How much should I spend on wedding favors?

Question

I don't want to be cheap, but then I don't want to be too crazy either. What is an appropriate amount? Saturday evening, Long Island wedding $$$

Answer 1

I like the charity idea.

Or, and I don't know if you have this in America, you could do one of those Oxfam gift things. It's were you get a catalogue and you pick something out like  a goat for a village, or pay for books for a school in Africa instead of just giving money. It's more personal because you know were your money is going, and while the goat or books might be too expensive, you can get cheaper things (like condoms!). You could pick a few of the smaller items, and people could compare what you bought on their behalf!

Answer 2

Get each person a bottle of ice wine.

Answer 3

I recently went to a wedding that had really unique favors. Instead of little things on the table, the couple made a donation to St. Jude's Children's Hospital. They actually had little papers on the table that explained the whole thing. They were tasteful, and no one knows how much they actually donated.

Answer 4

get creative like cute little boxes with your favorite candy.

or you and your fiance picture in a cute little frame.

just think of stuff and it will come to you.

its your day so do what you feel like.

good luck

Answer 5

Wine would be a great favour- I'm sure most guests would love this. But I certainly would never expect anyone to pay this much per favour at a wedding. Most weddings I have been to they have just filled little boxes or bags with heart-shaped chocolates or candy.

I went to one wedding where they made a donation to a charity and the charity gave them cards to put at each person's place that said that the couple had made a donation in their name to the charity. I thought that was nice- much better than having to take home tacky candles or engraved bottle openers that just get thrown in the bottom of a drawer somewhere.

Answer 6

I give you party favors for a hot kiss :)   hehe

Answer 7

I think you can estimate around $2 to $5 per person to get personalized wedding favors.

http://www.aweddingfavorite.com/sitefile...

Answer 8

Find a happy medium then.

Answer 9

Cheap Cheap no body really cares do they? they just get thrown away or wasted for the most part.

Answer 10

nothing!  make a donation to your favourite charity and have the master of ceremonies announce that you chose to do that in place of favors.

good luck!

Answer 11

We went with almonds as they were hand made by a dear friend.  We wrapped them in tule leftover from making my veil.  You could go with cheap and practical.

At our wedding we got a photographer (and he was a talented amateur so we got to keep all the negatives as well) to go around with us while we had our photos taken with the guests at each table.  We had about 4 couples per table.  We sent them the photos with our thank you cards.  A friend of ours took it one step further and put small photo frames at each table.  I personally wouldn't bother with frames because all our wedding photos (ie other peoples' weddings) go into the family album.

Another friend had bells at each table to ring when the bride and groom entered.  Each bell had a thank you note with the couple's photo attached.  Another had tealight candles in small holders and I think that is cute and practical.  even if you are not a "candle person", it is always good to have them on hand for black outs.

Answer 12

I get married in 5 weeks and this is what I did.

My mother Loves Nemen marcus, and they sell there 1.99 candy mint tins. Very cute. She wrapped them in Silk ribbon..Very nice and spent about 5 dollars a favor.

Answer 13

If it were me, and I were the guest. I would have you skip the favors, and put the money in something else. You didn't say how many guests you were having, but at $10 a bottle, times 50 guests, that's $500 bucks! That's a lot of money for something a lot of guests won't touch, me for one, I do not drink.

Keep it simple, and inexpensive. My friends and I gave a party for our gradeschool friends, and we put little bowls of those pastel mints on the tables, thinking we would be eating them for the next week, no one would touch them. Wrong! They were gone in no time. Put a bowl of mints on the cake table, wrap up a scoop of them in tulle and put them by each place setting, and put what's left of the $500 on something all the guests will enjoy, the food. That is $10 apiece, that should buy an entree, and something yummy to go with it.

Answer 14

I love the donation to charity idea.  Most favors get left behind or tossed anyway

Answer 15

$1 per person