WEDDING FAVORS AND YOUR BUDGET
You may wonder why a couple would consider not giving wedding favors at their wedding. In most cases, the simple and obvious answer to this question is that the couple is working within a very tight budget and is afraid that purchasing wedding favors for each of the guests will put them over-budget.
This is a very valid concern, but the good news is that there is a wide variety of wedding favor price ranges now, to help cater to all budgets and sizes of parties.
However, before you start shopping and thinking the item is ‘just’ $2, remember that you will have to buy one each for every guest on your list. You also need to consider whether or not your favor will have to be wrapped, decorated, stuffed with candy, and so forth.
So while the wedding favors may be fairly inexpensive, this unit price must be multiplied by the number of guests in attendance. So, using our example above, you may select a favor which costs only $2 per favor, but you may be expecting 400 guests at your wedding.
This means the costs of the favors alone will be $800. And as we said, may not even include the costs associated with boxing, wrapping and decorating the wedding favors. Plus possible shipping to people who could not make it to the actual wedding or reception, but whom you might feel you definitely want to give a gift to.
Then there is the additional question of customization. Many places now offer wedding favors with names, dates and so forth on the gift itself to mark the special day, but the number of words, colors, fonts, and so on, can all start to add up if you are not careful.
Budgets are of course a key aspect of any wedding (sorry, all you romance lovers out there, but it is TRUE!), so you need to start thinking right now about the question of wedding favors to make sure the cost is incorporated in your budget now. We all know that everyone wants a memorable wedding day, but remember that it is also only ONE DAY in the rest of your lives, so getting up to your neck in debt over ‘trinkets’ is not the best way to start that new life.
But for those of you who feel they really want to give a wedding favor as a token of gratitude, it is important to remember that wedding favors do not need to be expensive or extravagant.
What to Do About Wedding Favors? Part 3 will talk about affordable wedding favors.
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