Does anyone actually care about wedding favors?
Do they keep them? Are they just sitting in a box in the back of the closet?
There might be 8 people at our wedding. It would be his parents, my mom, sister, and his teenage nephews. I have no clue if i should get wedding favors or what they would be.
Should i just nix the idea of favors and just try to get them all different gifts?
I’ve picked out a necklace for his mother but i have no clue what to get anyone else, even my own mother. (She isn’t the jewelry type at all.) Sorry, i’m rambling, lol.
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Wedding favors are just a nice way to thank your guests for coming. If getting them all different gifts is in your budget then go for it. But usually a wedding favor is something all the guests receive that is the same. We had a destination wedding in Hawaii. Our guests received bags with kona coffee, chocolate covered macadamia nuts and other hawaiian type items they could use while on vacation.
Get them individual gifts instead of favors. Since your wedding is small, give them something that has some meaning behind it.
Think about what their hobbies are. Are they into sports? Wine? Travel?
Get them something they want or can use. If all else fails, get them a gift certificate at their favorite restaurant or store.
Since your wedding is really small, get them custom made wine glasses that say "Mother of the bride", Father of the groom, Sister of the birde….etc,,, they can be at the table when you eat and then they can keep them as keepsakes/favours
Unless they are edible, people leave them behind. Save your money and put it toward something else that your guests will actually appreciate or keep in the bank.
No one cares about favors, even the nice ones. If you must do them, they should be edible. Anything else just ends up in the back of the closet or in my case, in the trash.
I always take my favors and I have a little shelf in a curio cabinet that holds them all (unless they were edible).
I take them, I keep them, I even look at them on a fairly regular basis (again, except the edible ones which get consumed).
Since I think they are important, I am planning to have them for my wedding.
I have to agree with the other posters in that edible favors are the only way to go if you must have them. My husband’s aunts made wedding cookies and put them in really cute boxes with our wedding colors. They were a huge hit, but we would have not done favors unless someone did them. We didn’t have the time or extra money to fool with it ourselves, so we were thankful his aunts did this.
If I were you I wouldn’t worry about favors at all. You could give each guest a wedding picture in a picture frame after the wedding. This way they can always have a memory of your wedding.
i love the idea of wedding favors, but realistically, (i am not say yours hear just in general…) they are almost always some little cheap trinket, so for my wedding we are donating money to a local cat shelter in our guests honor.
Personalise it.
Since there won’t be very many people, generic wedding favors might not suit. Unless you got something Professional made up – like wedding stubby holders (with a picture and date of wedding etc). Or maybe a photo frame done nicely, with photo’s of family or you and your fiance (with wedding date…)
Um, not sure what else, but don’t go with the norm, I personally don’t think much of the idea of wedding favors in general.
it is disappointing to me that so many people don’t actually care about the favors…SO we made sure ours were edible. it worked out and we kept leftover candy. we also printed a wallet-sized pic for everyone of us to put in the boxes, so it was better than something they just toss.
for my mom i got a compact mirror that had her name engraved and also a round locket keyring that i had ‘from bottles to bouquets’ engraved on the front and ‘thanks for everything’ on the back..put a baby pic and bridal pic inside…she loved it.
got groom’s dad a nice business card holder engrave with his name. also a 50-year desk calendar/paperweight.
got all of these gifts off of ebay and they all turned out SO well. i was very impressed!