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42 Wedding Favors Your Guests Will Actually Want

No one should feel pinges of guilt at your wedding when they decide to throw out your useless wedding favor. So make it something indispensable, as opposed to just putting more crap out there into the world.

I know, right? Now tell your friends!
42 Wedding Favors Your Guests Will Actuall...
Peggy Wang

1. Personalized Lip Balm (for a Winter Wedding)

The average person loses like, one lip balm per week (it’s scientifically proven) so we can all appreciate a new one. Especially if you pick yummy, off-kilter flavors like Strawberry Champagne and Blueberry Ginger.

2. Donuts

For morning hangovers all across the board.

3. S’mores Kit

4. Jar of Jam

Passes TSA regulations!

5. Mason Jar of Moonshine

6. Water Bottles

We can all use an extra one of these.

7. Sunglasses (for a Summer Wedding)

Source: tipjunkie.com

8. Coffee Beans

You can buy these pre-packaged personalized wedding favors from Etsy.

Source: etsy.com

9. Salt Water Taffy

Especially in yummy flavors like hazelnut and pumpkin.

10. Succulents in Tea Cups

These adorable favors might be a pain to travel home with, but on the plus side, they pull double-duty as place cards.

According to user MeowyPrincess on Reddit: “I’ve found people on gumtree/Craigslist who have whole gardens of them who’ll let you take cuttings for a few dollars.”

Get the tutorial here.

11. Mojito Kit with Muddler

12. Tiny Stickers

Okay, am I the only person who really wants these?

Source: etsy.com

13. Homemade Limoncello

Get the recipe here.

14. Cute Tote Bag

15. Mini Sketchbooks

Get the tutorial here.

16. Journals

Source: bhg.com

17. Bottle Openers

You can buy these antique key bottle openers here.

18. Classy Hangover Kit

Include a small bottle of water or Gatorade, ibuprofen, and an eye mask.

19. Cookie Cutters

20. Candles Made from Thrifted Teacups

Include a cute, simple matchbox embossed with a stamp.

21. Cute Containers of Local Honey

Go the extra mile and infuse the honey with something CRAZY like peppercorns.

22. DIY or Vintage Ornaments (for a November or December Wedding)

Source: etsy.com

23. Instagram Coasters

Just be sure to include beautiful, meaningful photos and not just photos emblazoned with your face.

24. Sriracha Salt

It’s remarkably easy to make.

25. Cookie Buffet with Take-Away Containers

Buffets rule. Everybody loves a good buffet.

26. Shot Glasses

Everyone could use an extra shot glass.

27. Luggage Tags (for a Destination Wedding)

Source: brides.com

28. Small Containers of Vanilla Extract

29. Customizable Nail Polish

These make an adorable favor for bridesmaids.

30. Charity Donation Made in Your Guest’s Name

Source: reddit.com

31. Small Bottles of Mead

32. Single-Use Cameras

33. Set of Colored Pencils

Source: tipjunkie.com

34. Tiny Pies in a Jar

35. Pretty Soaps

Source: brides.com

36. Seed Paper

It’s paper that you can plant! Just make sure if your wedding takes place in the park that there aren’t rules about handling seeds.

Source: artfire.com

37. Homemade Granola

38. Tea Diffusers

40. Flip Flops

The ladies in heels will appreciate these.

41. Tasteful Temporary Tattoos

Get ones that people might actually want to wear.

Source: etsy.com

More dainty options.

42. Candy-Filled Mugs

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      I have a couple shot glasses from a wedding I went to 8 years ago. The couple has been divorced for 6 years so it feels weird keeping them but I still do.

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    • kristenr7 2 months ago

      I think I’ve only gotten favors at one or two weddings. I didn’t even think about them until the first time they had them. I’m cool with or without.  I do, however, love the idea of sending my family off into the sunset with some moonshine. That would lead to some awesome stories I’d love to hear for years!

    • Sinfest 2 months ago

      Favors are cute, but not a big deal to me as a guest. When I was a bride almost 19 years ago it was a huge deal but we were on a very tight budget. We had bookmarks printed with verbiage that thanked our guests for attending our special day. It was cost effective, light and practical.

    • Cinnamon Broom 2 months ago

      The ones that meet my criteria of 1) being easy to travel with 2) Having reasonably broad appeal across the demographics of our wedding guests 3) Not likely to end up left on the table, in the trash or as unwanted clutter 4) being inexpensive (because who has another $1K to spend on favors) and 5) not requiring a lot of time & energy from a frazzled couple are… none of them. That’s why we skipped favors. (Okay, MAYBE the doughnuts, taffy, cookies and luggage tags. But not embossed leather luggage tags!)

    • A.Leigh 2 months ago

      #14 It bothers me a little that the date on that says 2016. It’s 2013! It’s the beginning of 2013. Why are you doing this so far in advance?

    • karene4 2 months ago

      Save yourself the trouble and elope. Too much time and money is spent on weddings. Too often people lose sight of what a wedding is: it’s the union of two people in love. It’s not about place settings, dance lessons, color schemes, themes and photo booths. It’s about a lifetime of love. My husband and I ditched the wedding idea after much stress and got married at the courthouse. We had our parents there, I wore a black & white cocktail dress, he wore a suit and we even hired a photographer. We went on two honeymoons with the money we saved. I still look back on that day and I wouldn’t change a thing. It was so easy and stress free.

      • A.Leigh 2 months ago

        What if one or both of you have parents who would murder you (figuratively speaking) for not having a real wedding? I’d say that’s an important factor to consider. A lot of parents have been looking forward to their kids’ weddings for years.  Oh, and there’s no reason not to make a party out of it if you want to. There is also no reason to spend tens of thousands of dollars on a party. But it’s possible to plan a wedding on a budget, and I see no reason why anyone should be discouraged from doing so.

    • Netty's Girl 2 months ago

      As cute as these all are, I could only wonder who has time to make these? Maybe if it’s a really small wedding, but after being in my sister’s wedding, I can’t imagine sitting down to actually do all of these.

      • A.Leigh 2 months ago

        Some of them (like the flip-flops and the camera) don’t take any effort beyond buying them and setting them out. But yeah, there’s been way too much focus on DIY everything lately, and I can’t help but wonder what couple needs to add that much stress to planning (DIY save the dates, invites, favors…what next, make your own cake, dress, and dinner?) It’s probably an awful idea to have more than one DIY element, unless you really really love crafts or have lots of people to help out.

    • mrsMOcop 2 months ago

      In the limoncello recipe, i need to know where to find ‘tape water’ and how exactly do i know when it will smell ‘yellow’? I was going to make some but not now! :(

    • shelleyk 2 months ago

      They are all really GREAT ideas!

    • rachelsa 2 months ago

      We gave away paperback books with customized bookmarks (guests name on one side, the wedding couple on the other). We had about 10 different titles, all of which were books we had shared with each other when we first began dating. We bought them from online used book stores, so the books were about $1 apiece.

    • maxinecallejau 2 months ago

      I’m doing a pot of strawberry jam. Strawberries grow in abundance locally and the wedding is at the height of strawberry season. It’s going to be tasty!

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