Wedding Favors: What Guests Keep, and Ideas from Real Couples

Welcome to Today’s Weddings Edible Favors List! Browse through the list of edible wedding favors to get ideas, and when you decide on your favor, stop back and add yours to the list!

Candy Spoons 
Submitted by: Heidi
Description: We are making our own favors. We are on a limited budget so we decided to take 2 hershey kisses and but them on a plastic spoon. Then I made little tags on the computer to attach to them and the verse reads:
” We thank you for coming with a spoonful of kisses
to bless our beginning as Mr and Mrs.
Our Names
Our Date“
We thought it was rather cute and inexpensive 🙂

Personalized Candy Bars 
Submitted by: Jen
Description: We are doing candybars with personalized wrappers. I made the wrappers myself on Print Shop. His mom works at Nestles and she gets candybars for a box of 24 for $5. So over all our favors should be tasteful and usually something everyone can enjoy along with something that is very cost efficient. Overall I think the favors shouldn’t cost me over $20 for 100!

Kisses/Place Card Combo 
Submitted by: Jennifer
Description: We bought 2″ clear boxes. We are going to fill them with hershey kisses and tie the box with black ribbon. Their place card will be attached.

Chocolate Lollipops 
Submitted by: Jennifer
Description: Chocolate lollipops in the shape of wedding cakes, bells and hearts, tied with the ribbon of the same color as the brides maids dresses with our names and the wedding date written in gold on the ribbon.

Cake Baskets 
Submitted by: Silanthi
Description: Its a little basket which is shaped as an inverted lady’s hat! Looks pretty english and old style..and I have ribbons and cute flowers in it.. at the bottom of the basket I have some white tulle lace attached and inside the lace you will find some fruit cake with icing on it

Teddy Bear Hugs & Candy Kisses 
Submitted by: Beth
Description: I took flat 2″ wooden hearts and spray painted them the color of my wedding (burgundy). I then glued our ribbons to the back making a loop at the top and crossing the ribbon on the back. (It can be hung like an ornament.) On the front I glued a small teddy bear(brown plastic bear)facing a chocolate kiss. I made about 110 of them for under $70.00. All materials came from a craft supply store.

Ring Pops
Submitted by: Brandy
Description: They are suckers shaped like rings and wrapped in pretty iridescent paper and tied with a bow.

Star Shaped Cookies
Submitted by: (Name Not Given)
Description: My favor is going to be a star shaped sugar cookie with white frosting on it. Then I will add blue and red sprinkles on top of the frosted sugar cookie. I am having an Independence themed wedding.

Sunflower Shaped Chocolates 
Submitted by: Danielle
Description: Sunflower shapped white chocolate with a yellow coloring and milk chocolate center. The chocolates and tags were handmade by friends of mine and place in a plastic bag.

Jordan Almonds and Chocolates 
Submitted by: Julie
Description: We didn’t want to go to a lot of expense for our favors, and wanted something that wouldn’t simply be left behind. So we make up favors with 5 Jordan almonds wrapped in tulle edged with a bluey/green ribbon (color of bridesmaids). We also made up some favors with chocolate liqueurs wrapped in the same tulle, and then alternated the two favors around the tables. They looked great – the pastel colors of the almonds, the colors of the foil were wrapped in showed through the tulle, giving some color to the table, and there were none left behind at the end of the night.

Maple Syrup 
Submitted by: Heidi
Description: Small 1 oz heart shaped bottles with maple syrup that my parents make inside. There was a small tag tied on that had our names and the date of our marriage.

Chocolate Candy Molds
Submitted by: Jennifer
Description: I used a heart shaped candy mold box and some small wedding candy molds in the shape of glasses, bride and groom and fans etc. to put in the box after it was molded. I got the molds and the candys in the bulk food section at my local grocery store.

Sunflower Shaped Chocolate on a Stick
Submitted by: Danielle
Description: Friends of mine have a business on the side and they will be making them. They will be yellow colored white chocolate with a milk chocolate center. They will be on a stick wrapped with green florist tape. The chocolate will be in pastic with a little bow and a tag that says:

Thank You
Michael and Danielle

Fortune Cookies
Submitted by: Lori
Description: We have personalized fortune cookies and wrapped them in colored tissue and put them in chinese take-out boxes wrapped with satin ribbon.

