Hi girls,
I have a problem with favours ! We are doing lottery tickets/scratch cards for the 16 years + guests and activity packs for the unders 10's but we have 6 x 12-15year olds that at the moment have no favours at all. I don't want to spend more than £15-£20 to get the favours for them. (all together, not each!)
Have any of you had this problem ?? Help !!
Thanks !
Georgi

I would say a nail varnish and eye shadow each or something?? Xxx

Sweets or chocolates? Bath bombs for the girls, aftershave samples for the boys? Xx

3 boys, 3 girls..

I had thought about the packs of make up/nail varnish for the girls.. You can get 3 for 2 in Boots/Superdrug sometimes can't you ? And also from Claires ? I had thought about getting a set of earrings each as they all have their ears pierced and they're not expensive.. What about that ??

It's the boys I'm really stumped on.. One will be 3 months off 16 and I feel mean not giving him a lottery ticket/scratch card, but I don't want to break any laws on my wedding day !!
The travel games sounds a good idea as 2 of the boys will have younger siblings sat with them to play but one of them wont..
I don't want anything as expensive as vouchers.. And they're not really aftershave types of boys if that makes sense..

There will be sweets in bowls already on the tables, plus don't want any arguments over the older one getting sweets and not the younger (I know my how my cousins argue ! Lol)

Any other ideas would be great :-)

Thanks !!!

You can get personalised chocolate bars?

Yeah that's exactly what I thought ! I hated being seen as a child at 14/15..
Although, I don't want to give the 12year olds a scratch card.. I'll make an exception for the 15 year old and 2 x 14 year olds I think..

Now left with 2 x 12 year old boys..
I'll definitely get the 12 year old girl earrings now I think..

Also, what age do you all think activity packs should be up to ? They will have a dot-dot book, a wordsearch book, a mini puzzle and another varied activity book.. How old is too old ?? Bored kids are naughty kids and I don't want them moaning through the speeches.. At the moment I'm giving them to 10 and unders...

Thanks !

Not a bad idea ! The last wedding we went to, we downloaded a film for my then 5 year old stepson and he watched that during the speeches.. He was more than happy ! I know for a fact my H2B's cousin will bring her sons portable DVD players for the speeches as she has for the last 2 family weddings we've been to..
Do I add in a note to the invitation saying there will be power supplies for such things ? Just so they know to bring them if they want ?

Yeah I'll put it on my website..

I've just noticed you're getting married in 30 months.. Have to say, it's quite refreshing to 'know' someone that isn't getting married before me !! Everyone seems to be getting married lately and getting pregnant too.. It's getting very tedious haha !
People I know seem to manage to get engaged and married within a year / year and half, while me and my H2B have already had to cancel our wedding last July because of cost ! And now have to wait another 2 and a bit years.. We'll have been together nearly 6 years by time we get married..

sita_meena - Someone I know got married, new car, new house, got pregnant, had the baby and got another new car all between September 2011 and January 2013.. Granted they get a lot of benefits and help from her Grandad, but still it makes my blood boil !!

We'll have waited 5 years since we got engaged.. Should've been 2 years engaged for the wedding last July but the venue really screwed us over ! So now we're getting married in July 2015 instead !

4 months away, you must be so excited :-)

Frustrating isn't it !!!

Goodness ! Can't believe you found somewhere with openings ! We had 3 2015 Saturdays in mind and all 3 were booked up where we're having ours !! It's crazy !

Is everything else sorted ?

Ah, our first wedding was meant to be a Friday but we decided against it as everyone moaned that my cousins was on a weekday...

Ooo not much more then :-)

Plus we had the option of friday or various sundays! and knew that more people would complain about the sunday! lesser of 2 evils xx

Yeah, with everyone back to work on the Monday..

My cousins was a Thursday and my H2B niece's was on a Tuesday and everybody left by 9-10pm because they had to be up the next morning..
H2B niece was 30 something weeks pregnant so was shattered and glad hers had finished early,
but my cousin got all stroppy about everyone leaving hers early.. xx

I know !! They're a lot worse than just that believe me !
Ooo I can imagine ! My SiL is a teacher and her and my bro have trouble affording anything unless they book really really early on !

Thank you :-) I'm hoping Wednesday goes really well ! We haven't had much wedding luck so far :-/

Oh thats rubbish :-( We went to see our old one and fell in love, rushed to get in the deposit because they were having an orangery built and if we booked at that time, the prices would freeze at £1500 venue hire rather than the £4000 it would be going up to once it was finished.. Just short of a year later, we went for the proper 'quote us' meeting, told her our numbers, food options etc... Waiting a few days checking my emails every 10minutes for the quote lol.. It came through at just over £9000 !! We went in to question it and they denied all knowledge of the 'price freeze' they'd agreed with us, they said they don't bump their drink prices for weddings but at what normal hotel do you pay £3.50 for a fizzy apple juice ?!?!?! And just many other things like that.. I was absolutely gutted.. That was May 2011, and we've only just started to properly look into everything again this year, we needed to get July 13th 2012 out of the way and then it still felt too much..

I am glad it happened in a way.. It means that we can go on our first ever abroad holiday this year and now we have found a better, more welcoming venue this time around.. I'm just alot more cautious now, I will be throwing every question under the sun at them before we put the deposit down !

I hope everything keeps falling into place and that your day is absolutely perfect for you :-)

And our younger bridesmaid who b almost 5 on the day will b leaving after the photos so her parents can enjoy the day!! X

All the kids are my cousins kids, and their baby sitters are usually my aunties or uncles so no kids isn't possible :-( x

That is a shame and I can understand taking matters in2 ur hands lol I'm kind of getting a little worried myself now lol but I shall just ignore them & let their parents deal wiv them lol

Really??? Sooooo understand then, no offence 2 u or ur cousins but I really hate that, I'm not child friendly at the best of times lol activity packs sounds like a great idea 4 them!! Don't little 1's like colouring in & that???? Lol

We're getting activity packs for the kids too! Although we're only having about 7 kids there lol

WOW!

You can only get £15 vouchers min, thanks for the suggestion tho :-)