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If I buy cheap wedding favors will it really reflect on me or will people know that I’m just trying to save money?
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People don’t want favors in the first place. How much fun is it to walk down the street to the parking lot, carrying a scented candle?
Don’t buy favors, don’t be absurd. If you invite people to your wedding, your interest is in being a good hostess. Make them comfortable while they are there, then let them go home. Don’t make them carry a trinket back to their car!
Think about your children and whether you should add to the plastic landfill tragedy.
not if you do them in a classy way, people will never know that they were inexpensive.
Personally, I don’t care about the wedding favors. Sadly they probably get tossed anyways unless you make something practical that people like. I’ve heard people are starting to make their own favorite mixes of songs and burning them on CDs. That’s cute and won’t get tossed.
If you don’t go cheap on the food, no one should think you are cheap. Favors are just little trinkets anyways.
Why do favors at all? Its just a little something that gets thrown at the bottom of someones purse or left in the car only to be thrown away. I know everyone is like "oh how cute"but really its just junk. The favors was one thing I cut out of my wedding and I really don’t think anyone even noticed.
I’m doing some cheap favors. That are SUPER cute. Just personalized shot glasses but they ate like $1.25 each total. Then adding some hershey kisses to them. They look much more expensive then they really are and people can use the shot glass or put a candel in it. They are great.
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I don’t know how many people you are having, but its a fun idea.
Well if they look incredibly cheap and people will probably throw them away, why waste your money on them in the first place? I do think you should give favors, as it’s expected. But don’t get something you yourself wouldn’t want.
Even if you wrap up some mints in some tulle or something, (probably about a quarter per guest!), at least that’s something they’ll probably use. Go with something simple like that, that can look classy.
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Depends on your definition of cheap. If you mean cheap construction, then yes it will reflect on you. However, a cheap price for good quality is always wise.
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Don’t go cheap, if you can not afford them, don’t get them. Are you crafty? Can you do something homemade? Or something you can assemble to save money?
I plan on spending less than $1 per person for favors. At walmart you can get tealight candle holders in the shape of hearts for like 56 cents. Then all you do is add a scented tea candle, if bought in bulk are super cheap. Then wrap in tulle, tie with ribbon and there you go!
the classiest, the most generous, the most remembered thing you can do is in lieu of favors make a donation to your fave charity! have your m.c. or best man announce it at the reception! sweetie it would be so much better than getting yet another candle, shot glass, coaster, or c.d., or candy or anything!
we were recently at a wedding where the bride and groom made a donation to the heart and stroke foundation, and instead of clinking our glasses if we wanted to see them kiss we had to donate a buck! they donated three dollars for each of their two hundred guests and then all the bucks they collected for kisses amounted to over five hundred dollars - their guests were thrilled!
the idea caught on and the wedding we are going to next week are donating to the kid’s hospital in lieu of favors and doing the same buck for a kiss!
perhaps you could do something along that line.
good luck and happy wedding!
There’s cheap as in cheap looking and then there’s cheap as in inexpensive. If you mean cheap looking then definitely forget the whole thing. It’s not really necessary and you don’t want to ruin the elegance of your wedding over it.
If you mean inexpensive, there are plenty of options for fabulous favors for as low as .50/person that don’t have to look cheap.
favorshack.com is one of THE best priced places online to get wedding favors. They have really cute place card holders that could double as your favor.
Also if there’s a Michael’s craft store near you; they have all kinds of things you could use for favors like mini boxes to put jordan almonds in. They even have some that come with printable stickers so you can make your own labels for the favor boxes.
No, people would rather you spend that money on more/better food/drink.
a cheap favor you could do
that wont just eventually get tossed
just get cute little cheap boxes,
or containers of some sort
(matching the wedding colors)
and fill it with a little candy
(dinner mints are always practical, AND cheap)
i’ve also attatched a link
that has a lot of ideas for homemade favors
which, usually happen to be a lot cheper
more work for you,
but sometimes its worth it
all in all
it really mostly matters on how you present them
throwing alittle plastic trinket on a chair is kinda cheap,
but tying a ribbon around it and placing it nicely on a plate or something makes it a little nicer
I made my own favors for my wedding… they were pretty cheap to make. I just got my family to help and we got it done in no time. Plus people thought they were really cute… I got a ton of comments on them.
Here’s what I did for mine.
http://www.invitationsbydawn.com/pd-12/1631/pp6773.shtml
if you have to buy really cheap wedding favors i would just save the money and not buy anything at all. why buy a cheap trinket that’s just going to get thrown away? another option is to do an edible favor, those are cheap!
All I did was buy small flower pots and tea light candles. I had hand-written my name, my grooms name and our wedding date.
The best favours are ones that get consumed - nothing that will stick around and cause clutter. Conveniently, those are generally the least expensive. You can have custom seed packages printed up, you can do little boxes of jelly beans, you can do tulle bags (check your local big box craft store) filled with <candy of choice>. None of the above are very expensive.
Instead of doing cheap favors, why not do a donation to an organization you and your fiance care about? My husband and I skipped on the favors, and set out place cards with a picture of our cats, and gave a donation to an animal shelter.
No one was offended they didn’t get little crappy favors (all we could budget), and people were able to take our centerpieces (really pretty floral arrangements)
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Hi. It depends. If you buy a cheap trinket, it will look cheap. You will be better off not doing wedding favors. They are not required.
However, there is no need to spend a lot on favors to have it look nice & thoughtful. Something homemade is always nice - a sugar cookie or candy in a clear bag with a pretty ribbon; a poem on pretty paper tied with a ribbon; or take a photo of each guest to give to them.
Here is a list of wedding favor ideas - many are very affordable:
http://www.myplanninglists.com/wedding-favor-ideas.php
Have fun with it!
I am not a fan of wedding favors. Back when I got married [1986] the standard was matchbooks with the Bride and grooms names and the date.
But as to the swans, champagne glasses of Jordon almonds and other tchotchk that gets thrown out a day later. Save you money and put it toward an extra hor d’oeuvre or an upgraded dessert
People love favors if they’re unique and have some use.
I like edible favors the most. You can make your own or buy them and they don’t have to be expensive.
My personal favorite are decorated fortune cookies, they’re cute, unique, edible and with a great price.
http://www.chandagiftstudio.com/weddingfortunecookies.html
http://www.chandagiftstudio.com/weddinggourmetfortunecookies.html
http://www.chandagiftstudio.com/gourmetclassicfortunecookies.html