Welcome to Today’s Weddings Candles Favors List! Browse through the list of Candles wedding favors to get ideas, and when you decide on your favor, stop back and add yours to the list!

Lavender Tealight Candles 
Submitted by: Melody
Description: I’m giving little lavender tealights from Partylite out. I received all of them free for having a party. I’ve attached a card made from the left over card stock I used for my invitations. 

Beeswax Votives 
Submitted by: Shauna
Description: We bought beeswax votive candles in dark yellow and cream (to match the fall theme of the wedding), some raffia and those little fake gold rings. I tied the gold rings and a tag (made on my computer with business cards in a cream color) onto the raffia which was wrapped around each votive. Since the reception is a buffet, one will be placed at each place setting for the guests. We are also putting a disposable camera on each table for “candid” reception pictures.

Terra Cotta Candle 
Submitted by: Charlotte Mulder
Description: I am having a beach theme for my wedding. My favors are small terra cotta pots, painted inside with a pearlized spray paint. Place a votive candle inside. On the outside rim of the pot, I glued on a small shell or starfish on each as well as pearl beads with coordinating ribbon in my color (periwinkle).

Tea Lights in Marble Holders 
Submitted by: Elizabeth
Description: A set of two gray marble tea light holders with candles. We bought them from a place that wraps them all up in white paper with lavender ribbon, jordan almonds and our names/date on ribbon. Although they suggested giving one per couple, we decided to give one set per person.

Welcome to Today’s Weddings Bells & Bubbles Favors List! Browse through the list of Bells & Bubbles wedding favors to get ideas, and when you decide on your favor, stop back and add yours to the list!

Colored Rose Bubbles 
Submitted by: Liz Charlton
Description: I bought white rose bubbles from Oriental Trading. They were boring, so I bought fabric paint to match the colors of my wedding and painted the tops of the roses. They came out great and were fun for my daughter and neice to do.

Bells and Incense 
Submitted by: Kimberly Hester
Description: I have two sticks of incense. One scent is love potion #9. The other is clover. (We are having a St. Patricks Day wedding). They are tied together with ribbon with a bell and a card attached. The card reads:

For luck of the Irish, when the couple leaves ring the bell.
At home think of them, light this up and have a good smell.

Or something like that. It isn’t decided exactly what the card will say. 🙂

Bubbles 
Submitted by: Angela
Description: We bought Bubbles at a Craft Store for $2.99 a box for 24. Then we went to a Frabic Store and bought 2 yards of Teal, Peach and Ivory Tulle for $1.99 per yard; we wrapped our Bubbles with Teal and Peach Tulle and tied with Ivory ribbon. We also made our saying on the computer.

Welcome to Today’s Weddings Nature-Related Favors List! Browse through the list of Nature-Related wedding favors to get ideas, and when you decide on your favor, stop back and add yours to the list!

Pine Tree Seedlings 
Submitted by: Michele Evans
Description: It is a pine tree seedling or a seed packet with pine tree seeds in it. Perfect for a Christmas themed wedding. In a few years the tree could be used as a Christmas tree and we will be able to track the progress of the trees as we visit friends and family!!

Plant a tree with chocolate leaves
Description: In the Jewish tradition it is customary to plant trees in honor of a person or special occasion. We decided to plant 83 trees (one per guest). We will give them a certificate (printed on handmade paper) telling them we planted the trees. The certificate will be placed in an orgundy bag along with chocolate leaves wrapped in foil.

Fossils
Submitted by: Susan Travis
Description: Our favors consist of 2 small fossils in a small decorated basket. Jon is from Kentucky and I am from Maryland, so each basket will contain one Maryland fossil and one Kentucky fossil. We may throw a few candies in there, as well.

The baskets are little craft baskets (about 1″ x 1 1/2″) decorated with ribbon roses where the handle meets the basket body and a small ribbon bow in our wedding colors.

Spice & Herbal Packet
Submitted by: Christine
Description: The packet will be in a vellum pouch listing the herbs and spices inside with a description of their meanings to love & marriage and our thanks for sharing our special day. To include: whole nutmeg (a solid household should always have a whole nutmeg), oregano, basil, rosemary, whole star of anise etc.

