5 Favors your Wedding Guests will Actually Take Home
Wedding favors generally are a hot topic because there are so many options and so many that get left behind. It’s hard to know what favors are going to be good hits with your guests and make them want to take them home! With the opportunities truly being endless, it makes sense that there are a lot of ones that your guests don’t actually want. Here are some of the 5 most common favors that your guests actually will love and take home with them!
Packaged Food
An absolute win pretty much no matter what is some kind of food. Garrett’s popcorn is a really good one for Chicago weddings, but really any snack can go over well after all the partying and drinking. Even just having a late night snack is well received by guests that want something salty at the end of the night!
2. Personalized and Practical
If you can personalize some kind of food item, honestly you’ll be hitting the jackpot! I think one of the most popular ones and one of the coolest ones I’ve seen was from some food bloggers - they had little mason jars of spices with their family and their own recipes attached to each of them! Something that speaks to your lives and your personal unique hobbies or things you enjoy is sure to be a hit with your guests. We recommend steering clear of things that people have to take care of though, like plants. As much as we love them ourselves, not everyone will want to “do” those kinds of hobbies like you!
3. Items with GUEST Names on Them
As much as your family and friends love you and want to celebrate you, they really don’t need a bottle opener with your names and wedding date on it. However, they are a lot more likely to keep a lighter with their own name on it. Having it incorporated into their place card is pretty common, but if you can get something personalized with each of your guests’ names, that will be a much bigger hit than if you had your names on them.
4. Handmade Items you can Use
If you want something food related or nonfood related, this is where you can use your creativity a little more! Guests generally want something universally easy to use, so items like candles, olive oil, or even cigars could be pretty popular. Something that is practical and universally useable will always go over better than something handmade that is a paperweight - it’s hard to find spaces for new knick knacks!
5. Photos or Art
If nothing else, your guests will be looking their best at your wedding day and will love taking photos of themselves for new profile pictures! If you can give them some physical form of this, they are very likely to use them and take them home to remember such a fun, special day! You can do this with a photo booth, or have a Polaroid guest book where they can take a picture for your book and then take a picture to bring home! You also can get a wedding illustrator like the photo from Kraneil Fine Art to make each guest a portrait of themselves to bring home and it’s really unique for your guests too!
Wedding guest favors can be difficult to nail down exactly what is going to match your wedding day’s style and your guests’ desires. These 5 options will hopefully give you some ideas that your guests will actually love and not throw away.
If you need some extra help finding favor ideas that match your personality, definitely reach out to us here! We love trying to pull from your personality to try finding something that your guests will enjoy seeing and using.
