12 Budget-Friendly Wedding Favour Ideas

Favours are one element of the wedding that couples are always on the fence about, they are a sweet little gesture to give thanks to your guest but when added up they can end up as an expensive extra. Well, to help you decide we’ve found 12 fun yet budget-friendly wedding favours under or around a €1/£1/$1 to gift your guests on the big day. Many of these are also perfect as place card holders or escort card markers too, so read on for some great some money saving tips…

1. A DIY Wedding Soundtrack

A hark back to the mix-tape days, creating a CD of your favourite songs as a couple, the wedding playlist or songs that reflect your relationship or memories from your single days is a fun gift to give to wedding guests. The secret to this wedding favour, is as with the others, presentation – come up with a pretty design or label that works with your style. The examples we’ve chosen above show how cool a simple CD can be.

2. Ferrero Rocher Treats

Who doesn’t love chocolate?! Pop the guest’s name on a cocktail stick and pop into the Ferrero Rocher and voila! You have both a budget-friendly wedding favour your guests will love which also doubles up a perfect place card or escort card holder.

3. Lucky Lotto Ticket or Scratch Cards

Who doesn’t love the thrill of a scratch card!? Package the lotto tickets up nicely, perhaps in a pretty little envelope with the guest’s name to double up as a placecard or escort card. You could even provide your guests with a lucky penny to scratch!

4. Pretty Tea Bags

There’s nothing more comforting than a cup of tea. Find herbal teas such as mint, jasmine, earl grey in pretty packaging for an instant, inexpensive wedding favour. Or, create your own blends to mark the occasion! Over on Project Wedding they have a great little tutorial for creating your own diy tea bag wedding favours.

5. Kinder Surprise

A favourite of kids and big kids alike, a kinder surprise at every place setting will bring much delight to your guests as a great way to break the ice as they all compete to put their surprises together. One Fab Day real wedding couple Graham and Marie had Kinder Surprise favours at their wedding that went down a treat!

6. Tasty Popcorn

Make your favours pop with popcorn! A great, light little snack that guests can munch on when they feel like it. And it’s easy on the wallet if you package the popcorn yourself, you can buy cellophane bags from craft stores or popcorn bags from Etsy. Cornude also offer a fantastic artisan popcorn bar service allowing your guests to fill up their own

bags to take away.

• Images via Barmans | Etsy | She Wears Many Hats

7. Fancy Fruit

Think apples, pears or mini punnets of berries or cherries. Be sure to pick in-season fruits for a better deal or find cheaper options direct from a farm or stores like Aldi or Lidl. Put a cute tag on it and it makes a great place card holder too!

8. Mini Party Animals

All it takes to make these fun little favors is plastic toys, some spray paint and a little bit of creativity. You could pick up the toys in bulk from discount stores or even charity/thrift stores and the spray paint from hardware or art stores.

9. DIY Candy Buffet

Buy bulk bags of sweeties online or from stores such as Dealz, place in pretty vessels and provide cute packaging for guests to fill and bring home.

10. Refreshing Mints

Perfect for freshening up after the wedding meal, mints are a great budget-friendly wedding favour option. Again, you can buy mints in bulk online or multipacks of mint rolls or Tic Tacs from discount stores. Place in little paper bags and make them a bit personal by adding cute little stickers or tags that say mint to be!

11. A Generous Charity Donation

In lieu of favors, place a card at every table explaining that you chose to donate money to a charity. Many Charities can provide you with these little cards or you can print your own at home explaining the significance of the charity for the both of you. You can see our list of fantastic charities that offer wedding favours in Ireland here and in the UK here.

12. A Simple and Sweet Thank You

Can’t decide which favour you want? How about a little tag or card that simply says thank you? You could DIY on luggage tags or print these out at home yourself.

So there you have it – a few wedding favour ideas to inspire you we hope? Any other suggestions for wedding favour ideas that really sparkle?

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