Comments on: Does anyone have suggestions for cheap, yet tasteful wedding favors?

By: roxygurl1307

roxygurl1307 — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:52:59 +0000

I am getting married in July and we also did not want to spend a lot of money on wedding favors, so what we did was bought the smaller packs of gum, the Extra kind and bought Avery labels 11/2" x 3 and printed our names, date of our wedding and we put "thank you for joining us on our extra special day", people will use gum and not just throw it away our date was on one side of the gum, our thank you message on the front and our names on the other side and then the back was not covered but it said extra total it only cost us $60 for 350! if you like the idea add a comment and i’ll respond!
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By: Beastly

Beastly — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:26:59 +0000

My cousin made a CD of some of there wedding songs and favorite songs, and gave a silver heart shaped coffee scoop with a sachet filled with coffee beans.

I had little wedding scrolls stating that my husband and I gave a donation to the American Cancer Society in memory of a family member. Plus little sachets filled with almonds. and little pewter place card holders.
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http://community.acsevents.org/site/PageServer?pagename=C_EA_WS_General

http://purchase.weddingchannel.com/catalog/product_detail.asp?pn=1&pageid=wedding_shop&uid=300000151&pid=174872505#

http://purchase.weddingchannel.com/catalog/product_detail.asp?pn=1&pageid=wedding_shop&uid=1121&pid=198230066#

By: Answers Galore

Answers Galore — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:20:59 +0000

Check out this web site http://advancedvideo.50webs.com It’s a wedding oriented site and in their links pages there are tons of wedding favor links and many of them have good stuff at good prices. Just wander through the links and I think you will find something you like.
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By: bluechick

bluechick — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:05:59 +0000

Disposable cameras are fantastic, decorate them with a ribbon with your themed colors. Then you are ensured to get a ton of candid shots, all of your guests can send you the pictures that came out well. You are bound not to miss a shot:).
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By: adorablecuteangel

adorablecuteangel — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:24:59 +0000

take plastic spoons and dip them in chocolate, then let it hard and then wrap them tie them with ribbon and add a small business card size expressing thanks for coming. Then get some of the florist foam, and stick them in there, making them look like flowers.
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By: heidibel

heidibel — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:06:59 +0000

I’m giving Lotto tickets. I am going to put them in a glassine envelope with a penny to scratch and a sticker on the front which reads "With a LOTTO Love!"

I also wanted to do menu cards. I couldn’t because the reception site didn’t allow you to bring in your own caterer. But if you can make your own dishes or have family make some, I thought about printing the menu on cards and placing in front of the dish for guests to take if they like the item.
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By: beh_sab2002

beh_sab2002 — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:29:59 +0000

There is a series of books called brides on a budget. I found these for my wedding and their have been some really cute inexpensive ideas.
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1562317997/qid=1149613438/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-6003907-4432064?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

By: irishcreaminator83

irishcreaminator83 — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:02:59 +0000

What do you consider "cheap"

The average cost per favor is around $2 a piece.

For my favors, we got 210 tins with clear lids for $70 using 50% off coupons at michaels (otherwise it would have been $140) We also went to mymms.com (this was kind of a splurge for us) we bought 5 bags of m&m’s with our names and dates (you pick two colors). They are eight ounce bags. For the five bags it was 59.00

Instead of using the m&m’s you could uses jordan almonds. 5 are supposed to represent the 5 great things that marriage represents. Jordan Almonds are cheaper to get in bulk too.

If you have any questions about it, just message me about it.
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By: melmo33

melmo33 — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:32:59 +0000

I would do a donation to a charity. You can do the donation in any amount (lump sum), and then print a little note to leave at each placesetting that says "In lieu of wedding favors, we have donated generously to (charity name here) in honor of our guests and their presense on our big day. May one celebration give hope to many more.
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By: fugaz

fugaz — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:17:59 +0000

Don’t buy cheap favors, they get trown away anyway; but you can go for creative, practical and tasteful!

Why don’t you try incense? You can buy real asian incense in bulk, and tied 4 or 5 sticks with ran organza ribbon. Tasteful, different and elegant. You can get this done for about o.35 cents a person.

Mini-chocolate boxes are other option. Russell-stover sell mini samplers of 4 chocolates a box, for about a dollar a box. You can buy them at your local suppermarket. Or youc an but chocollates in bulk (or try to make truffles your self) and place then in favour boxes.

Traditional? White almonds wrapped in tulle are unexpensive and a fun prject at home, You can make the tulle circles yourself or buy them already cut very very cheap.

Good luck yo you! Congrats!
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