I have been looking around and reading about wedding favors- I have seen everything to very expensive $3-5 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??
2006-07-07 04:38:22 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Family & Relationships ➔ Weddings
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.
www.weddingfavorusa.com
www.fancyplus.com
www.favorwarehouse.com
2006-07-07 04:45:45 · answer #1 · answered by captures_sunsets 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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.
2006-07-08 03:57:10 · answer #2 · answered by chillilyn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.
2006-07-07 06:00:23 · answer #3 · answered by kill_yr_television 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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!
2006-07-07 07:34:00 · answer #4 · answered by cqueen4 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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 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.
2006-07-07 07:39:27 · answer #5 · answered by ak517969 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think that they're necessary, but I do like the idea of being able to give back to the guests on a day when everyone is giving to you. The ideas that I'm toying with right now are giving away a couple of iced snowflake shaped cookies (it's a winter wedding) on the low end, and on the high end, making a cookbook for every party, including recipes from the caterer for dinner, and recipes that I've asked the guests for on the RSVP cards. For a wedding with about 100 -150 guests, I'd probably end up making about 80 cookbooks...So I don't know about that one yet. Good luck!
2016-03-27 07:58:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.
2006-07-07 05:59:32 · answer #7 · answered by SweetPea 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.
2006-07-07 06:54:57 · answer #8 · answered by babefirstclass 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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!
2006-07-07 05:14:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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!
2006-07-07 04:41:13 · answer #10 · answered by lccscmaarschalk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