Ideas for unique wedding favors $5-8 per guest?

Question

We are having a Sunday champagne brunch and the theme is French and decor is fancy vintage.

I need some ideas for unique wedding favors.

I was thinking about wine with custom labels, but also want some other things to consider.

I am really over Jordan Almonds and little organza bags with stuff in them. Not keen on candles. No Eiffel Towers either.

Any ideas? I can spend up to $ 8.00 per guest.

Do people even expect favors these days?

Answer 1

For my wedding I made miniature scent diffusers. It was not expensive at all. I went on line and found 2" tall glass corked bottles and and mini marbles (to match your colors) and then 12" reed diffusers and had them cut at Home Depot to 6 ".  I filled the bottles with the marbles and my favorite scent then corked the bottles. Next,  I used ribbon to bundle 6 reeds together then hot glued the bundle to the bottle vertically. I love things with scents and these were very elegant and unique. All my guest enjoyed seeing something different and they were practical.

Answer 2

$5-$8 is a pretty big budget for favors. My first thought was the custom wine bottle. Jones' soda will also do custom sodas with pictures of your choosing.

Vosges does some nice truffles.

We are doing custom cookies in the shapes of our home two states, NM and CA. Yum.

Answer 3

From most of the weddings i've been involved in (friends, family) favors always seem to be regarded as unnessary. Most guests would rather have more alcohol, good food, etc.  They are usually left on the table and not taken home unless they are edible (small chocolates, cookies, m&m's).  It seems to be just one more thing the wedding industry is shoving down brides throats as a "have to do" item.  

Answer 4

There are loads of things you could do. Tea towels, little bags of full of Herbes de Provence for cooking, little jars of tapenades, maps of France, little boxes of fleur de sel (salt is lucky!), or you could do little lavender or lemon verbena soaps.  

Answer 5

don't spend a dime

hustle your guest for honeymoon money

go to las vegas, have great s*x like bunnies, inbetween, go gambling

Answer 6

Have you ever heard of Oriental Trading Company? They have some really cute wedding favors and they are super cheap. Not to mention, if you spend over $40, you get free shipping. I think the website is orientaltradingcompany.com.  

Answer 7

Reading some of these answers, I guess I am the odd ball. I have every wedding favor, ever given to me that was not perishable. One of my favorites is from one of my sisters wedding. We found porcelain dove figurines in the dollar store. Two white doves intertwined and we used gold glitter pens and inked the brides name, grooms name and the wedding date on the breast of the doves.

Up to $8.00 is rather pricey. I would not spend more than a dollar to a dollar and a half per guest. French chocolates or truffles would be great. People can enjoy right then and there after dinner.

Wine would not be good. I do not know anywhere in the world you could get good wine for $8.00 a bottle.

Answer 8

I agree with other people that favors do tend to be forgotten. I liked the idea of donating something to charity. In the UK Oxfam have a gift catalogue where you can buy a goat or a chicken etc. Your gift would then be donated to where ever it is needed. You get a gift certificate which you could then put on each table [each table could have a different gift].

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/Browse.aspx...

Alternatively [or in addition] focus on the decorations, one friend had little clip on butterfly decorations on each name card and this then acted as the favor.  

Answer 9

No one remembers the favors at all. Use the money to do something to enhance the decorations, food, or wine.or give a donation to a favorite charity in each guests name.

If you really feel you have to "do favors"  something chocolate will be enjoyed.  Belgium chocolate is the best. European deserts?

$5-$8 wine is not worth the money. People will remember cheap wine, don't mar your special day with  that!!

Answer 10

Wow. Honestly, i wouldn't even spend that much. My mother in law, just bought labels and used a label printer on the computer that printed, Thanks for coming to the yadda yadda wedding.and Put that on candy bars and people took what they wanted.

Answer 11

I've been to a few weddings recently where there weren't any favours, and we didn't miss them at all. Having said that, a little keepsake is nice for each guest, and I know my parents and my in-laws have both still got theirs.

The wine sounds like a good idea, it fits in with your French theme and the labels will be a lovely touch.

I'd be tempted to go for something edible that the guests can eat at the table after the meal - I've seen personalised fortune cookies which say lovely personal things about the couple getting married when you break into them (very sweet!) and little tins of mints with the couples names and the date of the wedding on. People can keep the tins if they like, and eat the mints!

One wedding I went to a few years ago had little questions about the couple in a basket on each plate, along the lines of "where did we meet" and "who proposed" and "what is our song?" which had the guests talking and breaking the ice before the meal!  

Have fun choosing, and congratulations on the upcoming wedding!  

Answer 12

No, your doing enough and furthermore it sounds like a lot to ask for eight bucks. Unless they all get drunk and line up to French kiss you for eight bucks each.