show me your favors!

Shelley those are so fun!!

We're having blackberry jelly that M & I made over the blackberry season, don't have a picture of them though..

Cute!! We're doing Chapstick wrapped in custom labels

Mine just came in yesterday. We are doing ornaments with our name and wedding date.

We did scratch off lottery tickets. I hated the idea of wedding favors until I saw this idea online. I just know as myself from my a guest's point of view, that I would never use or display anything with the couple's name and wedding date on it in my house, and I would throw away (or not even take) most knickknacks. For example, I think those ornaments are GORGEOUS Melissa, however as a guest I would never actually hang that on my own Christmas tree.

We packaged them in shallow jewelry boxes with a label that said "Wishing you wishes from the new Mr. and Mrs." and included the ticket, a 2012 penny and a couple pieces of chocolates (my mom insisted on the chocolates). We chose to do the BINGO board scratch offs because those actually take a while to play instead of others where you are done in 2.5 seconds. We had many small $2-4 winners. Our biggest winner was $20 I believe. Our guests loved them (even if they didn't win).

Shot glasses

MrsO, that was such a cute idea! I love the way you packaged them as well!!

We are planning on having a photo station, so that's kind of a big part of the favor. You can do as many photos as you want, with whoever you want, however you want (silly, formal, etc.) All the photo station pictures are posted online the next day and everyone is allowed to download and keep/print/post/whatever you want with their pictures.

Since our wedding is over Veteran's Day weekend, we are also planning on tying that in our favor. In place of some kind of take home favor, we will be making a donation to a charity benefiting veterans. I think our friends and family, which include many veterans, will like this and appreciate it more.

Don't have a pic yet, but my FH and I are creating tins of our own BBQ rub. We love to cook, and smoking ribs, turkey, etc. is one of our specialties. Ingredients will include herbs with "wedding-type" significance, such as rosemary for faithfulness, plus some of our other favorites.

I think we are just doing M&Ms in organza bags with some kind of cute tag.

We passed out live orchid stems and also had kusudama flowers at each place setting. Both were a big hit!

We did a photo booth and each guest got a photo strip or 20 with a bookmark protector. For us these were memories they could have forever instead of some candy or bubbles.

Oh.... I love the orchid stems.. Did the women put them in their hair? (I would have, hehe)

We did a photobooth, so guests got to take home the photos. but i also wanted to have something on the tables so i made up some favors. little boxes that looked like bags, full of my favorite candy, swedish fish! i was able to do 120 of them for less than $50!

We made raspberry jam this past season, and hand-wrote a thank you tag, tied it on with twine....

I love those favors! Mine will be something like this, hot cocoa with peppermint and marshmallows in mason jars! And the fabric on top will match the linen napkins.

I am thinking we will do coozies that say "to have and to hold and to keep your beer cold" on one side, and our names and wedding date on the other

We did homemade grape jelly

We had a candy buffet and a photobooth. All of the guests LOVED them.

I made these and we will have a candy buffet as well

We're having a photo booth, it was included in our package at the venue.

@ Future Mrs Travers - That is what we are doing too!!!!! But We are filling them with hershey kisses. Then we will put them in a organza bag with a tag that says " Hugs and Kisses from the new Mr. and Mrs.". I think it is cute because the koozie hugs your drink and then the kisses. LOL ;P