wedding favours?

[babytots]

Just wondering what you all are buying for your guests as wedding favours? I want something thats personalised so people remember our day and so far found keyrings on ebay but if anyone has any other ideas I would be really grateful to hear what you are all getting. x

 

[buttonnose82]

we have brought some organza bags and a huge retro sweetie hamper and I am going to make individual little retro sweetie bags for our guests ..... we kinda have a retro theme going on lol

 

[babytots]

That sounds fab hun! I thought about getting some personalised love hearts but its not something they can keep forever really lol. x

 

[Kimboowee]

We're doing love hearts and lottery tickets - maybe someone will get lucky

 

[babytots]

I love the idea of lottery tickets Kim! x

 

[cloud9]

the lottery tickets are a good idea we're pretty boring with ours - alcoholic miniatures. its something that people will use i was going to get something for our guests to keep but my friend did this and said most people left theirs at the table when the hotel staff cleared up the next day she was told there was heaps leftover i think she did personalised candles/keyrings etc.. just a waste of money!

 

[pinkmummy]

I have just posted a thread about favours

We are having mini personalised chocolates and I have bought some organza bags and put 2 mini heart soaps in each one. For the kids we have mini colouring pencils, mini colouring books, bubbles and sweeties xx

 

[Niki]

ooooh good idea for the kids

 

[kintenda]

We are doing little packets of seeds - either wildflowers or forget-me-nots.

 

[maratobe]

we are having lil cap cake patties (not the cake but what they sit in) filled with some of my fav lollies and some of his and wrapping them up!

 

[Emskins]

we are having a bird theme so we are hopefully using silicone heart shaped cup cake moulds to make bird seed feeders if that makes sense!

 

[Vici]

We are having charity favours

 

[Dream.A.Dream]

We're having organza bags filled with silver chocolate dragees and personalised mini choc bars

 

[lynne192]

We are having charity favours

charity favours??? what do you mean? what are they?

 

[amylk87]

we're having a little favour box with retro sweets and a lottery ticket x

 

[tiggertea]

When we got married in '07 we gave our guests personalised pens (£40 for 100 on eBay ). - thats a bride and groom between the names btw...

I also made up a little thank you poem (£free) which i printed onto card that matched our other stationery (had enough leftover from making the placecards etc, so: £free!) and attached the pen to that.
It all went down very well. Our invitations also served as keepsakes as we sent em like message in a bottle. We bought glass bottles and put scrolls inside with feathers and sparkly hearts. Scrolls were tied with personalised ribbon.

 

[tmr1234]

we are haveing eather little sweet jars filled with jelly harts or see throw boxes with jelly harts in and getting stickers made with are names and date of the wedding on to put on them.

 

[Bocket]

We are having help for heroes wristbands for our favours, my Dad is ex army and my brother is serving at the mo (and may miss the wedding as he's due to go to afghan) so we've chosen something which, even if people leave on the table, will still do some good.

Cancer research do some lovely ones too, and they come with a little place card that says "A donation has been made on your behalf"

we went to one recently where the bride had made home made fudge and it was reeeally tasty! They were tied in cellophane(sp?) bags with pink ribbon and a tag that said "And they all lived happily ever after" it was mega sweet!

 

[lynne192]

thats a cute pen hun very nice

 

[lynne192]

We are having help for heroes wristbands for our favours, my Dad is ex army and my brother is serving at the mo (and may miss the wedding as he's due to go to afghan) so we've chosen something which, even if people leave on the table, will still do some good.

Cancer research do some lovely ones too, and they come with a little place card that says "A donation has been made on your behalf"

we went to one recently where the bride had made home made fudge and it was reeeally tasty! They were tied in cellophane(sp?) bags with pink ribbon and a tag that said "And they all lived happily ever after" it was mega sweet!

thats cool its good it works for you, my dad is ex army too but i am anti-war so wont be doing that lol. been thinking about emailng miscarriage assos or SANDs to see if there is anything they do that i can buy and donations will go to them, cause i have suffered losses these are things close to my heart,

alot of charities you can give money on behalf of guests but want to even get little favours from the charity which i guests can take with them home. but really thinking the sweetie jar thing with little scoopers is a great idea for kids