100 Wedding Favors (Your guests will actually take)

A lot of brides say that they're going to cut wedding favors from their budgets, but, honestly, I think favors are such a great part of weddings. Yes, you are feeding your guests at the wedding, but they're also giving you a gift (which is them paying for their plate). So that's a wash. You will send them a thank you card, of course, but that can take months. A wedding favor as a trinket to say thank you, that's really sweet and won't break the bank.

But what exactly is a good wedding favor? And is there such a thing as a bad wedding favor?

Anything on the list below is a good wedding favor. But yes, there are bad wedding favors. No one needs a key chain with you and your groom's smiling faces on it. They're not going to carry that around. And, if they don't want it, they won't take it, leaving you with 100 or so key chains with your photo on it. At that point, even you don't want that favor.

100 Wedding Favors (Your guests will actually take)

Edible favors

1. Bottles of water with personalized labels
2. Brownie pops
3. Buttermints
4. Cake pops
5. Candy apples
6. Caramel apples
7. Caramels
8. Chocolate-covered almonds
9. Chocolate-covered bacon
10. Chocolate-covered espresso beans
11. Chocolate-covered graham cracker
12. Chocolate-covered pretzels
13. Chocolate-covered sunflower seeds
14. Chocolate lollipops
15. Coffee beans
16. Cookies
17. Cotton candy
18. Cupcakes
19. Doughnuts
20. Foil-wrapped chocolate hearts
21. Hangover kit
22. Hershey's Kisses
23. "Happy trails" nuts favor
24. Homemade beer
25. Homemade candy bark
26. Hot chocolate mix
27. Hot chocolate spoons
28. Homemade jam
29. Honey
30. Hot sauce
31. Jelly beans
32. Lollipops (in your wedding colors)
33. Macaroons
34. Maple syrup
35. Marshmallows
36. Mini bottles of wine
37. Mini liquor bottles
38. S'mores fudge
39. Mints
40. Banana bread
41. Oreo pops
42. Personalized Hershey's bars
43. Personalized M&M's
44. Popcorn
45. Sea salt (for a nautical wedding)
46. S'mores kit
47. Striped candy balls (in your wedding colors)
48. Tea Bags
49. To go desserts (zeppoles, a candy bar, etc.)
50. Wedding conversation hearts

Non-edible favors

51. Bamboo coasters
52. Beer mugs
53. Blankets (for a winter wedding)
54. Bottle opener
55. Bubbles
56. Candles
57. Candy bucket
58. Chinese fan
59. Cigars
60. Clear Christmas ornaments (for sand at a beach wedding)
61. Coffee mug
62. Coffee scoop
63. Coffee sleeve
64. Donation to a charity
65. Hand sanitizer
66. Flip flops
67. Glass coasters
68. Kitchen towels
69. Koozies
70. Lip balm
71. Lotto tickets
72. Luggage tags
73. Magnets
74. Matches
75. Measuring spoons
76. Mini chalkboards (use them to hand write thank you)
77. Mini lotions
78. Mini message bottles for sand
79. Mini notebooks
80. Mini whisk
81. Nail files
82. Olive oil bottles
83. Air plants
84. Picture frames
85. Pint glasses
86. Photo strips from a photo booth with holders
87. Pot holders
88. Rose-shaped soap petals
89. Salt scrubs
90. Scarves
91. Seed packet
92. Shot glass
93. Stainless steal water bottles
94. Sugar scrubs
95. Sunscreen
96. Tissues
97. Wedding day wax melts
98. Wine glass charms
99. Wine glasses
100. Wine stoppers

Wow. That's a list. There are a lot of favors that people call wedding favors that I wouldn't want at all (and would purposefully leave behind). On this list, I would definitely be excited to take one -- and I would silently hope that someone else left theirs behind so I could stick a second one in my purse).

BRIDAL BABBLE: Which of these wedding favors is your favorite?

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