Category: Wedding Favors

Setting your budget for your wedding favors is a very important part of planning a wedding. Many couples make the mistake of underestimating the cost of the wedding favors, and not allotting a part of the budget specifically for this purpose.

As we said in our introductory article, you first need to decide if you are going to give wedding favors to your guests, and you need to decide it early on in the wedding planning process.

Not budgeting for your wedding favors can be a real headache down the line, especially if you wait until the last minute to shop for favors. And particularly if you are going to need wedding favors for a large number of guests at the wedding reception.

This article will deal with the importance of setting a budget for your wedding favors, and will provide some hints and tips for making wedding favors more affordable without seeming cheap.

WEDDING FAVORS AND YOUR BUDGET

So let’s do the math, shall we? By now you have already started pricing what things are going to cost for your dream wedding.

The cost of renting a catering hall and paying for food for your wedding reception are going to be amongst the most expensive items to consider when planning a wedding.

Back in the day, a lot of people assumed they would ‘make it up in gifts’. Weddings have changed a lot since then, as has gift giving.

In addition to the catering hall, your clothes and those of your wedding part, gratuities and other incidental expenses, flowers and transportation can also contribute to the high price of weddings.

However, these are not the only factors to consider. The cost of wedding favors should also be carefully itemized in your budget once you have made up your mind whether you want to give wedding favors at your reception.

You should realize that whatever wedding favor you choose, it is going to be a cost per guest item. This means you will have to pay a unit price per wedding favor, then multiplying this price by the number of guests at the wedding.

This means even if you select a favor which costs $2, you will still wind up paying $1000 for wedding favors if you are planning a wedding with 500 guests. You can see how this price can quickly add up and wreak havoc on a couple’s wedding budget.

Setting Your Budget for Your Wedding Favors- Part 2 will help you with your budget calculations.

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AFFORDABLE WEDDING FAVORS
One simple way to make wedding favors more affordable is to give a wedding favor of a single real or silk flower to each guest. If you are already planning to have floral centerpieces you can discuss your options with your florist beforehand.

You will likely be able to negotiate an affordable price for this favor because you are already purchasing your centerpieces from the florist. Selecting one flower used in the centerpiece and having your florist supply enough of these to give as favors is a really nice way to tie the centerpieces and the favors together.

Alternately you might want to give each of your guests an artificial version of one of the flowers used in your centerpiece. These can be rather inexpensive and can also serve as a lasting reminder of your wedding.

You can add to this by getting ribbon printed with your special day’s details on it, again in the matching colors of the floral arrangement or your wedding’s chosen colors, and have the ribbon printed by the yard for the flower favors, and for any special gifts you might want to give to your bridesmaids and groomsmen.

Another way to keep wedding favors more affordable is to discuss your options with a wedding favor distributors. Many of them likely have closeout items available as well as discount items. Closeout items are items which have been discontinued, but the distributor may have enough in stock for all of the guests at your wedding.

Wedding favor distributors might be willing to offer you a discount if you are purchasing a large number of favors.

For the moment, you just need to make up your mind. If no, no problem.

If you have decided to go with a wedding favor, pencil in a notional amount in your budget to cover all costs, unit price plus extras per person (say $5) and start setting that aside. (You might also want to add the price of the thank you cards and postage to your budget sheet while you are at it.)

In our further articles, we will be giving you more specifics on the kinds of wedding favors available, and how to choose the one that is right for you and your quests.
What to Do About Wedding Favors?

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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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There are lots of different ways to incorporate Spring into your Wedding. Here is a list of ideas:

St Patrick’s Day

Easter:

Easter eggs, easter bunnies, chicks, chocolate, lambs

Greek Orthodox Easter

colors like yellow, cream, gold, as well as white

May Day-green and gold, natural settings, carpets of flowers, ribbons, the May pole, braiding, the May Queen, or Queen of the May

Floral Designs: daisies, tulips, crocuses, daffodils, narcissi

Pastel Colors, pink, pale green, pale blue, pale yellow

Natural backgrounds and settings

Back to nature destination weddings and/or honeymoons

Bridemaid’s dresses in pastels, not too neon!

Men’s accents to their suits in spring colors

Decorating the Church or wedding location in spring colors

Flower petals for confetti

Spring themed wedding favors

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The question of whether or not you have to give a wedding favor to your guests at your reception is one of the main questions you have to consider early on in your wedding planning and budget for accordingly.

There is no easy way to answer this question except to say that it is YOUR budget and YOUR day. However, while it is true that you technically are not required to give your guests any type of wedding favor at your wedding, it is also true that your guests will likely be expecting a favor as a small token of thanks and a memento that in some cases they will value long after the day itself.

Wedding favors are becoming more and more common, so while you are not obligated to give out wedding favors, it may leave a bad impression if you don’t, and some of your guests may even be offended if you decide not to do so.

This article will take a look at the question of whether or not you have to give wedding favors to your guests, and will provide some tips for giving out wedding favors on even the tightest budget.

As we discussed in the second paragraph, wedding favors are in no way obligatory, but that does not mean that guests still do not expect to receive a wedding favor when they attend a wedding. There are a couple of reasons for this.

One of the most obvious reasons why guests expect to receive a wedding favor is that it is such a common practice now, that the majority of the weddings they have attended recently have included a wedding favor or favors at the table, some of them very lavish.

The other reason why guests expect to receive a wedding favor lies with the whole purpose of the wedding favor. The wedding favor is designed to help the couple express their gratitude to each guest for attending the wedding and reception.

Although the couple will still send out thank you cards to all of the guests after the wedding, giving a small wedding favor is another way the couple can thank their guests for their support immediately, without waiting until after the honeymoon and catching up on all the daily chores that stop them from writing the thank you letters as promptly as they might like.

What to Do About Wedding Favors? Part 2 will discuss wedding favors as part of your overall wedding budget.

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