I'm getting married, and I was wondering if wedding favors are necessary.?

Question

Just to add, my fiance' and I are both on limited budgets.

Answer 1

It's a total waste of your precious time and limited resources. People leave them.

Answer 2

Absolutely not! Honestly, I have never been to a single wedding where I received a favor that I found useful.

I didn't have favors at my wedding, and nobody missed them. My daughter is getting married this fall, and she will also not have favors.

If you poke around on this site, you'll find a lot of people who generally would prefer to not get a favor. Again, most of what is given is unusable, and what is usable, most of us feel guilty for using, because we think it's supposed to be a reminder of the event.

Answer 3

They aren't necessary. They are nice, but definately not necessary.

It doesn't have to be individual favors. something simple as a candy bar with little bags to fill and take home works just as well. The favor is a gift thanking your guests for coming. If you are on a really tight budget perhaps do a charitable donation in the guests names?

If you have to skip them just make sure to give the heartfelt verbal thank you. Usually unless it is edible it ends up left behind or thrown in the trash anyway.

Answer 4

When Brides and Grooms ask me for money saving measures I always tell them . . don't buy table or wedding favors.

Table favors only work in two categories . .
Something edible, preferably homemade (like cookies)
Something useful (candy dish or bud vase or candlesticks)

Don't waste your time or money or effort on "cute items." Cute items are either left on the reception dinner table or thrown away when the guests get home.

If you have an extra $10 or $20 donate it to your favorite charity and put that message in a frame and then put it on your guest book table or gift table. You don't have to put the amount donated and your guests will be impressed with your thoughtfulness.

Answered by: A Certified wedding specialist / A Professional bridal consultant / A Wedding ceremony officiant

Answer 5

Instead of normal "gonna throw it away later" favors, I purchased single serving size (28 for $1.45 on clearance) take home cake boxes. I will decorate the boxes to match out outdoors theme and then at the end of the reception the guests can take home an extra slice of cake. If unmarried women sleep with the cake under their pillow that night, they are supposed to dream of their true love...kind of hokey, but cute too. And since I am haveing an over-the-top cake...this will be a great way to get rid of some of it and save on freezer space!

Answer 6

My wedding coordinator made a good point about wedding favors that helped me decided to not have them at my wedding.

Most people either leave them behind or don't miss them at all. So there is no point to them. Yes they're cute and probably show your appreciation, but it's not a requirement. That's how I feel about programs, pointless and expensive. I think everyone knows what's going to happen during the ceremony no point in spelling it out.

Answer 7

If you're low on funds, favors are a great place to save a few bucks. Most guests don't take the favors unless they're edible ones, and half the people that take the favors stick them in a drawer and never look at them again.

Answer 8

Wedding favors are not necassary, and besides, some people just throw them away anyway.

If you are wary of how your guests will react if they find out you don't have wedding favors, what you can do is just donate to charity what you would've spent on your wedding favors (small or big amount won't matter, it's the thought that counts). Then you can place a small sign on each guest table saying something like, "In lieu of wedding favors, ____ and ____ have donated to the ______ to help/support _______"

Answer 9

I went back and forth between favors/no favors myself for my upcoming Sept wedding....
I've settled on "NO" to individual favors...
what sealed the deal for me was within the last 2 months I've been to 3 weddings and at every single one there were a TON of favors left on the tables at the end of each one!
Such a waste!

What I'm doing is I've ordered 2 diff styles of stickers from Oriental Trading
one type are mini stickers and goes on the bottom of hershey kisses and are already printed w/different sayings like "a wonderful day" and "love is forever" w/pics of flowers, hearts etc.
The other style are a little bigger that you can have personalized w/2 lines up to 18 characters each. So we got our names and "thank you".
I'm going to put 2 bowls on each table...one filled w/hershey kisses w/stickers and the other filled w/mini peppermint patties w/the personalized stickers.

This way, we are still offering our guests something sweet AND thanking them as well.

Answer 10

We were on a very limited budget, so we had matchbooks made with our name. And we put out M&M's in our color-we bought the M&M's at CVS Pharm. for $6 a bag, and the bowls at Target for $0.99.
But, we also made little bags with mints in them and believe me, no one took them home. Do something really small, don't go overboard. There's no reason to go over board, or order from catalogs, etc. 100 matchbooks only cost $20.
Another thing....guys aren't interested in favors, so only women usually take them. So if you are going to do favors, cut the amount in half.
Good luck, hope this helps. Congrats!

Answer 11

Not at all, Favors are just something else to spend money on, and really- most favors get tossed in a drawer somewhere and thrown away later, unless it's food and then it's eaten before you leave the wedding

A nice cheap way, if you still feel the need for favors, buy plastic spoons, a bag of hershey kisses and hershey hugs, put one of each in the spoon, buy a spool of the 6" wide tulle (at walmart where it's really cheap) cut enough to wrap around the spoon (maybe 8 inches per spoon) and tie with nice cheap ribbon (maybe 6-8 inches) (wal-mart, 97 cents a spool comes in every color of the rainbow). You can even buy colored spoons to match the decor of the wedding.

Then get a pack of print your own business cards, and use Microsoft Word's Label Wizard and print little cards that say "A spoonful of Hugs and Kisses from the new Mr. & Mrs." add those on to the spoon, just punch a hole in each card and use the ribbon already on the spoon to tie it on. You can use a cute font and colored type and it will dress up the look of the spoons alot, and it will make a nice little something on the tables!! That way you and your guest feel like they are getting a favor!!

I would say the whole project should cost about 25 bucks.

spoons: $1.00 per 100 white plastic (once again walmart)
tulle: $2.97 per spool (1 should do you)
ribbon: $2.00 ( 2 spools to make sure you have enough)
Kisses: $2.97 per bag
Hugs: $2.97 per bag
business cards: $5.97