Hi Ladies,

Now i Know if not all but most of you ladies have a creative side to yourselves.

As you know i am getting married next year and i am very much stuck on ideas for Wedding favors.

I don't really want almonds or mints as favors but still want to have cheap favors.

Any suggestions would be great.

Char

We had loveheart sweets!

My friend went to a wedding recently and the the bride was book publisher and instead of favours everyone got a book! (probably not a cheap option though)!

Why dont you do something personal to you - what do you do for a living? What sweets do you like? What are your hobbies?

At the end of the day the favours arent that important and loads of people leave them on the table so I deffo wouldnt go to a lot of expence.

jelly beans or you could do retro sweets, like miniature love hearts, drumstick lollipops etc...

I was at one yesterday, the men all got a lucky dip lotto ticket (they called the numbers out later in the night) and the women got a breast cancer pin badge attached to a card that said a donation had been made on our behalf

(my lotto ticket only got 2 numbers )

Yeah I was going to say lottery tickets, but like that idea!! ^^

my friend had sweets, each table was a differnt sweet name jelly beans, all sorts etc and which ever table you sat on you had a little pouch of that sweet. (my OH nephew then was pinchin them off tables and tradin them with other tables that didnt like theirs haha)

Been to agnother wedding and had little love heart paper weights (mind prob costly) men had lottery tickets.

Been to another when had 2 mini purfume (tiny tester size) said she got off internet, massive bags full said wasnt that expensive. so men had mens nad womens had womens (obviously lol)

Another had little rocks, but had the date of wedding and name of bride and groom in them.

little love spoons (think thats a welsh tradition though??)

ermmm trying to think of the other wedding iv been to. xx

We did little organza pouches with a pink and blue heart in each (blue for Ollie pink for Amelia) x

The wedding we went to yesterday had little candles with the bride and groom's name and the date

I was going to say jelly beans, or love hearts or something like that. Are you meant to have 5 in do they mean something? Id put 5 jelly beans or something like that

hmmmmmm cheap and cute, cheap and cute.....how about kittens??? i would be THRILLED haha

We had love hearts too. The minature packs.

We put them in boxes with lids. I lined the boxes with tissue paper that was colour coorindated.

I then had minature sewing kids with our names and the wedding date made up for the ladies to go in their boxes.

x

I'm having little glass jars filled with the red and white heart sweets from haribo star mix

I saved all the stage 1 jars I used when weaning Hannah and have stripped all the sticky stuff off, spray painted the lids silver (you could do a colour to match your theme or cover with material?), tied a coordinating ribbon around and stuck on a label with our names and wedding date (printed myself and glued on). Jars were kinda free because I used then anyway and would have just shoved them in recycling, sweets have cost £15 for two huge sacks, bought ribbon cheap from ebay and spray paint was £5 from B&Q so all in 90 favors cost about £25 to make (but a lot of blood sweat and tears ).

xx

fab idea Deb's

We should have a wedding sticky that everyone can put their creative idea's on!

Lol jade we actually have a wedding forum but nobody ever looks or replys so we end up posting in here or PL. I think coz it's been so quiet lately anyway I've had quite a productive day so gonna have some Banda time later and try to bump the post numbers up

xx

Ladies thank you for the fab ideas really gave me something to think about. I did suggest scratch cards to OH b4 but he said it will look tacky. lol. I liked it.

The little tester perfumes and aftershave sounds good. I love the sweet ideas too, might do that for the children.

Deb thats a great thing u have done.

I think we might put 3 luxury chocolates in a box so they can nibble on them through the speeches etc. The chocos will only be from costco mindue lol.
I am only looking to send £50 on favors.

Thanks again

Char

We had cupcakes at our wedding. My aunty went the cake/bakery bit in sainsburies I think and got Matt & Michelle 4th Aug 2008 printed on icing paper stuff (edible) and put them on top of each of the cupcakes

We had little organza bags filled with retro sweets with a little tag on with our names and the date xx

haha Debs I remembered last night (weirdly...) that there was a wedding forum!

Awww the wedding forum, I haven't looked in there since Laura passed.