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Wedding favours are one of the many wedding traditions we’re seeing reimagined. Many couples still treat their guests to unique wedding favours, particularly those that double up as decor or place names. Wedding favours are a great way of saying thank you to your guests perhaps with something personal and meaningful. They are also a way of encouraging your guests to get into the spirit of your wedding (especially if it's an alcoholic favour). From plants, charity donations, and mini alcoholic drinks to chocolate delicacies and flip-flops, here are a few wedding favour ideas.

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With this roundup, you'll find a favour that suits the vibe of your wedding!

Botanical Wedding Favours

Give your guests a token of gratitude with the added bonus of complementing your tablescape. Botanical favours are a gorgeous way to do this. Small succulents are the perfect size to give to friends and family, as are small bags of seeds which guests can take home and grow. Or if you have any floral decor you know will not be used after the big day, give it to your guests!

Seedhouseplants Succulents

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Seedhouseplants, creates hand-potted succulents, houseplants and terrariums! Every order helps support rewilding projects through Seedhouseplants' contributions to Mossy Earth!  

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Cactus Mix of Succulents

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This cactus mix from Gardners Dream includes 20 plants that are selected depending on availability and carefully hand-picked to ensure their quality. 

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Drinks

If you want to guarantee your wedding favours will be devoured then treat each guest to a miniature. Small bottles of gin or mini champagne bottles are very popular and elegant choices. If you are giving out gin or Prosecco, why not make a small station where guests could add their own fruit, mixers and ice? We have all the info you need on making a pimp your Prosecco station.  Just be sure to double-check with your venue as some don’t allow couples to bring their own alcohol on the premises.

Jack Daniels Mini Personalised Favour

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Each mini Jack Daniels bottle comes with a personalised gift bag. Choose from Jack Daniels Tennessee, Fire, Honey or Apple for a spicy or sweet surprise.

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Retro Ticket Wedding Favour Drink Tokens

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Rather than choosing a mini alcoholic beverage for your guests offer your guests some drink tokens so they can go up to the bar and indulge in a drink of their choice! 

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Food Wedding Favours

Back in the day, sugared almonds were a traditional favour. We love finding edible delicacies waiting for us before the wedding breakfast. Whether it's chocolate, biscuits, fudge, jam, coffee, honey or sweets, they always go down well! Popcorn is a really inexpensive and effective way to give your guest a treat and ideal if you’ve opted not to have canapés! Food wedding favours are also a great way of sampling what local suppliers have to offer.

Just Married Love Hearts Sweets

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These Love Hearts rolls include Just Married sweeties inside and a personalised message on the wrapper. Ideal for those wanting a sweet treat in the evening.

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M&M's mini champagne bottle favours

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Personalise M&M's with your faces for your wedding favours! One of these gold bottles can hold 45g of M&M's ready for your guests to devour!

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Quirky

A favour which truly reflects the couple always feels heartfelt. Music lovers could treat their guests to a musical instrument. The most popular musical instrument wedding favour seems to be the tambourine. Talk about getting the party started! Or why not check out some of our Recommended suppliers like Wildmoor for pretty soap wedding favours? 

Scratch Card Wedding Favour Idea

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Give your guests the chance to win big with scratch cards. These personalised envelopes are completely customisable and come in a variety of colours from blue to crimson.

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Thank You Bracelet Joma Jewellery

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This bracelet is a beautiful wedding gift for those within the wedding party, just to say thank you in a personal way. It's the little things that matter most. 

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Practical

We’ve seen lots of brides and grooms ensure a packed dance floor by offering guests flip-flops. Getting everyone to feel comfortable physically, guarantees they'll be comfortable to really let their hair down to the tunes you'll be playing. Or if you're having a winter wedding or a lot of outdoor activities, keeping blankets on hand for those guests that feel the cold is a life-saver.

Sparkler Tag Wedding Favours (Set of 10)

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Personalised sparkler tags are the perfect finishing touch to sparkler wedding favours or your sparkler send-off! 

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Silver Essential Throw Fleece 

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This soft and snuggly throw blanket is under £4 and is ideal for autumnal and winter weddings!

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Place Names

We're seeing more and more couples use place names to double up as wedding favours. From these real weddings, you can see how unique and out there you can go! With crystal slices, records, embroidered napkins, and an evil eye charm, there is something for every wedding theme!

Personalised Fan From Gigi & Olive

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These fans are completely customisable. You can select your names, phrases, and colours. How cute are these for group photos?!

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Artisan Florals Place Card

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Show guests to their seats with style and choose these dainty personalised place cards from Recommended Supplier, Papier!

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Candles

Looking for more unique wedding favours? A candle can be personalised with your wedding date and your names but also with scent! You can pick or create your own scent for your wedding. If you light some of the candles around the venue on the day, the next time your guests light their candles, they'll be reminded of your incredible day. It's little details like this, we're so in love with!

Peony & Blush Suede Scented Candle

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Give your wedding guests the gift of luxury with these Jo Malone London candles. Peony & Blush Suede is the ultimate wedding scent!

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Kisses & Creations Personalised candles

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Personalised candle wedding favours handmade with love by Recommended Supplier, Kisses and Creations!

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Charity Wedding Favours

For the couple keen to give back, charity favours are the perfect answer. They’re a wonderful way to commemorate a loved one who has passed or a way to support a cause close to your heart. Many charities now offer printed favours and pins you can leave on the table for each guest. If not, you could ask your stationer to create a bespoke piece mentioning your donation. Don't forget a lot of gift lists also offer a charity option, too!

Friends of the Earth Bee Charity Wedding Favours

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Get involved in the Bee Cause campaign with these seed packet charity wedding favours, which contain Selfheal, Lesser Knapweed, Ox-eye Daisy and White Campion seeds in a paper sachet (not plastic and foil) – all wildflowers that bees love! 

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Horseshoe Wedding Favour Cancer research uk

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Make a charity donation on behalf of you and your guests and award your guests with this lucky horseshoe pin. The chrome, polished, silver pin, has classic horseshoe embossed details with 2 butterfly pinch clasps on reverse.

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Destination wedding? Those tambourines could be for you. Winter wedding? Go for the blankets.


These unique wedding favours should have got your mind spinning with ideas. We hope so! If you're planning your table settings, take a look at this table decor and centrepiece roundup with some incredible inspiration. Or if you're looking at seating charts, we have the ten best table plan ideas!

Leah Blundell

Written by Leah Blundell

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