Cheap Wedding Favor Ideas: Ways to Cut Costs and Save Money on Your Wedding

Wedding costs being what they are, any item that you can save money is worth looking into. All the incidentals - table place cards, wedding favors, a guest book these items can really add up. A big variable is wedding favors.

Promotional product companies often feature items of low cost in high quantity. Some examples are 4imprint.com has Fortune Cookies with custom messages, of a three-line imprint in Black on one side - 40 characters and spaces per line for .27 cents each for 500 cookies. Another example is a coffee mug, as little as $0.97 per mug for 144 Budget-Beater Whitemugs at www.4imprint.com. A free one-color logo can include a logo and design, such as a graphic and your names and the date. Your guests can have a favor that they are more likely to use than a wedding favor such as bubbles or a votive candle. In these catalogs you can also find customized candy bars or mints similar to those you see in the ads in back of the Bride's magazines, but at a much deeper discount.

One bride who was getting married in the fall purchased autumn colored mugs of various sizes and shapes in orange, terracotta, sage and moss from a discount store, they were about a $1 each. She made a "thank you" tag out of maple leaves that had turned yellow. You could write on a dried turned leaf with a gold or silver metallic pen. If you wrote the persons name and table number, the favor doubles as a table place card. Add Reese's pieces for a fall theme, or a candy who's wrapper matches your overall color theme - Hershey's kisses, candy hearts, etc. The leaves added to the fall look at tied in nicely even though the mugs did not all match. We still use the mugs each day and remember her wedding. I have been to weddings since and don't remember the favor as much as the coffee mug idea.

4imprint has an entire wedding section if you wanted a more traditional favor. Items include bubbles, candle tins, coffee, and soaps at a cheaper price than if you obtained them at a bridal shop.

Consider making cookies yourself and packaging them in cute containers - whether a simple gift box or a clear cellophane bag. Your costs will be limited to ingredients and packaging materials.

Reviewing Martha Stewarts' favor ideas often show simple ideas to execute with a few materials that would be easy to replicate. Most of these materials, craft papers, ribbons and typically an edible item all can be emulated and cheaper materials substituted when necessary.

For more ideas for cheap wedding favor ideas, ask the sales staff at your local craft store what other brides have done to save money, they usually have heard all sorts of great ideas and are often happy to share their knowledge with you.