Most couples love to give their guests a token of thanks for being a part of their special day, but it can be difficult to come up with affordable wedding favour ideas. Wedding favours were traditionally edible, most people know about the five sugared almonds, but these days couples are becoming more creative with the gifts they give their guests. Her are some ideas for affordable wedding favours:
Home Baking Adds a Personal Touch
Making your wedding favours yourself by baking some delicious cookies, brownies, or mini muffins, and then placing them in simple bags tied with a ribbon is a beautiful and personal way to say thank you to your guests. Just make sure you leave yourself plenty of preparation time in the lead up to the wedding.
Alternatively you could give guests a small packet of a particular spice alongside a handwritten recipe for a sweet treat that included that ingredient. Another affordable option would be to tie a family biscuit recipe to a cute cookie cutter, perhaps shaped like a heart or a dove.
Guests With Green Fingers
Something for the garden has become a popular choice for wedding favours, especially for outdoor weddings where flowers and plants complement the style of the wedding. Packets of seeds are a great choice, and although there are companies that will print personalised seed packets for you, you can make your own with brown paper and an ink stamp, and they will be just as good.
Some couples are choosing to give their guests a small pot plant as a lasting memento of the day, and these don't need to be expensive, often garden centres will offer discounts on larger volumes and if you're keen gardeners you could always grow them yourself. Pot plants can make beautiful table decorations, or you may want to hand them out as guests leave to avoid soil being spilled around your venue!
Double Up Table Decorations
Using your wedding favours as table decorations, or vice versa is a good way to cut down on cost. Good examples include crocodile clip photo frames, or varnished pebbles painted with your guests' names, which can double up as place settings, and glass candle holders that can be used for table lights on the day.
You could also create table centres using your favours, perhaps piling a cake stand with wrapped chocolates that your guests can help themselves to, or hanging chocolate favours on a guest book tree.
Unusual Sweet Treats
If you are sticking with traditional sweets or chocolates for your wedding favours, but would like to present them in an unusual way, why not try personalising simple chocolate bars with a printed wrapper. You could use a black and white photo of the two of you, perhaps with a short wedding rhyme or poem, and print it out yourself.
Wedding candy bars are now a popular option, and you can fill large glass jars with a variety of pretty coloured sweets and candies, provide coloured paper bags and scoops for your guests, and let them make up their own wedding favours. Retro sweets such as liquorice allsorts, rhubarb and custard, cola cubes, and flying saucers are particularly popular.
Whether you choose to give your guests sweets, choccies, plants, seeds, cookies, or candles, don't forget that it really is the thought that counts. A simple handwritten note in your guest's place can be more meaningful than an expensive ornament or a box of designer chocolates. Sit down and brainstorm some wedding favour ideas with your partner and find something that suits the style of your wedding. You'll be amazed what you come up with.
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