The Complete Guide To Wedding Favours

When organising a wedding day, one detail that usually gets left until last is the wedding favours. It is going to be difficult to know who to buy for. With many ceremonies racking up hundreds of guests, providing wedding favours for each of them can be an expensive task, not to mention the stress of selecting something for everyone.

This helpful guide will help you pick your wedding favours without breaking the budget.

Wedding Party First!

On top of the shortlist of wedding favour recipients needs to be your wedding party. Bridesmaids, groomsmen, immediate relatives, anybody close to you who has made a substantial effort to make your wedding special. This needs to be your priority as these are the people who will be by your side throughout your occasion. Engraved luggage tags and compact mirrors make popular gift choices, as do wedding cufflinks and wine bottle stoppers if you would like to spend a bit more money.

Who Else?

This question really depends on how many guests you are expecting. If you're having a smaller, more intimate function, it can be quite feasible to give everybody a gift without breaking the bank. If it’s a larger scale celebration with more people, you may want to consider being somewhat more selective. If you are inviting fewer people to the wedding, you could give favours to them as a thank you for witnessing your wedding vows. If you would like everybody to have a memento, you can think about buying things on a bigger scale to try and save some cash.

What to Get?

If you plan to go all the way and buy everybody a wedding favour, bear price in mind. If you are buying them last and have already spent a majority of your budget, there are still many ways of giving something special without having to put more cash in.

Also remember that guests aren’t going to want to carry around big bulky products all day, so get something that can fit in pockets or a handbag otherwise you’ll find yourself with loads of them still left at the reception.

If you’ve been a guest at a wedding before, just consider what wedding favours they gave and what your response to them was. If a gift was especially successful, try your own take on that strategy.

Alan writes articles on issues surrounding the wedding cufflinks industry for Engraved Gift Ideas.