2022 Wedding Favor Ideas: The Best and The Worst

I went for local flavors. I packed Turkish delights with a personalized tag. It was just hard to find them in bulk but we managed it.

At my wedding we married at the holidays we had a make a wish tree Christmas tree . At each table setting we put a gold dollar coin in a pretty gold bag. Attached to each bag was a note for guest to make their own wish and hang the bag on the tree. All dollars placed on the tree was donated to the “ Make a Wish Foundation” $150.00 donated.

I have my amazon cart loaded with personalized shot glasses for my sister's wedding. I've got some deleting to do after this video. This is going to save me tons of money.

I’m glad you mentioned seeds, most are non-native invasive varieties and hurt the ecosystem! Especially if you’re on an island!! Pick a native seed and I could get on board!! 😊

Most places won't let you take food from the venue. It has to do with the health dept.
If you're so against favors... why go to a wedding?

I don’t know about the US, but in France the tradition is to offer sugar coated almonds (“dragées”) in a personalised little box or satchel.
Everybody is bored of dragées but I think sweets in general are a good idea : it’s a nice reminder when you eat them and they don’t create any clutter.
My fiancé and I will probably go for a more original kind of sweets that matches our colour theme but still, sweets were and still are a great idea.

The best favors I received were chocolate, confettos and a wine bottle stopper. My least favorite was a USB key with the name of the couple and their wedding date. I have lots of USB keys at home already and not everyone uses them. The only few times I use a USB key is if I have an oral presentation or if I'm printing something at university...

Who would throw away fresh flowers? I shared with my wedding party and family.

Hi, my youngest is getting married this month and we are doing burgundy and blush organza sashes with a personalized hashtag pen in their wedding colors navy or burgundy (guest will use during cocktails hour for 2 activities where they will mix and mingle to wiin gifts), soft mints( they can consume after dinner to refresh their breath) and slender bubbles to blow during the couples reception exit. We thought those were decent favors that came to a little over a dollar to assemble! Pens were only .50¢ each personized and write so smoothly! Oh and we did the mini wedding bells , will be placing them on each seat before ceremony to be rung as they are exiting as the newlywedded couple💕.

We decided to make pens for out fairs and leave them bath the guest book for the taking.

I feel bummed! When you said "seed packets as one of the worse ideas 💡 🙄! Noooo! Im literally planning on buying 50 packets of rose and peony seeds from amazon because my wedding will be a rustic wood with a floral / garden theme with romantic flowers such as roses peonies and babies breath im also doing lots of eucalyptus. My colors will be a peachy pink , and eucalyptus sage green mixed with white and gold. I thought a small wooden wheelbarrow filled with soil and moss with the seed packets on tip would be soo cute ! Was going to take the seeds from the packets and put them in a nicer brown paper envelope and add a quote on each packet using cricut something like "let love grow" and then a small plant care section wrote on the back. I would tie some jute and small rose embellishment to the packet also . Im kinda stunted now though as I was thinking it was great and cute idea 💡. Its really hard when you have a garden flora theme to be able to think of cute favor ideas ! However I agree that personalised gifts with the bride and grooms names are a little cringey as no one wants gifts with someone else's names especially if they aren't close family such a second cousins etc or maybe distant friends it will just go into the junk drawer and be forgotten ! My wedding would only be small around 30 people 12 of which would be children! And I think the seed idea was also cute for them! Also thoughts on a childrens table?? Dedicated to all the children? I was going to print off a ton of wedding activity pages and coloring sheets and buy a pack of 12 wooden clipboards to attach them to along with natural wood crayons and pencil to match and they could take that home afterwards too ! Im aslo doing a candy bar so they would get that too! For the adults im also doing a second favor which is a glass voil bottle with Cork lid I am going to attach s keyring chain to them and add small pieces of the dried flowers from my wedding inside each one with a small note like a message in a bottle type thing with dried flowers but im not 100% on that either now :/

Ok I have to say I’m 9 min in and although I get some of what u mean. You keep talking about throwing food away is silly to me. Haven’t y’all heard of leftovers ?
And the flowers aren’t always real just saying.

Personalise the tag, not the item… 🤯 you just saved me so much money 🥳

I custom ordered passion fruit flavored chapstick with SPF and aloe as my wedding favors

I’m glad you think the bottle openers are good. I found some with Disney mouse ears I believe in rose gold which I was thinking it.I want subtle Disney inspiration and pink is my color scheme. They also aren’t expensive since I’ll probably have 125 guests

Or you can skip the favor all together and save your money.

The best favor I have received was a wine glass with the couple’s names. It wasn’t an ornament or a useless trinket. It is useful and washable.

damn I nailed the wedding favor best list before I watched this.

Do you have an example of the travel guide you mentioned with the luggage tag? I love the idea of doing one with the luggage tag but would love to see an example.

I feel that some ideas are good, some aren’t. I wouldn’t get wine stoppers cause my friends wouldn’t use it.
I have different views than you.
For my guests, a candy bar would be wiped out cause their children would have a blast.
Photo booths are a side thing, not a favor.
Fortune cookies are great! You could put a paper with your wedding date & a thank you in the cookie.
I love magnets and would just add one to my fridge. If you have young ones, this is useful to keep track of dates of things for your child.

We’re eloping in Colorado and our reception will be back home in Missouri. So I thought about baby Colorado spruce trees as favors. They are expensive though. We are having 2 tents at the reception (because we could not find 1 that could hold us all), and since there will be a gap between the two tents we are going to do s’mores individually wrapped and that way people can have a bonfire between the tents.