Hawaiian fresh flower lei
Submitted by: Karen
Description: We are giving out fresh flower lei’s to each of our guest at our destination wedding in Maui. Very appropriate we think! They will also make our photos look nicer, plus the aroma will be nice to enjoy too.

Tree Seedlings
Submitted by: Erin Campbell
Description: Tree seedlings wrapped in mylar paper and tied with curling ribbon. The trees are given in small presentation boxes. We both love the outdoors so we thought it would be a good reflection of us.

Welcome to Today’s Weddings Beverages Favors List! Browse through the list of beverages wedding favors to get ideas, and when you decide on your favor, stop back and add yours to the list!

Mini personalized champagne bottles 
Submitted by: Jody
Description: Mini bottles of chamagne bottles with personalized labels.

Welcome to Today’s Weddings Miscellaneous Favors List! Browse through the list of Miscellaneous wedding favors to get ideas, and when you decide on your favor, stop back and add yours to the list!

Heart Soaps 
Submitted by: Heather Kimmey
Description: We are making mini heart soaps, wrapping them in our colored tulle and tying it up with a ribbon. Attached to the ribbon will be the guest’s placecards. 

Donation Scrolls and Ribbons 
Submitted by: Heather
Description: Our favors are scrolls rolled at each place setting that match the wedding colors. They have the words “In lieu of favors a donation has been made to. . .(the charity of your choice) in memory of. . .” Ours are for a cancer foundation in memory of everyone we lost to the disease. Then we also have ribbons (pink for breast cancer) that people can wear around. They are spread out on the table to decorate. With the scrolls at each place setting and the ribbons on the table it is a very inexpensive table decoration.

Handmade Fall Leaf Magnet 
Submitted by: Amy Maple
Description: I handmade a salt-clay dough & cut w/ oak & maple leaf cookie cutters. Baked until hardened, handpainted in fall colors, varnished,and glued magnet on. Wrapped in cream tulle cirlce & tied w/ ribbon. Hand-calligraphied a card w/ our names & wed. date and autumn poem “autumn winds begin to blow, colored leaves fall fast & slow; twirling, whirling, all around-till, at last, they touch the ground”. Very unique and EASY to do! Our wedding is “Autumn Themed”. Total cost is less than 30 cents each! 

Lottery Tickets 
Submitted by: Anne Marie
Description: Quick Pick Lottery tickets (only 1.00 each) or scratch-offs, which ever you prefer. Place them in small envelopes, rubber stamp the envelopes and seal with either an envelope seal or a ribbon and place at each place setting.

Lot’s of Little Things 
Submitted by: Jeannine Gambino
Description: I wanted to give a lot of different little things and didn’t know how to do it and keep within our budget. I liked the idea of a little box of mints with our name and date and the personalized post-it notes, and I also liked the white-chocolate dipped fortune cookies. I wasn’t sure how I was going to incorporate all these items on the table and make it look nice.

I did some research on the internet and found a perfect mess bag with ties on each end and I am adding a little peach rose (our flowers are cream and peach roses) to it. It looks really nice. For the kids attending the wedding, I am replacing the mints with the bride and groom bubblegum.

Cd’s 
Submitted by: Colleen O’Connell
Description: I have just recently bought a computer and I have decided to make a CD for a favor. I have made the cover of the CD with a picture of my fiance and I. All the songs I have picked out are going to be at the wedding like our first dance, the father/daughter dance and so on. I have decided to do this because it is cheaper than candy or anything else it will only cost maybe 2 dollars a CD.

All 4 Elements 
Submitted by: Jessica 
Description: My fiance and I decided that our theme would be the 4 elements. We are having a very informal garden wedding in July, so our favors will represent water, fire, earth, and wind. 

The water will be bubbles (.40 each)
The fire will be matchbooks and sparklers (.35 each)
The earth will be potted pansies and alyssum (1.50 each)
The wind will be homemade pinwheels (.20 each)

All of these have great options for colors to make them your own. We will wrap the sparklers with matchbooks in ribbon. Since ours is a garden party/picnic, we will put our favors in galvinized tubs ($10 each and reusable!) and use them for decoration at picnic tables with the guest book.

