Chair covers & Wedding Favours

BargainBabe_3

When we had our wedding 5 years ago I made the favours myself in our colour scheme. I used little natural card boxes from https://www.bakerross.co.uk and stuck some paper roses in cream and hot pink on the lid and filled them with jelly beans and chocolate nuggets from a local choccie shop and tied them with ribbon they looked fab and cost about £1 each. Worth the effort. IMO the lottery tickets sound a fun idea too:j

One word of advice if you have children attending the wedding maybe you could organise local students form the childcare courses at the local college to set up a creche for you with toys and colouring and a tv and some dvds for bored kiddies it worked a treat for us:D

Belair

I bought all the bits and bobs to make the favours for our reception and then ran out of time. I ended up scattering a good handful of Quality Street on to each table. The bright colours of the foil against the white cloth looked very effective. The sweets were all eaten too! Not taken home and shoved in a cupboard or left behind in the ladies loo. After decorating the tables I accidently left an opened tin of Quality Street on an unused table near the bar. The sweets were scoffed by the men on their way to the bar within minutes - and no they weren't starving, the buffet was open!

advent1122

We had a registry office wedding, wifes family did the food and a booze up at the local pub.
Got change out of a few hundred quid all in.
Great day had by all and I am just as married as Posh & Becks or the other saps who pay £20,000 for one day just so "people" who you see once a year can say how lovely it is.

Jay-Jay_4

Aw the chair covers do look nice but honestly - I got married (again ) 16 months ago and I cannot tell you what the chairs looked like because it's all a whirl. Your guests are wondering if 'they' look good and then you and your bride walk in and they all go "ooh ahhh!" and watch the vows and smile and cry and then it's over in a flash. You blink and all of a sudden you've spent four hundred quid covering up their CHAIRS!!!!!

hmmmmm... that's probably not what you want to hear but really, you could think about it from a different point of view and you might be surprised.

Richie23_2

Ummm thanks for all your comments and ideas for favours. We are hoping a friends friend can make them now.. she did them for my best friend wedding an cost them £100 to keep and then they sold them for £100. I wouldn't mind paying £400 if they were to keep but to rent is very steep i admit.

The chairs are not the normal chairs mind.. they dont go striaght down but out like a ballon on the back.. if that makes sense.

Think men will have a lotto tickect for the favour and then we'll get the ladies something else. There are only 4 Kids under 21 going. so no problems with screeming kids there.

pinkzeb

Favour ideas-

- homemade fudge put into little clear bags and tied with ribbon (or buy shop baught fudge and claim you slaved over it :0)

- filled organza pouchers/ebay and tesco's do cheap ones

- heart shaped biscuits/ iced

- packet of seeds

- mini chocolate bars wrapped with personalised greeting

- mini bath bombs

- mini soaps

- small votive candals - take a look in your local pound shop for these. I bought mine there...12 for £1.... I then baught a reel of ribbon from ebay for £3 and tied a little around each candle.

- a good place to look is in the £1 - 50p section at tesco, they have some good childrens toys, candlas and other little nik naks which can make great favours.

nelly_2

my sister has just started a business doing this I am doing her site at the moment maybe you can use some ideas from here

http://www.venuedresser.com/

tchudy

Maybe it is good idea hire ghost chairs which are very popular at weddings, private parties and corporate events:

www,exhibithire.co.uk/ghost-chair.asp

shellsuit

tchudy wrote: »

Maybe it is good idea hire ghost chairs which are very popular at weddings, private parties and corporate events:

www,exhibithire.co.uk/ghost-chair.asp

errm, I don't think they will be needing the covers now, this thread is over 2 years old so I'm assuming they are married by now!:rolleyes:

clearing_out_my_pockets

I'm assuming it's spam....