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Do wedding favors really make much of a difference to guests? My budget is limited and I’m thinking no favors at all is better than cheap favors that nobody wants or will use. Ideas and thoughts?
It’s your wedding so you should do whatever you want. I went to a wedding recently that didn’t have any favors and nobody seemed to care. Good luck and congratulations!
No, they are absolutely not necessary. A lot of couples include them to be nice, but even according to etiquette, it’s a "favor", not mandatory.
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What about a candy buffet…. you can do a bunch of candy in bulk and when it runs out it runs out… that way people who want candy or a snack can get some and those who don’t, don’t have to.. YOu can get candy in your colors, so if your colors are red you can do, red hots, jolly ranches in cherry and strawberry. ITs fun!!!
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Either an inexpensice one of a kind home made party favor, or none at all. I think that going to see your wedding and being there to experience it should be the best party favor of all.
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Maybe just small favors so people can take home for their "memories".. like having ribbon printed w/ ur info on it and have it wrapped around some candy.. something cheap.. alot of weddings i went to did that..
People dont go to weddings just to see what free favor they get.. so it doesn’t really matter
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It’s your wedding so you should do whatever you want. I went to a wedding recently that didn’t have any favors and nobody seemed to care. Good luck and congratulations!
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I think they are because its a way they can take a little part of your special day with them. Since youre on a tight budget I would stick to something simple like a picture favor or something. A picture is something they can always treasure.
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I don’t think they are necessary because you are right, sometimes it ends up being something people will throw away or won’t use. When I was trying to decide, the easiest and cheapest thing I thought people might like is a CD of some of the music we are going to play for the dance. CD’s are super cheap and you can get the program to put your own labels on them if you want.
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Favors aren’t necessary. My wife and I have been to a ton of weddings this year and last and some cool, inexpensive ones we’ve seen were:
- iced sugar cookies with of the couple’s initials
- anything with the name and date on it (saw lots of candy bards with custom wrappers and everyone ate them)
-bookmarks
My wife and I made CDs for everyone of our wedding songs. It was cheap, we just burned them from the computer and had special sleeves made with our name and wedding date on them.
But if you don’t want to have favors, honeslty no one will notice.
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No, favors are not necessary. I’m getting married in two weeks and after doing a little checking, most of my guests (mostly friends) say they just sit on a self and collect dust! Not sure what kind of time you have but what I have decided to do in lieu of a favor is to take a few minutes and hand write a thank you note to each of my guests (we have 30 couples coming). Not long drawn out letters, just a quick personal note to thank them for taking time out of their busy schedules to join in our day. They will get thank you notes for their gifts, but I thought it would be nice instead of a trinket they don’t really want, a note of thanks would be more meaningful to them.
Good luck!!!
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what about little chocolate hearts to put on tables. Only need to get some bags of candy.
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You are sooooo right.
If they aren’t eaten, & how many are after a reception; they usually end up in the trash before the couple arrives at their honeymoon.
If you have a burning desire to get rid of some money, may I suggest a charity. Otherwise, save it.
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No they aren’t necessary. People might notice they are absent but probably won’t make a big deal about it.
Edibles always go over well and are very cheap with a little work. Perhaps make some homemade cookies and put them in cellophane bags with the recipe you used put on a small card.
I had one summer wedding where we made homeade blackberry jam, peach preserves, and apple butter in mason jars. The fruit all came from the garden/farmers marken and It cost less than a dollar each and was a huge hit.
Another new trend is charitable donations. You can choose three of your favorite charities and have a bowl for each one. At the end of the night guests choose a charity and put their placecard holders in the bowl and a donation is made to that charity for a certain amount. Say a dollar a guest.
Our favor will be free! Since reception pictures all pretty much look the same after an hour or two (heres joe dancing with mary, now mary dancing with bill,…..) we are giving our guests professional portraits. We found this cool rug that we are going to hang as a background and then for an hour or two the photographer is going to take portraits of the guests in front of it. After the wedding we will post the photos on a site like SnapFish and they can print or order copies of it to display in their homes. We will have the rug and pics of all our friends in front of it.
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No, not necessary, but a nice touch. It doesn’t cost a lot to put some mints in a piece of tulle, and tie with a ribbon. You can attach a tag with your thank you on it.
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Our favors were inexpensive and FUN. We wrapped up M&Ms in our wedding colors in pieces of tulle and tied them with ribbon. The tulle and ribbon were in our wedding colors, as well. If you go to the M&M site, you can find out where to go to get M&Ms in about 100 different colors. For 100 guests, it cost us about $35.
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Ive gotten wedding favors… the last four are still sitting in a drawer. By the way, the last wedding I went to was a year and a half ago.
To me, its just one more thing to have to take home. They are cute, but not really worth it.
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Very unnecessary. I have not yet figured out why people have wedding favors. They get taken home and thrown away.
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there not necessary. some times there a way of thanking your
help like maid of honor and things like that. i would say if you want to give things out give like a……………………………………….little pen maybe. every one needs a pen!
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I think favors area huge waste of money. Nobody really wants them, and they’re mostly either left behind at teh wedding or thrown in the trash at some later date.
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do not have wedding favors…seriously, no one cares about favors. and you are completely right about "no favors" being better than "cheap favors"… i dont know of a single person who needs something else that will eventually end up in their junk drawer at home.
even if you wee only planning on spending 50-100 bucks, you can spend that money better on omething else.
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Unless it is candy or food no one ever keeps the favor If a favor is something you want to do you can do one for about 25 bucks flat for about 60 +people.a 100 count spoons 1.99 to 2.50 a couple bags of kisses and some netting from a craft store and ribbon in wedding colors and a small card (you can make on computer or by hand). . Something als you can do is look in a mag and pick one and make your self. Most of the thing you see in books can be done cheapper by you. Invations by dawn is a site listed below will send you a free catolg and you can make most of them your self .
But if you dont have the time or mony then dont beacuse most of them get chucked on the way out the door.
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We are not doing any due to cost,location and i just do not want to.
I didnt bother with them. I find them a waste of money. if you have a food favour then they get eaten at the wedding reception half the time and anything else usually gets tossed. who really wants to keep something with the bride and grooms name on it around the house? I know I wouldnt. and they can be expensive. I think the best wedding favour I’ve ever seen was a woman I worked with had a family member that made homemade wine coolers…like the size of an actual wine bottle and did labels with the bride and gooms name on it. that was his gift to them was doing all the favours and having some extra for the wedding to drink and stuff…those were nice and people enjoyed them, but not every one can afford something like that. I would say skip them and use the money towards wine and beer for the guests which I’m sure most would appreciate more.
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Danya, I have attended about 50 weddings in my life, and cannot remember what I was given as a favor. I remembered this when I got married last month, and we saved the money we were going to spend on favors, and put it towards something memorable for our guests-they thanked us for the wonderful food at the reception that included all you could eat crab legs.
Don´t give favors-a lot of people don´t take theirs home anyway! My sister made homemade chocolate lollypops and some people didn´t even eat theirs-what a waste!
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I agree 100%
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No More DUST SUCKING JUNK!