Should You Get Favors for Your Wedding?
Planning a wedding is no small feat. In between picking the perfect dress, choosing the right cake, and setting a convenient seating chart, it’s easy to overlook wedding favors.
What are wedding favors? Should you add them to your wedding? Let’s find out.
Reasons to Get Favors
A wedding favor is a small gift given to the attending guests by the bride and groom to appreciate their presence on the D-day.
Wedding favors may not be essential but they’re traditional. No wedding favor is too big or too small. It shows your thoughtfulness and keeps your wedding memories fresh in the mind of your guests for a long time.
Reasons to Not Get Favors
Wedding Favors are not a necessity. If you’re on a tight budget, you can opt to sit it out.
If you don’t have the means to expand your budget to include wedding favors, that’s totally fine. After all, you will be sending a thank you card after the big day to appreciate the guests’ presence on the wedding day.
Budget Consideration for Favors
Weddings are expensive affairs.
One factor where you can manipulate your budget is wedding favors. Take these two factors into consideration before you go wedding favor hunting:
- Your budget
- The size of your guest list
Depending on these factors, you can choose a wedding favor without straying from the initial budget. Of course, you can also DIY your way through it.
How to Choose Wedding Favors?
At the end of the day, it all depends on your guests. Some guests either forget the wedding favors entirely or just don’t want to take them home. If what you choose is something that appeals to them, they’re taking it home.
If you want to ensure they do, make sure you choose wisely. Go with popular choices.
How Many Wedding Favors Do I Need?
Now you have to decide how many gifts you actually need. This is important. You don’t want to have too many or too little. Careful planning is key.
If your wedding favor is on the more expensive side, you can give just one per couple/family. No hard and fast rule applies to it. If it’s more affordable, have one allotted for every guest.
Cover the entire ground. Make sure you have extras anyway. You may have guests you didn’t see coming or guests that want more than one wedding favor.
If your wedding favors are something that can be given to the kids in attendance too, that’s great If not, you can look at child-friendly alternatives. Board games, sweets, and candies-anything that appeals to kids work.
Ways to Present the Wedding Favors
Wedding favors are all about how you present them. Here are some of the best ways to present wedding favors
- As table displays
- On a decorative ladder or cart
- In the place settings
- Welcoming people with a favor
- Through the help of your younger relatives
The Takeaway
As wedding favors don’t have specific criteria, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. We understand how that can feel. No bride or groom should have to go through that intense decision-making process. We hope this article makes choosing (or not choosing) a wedding favor an easier process for you.