Wedding Favours

There are plenty of ways to make sure you have cheap wedding favours at your wedding. From the traditional sugared almonds to more modern takes on the wedding favour, there are lots of ideas here to fit your budget.

Traditionally, favours were given to guests that were invited to celebrations. Originally, porcelain boxes with sugared sweets were given as a token of thanks to the guest for attending. The most popular type of favour was the sugared almond, which is still a favourite today.

Favours weren't just given at weddings; they were popular at all kinds of celebration including Christenings, Balls or other large celebrations. Today, the tradition has continued, especially so for weddings.

Favours are usually made up of either sweets in a box or a bag, or a small gift. One easy way of reducing your costs is to consider items that don't need a wrapper (box or bag) to sit in, e.g. pre-packaged sweets or free standing gifts. In this article I cover lots of ideas for cheap wedding favours that don't need a wrapper or container.

A more recent trend is to go with seeds, plants or flowers as wedding favours. They're green, environmentally friendly and often much more use to the guest then sweets or chocolates. If you fancy something a bit different or your wedding is a country theme, then these seed, plant and flower wedding favour ideas will get you started.

If you're a little creative, you could consider making your own favours. There are lots of ideas for sweets and simple craft items. You'll need a bit of time, but you'll have great fun and save lots of cash.

Once you've made your wedding favours, you'll need something to put them in. This article on cheap wedding favour bags and boxes will give you some simple techniques for packaging favours. These ideas include how to make a favours bag, small cones for presenting sweets and simple decorations for boxes.

Finally, my best and favourite idea for cheap wedding favours is to not have any favours at all! The last four weddings I've been to did not give favours to guests. The weddings were all very different and none of them were on a tight budget. I also didn't have favours at my cheap wedding and they weren't missed. Don't feel that just because it's a tradition, you have to follow it. You don't.

My best tip is if you really feel you need to have favours, then make them yourself.

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