Wedding Favors or No?

No, you are fine! Favors are cute, but totally not necessary. You can also decide way closer when you have a final RSVP count.

I would say it's fine not to have favors. As a guest I never miss them and I'm sure most people feel that way!

Personally, I probably wouldn't even notice if there we'rent favors, and if I did, I wouldn't care since it's usually just something edible or something I'll never use. But if your parents are contributing financially, might as well save your mother the anxiety and cut back somewhere else since these can be so cheap. Little bags with a sweet in them are as low as .30 a bag, I'd easily cut it first if I was paying for things myself but if she is contributing she does have some say.

Nope. Favors have fallen out of favor the past decade or so. Not necessary and if not edible, will be tossed/left behind anyway. Feel free to skip ‘em!

We’re skipping favors because anything worth giving away is too expensive and who knows if people would actually want it really!

Thank you asking this. I was about to ask the exact same thing.

Favors aren't needed but some guests still appreciate them. Maybe try to have your favors act as something else as well to help with costs. For example, my favor for guests will also act as what tells them their seating assignment (shot glass with a flag coming out saying the guest name and table number).

If you don't want favors, don't do them. I've been to weddings that don't do them and it was still a breat time. My FMIL had 150 people, ordered 100 beer koozies and key shaped beer openers. Still has about 20 or so sets left and the wedding was in November 🙄

Nope! We are not providing any because we have a larger guest count and they'd just go to waste.. Guests either forget about them or just don't take them at all. I think it's on the newer trendy side not to include favors.

We are doing photo booth strip holder that can also function as a bookmark, but we only
thought of it because of having a photo booth. It was $25 for 150

Ive seen both sides of this. Personally, i remember getting excited over favors that I was given as a guest at a friend or family member's wedding. At the same time, i know a lot of weddings I have seen so many of them left behind.

That said, it might be good to make the favors something you can use the left overs of and keep them in a basket near the guest book so you dont have to play quite as much left over clean up. Also, i recommend getting a number slightly smaller than your expected guest count (my expected guest count is 100 but will have 85 ish favors). The guests who want and appreciate them will get them when they sign the guest book. The rest will be easy for you to collect and redistribute.

I have a literal drawer FULL of beads and wire which i never planned to use. I bought Shamrock-heart, Triskelion and Celtic knot heart charms in large packs (Celtic theme, can you tell?) and will add some beads to make book marks. each favor will be under 50 cents and left overs will be used repeatedly as both FH and I's families are a bunch of book nerds.

Its definitely not necessary at all but ypu can find some cheap and also budget friendly items on amazon if your mothers rrally want to help out and get them for you

We are technically not doing favors, unless you consider photo booth strips as one. The last few weddings I've been to, I don't remember seeing any favors. And it was not missed at all. You are more than okay not to have favors.

Not needed at all.
If you do them the idea of having the favor be the table placecard (photo frame or glasses are popular) is good for money saving. if you want more traditional like a table for the favors do something edible, or reusable. Like candy or coosies.

We are doing favors.
I've been to 2 weddings without favors.
I noticed.
One couple just bragged that they weren't doing coozies... apparently that also meant they were doing nothing.
Another couple put slips of paper on tables and said that in lieu of favors they made a donation to [insert cause]. We kinda laughed because the wedding planning was so disorganized, we just assumed they forgot.

Definitely not needed. We're doing a candy/snack bar during the reception and we're going to put a label on the cups and use that as our favor, but even that is unnecessary.

Unnecessary. More than half the weddings I have been to, no favors. And where there are favors, so many get left behind. Even nice little things. Near the end some folks will take 20-30 of some items that have not been taken.

They definitely aren’t necessary and are added costs. We did really cute S’mores favors and had so many leftover. They weren’t expensive to make but took a lot of time. I wouldn’t stress about it for sure.

We were debating on doing favors but decided it was sort of a waste of money so we decided we would make a donation in lieu of favors to the local humane society that I used to work at.

I have opted to skip the favors for my wedding. Every wedding I have been to the favors have been left behind so I decided to save money and skip them.