My only caution is to keep the sparklers away from unsupervised children or adults who cannot handle their liquor 😉

Personalized golf balls w/tees 
Submitted by: Michele Parr
Description: We have personalized golf balls (with our names and wedding date in purple) that sit on tees (of course are personalized also with our names and wedding date) either purple or silver that are pressed into heart shaped fragrant purple soap.

Pewter Frame Favors 
Submitted by: Ricca Stewart
Description: Pewter picture frame with personalized thank you on the inside.

Monogrammed Golf Tees and Ballmarkers 
Submitted by: Paula 
Description: We are both golf enthusiasts and could not afford pricey monogrammed golf balls for our guests so we opted for the less expensive, but sticking to the golf theme of our wedding. We have our date and names inscribed. The supplier did them in individual poly bags containing 1 ball marker and 5 tees.

Tree Ornaments 
Submitted by: Heather 
Description: Since we got married during the Holiday season, we chose to use glass heart shaped tree ornaments. We decorated them with hunter green and burgundy ribbons and we also had our name/date ribbon on it. We placed them in small gold bags with gold grass and candy canes. They were a huge hit.

Paper Fan 
Submitted by: Beth
Description: We purchased 144 paper fans for about $10.00 and tied a silver ribbon on each and passed them out to guests for an outside August wedding. “Very thoughtful” was the response.

Miniature Brooms 
Submitted by: Celeste
Description: Since we jumped the broom, we decided to have mini brooms decorated in lavendar ribbon (our color), with our names and wedding date imprinted on the ribbon.

Chopsticks 
Submitted by: Anita
Description: Round, brass tipped chinese chopsticks. They will be in a red napkin folded to create a pocket, then napkin and chopsticks will be wrapped/tied with a gold thread. I might attach a tag with something corny on it like “eating with chopsticks can be fun, take these home to remember us when the feasting is done!” and our names and date.

Silver picture frames 
Submitted by: Heide Carden
Description: My parents bought silver picture frames in Ecuodor. They are handmade, sculpted frames. We will also use them to assign guests to a table.

Star Ornament 
Submitted by: Jamaine Cripe
Description: Ivory porcelain stars with gold lettering of the words “Love”, “Wish”, “Dream” and “Believe”. We used them as napkin rings (tied with satin ribbon) and people can use them as ornaments at Christmas.

Poem card 
Submitted by: Rebekah
Description: My college advisor is writing a poem which he will read at the wedding. Our favor will be this poem on a small laminated card.

2000 Champagne flute for toast 
Submitted by: Rebecca Lewis
Description: My favor for my 2000 wedding is a glass champagne flute to be used during the toast. The glass’ stem is the number 2000. Not only is it useful and a memory of my wedding, it can also be a memory from this new millenium. I was not going to have favors but when I saw these glasses and they were on sale ($2.50 each for glass!), I just had to do it.

ASPCA Donation
Submitted by: Laura
Description: Recently in the town we live in, there has been a disaster with losing animals at the animal shelter. The ASPCA is attempting to correct the situation, but they need money. So, since we love animals, we will be donating money to the ASPCA in the name of the wedding guests. We will print up cards that state in lieu of favors we have donated the money. The cards will have pictures of our dogs on them.

Champagne Flutes
Submitted by: Sharon
Description: Since the caterer only provides plastic tableware (as nice as that is…lol), I wanted my guests to drink a toast out of a real glass. So, I thought I would get Champagne flutes personalized. They will be printed with our names “Sharon and Kirk” and our wedding date “May 27, 2000” and a picture of a shamrock (we are having an Irish wedding).

Charitable Donation 
Submitted by: Susan McDonald
Description: We made a donation to the Mark Sandman Music Education Fund in Cambridge, MA. Mark was the lead singer of the Boston band Morphine. He died while performing in Italy last summer. Mark was a friend of my husband’s, and we thought this was a much more appropriate use of the money that would have been spent on favors that people end up throwing away anyhow.

I made small tent cards for each table describing the charity, and topped them with a burgundy ribbon. The guests all loved the idea, and we were happy to know our money went to a worthy cause.