How important are wedding favors? What would you like to receive!?
I have been looking around and reading about wedding favors- I have seen everything to very expensive -5 per person gifts and read about people actually just not doing them. I also was told just to give cheap cheap things like hersery kisses wrapped in tulle. I guess it’s because I am an artist but I want my favors to be nice and not just mints. I guess my questions are- What would you like to reiceve as a wedding favor and what was the nicest wedding favor you have ever revieved? I am thinking about making candles in little jars for my favors and I am getting mixed feeling on it. Like it should be candy or I should try to do something cheaper. Granted I want to save money but I don’t want to give someone a blahhhh favor.
Am I the only person who notices the wedding favor??
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they are just a nice touch some brides like to add, they are not a necessity and if they are not there I am sure they will not be missed.
However this website has some great ideas, if you do in deed decide to go with a wedding favor.
http://www.weddingfavorusa.com
http://www.fancyplus.com
http://www.favorwarehouse.com
for a favor – a bj lol
I think it is nice to have wedding favors because it is a simple "thank you" to your guests. Something that my husband and I did at our wedding was three Hershey kisses wrapped in tulle and then a simple thank you to our guests with our new address on it. Hope this helps!
maybe a little candle with the date of the wedding,
i like the candy tho. I’m simple i guess
i say don’t stress it too much, its such a small part of the wedding, most people don’t even keep the wedding favors if it isn’t edible
Wedding Favors are more like something for people to remember your wedding. I would choose stuff like maybe a cd with your wedding music and pics or maybe a keychain with your wedding pic in it. good luck
they are a nice touch! what about something that really hightlights you and your significant other …maybe a CD of your favorite songs? A Frame and you can send a picture that fits it in your thank you notes. ….those are probably the favors I remember getting and liked the most.
I think candles are a great wedding favor… Everyone will use candles… You could make pretty personal labels for them off your computer. You can get inexpensive little jarred candles for $1-$2 dollars.. and you could get the candle in your "Wedding" colors or colors….
I love wedding favors… but if its almonds or candy.. I don’t keep it.. Candles, little bottles of wine, soaps, etc… I use/keep!
Hope this helps!
For my upcoming wedding, we decided to forgo giving out favors. No one notices them, at least I never have at any of the weddings I have been to.
What we are doing instead is making a donation to two charities that are meaningful to both of us. We are leaving cards on all the tables letting our guests know that in lieu of a favor, a donation has been made with the name of the charities.
We had a casual, beachy wedding and we gave out little candles made out of gel with seashells in them and sanddollars with our names and the wedding date written on the back in calligraphy and they had a nice little poem tied to them. I think the favor should fit the theme. I spent a lot of time figuring out the favor, I wanted them to be special. And I think candles are a great favor. I don’t like the idea of doing candy, people just eat it and don’t remember it. Everyone will eventually use their candle and making them yourself makes it a special favor. A favor is a way of thanking your guests for being there, so you should definitely do it. Don’t listen to other people, do what you want to do.
A piece of candy is nice, but whimiscal little gifts I can do without. If I were at the mall and someone had a table set up these items, giving them away for free — it’s still stuff I wouldn’t want to bother carrying around. But if it’s a wedding favor, then courtesy compels me accept some trinket I’d rather not be bothered with. If people want something to remember your wedding by, they can always put the invitation in their scrap book. This is an excellent reason to follow the old rule of sending an invitation to each individual or couple, and avoid the "and family" / "and guest" type of invitations.
Me and my husband got pens with our wedding colors on his and our names with the date on it. They weren’t expensive at all. People really liked those
I wanted to have wedding favors at my wedding too, and my mom thought it was a little nuts, so we didn’t spend very much. I love hot tea, so I bought all of this fun flavored tea, and stacked 2 individual packets of tea together and tied them together with ribbons in my wedding colors. Then I made little tags to attach to them that said "Love is Brewing" with our names and wedding date on them. I thought they were cute, and pretty cheap to do too. I’ve actually never been to another wedding that had favors though.
This is what I did:
For favors, I went to the craft store and bought green wire (the major color of my wedding, green and gold) and gold bells. I made small hearts, stars, rings- easy shapes, with a bell on the wire. I know it sounds silly so some people in different parts of the country, but here in Michigan, guests may bang on tables or chime their glasses with forks to encourage the bride and groom to kiss. This being a better alternative, they ring their favors- bells are much better then destroying glasses or exploring the bad acoustics of a hall. Some halls can get pretty loud…
This, and I bought card stock and scissors with the decorative edging. The card stock can feed through a regular printer, and I wrote:
"Every time this bell sings,
A kiss of the Bride and groom it brings!"
I used the scissors and cut out the sayings, punched a hole in it and tied it with a gold ribbon. They were beautiful, and I made a mobile out of the extras for my sun room. When the wind blows in, it makes me want to kiss my husband
You can get silver bells, or copper colored, as well, and craft wire comes in silver white, green, gold, red, fuchsia, and more- so it will be easy to color coordinate. I spent, roughly, $50 for the whole thing.
My sister and brother in laws, however, did something really cool. The bought packages of flower seed, all different species. The used their home printer and bought sticky address labels. On the labels, they wrote:
"Glen and Ashley (date)
Flowers and love always bloom after bad weather."
Living in Michigan, our weather can be rather tremulous and unpredictable, and this is great symbolism about love.
If you want to do favors, I would do something that is edible. I am not an artist like yourself so I don’t have any great ideas (sorry) but I am sure using your imagination you could come up with something artistic to do with food.
The reason I say something edible is because people just don’t keep the other favors. I’ve been at friend’s weddings where they spend all this time and/or money making/buying these elaborate favors…and no offense….but most people just throw them away.
Have you ever kept a wedding favor?
Keep that in mind before spending too much time or money on them.
Hope that helps!
I am getting married this year and I feel that wedding favors are a very important and kind gesture to any reception. You can find unique wedding favors on http://www.myweddingfavors.com that are a bit cheaper than $3, but something I would like to receive. I am getting a wine stopper that is in the shape of a heart, and they also throw in a personlized tag with you and the grooms names and wedding date for free.
chimes are a pretty nice idea.. you can make your own too
The favors are just a way of telling your guests thank you for coming to your wedding. They aren’t necessary but they are a nice gesture. If you can’t afford it then I wouldn’t worry about it. We aren’t doing them for my wedding. The food and drinks and music will be enough to keep my guests happy.
I think wedding favors are very important. My husband and I did the candle thing wrapped in tulle, with ribbon. However if I was to do it again, I would give people seeds so they can plant them and remember my wedding day. You could buy any kind of seeds you wan, and put them in anything you want…( a box, a bag, a jar…) But it also depends on when you are getting married. If you are getting married in the spring early summer then you can do the seed thing. However if you are getting married later the candles are a great favor, and being an artist I am sure you could come up with a great way to decorate them… Good Luck.
Your candle idea sounds really cute. I keep everything that anyone makes for me. Your guest will appreciate it more because you put your time, heart and effort into it. This site http://www.weddingstylefavors.com has a really cool idea on making your own lanterns and how to display them at the reception.