Favour ideas

swampduck

We bought little sachet type bags on the internet available in loads of colours and matched them with chocolates which can be bought as hearts, squares, balls etc.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pack-White-Organza-Gift-Bags/dp/B004EHR7KG/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1433245360&sr=8-3&keywords=sachet+bags

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Luxury-Milk-Chocolate-Silver-Foiled/dp/B003T4AAG8/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1433245464&sr=8-7&keywords=chocolate+balls

Really easy to do and can be dressed up with labels etc.

Swampy

jo132000

wow these are all great, thanks everyone

74jax

Ours was beach themed as we married right by the beach. I had a budget of only around 30, I can't really remember.

We had our names in small rock sweets and these were placed in tiny tin beach buckets in the middle of the table. We also had silly magnets saying I went to xyz and xyz's wedding and all I got was this lousy fridge magnet.

I couldn't tell you what favours have been at weddings I've gone to. It's not something I notice.

Lavendyr

Our mums made jam, marmalade and honey (hubby's mum keeps bees) and put them in mini jars for guests - we just had to pay for the jars and labels, they went down really well :-)

arbrighton

Lavendyr wrote: »

Our mums made jam, marmalade and honey (hubby's mum keeps bees) and put them in mini jars for guests - we just had to pay for the jars and labels, they went down really well :-)

This is what I'm just finishing off for my wedding- bramble jelly. I have 80 little jars of it from last years fruit, and labels are now ordered. Even the jelly goes with the main colour thinking about it

Fallen-Angel

I was at a friend's wedding at the weekend and their favours were chocolate covered coffee beans in a green box and a small bottle of homemade limoncello. Their colour scheme was yellow and green so that matched and on their first date they went to an Italian restaurant where they were served the beans and drink after their meal so it really meant something to them

I had little bags filled with bon bons, tied with ribbon and little tags.

iclayt

The last wedding I went to, the men got cufflinks of their initials made from Scrabble tiles (mother of the bride trawled charity shops looking for old sets!), these went down really well and everyone was wearing them. The girls got homemade felt brooches, these were sweet but secretly I would have rather had the cufflinks!

At our wedding we are having miniature glass bottles with corks (quite cheap in bulk from ebay) with a mini scroll inside printed with a personalised thank you to the guest and rolled up tight (easily printed on vintage looking paper and cut into strips). Maybe a couple of retro sweets in it too if the bottle necks are wide enough.

shoppingnoodles

My wedding is in September and it is beach themed. I have found a website that enables you to generate your own free newspaper, so I have written a spoof news report about the wedding and printed them at home. I've ordered a fish and chip white chocolate sweets and small cellophane bags from an ebay supplier. I'm going to make cones out of the newspaper, fill them with fish and chips and put them in the cello bag tied with a ribbon.

sjg666

shoppingnoodles wrote: »

My wedding is in September and it is beach themed. I have found a website that enables you to generate your own free newspaper, so I have written a spoof news report about the wedding and printed them at home. I've ordered a fish and chip white chocolate sweets and small cellophane bags from an ebay supplier. I'm going to make cones out of the newspaper, fill them with fish and chips and put them in the cello bag tied with a ribbon.

Such a great idea! We're thinking of having a beach theme for our wedding next September. Could you let me have the link to the website? We're going to make a pick n mix table and having newspaper cones instead of bags might work quite well. :beer:

campfire_dreamer

For my wedding we're having a vintage/country theme with ~80 guests, so I've done little white organza bags (£1 for 10 from a cheap stationery shop) filled with sweets (mint humbugs, sherbert lemons, butter mintoes, chocolate eclairs, lollipops etc.) which I got in a multibuy offer from the supermarket, and tied with vintage floral luggage tags which I got online. All in it's cost about £34, but the luggage tags will double as 'place cards' as the guests names are written on them.