Some gift ideas and inspiration for wedding favours and table gifts for your wedding day guests.
Presenting small gifts, or favours, to your wedding guests is a time-honoured custom which originated in Italy, where they are know as Bomboniere and, traditionally, were presented in elegantly designed boxes or lace nets and contained five sugared almonds, symbolising health, wealth, happiness, fertility and long life.
Known as favors in the US; they make wonderful table decorations, and are a beautiful way of thanking your friends and family for joining you on your big day, and giving them something that will remind them of your special occasion. Favours can be coordinated to match the theme of an event, the flowers, and so on.
Table Trivia
One the most common problems that couples experience is how to break the ice at the reception. Many of the guests will barely know each other so it’s often a good idea to introduce some kind of activity to get conversation flowing. Table trivia cards do this job perfectly and, because the boxes of cards are relatively inexpensive, they make a handy table gift that guests can take away with them. The cards are supplied in small square boxes and there is even a toddler’s version so even the youngest members of the wedding party won’t feel left out.
- Romantic Table Trivia – each pack contains 2 gold/ivory and 2 ivory/gold boxes of quiz cards containing questions of a romantic theme. £7.78 from amazon
- Tot’s Trivia – table trivia just for children £2 from amazon
Personalised Favours
Personalised table favours are a great way to make your wedding reception more personal and memorable. There are an endless array of favour ideas, some come in an out of fashion while others are always popular. Anything which employs sweets or confectionery and a nice personalised label will usually be well received and allows your imagination to run free without being restricted to a certain theme.
These personalised favour ideas by Katie Sue are simple but effective and can be adapted to your own colour scheme. See the full range, together with some more original favour ideas at notonthehighstreet.com
Sweets
Sweets and candy are always a popular favour idea and often the most cost effective. Older guests may like retro-themed sweets while kids will like the glass jars filled with sweets or whatever filling you choose. The chocolate ‘fish & chips’ cone is part of new favour range of sweet filled cones, wrapped and tied with a nice ribbon.
- Just Married chocolate squares – supplied in bulk bags of 100 pieces £14.99
- Swizzles Cube Favour – a clear box filled with branded sweets £2.99
- Kid’s Filled Favour Jar – a small glass jar filled with Dolly Mixtures (label not included) £2.99
- Fish n Chips – white chocolate in the shape of fish & chips £2.99