We were thinking of buying everyone a little miniature drink... martini's as we could get them for 99p and then special one's for the wedding party (whatever it was they drink) my fiancé liked this idea as he said it's like buying everyone a drink.
We'd also seen some cute cookies we were going to get as well.

Both of these things were going to add up to about £200 for wedding favours.

Anyway after a change of colour scheme yesterday, as we were getting ready for bed my fiancé laughed and said how we had a cadbury caramel theme, we both laughed and said it was quite appropriate for us. He joked saying we could give out Cadbury caramels as wedding favours.... but I actually think it would be a great idea. He then said we could even use the treat size bars if we wanted... I'm not to sure whether I'd use them or a full size bar.

I said how we could just have the Cadbury caramels, but he liked the idea of the miniatures especially for the wedding party, I think we could always still get the wedding party miniatures as part of their thank you gifts. It would save us a fortune and I just think if we spend £200 and people aren't happy with the favours and we over hear anyone moaning, we'll be upset, whereas the Caramels will fit in with our theme and I think they're a cute idea.... and if anyone moans, I won't really care


Do you think it would be silly to have them? Do you think it would look tight?

Oh and as for not having the miniatures for other people, I just think we've already bought a drinks package, so we have bought everyone 3 drinks-why do they need a martini... I don't even know if anyone drinks them

you dont have to do favors at all hun ....

i think it sounds like a lovely idea , at my goddaughter wedding they did mini pots of jam ( they got from a wholesalers) and just put little labels on .....

anybody that moans about the favours need a kick up the

We are only having chocolates and have also brought a drinks package for the day wedding guests
As lala said you don't have to have favours at all so wouldn't think somebody would moan

We're not even bothering with favours.... Our view is that we've already paid thousands on the day not to mention the £30/head so why do we need to give them all a present as well for being privileged to come to our day?? Do what YOU want!! An extra £100/200 on favours seemed silly to us when we are struggling for money as it is and can spend money on more important things and quite frankly, if they moan then they are very shallow!! xx

You don't have to do favours but I think the idea sounds cute :)

I think it sounds a great idea. We are doing charity pins for our favours, other than that I wouldhtb want to spend much on them either. X

why would that be tight? You don't have to have favours, plus your guests are being fed and entertained.

Caramels is a great idea, I love it! In keeping with the theme, and who doesn't like them?

Though if it were me I'd get caramel Freddo frogs because I love them lol.

love love love that idea!!!

oooh freddo frogs! You could get them for the children

I've been struggling with ideas for favours as well, as you say it can work out to be so expensive, by the time you buy the favour, the container for the favour to go in etc etc

hmmm I'll look into them :)

I did think of that Shelley, but caramel is his favourite.... I would say my favourite but I just love them all haha ;)

Totally off topic, but I had a job at Cadbury World when I was at college. My job was to write names and messages on slabs of chocolate, for visitors in the demo section. If we made an error, we were allowed to eat the chocolate. Lets just say there were lOTS of spelling mistakes! ;-)

I think its a lovely idea, however, think it would be also good to check if anyone has a milk free diet (my son is allergic to milk protein so cant even have lacto free chocolate - so i am very aware of this). If there is someone that is milk free, you could still do the chocs for everyone else in a favour box, then for the milk free people you could put some milk free sweets in a favour box for them, they will be impressed you had remembered their weakness lol.... like i say due to my son i have become very weary regarding this matter, to the point that if a cake is being made for anyone in our house its made completely milk free so that if our son gets his hands on it, he wont get ill.

Katya I've already said I'll be thinking of something for my Uncle in one of my posts above, as he will eat chocolate but it makes him bad. If I gave him it, he would eat it, but I think he'll appreciate me remembering because nobody else does (it's a conversation we have every Christmas when someone asks him why he hasn't tried the cheese or something)

Noone else has an intolerance or allergy to it..... and I hate to say that if they did I wouldn't be checking anyway :/ as like Velcro said it's only a little favour.... although saying that when people R.S.V.P they'd say if they had an intolerance anyway as won't know what we've picked for our meals ;)

No I think it was a fair enough comment hun, I have had friends in the past with a dairy allergy and have known someone with a child with it. So can understand how hard it must be, especially if it's a child. It's one thing saying an adult like my Uncle could decide whether he wanted to eat it and make himself ill or leave it, but when you have to take sweets or whatever off a child it's another matter.

The only people I'm not sure about are some of my fiancé's mums friends, I think they're vegetarian and might have some other dietary requirements (fiancé thinks they're just vegetarian) but like I say, we'll find that out when they R.S.V.P anyway, if people don't put their allergies on there then it's their own fault and problem :)

I think chocolate is a great idea. I have bought colourful organza cracker bags that we are going to fill with sweets and add card to with names on so they'll double as favours and name cards. X

I do like the idea of using ribbon to tie a name card on and double as a place card as well :)

Hmmmm... it's making me rethink my wedding favours, we were going to go for chocolate and toffee apples as we're getting married on halloween next year but i like the idea of having snacksize chocolates.. i'd probably do a few and tie them with a ribbon into abow like 1 cabbury milk, caramel and crunchie or freddo etc.
We're already doing sweet tree centre pieces though so it'll be chocolate overload...i love chocolate though!

I think if i heard anyone moaning i'd ram the favour down their throat!!!!!!! (In the nicest possible way of course...)

xxx

Nommylicious!!! "Take it easy, with c@d8ur¥$ caramel" amazing. Favours are usually something little anyways... I'm not doing edible there and then ones because we're having a sweet table... I'm doing 'cookies in a jar' for the women and the
Men are getting a personalised hanky with a key shaped bottle opener and kids are having 'grow your own mr grasshead' and teens are getting a mug xxx

Awesome! I didn't wanna risk coming home with a million tonne of chocolate lol my friend did at her wedding oh my lord we were eating sweets for about two months after it x

Lol us too! Wedding cake and cupcake tower... Everyone will have to come hungry lol x

I think if you like it and it goes with the theme go for it
I've been to weddings where almost every one left the favour on the table even when it was little bags of tablet!
I've spent £60 on nautical button magnets that's 2 per guest and for 90 people its not much but it will tie in really nicely (icing buttons and blue and white ribbon on the cake, tables will have shells and blue buttons round a lantern and favours on origami sail boat place card)