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humane society favor donation ideas?
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Re: humane society favor donation ideas?
Just get cards that match your stationary or make cards that somewhat match. Doesn't need to be fancy.
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If you want to make a donation to a charity, by all means, please do it. But don't do it and then print fancy cards that say a donation has been in made as a "favor" for the wedding guests. Just make the donation and say nothing about it. Not all guests support the same charities you do.
A wedding favor should be something tangible that guests can eat or take with them when they leave. They aren't required, though, so you could use that money wherever you see fit.
Make your donation. I believe in donations. I make them myself. I think they're a good thing to do.
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?
However, to answer your question, The Knot has tons of photos of real weddings and what couples did for their charitable favors:
http://weddings.theknot.com/Real-Weddings/favors_charitable-favors/results.aspx?type=3&wedding+details=favors&specific+detail=charitable+favors
If you're doing donations, do them quietly, don't print up the AW card. AW cards are not favors. You don't need to do favors, but please don't contribute to more junk being thrown out at the end up the night by doing donation cards.
FI's cousin got married in July and the B&G made a donation to the American Heart Association as their favor. However, the attached a heart pin to the cards for guests to keep. i think if you do that...it could be considered a favor. But if its just the card saying you made a donation...i dont think its necessary to have it as your favor. just make the donation...but you dont really need to tell your guests about it.
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[QUOTE]i have to agree and disagree on this one... FI's cousin got married in July and the B&G made a donation to the American Heart Association as their favor. However, the attached a heart pin to the cards for guests to keep. i think if you do that...it could be considered a favor. But if its just the card saying you made a donation...i dont think its necessary to have it as your favor. just make the donation...but you dont really need to tell your guests about it.
Posted by reese511[/QUOTE]
But what exactly is the point of giving a favor to tell people that you're not giving them a favor because you're giving the favor money to a charity?
Give people the heart pin. Fine. It's a favor. But why also announce that you're making a donation except for people to know how magnanimous you are?
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: humane society favor donation ideas? : But what exactly is the point of giving a favor to tell people that you're not giving them a favor because you're giving the favor money to a charity? Give people the heart pin. Fine. It's a favor. But why also announce that you're making a donation except for people to know how magnanimous you are?
Posted by trix1223[/QUOTE]
well, if it was just a heart pin....i'd be like "wtf is this for?" it would be kind of random. but b/c it was the symbol of the AHA, it made sense. it was also a way to honor the grooms father w/o having to talk about it.
by the way, i put the pin on my military jacket and its super cute!
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[QUOTE]Make your donation. I believe in donations. I make them myself. I think they're a good thing to do. 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?
Posted by trix1223[/QUOTE]
Ditto everything trix said. Except my card would say we made a donation to The Human Fund. Money for People.
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: humane society favor donation ideas? : Ditto everything trix said. Except my card would say we made a donation to The Human Fund. Money for People.
Posted by kristinanddan[/QUOTE]
no way! you celebrate festivus???
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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: humane society favor donation ideas? : no way! you celebrate festivus???
Posted by reese511[/QUOTE]
Indeed. I love to air my grievances.
I saw a girl who did the same thing somewhere online. Each of her tables had a picture of an adoptable dog or cat. They had placed a single sign (I'm guessing in front of the escort cards?) talking about how they made a donation to this animal shelter and each table is named after an available pet at said animal shelter.
I also saw where they gave guest a dog bone shaped cookie and the tag said "In honor of our wedding, a donation has been made to ..." again, mentioning nothing about a favor.
I think donations iannounced as n lieu of favors or as favors are rude and presumptious. You never know who will be offended by the gesture or the charity. For example, in your case I hope the humane society you're talking about is your local shelter, because a lot of people (myself included) have major objections to the national organization that advertises on TV (Humane Society of the United States). I also have issues with Komen. I'm not going to go into it, but there are a lot of people who "support" or give money to organizations that they really don't know much about.
We did a donation to a charity and I'm just putting "In lieu of favours" - people really don't care about favours anyway. And I plan on putting one choc on the tables too.
[QUOTE]We did a donation to a charity and I'm just putting "In lieu of favours" - people really don't care about favours anyway. And I plan on putting one choc on the tables too.
Posted by greenic[/QUOTE]
See, this is exactly what I don't understand. You're telling people that you're not giving a favor, and then giving a favor. Why?
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