll see how many we have to use (we invited a LOT of pple :-/).
@ReyDar64: Sacagawea dollars are referred to as golden dollars, but they started minting in 2000, so I'm not sure if that's exactly what @MissMaryMc: was talking about w/ her father.
Great post... I'm curious to see what others have come up with too. I'm still trying to figure out what to do for our wedding.
I've been finding a bunch of cool stuff on eBay including our favors. I got these for $20.99 for 36 sets. 
I also plan on getting something else like a small box of treats.
@cardnasac: You got an amazing deal!!!! I've been thinking about those but they are not nearly as good of a deal as you got!!
I bought champagne flutes from the dollar store and filled them with hershey kisses! obviously the champagne flutes were 1.00 each and you can buy online by the case. I was fortunate that it was around valentines day so i lucked out in getting the exact colors i needed for the kisses
EDIT: we had 120 guests
After lots of back and forth, I'm doing mini Whitman's Samplers. I like the idea of using them for placecards too--I'll have to add a little tag with the ribbon.
I ended up doing boxes of Harry and David chocolate truffles (dark and milk chocolate). We had three big boxes of the truffles with about 150 guests. I'm not sure how much it added up to because we kept on adding things to them (we assembled the boxes, got a little tule to fill them with, got a Thank You tag to go on them, cut out a leaf to go on them to go with our theme..) All said and done, I'd say it was around $4.50 a person.
We're doing cotton candy! :) we bought little packages of cotton candy in bulk online and will be putting them in small, plain brown coffee bags. They will have a tag attached too, so they will be set out as escort cards as well.
@cardnasac: What ebay seller did you get your favors from - do you mind sharing?
We're doing Dove chocolates for about 22 people. I think they chocolates were $7 all together on sale.
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