Who gets wedding favors?

Everyone or no one

Uh oh. Be prepared... you should never have a tiered wedding. Everyone invited to the ceremony should be invited to the reception...

First of all, you have already thrown etiquette out the window by not inviting everyone to the reception. A reception is a thank you to guests for attending the ceremony. You are basically telling 300+ people that you wanted them to buy you a gift but they are not special enough to celebrate with you.

To answer your question, wedding favors are not necessary at all.

Etiquette is that everyone invited to your ceremony is also invited to your reception, and those who attend the reception get a favor.

ETA: If you choose to do favors, everyone at the reception gets one. But there are many brides and grooms (such as myself) who elected to not do favors.

You can NOT invite people to the ceremony and not the reception.

Well that's rude. Everyone invited to the ceremony needs to be invited to the reception.

And if you're having favors, everyone needs one.

This can't be real. There really can't be people out there fine with giving a big, fat middle finger to 300 "loved ones."

Agreed, everyone invited to the ceremony should be invited to the reception. If you're doing favors everyone should get one.

Favors aren't necessary, but if you have them, you should have enough for everyone.

What is necessary is inviting all of your ceremony guests to your reception. What you are planning is against etiquette.

There is an etiquette. You completely obliterated it when decided to not invite 300+ people to the reception (which is the thank you for coming to the ceremony in the first place)

So you basically want 500 people to come and give you a gift but you only want to say thank you to 200 of them? (Since the reception is to thank your guests)

Favors should be the least of your concern with this etiquette disaster.

Double post

How on earth are you even close enough with 500+ people to invite them to your wedding? At this point favors are the least of your worries.

HELLLLL NO! Anyone invited to the ceremony has to be invited to the reception. Period. The end.

????

Are you a Duggar?

The reception is to thank your guests for attending the ceremony. You CANNOT KICK OUT 300 GUESTS AFTER YOUR CEREMONY. Rude af.

Are the 500 people from church? I simply don't understand.... don't do a tiered reception.

That's rude!

I honestly don't see why you even care at this point. I mean, you invited 500 gifts (and let's be clear, the only reason to tier your wedding like this is to gift grab) to your ceremony, but only 200 are good enough/important enough to you to invite to the reception, which is SUPPOSED to be a thank you to your GUESTS for attending the CEREMONY.

So you've already told 300 of your "nearest and dearest" to fuck off. At this point, why do you give a damn about who should or shouldn't get favors?

This is probably the pinnacle of posts I've ever seen on WW regarding the shitty treatment of guests. Seriously.

You should seriously just elope, if you're going to treat people like that. There is NO excuse for this.

@Annakay: Sadly, even the Duggars realize they need to treat their guests to a reception, all 1000 of them.