Favor per person or per couple?

Kas254 · March 2012

For favors, I decided to get the Godiva two piece chocolate box with white box and ribbon and a personalized tag on the ribbon. But the vendor who is ordering them for me suggested that I get one per couple, not per guest. Is this tacky? It's just a two-piece truffle box, not a giant box of candy. I guess she is trying to keep down our cost since they are $4.50 each, but I have never heard of one favor per couple. What do you guys think?

jagore08 · March 2012

With something like that I would do one per person.

Kas254 · March 2012

That's what I think, too. My concern (other than seeming chintzy) is that it's hard to control who gets what.

Say I have 4 couples and 2 singles at a table. So there are 6 boxes there. What if some of the couples don't realize it's one per couple and take one each? Then some people might not even get a favor at all (even to share).

The vendor says you can do a set up with the escort cards but even that seems risky. I could see people just grabbing them indiscriminately.

Peavy · March 2012

I think this needs to be one per person. While they may be expensive, the perception is that it's two pieces of candy, so asking a couple to split one favor seems cheap.

123wrapper · March 2012

Understandably you want to keep the costs down but I don't think its a good idea. As someone else pointed out, what happens to the single people at the table? Go for one per person.