Favors

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I think that parents are responsible for their children and should watch them when they are it a wedding or anywhere else. You can't help what your children do when they're not in your presence, but when they are it is up to the parent. The mini bottles of liquor is my favor. We are getting married NYE! But my wedding will be kid free except those in the wedding party and my oldest niece who will be 18 by then.

Unnecessary! However we're doing 2 cookies in little takeaway bags- it'll cost us like $40 for them all in.

Most people don't really care or notice. I still think it's polite, but most of the time they're left/ignored. I got around this my having my favors also identify what table everyone was sitting at. That way, they would actually grab them immediately at the door. Apparently everyone took them home with them too - which was weird, but great!

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Yay!! I'm happy I found someone who is doing that too! I started thinking of doing that yesterday. We are having a trail mix bar (mountain wedding) and I was thinking of writing a note on the back of the trail mix bag. I'm not sure if if I'm going to put it at their place setting or set up some sort of seating chart with them. I was looking around online for a cute ideas for it to be done but couldn't find much/I guess I wasn't looking up the write term! Are you using a folded letter or some sort?

View Quoted Comment That's so fun! I'm actually using extras of my invitation inserts. They'll be flat and open faced so I'll place the note in the napkin so only their name is showing like a place marker and they can pull it out to read.

My FH is adamantly against them, his way of thinking is we're paying for their dinner, dessert bar, cocktail hour and all their beer, wine etc, why do we also need to give them a gift? The only way we would do something is maybe something edible

We decided to go around it completely and are having a caricature artist come in who does 25 drawing in an hour, also we are having a photographer who prints out magnets out of all the pictures they take and put them on a board for people to take, we didnt want to do the same old boring favors that people always give

I can’t say I’ve ever kept a wedding flavor I received as a guest. With that, we will be skipping out on favors!

We decided to use our Photo Booth as our favors. Neither of us wanted to pay extra for things that people will probably wouldn't use. We also decided to do a scrap book with our photo booth to not do a guest book as well. Kill two birds with one stone!

I don’t think anyone would miss them and if they do then too bad. I’ve never used anything either unless it was candy/chocolate and even then I probably drunkenly left it behind. We’re doing a photo booth where they can print their pics out and I think that’s a pretty awesome “favor” (wasn’t intentional though lol, we just really wanted a photo booth)

Im was wondering the same thing and were letting them make candy bags its something that you know that wont go to waste. Because i cant do the other kinds of favor and people will end up throwing them in the trash

Totally unnecessary. We're doing donation cards along with our centerpieces.

I don’t think you need them. I’ve been to weddings where you get them and others where morning was given out.
We are doing favors, hand made Christmas ornaments plus every one is getting soft pretzels as they leave to head home or to the after party.
I’m also doing welcome bags for hotel guest.

They are not necessary at all. Although we are having a candy bar and photo booth that will work for favors! I would have just gone with a donation to a local animal shelter. In reality they don’t need to know how much you gave so even $2 a person could help a charity

View Quoted Comment Same!! I love the whole photo booth guest book idea so much more fun to look through years down the road

View Quoted Comment Awesome!! I love this

Just was doing some research on this myself and it looks as though you should save your money. It says that guests don't really care about this.

Favors are still expected at Southern weddings. It's tradition.

It really depends on your guests some of my family is very judgmental so I feel like they would notice and judge me for it and make up the story that I was cheap. We plan to have a desert table and have extra candy as the favors and have little bags they can fill up to take home with them.

Depends who you ask. In my culture you spend anywhere from $5-$10 on a piece of houseware. My mom still has a crystal ice bucket that she received as a wedding favor in the 90s. I feel like they’re not so common/necessary with American weddings though. My guests would be upset if we didn’t get anything.