Earn cash as you plan. Get a $20 gift card for every 200 points with The Knot Rewards
Favors
Donations for Favors
Hey all!
After the whole gulf coast oil spill, I felt compelled to abandon my old idea for favors and do a donation to the Environmental Defense Fund for our guests. This isn't santicmonious at all, is it? What is a good way to display this donation to our guests??
Thank you all!
After the whole gulf coast oil spill, I felt compelled to abandon my old idea for favors and do a donation to the Environmental Defense Fund for our guests. This isn't santicmonious at all, is it? What is a good way to display this donation to our guests??
Thank you all!
This discussion has been closed.
Re: Donations for Favors
But don't pretend that they're a favor to your guests. Because they're not. They're a favor to the organization, and to you. You're taking the money you'd spend on a little something for your guests and giving it to someone else. How do you figure that's a favor for your guests?
Honestly, I don't need a favor. I don't really want a favor. You're already giving me food, drinks, entertainment. I don't need a matchbook or m&ms (although I LOVE m&ms) as a thank you.
But please don't in any, way, shape or form think that giving $$ to a charity is somehow doing something for me.
I'd liken it to a guest coming to your wedding and giving you a card that says "In honor of your marriage, I have given a donation to the "eastern micronesia tsunami prevention fund". It may be important to your guest, but it probably doesn't mean anything to you. So it's not really a gift for you, is it?
If you do go with the donation I wouldn't announce it at every place setting. I would frame a 5x7 piece of paper with your "we donated" message on it and place it near the bar or on the place card table.
I don't know how others feel about this but you could also do something like gourmet fortune cookies or something else edible with a note inside, or on the box, that you donated to _____ foundation.
[QUOTE]If this is what you want to do go for it. I think favors are becoming less common. Like Trix said, I don't really need favors when attending a wedding. If you do go with the donation I wouldn't announce it at every place setting. I would frame a 5x7 piece of paper with your "we donated" message on it and place it near the bar or on the place card table. I don't know how others feel about this but you could also do something like gourmet fortune cookies or something else edible with a note inside, or on the box, that you donated to _____ foundation.
Posted by suz62984[/QUOTE]
suz: I think it's odd when people give a favor to tell people that they're not giving them a favor because they donate the favor money to charity.
If someone's going to the trouble to give everyone a fortune cookie, why not just consider that the favor and skip announcing the donation?
One will result in you giving the money without anyone else knowing.
One will result in some unnecessary paper at your reception telling people you donated.
Our Huge Planning Blog
July 2011 Bride
[QUOTE]Does AWish equal Attention-Whore ish?
Posted by AmberMarieTX[/QUOTE]
yes
We're doing a donation to a charity we've been very involved with, and putting a little note on each table saying a little about the charity and why it has meaning to us. I don't think donating to a charity you are personally involved with is AW, but I would be put off by someone donating to a cause that had no long-term meaning to them. Is the environment a cause you've always been passionate about, or has the oil spill suddenly brought it to your attention?