Hi everyone, I have some thoughts about favors and I'm finding that the costs really add up fast.....what would you say is the average cost of favors or range of favor expenses? how much is too much, or too little to spend on favors? please help me out here, b/c I just have no idea what people spend these days on favors.....is $300-$400 average or too much? we will probably end up having around 130 people at our wedding
Re: favor expenses
The truth behind a well laced dress
I did mini bottles of champagne and they were actually half the cost of my candy buffet. If I had it to do over, I would have just done one or the other, possibly skipped them altogether.
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On the other hand, I'm doing full size champagne or wine bottles as favors (havent decided which yet). BUT- I'm having a full top shelf open bar (grey goose, patron, etc) so its not making me cut corners at the reception
I am a sewer, so I am thinking that I may buy fun fabrics in my wedding colors and sew fabric napkins for the reception- that way I save the linen rental cost, its more personal, and they can keep their own (or, as many people say that favors get left behind, those who stick around til the end could collect a set of 4). I think that depending on how much they cost to rent, its an easily excusable purchase since I'd be spending the money anyway. Similar for centerpiecse- if the favors are part of the decor, its a bit easier to negotiate more money per favor.