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40 wedding favour ideas your guests will actually want
Personalised Tony's Chocolonely? Yes please
After the venue, the dress and nabbing that photographer, it's all the little things left to organise that really make a wedding. Finding the perfect favours to gift to all your family and friends can be a really personal and important one to tick off. Enter: Cosmopolitan, to help make this decision a little easier.
We've collated the most unique wedding favours ideas to inspire and rescue you from your endless to-do list. From the creative and fun to the cost effective, DIY and incredibly useful options, we've rounded up all the thoughtful gifts to ensure you can properly say a heartfelt thank you to everybody (because that emotional group hug that will inevitably happen on the dance floor during the DJ's third Adele song simply won't be remembered the next day).
Personalised Tony's Chocolonely bars
We all know that Tony's is the best chocolate - but did you know they do personalised bars, too? Whether you want to customise the existing Tony's Chocolonely packaging or create something 100% personalised, you can do it all on their website. Simply select your flavour of choice and upload a photo or text, or use a template on the Tony’s website. The bars are then printed and shipped to you. Amazing!
Whether they're for drinking right there and then, or for taking home, why not try your hand at brewing your own limoncello / flavoured vodka / sloe gin as your wedding favour? Alternatively, these small bottles are perfect for filling with pre-made cocktails or something like olive oil.
For an interactive wedding favour idea, package a £1 scratch card up for each of your guests, and invite them to all give them a go when they first sit down for dinner. It's a great way to get your guests talking - and who knows? You might have a winner!
Moët & Chandon Moët & Chandon Impérial Brut, case of 24
Is there anything more delightfully celebratory than a mini bottle of Champagne for each of your guests? Love this idea!
A really lovely and inexpensive way to help your guests to remember your wedding is with an envelope of wild seeds, which they can take with them and plant at home. Even better if you have a spring wedding!
Give your guests a keepsake they will *actually* use, in the shape of personalised matchboxes that you can design with the date of your wedding and initials. Or how about 'The perfect match'?
For a super inexpensive option, put one of these bottle opener keys on everyone's place setting (maybe with a bucket of beers in the middle of the table!) Practical *and* romantic.
Another DIY option for the keen cooks among us, why not have a go at making your own jam / marmalade / mason jar cocktails for your guests to enjoy? Or, if you're a beauty fanatic, have a go at your own sugar scrub or bath salts, perfect for helping the hangovers the next day.
Nowhere is a sugar rush more needed than on a wedding dancefloor, and these personalised Love Heart packs are the perfect way to do that.
Speaking of hangovers, why not preempt how your friends and family might be feeling with a pre-made survival kit (or you could make your own)? these ones come with an eye mask, coffee and tea, mints and choco late, or you could make your own (and maybe stick a paracetamol in there for good measure.)
Double up on dessert and favours by packaging up a sweet treat for each of your guests, and leaving it on their place setting. Whether you individually wrap them with a cute bow or just leave them in boxes on each table, this is guaranteed to be a winner.
A premixed cocktail can
Get the party started with a cute cocktail for each of your wedding guests. Whether you make and bottle up your own or you buy pre-made cocktails, these would look super cute on each of your table settings.
There's nothing cooler than a personalised pizza box. Fact. Fill this one with whatever you like that your guests might enjoy.
Getting married somewhere hot? How about gifting each of your guests a white fan - which you can even write their names on with a calligrapher if you're feeling super fancy.
Give the gift of a good scent at your wedding this year, which will also help your wedding reception room to smell amazing. Whether you go for Jo Malone's more luxury offerings, or these Yankee Candle votive candles, which work out at about £1.40 each.
We've all seen the Taylor Swift friendship bracelet craze, but how about going one better for your friends and family? Whether you're gifting them a set to take and do at home, or pre-making them all a friendship bracelet to put on at the table, this is such a nice idea.
If you want to give your guests something with a mega personal touch, think about a live wedding illustrator, who attends your events and turns your guests into beautiful drawings, right in front of their eyes.
Nothing gets a party started like a shot of tequila, so treat each of your guests to a mini bottle (and maybe a slice of lime for good measure!)
Personalise your seating plan by gifting each of your guests a picture of you in a cute distressed plan, which also doubles up as a name tag, so they know where to sit.
A drawing from a live artist
What a great keep sake for your guests to take home - and it gives them a break from the dancefloor. Who needs a photo booth, this is so much cooler than any selfie!
Dusty Baxter-Wright is an award-winning journalist and the Entertainment and Lifestyle Director at Cosmopolitan, having previously worked at Sugarscape. She was named one of PPA’s 30 Under 30 for her work covering pop culture, careers, interiors and travel, and oversees the site’s Entertainment and Lifestyle strategy across print, digital and video. As a journalist for the best part of a decade, she has interviewed everyone from Louis Theroux and Channing Tatum to Margot Robbie and Ncuti Gatwa, while she has also spoken on Times Radio and BBC Radio. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram here.
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