Wedding Favors

mjburton

I made the favours for my wedding.

Favours are meant to symbolise - health, wealth, success, happiness and fertility. Sugared almonds are the traditional thing and symbolise the bitter and sweet side of life/marriage.

In keeping with this I made chocolate truffles, wrapped them in greaseproof paper then in squares of cream material from the market £1 a metre! tied up with gold embroidery thread. ribbon was too expensive. My husband added little name tags.

I think total cost was about £10 for enough for ?50 people. Used cheap asda own chocolate. Let me know if you want the recipe

ilovecompanies

You could always buy some cheap cardmaking items and make the invitations. You could also ask companies for party favours. I know Lipcote are very good at this kind of thing.

jak

I gotlittle organza bags off e-bay- really nice- cost £5 for 100ish in cream and pink but did lotsa of lolours- have a look. Then I filled with a few loose lovehearts. REally cheap but looked great!

flugellover

A friend of mine had favours which were a short poem printed onto card (about A5 size), rolled up then tied with ribbon in the colour scheme. The poem could be anything you like - made up and personal about the couple and how they met, or a reading/ romantic poem, or just a short thank you note? Could be done cheaply I imagine, so long as you have access to a computer, or have VERY neat handwriting!!

victoriaplum1

jackomdj wrote: »

At a friend of mine's wedding (he is South African & she is English, they got married in the UK) they had a nice note on everyones placemat stating that instead of favours they were donating the money they would have spent to a SA childrens charity.

What they wrote, it included some bits about specific kids, was extremely moving, & it could be as expensive or money saving as you wish.

Nicky

I like the charity based theme I think its a bit more original and thoughtful than a bag of sugared almonds or something similar....I intend to include something of a charitable nature as favours, I thought of buying a few charity pin badges each week til I get enough distributing them randomly to each guest and putting a little note with them to say that the money for the favour has been donated to such and such charity....but other week I saw trolley token keyrings being sold on behalf of PDSA for £1 a shot thought that was an even better idea for a favour, charitable and useful.

becs

Hi,

we got married last year and we did the charity thing. The men had pin badges of the charity of my husband's choice-daffodils for marie curie, the ladies had silver pin badges for EACH a local children's hospice my choice of charity. We did also order a box of fortune cookies which everyone had one and they were really popular, a great way of breaking the ice at the reception when you have tables of guests that don't necessarily know each other!

jpwhittle

im going to be making them for my brothers wedding as he is seruiously in debt although still stupid with money so id rather do something practical than give them cash. so i told them an idea i saw on another site.
its little whisks with5 chocolates in them wrapped and ties with a bow. then a little note saying. whisking you many thanks for attending our wedding. really pretty, different and unique.

karen_newcastle

I found this ebay seller when I was planning my wedding last year. I didn't actually use them but I think their heart shaped soaps are very cute and very reasonable.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/10-HANDMADE-ORANGE-BERGAMOT-HEART-SOAP-FAVOURS-B-B_W0QQitemZ180233381918QQihZ008QQcategoryZ11845QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742.m153.l1262

ilovecompanies

I could send you some favours???

lwal

I found a seller on ebay who sells swarovski wine glass charms for wedding sand in fact all occasions.
They have a website www.azesha.co.uk and can make charms to suit colours or even with initials. I think these would be great with little swarovski hearts or initials of guests.
I through I would share this as I thought it was a bit of a unique idea.