What wedding favors are you giving your guests?

I have a friend making personalized wooden coasters for our wedding favors.

Our favors are also our escort cards. Photo strip frames with ribbon and a silver pumpkin charm on them. They will have a slip with the guest's name, table number and a cute saying on the bottom. We are having a photo booth so I figured this would be a cute way to make escort cards and a favor in one. I bought them on ebay and they were about 69 cents each.

Favors are not required, though. Our friend didn't have a favor and I didn't even notice. She had a photo booth but no frames. Most people don't keep/use wedding favors.

We're not doing favors because no one wants anything with FH and my name and wedding date on it. If you do a favor have it be edible or expect a lot of leftovers. I'm putting that money to better food/booze

We are doing small jars of honey since we have 2 bee hives.

Most guests are from out of town so we are doing welcome baskets instead of favors... I feel kind of bad that the people staying at different hotels or are from in town won't get anything, but oh well.

We did packages of Moose Munch from Harry & David. It worked out to be just under $1 per person and the guests LOVED it. Nobody left it behind.

We passed on the favors. At first I felt obligated especially with a DW and all guests coming OOT but felt our guests wouldn't miss them. And they didn't!

We are doing little mint tins. They will have our name and wedding date on them and say "Mint to be!"

I like them because mints will be appreciated after dinner and once the tin is empty no one needs to feel obligated to keep it as it was just packaging.

My company...jk.

We're having a photo booth so we're treating the photo booth pictures as their favors. Even if we didn't have the booth we wouldn't be spending extra money on favors.

Chocolate sponge candy ...we are having a DW so we wanted to bring a hometown favorite with us

I'm using this little bisque porcelain boxes http://www.victoriantradingco.com/item/30-co-307797/100100100/lidded-floral-porcelain-boxes.

I get the catalog, so sometimes they have them on sale for $9.95 a dozen. [

Even not on sale, they are still less than a dollar a piece if you get more than one set].

I am going to place them at each (adult) seat with a wineglass or champagne flute upside down over the top.

For kid favors, I got these http://www.lightinthebox.com/spedding-to-happiness-heart-shaped-favor-tin-set-of-12_p941485.html

(I am going to put mini-reeses pieces in the boxes and tins).

I love favors, as they are a special thank-you on top of the reception thank-you.

Had I not already ordered these a while back, I might have gone with little $1 frames that could double as escort cards. However, these will really fit with the (slightly) vintage & painterly feel of my wedding.

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If you need favors that are even cheaper than $1 a person, lightinthebox.com has some great options that are very cute and cheap. Coasters, favor boxes, favor tins, etc. (And if you want to go over $1, they have some of the prettiest candle favors I have seen at far better prices than the typical wedding site).

One of my favorite things are these wedding cake favor boxes that are put together like a cake, they have a number of different ones.

http://www.lightinthebox.com/spring-breeze-cake-favor-box-set-of-10_p277377.html

http://www.lightinthebox.com/pink-heart-cake-favor-box-set-of-20_p277318.html#have_reviews

They could even double as centerpieces as well as favors in a pinch!

We are giving a silver snowflake Christmas ornament which goes with our theme and the timing of the wedding.

We are having our guest take home the canning jar mugs that will have their name on it via a chalk board sticker that they can take off....it will be their glass for the night and will also have the table number they will be sitting at on a thank you tag attached to the handle. We will also have goody bags for taking sweets home and a DIY photo booth.

We are doing koozies!

I'm putting to-go boxes by the dessert table. Done.

We gave out spring themed cookie cutters with our favorite sugar cookie recipe attached to them

We did 2 oz jars filled with mini M&Ms. The sticker with our names on it peels off easily, so people can re-use it however they want.

We are doing a candy buffet. Yum!

Here are mine. They are handpainted wine glasses. I bought the glasses online from the dollar store. Each one is different. The best part is that they don't have our names or wedding date on them as a permanent fixture; the only mention that it's a wedding favor will be the sticker on the bottom. They are also our escort cards. I'm tying either a blue or silver ribbon around the stems to attach the escort card and a charm. I have 23 completed so far and have about 70 more to go, so Friday night I'm having some friends over to drink some wine and paint some wine glasses.

We will have a photo booth to double as a favor.