Guest favors

Favors are not a necessity and it's totally fine to skip them.

View Quoted Comment This makes me happy! Thank you.

We decided not to do any! so many people don't take them/forget them anyways.

We are skipping favors too! I've been paying attention to the last few weddings Ive been to and very few people actually take the favors at the end! Im not looking to have 150 seed packets at the end.

Nope, favors have fallen out of favor the past decade or so. Providing food & drinks is considered good hosting.


Only if you want to offer favors, consider something edible: cookie, cake pop, macaroon, chocolate truffle, or a candy bar.

We are using our wedding favors to create our “seating chart”. 2 birds, 1 stone. Plus, if anyone doesn’t want their favor, it still will have served a purpose

Nothing bad if you have the budget as I was thinking to do so but honestly not a necesity. Many blogs say that is the one thing people won't miss.

They aren't necessary. We are doing mason jar mugs with lids and straws that way if people don't take them they still have a purpose in our house anyway. found some great deals so they came out to about a dollar per person. That was cheaper than buying or renting glassware for our wedding.

View Quoted Comment That’s a great idea! I think choosing favors that can serve other purposes are the smartest financially

They are not necessary and no one would care if you skipped them. Most guests probably wouldn’t even notice.

Not necessary. In fact in hindsight I should have skipped mine

I skipped them, but I looked into color changing stadium cups with a cute saying on one side and our wedding date on the other. In the end I decided against them because I figured they would just get thrown away.

It's totally fine to skip! I decided for my wedding we would either do edible favors or no favors at all. We are planning on individual bags of coffee, hot chocolate or tea to match our brunch theme. So far I've only bought the little bags and stickers so it hasn't been that expensive. Maybe I'll change my mind when I have to start buying coffee and things

I made these. About $60 for 50 guests

Not necessary. My guests favors are their photos from the photo booth. DONE!

I am not doing favors, I honestly feel like the favor is them being invited. And from what I have heard a lot of people just leave them and don’t take them home.

Not necessary. If you do one, it's strongly preferred to do something edible.

I'm doing French macarons, which will serve as both the wedding "cake" (displayed in tiers) and favors (we're providing small treat bags).

Favors are totally not a necessity. Most of the time, you end up taking home a lot of them or throwing them out because your guests will forget to take them home. If you want to do favors, though, go with a food -- like cookies or candy. People will love those and you probably won't have too many left over.

We are giving cookies, the wrapper it's going to be customized with our names and monogram.

I thought about a little soap but my fiance didn't like the idea.

Other that we considered was little plants like succulents.

So we had 3 favors, but not really. We got married in October, so instead of placecards each couple (and each child) got a little pumpkin with their name attached to it on a card. Each one was $.30 to make, so it was super easy. We also had a photobooth, so people took those photos with them (oftentimes people use this as their favor). Then since we are massive Halloween/Horror fans, we bought masquerade masks in bulk (I think we paid like $40 for like 100 of them). I think we ended up with like 5 extra masks and one extra pumpkin.