How to Find Affordable Wedding Favors

One way many people will remember your wedding, and one way to have automatic keepsakes to help you remember the day, is to have wedding favors. Small gifts or knickknacks offered by ushers or at the guests’ tables are a way to thank them for coming and to let them take a little piece of the day with them. Follow these steps to find affordable wedding favors.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Local favor sources
• Friends and family

1. Contact your wedding planner or local wedding store. There is often the widest variety of favors available directly through them.

2. Consider alternative sources. General party planning stores, though not wedding specific, can often offer a wide variety of favors.

3. Make the favors yourself. Cut out the middleman by making a mix CD of your favorite songs or a DVD of friends and family to hand out.

4. Ask married friends what they did. One way to get the best information is to go directly to the source of experience. If they got favors cheap, follow in their footsteps.
   

5. Look online. Often clearance or bulk favors can be found online for a fraction of the price you might find at a local store.

Tips & Warnings

• Don’t allocate too much of your budget to favors. The favors are a keepsake, but a truly memorable wedding rests on more than just memorable favors.
• Once you decide on your favor, decide how they’ll be distributed. At the reception on the tables or by ushers are the 2 most popular methods.
• Wedding favors that are too extravagant may be construed as gestures of arrogance. They should be genuine, but not too showy.
• Remember that your guests, from the youngest child to the oldest guest will be getting the favors. Try your best to make it something universally appealing.