My thought on favors is exactly that, I’d rather have a piece of good chocolate than a useless trinket. We are having around 200 guests, I can’t imagine paying even an extra $12 for something that might be left on the table! And one of the only items my daughter asked for was a photo booth. I kept seeing groupon deals for them a while back, but of course now when I need one they’re not there lol.
Last year I went to a large luncheon where the favor was a tiny box of two fabulous chocolates. I saved them in my desk for a few days until I couldn’t stand it any more. They were so good!
The favors for D’s wedding were a small box containing 2 chocolate truffles. They were in fall flavors (apple, maple caramel etc) and were beautiful and delicious. And there was no way they were $12 apiece!
We are going to distribute these to our guests :http:// www.sees.com/occasions/celebration-gifts/celebration-hearts/200416.html
allready wrapped and ready to go!
You can’t go wrong with good chocolate.
The last three weddings I attended did not have a send off. The bride and groom didn’t leave till the end. I also have noticed a trend of the late night party. It is usually dancing and late night snacks mainly for the younger guests.
The last wedding I went to didn’t do favors but did put a welcome box in our room. It included water bottle,chips, crackers, cheese, homemade cookies and chocolate.
Our little favors come already wrapped and ready to go:
http://www.sees.com/occasions/celebration-gifts/celebration-hearts/200416.html
Now ^^those I wouldn’t leave on the table!
I don’t object to chocolates. 
When people do the “candy bar” does that sort of take the place of something like this on the table???
I’ve gotten cookies, candies, key chains, chopsticks, and most recently a mosquito repellant bracelet as wedding favors. Generally the favors were attractive but relatively inexpensive and mostly well under $12! The receptions I attended, people did NPT leave behind the favors.
Maybe not at your table HImom, but I think it is pretty common for favors to certainly be left here and there - except chocolates!!!
If I’m at a wedding and they have a favor like a coaster with the bride/grooms name date on it, I’m likely to just leave it - not to be rude but to not waste it - since I don’t want it (or would toss it at home) if I leave it maybe someone else will want it!
I guess the favors that are edible are most commonly consumed and not left behind. You’re right the personalized “stuff” is more likely left behind. I got to a variety of receptions and believe edibles are the most popular favors and s variety of price points.
Chocolate covered fortune cookies are popular, chocolate dipped Oreos, yummy cookies, good chocolates, dried mandarin orange slices were all very popular.
50 some years ago I went to my uncle’s wedding and got a piece of cake in a little box to take home and put under my pillow to dream about my future spouse. That’s the only favor I remember so the only one I think is worth doing.
Sparklers. Well, they aren’t legal in some places (minnesota, some cities) and they are just plain dangerous. My birthday is the 4th of July so I’ve seen them used on cakes, inside houses, outside, for older people, kids, drunk people. Just don’t. A friend remembers having one as a child in one hand, a popsicle in the other. Right, not a good idea.
D and SIL did the sparkler send off and it was lovely. No injuries reported.
We wanted “consumable” favors (thus the truffles, plus a friend of our owns the business that made them) after H’s niece’s wedding where the favors were shot glasses with the couple’s initials. I tried to leave them behind (we all attended so there were 4 of them), and someone called me on “forgetting” to take them. They are still in my kitchen cabinet.
Then you have people like one of my aunts who is known to go around snatching up other people’s favors. 8-| She’s a piece of work.
I really don’t know why folks getting married think that the average guest wants a shot glass, coaster, etc. featuring someone else’s name, initials, picture, etc. If you are a parent of the bride or groom and want to do that, it’s fine…I just hate to see money wasted (that should be spent on chocolate!)
Shot glasses? Why stop there. What about an on site tattoo artist who will leave the happy couple’s initials on any willing victims arm or “ou-vous-savez”. B-)
Remember the days when folks would give matchbooks with the couple’s name, date of the event, etc. embossed on the cover? So many nonsmokers, but I guess it was “something” and the favor company that printed the matchbooks made money. Yea, never made sense to me that others would want the name, photo, date, etc. to take home, plus having the couple pay extra for that privilege.
The talk about favors has reminded me of something else- the last few out of town weddings we have been to, there were gift bags at the hotels with snacks in them. I suspect we will be making up some of those as well, probably be taking D to Costco for items.
S and DIL had consummable favors. I thought they were jordan almonds in a mesh bag. Apparently, so did most of the guests who left them on the tables. They were actually chocolate. I wish I had been told what they were before the wedding so I could’ve gathered the extras left on the table. Chocolate is fine; jordan almonds not so much. I hope they didn’t spend much on the favors since the guests were not interested in them.
The last wedding I attended, they gave macademia nuts in mesh bags. No one left them behind! Lots of out-of-town guests. They also gave “bug bling” mosquito repellant bracelets and had a bus to transport folks to the wedding and reception.
@HImom Maybe with Zika, those bug bracelets aren’t such a bad idea.