We are actually making donations instead of favors and putting a personal note as at each seat as a thank you

Love the coloring sheet idea for a shower!

Years ago when I was halfway considering a small ceremony and larger backyard reception, my wedding cake plan had been a cupcake tower with a small cake on top for us to cut. That way a bunch of time is not required for cake cutting, and we were also going to provide to-go boxes so the leftover cupcakes could be favors. But all of my friends moved out of state since then, so we're just going to elope with no reception. But it is totally cool if someone wants to steal that idea.

Growing up, other people in my family got invited to a lot of weddings and our bathroom was full of little soaps and potpourri satchels from different weddings. The soaps never got used, mainly because they were heavily fragranced and a lot of people in my family have fragrance allergies, so all those favors just sat and collected dust until we moved and things needed to be decluttered so they went into the trash.

The last wedding I went to, my boyfriend and I were both invited and we had to leave before the cake cutting. I really wanted some cake and I was bummed, but we did grab the favors which were little plastic containers with M&M's inside so at least I was going to get some chocolate out of the deal. Once we got home, we discovered we couldn't get the plastic containers open without breaking them. Now keep in mind this was a really beautiful ceremony we had just been to, bride and groom had written their own vows, and it was very sweet and I had to bite back tears, and I generally don't like weddings but I actually enjoyed this one.

Well, these plastic containers were heart-shaped, and we couldn't get them open without breaking them. So my boyfriend says, "if we're going to eat these M&M's we will have to break their hearts." We couldn't bring ourselves to "break their hearts" after the wedding, so six years later their M&M filled hearts are sitting on a shelf collecting dust.

Moral-of-the-story: those heart-shaped containers for little goodies to take home are a very nice wedding favor, but make sure they are easy to open, you never know how many guests will be reluctant to break your hearts after your wedding.

We are having a photo booth that prints the strips and we bought acrylic photo booth strip holders as their favors. We are also using the acrylic photo strips for our seating chart. The guests table number and name will be inserted into the acrylic holder. So we are killing two birds with one stone.

Thoughts on blankets if outside ceremony below 6o degrees? I have 100 guests at mine next week and just found out it'll be 58 degrees in April lol

If you can’t eat it or drink it there and then don’t waste your money, it’ll all go in the bin

What are your thoughts on constructing DIY tea bags? I'm decent with a sewing machine and the fine mesh tea bags that David's teas come in look like they'd be easy to construct. I love their S'more tea and am thinking sewing these with "S'more love" tags in favor boxes would be enjoyed? Not to mention if people leave them behind we're fine keeping them. But we are also thinking of the photo booth - I didn't realize that's considered in lieu of favors! Hm...

Hey! I loved all your suggestions - this video was very helpful. My husband and I are remarrying (now that we can have an actual wedding). At the time of the wedding, we will both have full tattoo sleeves. He came up with the idea of having a temporary tattoo of us. I thought it was hilarious but now I’m wondering if it might not be worth it. It’s definitely unique but I’d love to hear your opinion!!!

Who in their right minds are throwing flowers worth thousands of dollars in the trash? They must be insane! To begin with ordering flowers for that amount... Why are people throwing away tens of thousands of dollars on a wedding anyway? It does not make it better or last longer. The more vain people are, the less chance their marriage survives. So why don't we get extravagant with a wedding charity plan? Tell the people in advance which portion of their gift will go to charity and let them decide between at least three. Now, that's fun! And during your wedding you can show photos and videos of 'your' charities. Upbeat, for it is a wedding. All in a positive mood of changing the world one wedding at a time. Let your favors remind them of those charities as well, like a Christmas ornament for Operation Christmas Child (where people pack a shoe box full of gifts for a poor child). Or a little personal medicine box with information about the medical facility 'you' are building in Guatemala or Peru.

Hope I start a worldwide trend here ;) Join me! Which are your favorite charities?

I own a cookie decorating company. I was hoping you would talk about cookies. I love doing wedding cookie sets, and now I am planning my wedding. I will be doing cookies for my favors ❤️

I feel if you want to do magnets do them for the save the dates as most people will put your save the date up on the fridge anyways.
I also feel like donating flowers is better than a donation.
We’re doing matches but also doing a sparkler-exit, I’m ok if we end up with all of them at the end of the night. But chances are once they light the sparkler it will end up in pockets and purses.

Cupcakes or candy corn, would definitely be a big hit. or even doing donuts, or even doing coffee favors, the best part of doing coffee favors, is that if some people don't take the coffee favors, home with them, then you can take the rest of them home with you and they could be reused by the couple.

We are serving beer in the can at our fall wedding. I get that no one wants a koozie with my name on it but I think koozies might still be nice because it could be a little chilly outside! What do you think? Should we just use plain koozies? We met working in the Smokey mountains and are getting married about an hour away from the mountains. Should I do Smokey mountain themed koozies?? ? I’m seriously over thinking this lol please help 😂

I’m not even in a relationship but your videos are so fun

Yay you’re back!

You are glowing!

I recently Found you channel. Could you do a video on how to make a smaller scale more relaxed wedding (50-60 people) still actually feel like a wedding? I really want a small wedding but I don’t want to spend all that money for it to just feel like a random party. I hope that makes sense! I have your wedding planning workbook which has been a great resource😊