Wedding favour ideas for your Guests? Gifts for everyone

Firstly congratulations! 🎉

It’s time to celebrate for one of your life’s biggest milestones, and you’ve got all sorts of ideas on how it should look like. You’ve visited Pinterest for inspirations, asked friends for ideas, check different stores and compare prices so you don’t blow out budget.

But you are excited about this journey to prepare your own wedding! While there are so many moving parts and decisions to make, you ultimately want to give your beloved friends & families the best time full of laughters and joy.

Here are some of the mementos and wedding favour ideas - a souvenir for them to take away with.

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Wrapped Fleece Blanket, or Shawl

One of the widely-accepted gifts in the apparel category - one-size, unisex and neutral in colour. A blanket or a shawl is perfect as a gift for people who like to lay on the couch and enjoy a glasses of wine and some Netflix shows, as well as those who wake up in the morning and need something to put on out of bed.

They’re great for both adults and kids and put into many uses; however, quality fleece or long-lasting shawl may be on the pricer ($17-$25 each in bulk order) end and you may want to consider budget when you intend to have a big group of guests.

Function - 8/10

Aesthetic - 7/10

Price - 3/10

Time Required - medium

 

Wedding Candles 🕯️

They are one of the flexible wedding favours you could offer - the freedom to make in your own preferred shape, scent, size, etc. The level of customisation it can go into making a wedding candle gift is endless. Some also provide different elements to add more touches such as actual lavender, orange peels, leaves on top that look photo-worthy. Depending on complexity, each costs about $3-4 for a standard gift size, with bigger candle costing around $8-10 each

However, it’s a double-edged sword. Scent to some is a highly subjective, personal thing - two good friends may have totally different preferences in scent and it’s hard as a gift that pleases everyone.

Function - 4/10

Aesthetic - 9/10

Price - 7/10

Time Required - medium-high depending on how much customised packaging you want

 

Drip Coffee Bags 🤤

Drip coffee bags are gaining popularity in many occasions - at home, office, out for travel - to now as a customisable wedding gift.

The package is designed to be portable and easy to carry, also allows people to customise to whatever design they want; pricing-wise, it is a budget-friendly favour with an average of $1-$2 each drip bag depending on order size. At Voskos we offer discount on bulk order as well as customised package, with your own design provided.

The fact that everyone can easily brew following the same method means it can hardly go wrong as a wedding favour, giving people a nice, little token of appreciation.

Even if people don’t drink coffee, they are light-weight enough to offer to someone else without trouble.

Function - 7/10

Aesthetic - 7/10

Price - 8//10

Time Required - medium-high from printing, individually hand-packaged into each drip bag

 

Coffee Beans ☕

Coffee beans are an awesome gift to offer at a budget-friendly price ($6-7 each), package itself won’t take a long time to customise, as one could simply print a sticker from Vista on the coffee packs. They’re widely accepted as a token of gift but unfortunately there are surprising a considerable number of people who don’t drink coffee.

You’ll need know your audience.

Do they have an espresso machine at home? Do they usually do pour-over, french press, aeropress? Coffee beans, based on their roast level, have their preferred brewing method and it is not as universal as people might think. Some like dark roast with nutty flavour whilst others love light roast with fruity notes - it’s a personal choice.

Function - 5/10

Aesthetic - 7/10

Price - 5/10

Time Require - low-medium

 

 

Pack-Your-Own 💪

One of the time-consuming yet cost-effective way to prepare your own wedding favour. You can essentially bundle whatever you want together and truly create your ‘one-and-only’ version of a gift. The idea can be limitless - from making your own set of tea, skincare, cocktail or other consumables - plus, you get to control costs and flexible enough to do a ‘light pack’ if time is short and vice versa.

However, the risk is that everything relies on you to get done, packaged and ready -whereas for the other ideas someone will sort it out. When deep in the water, swirled by the constant wedding-prepping details, it’s probably one of the last things on your mind and it's probably too late if you only have 3-4 weeks till the Big Day (unless you pull an all nighter, of course).

Function - 7/10

Aesthetic - 5/10

Price - 6/10

Time Require - high

 

All in all, it’s about knowing what your guests will enjoy the most. 🥰

It’s okay that not all of them will find wedding favours - they are meant to be a small gesture, not a wishing well - so don’t put too much pressure on yourself. At the end of the day, they care more about you not stressing out about wedding details than what wedding favour they get.

Stay calm, and fine something that resonate with you the most and share it with them.

 

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