My Favorite Wedding Favors From My Clients' Weddings So Far This Year

As a wedding planner, I often encourage my clients to forgo wedding favors, because it's a lot of budget spent in an area that guests don't tend to appreciate. Favors often get left at the venue, where my team packs them up to be sent home with the clients. My rule if you really really really want wedding favors is to make it consumable or make it useful! But two of my clients really knocked it out of the park with usefulness, so instead of waiting to do an end of the year recap, I need to tell you now about my favorite wedding favors from my clients' weddings so far this year.

Photo by Eric Doolin Photography

What that made me love both of these wedding favors is that they served two main purposes: guests seating and the favors themselves with a dose of personality in there too.

Aaron and Michael had a small wedding of under 50 guests, so they opted to do place cards to assign seats, but the twist is the place cards were DIYed agate slice keychains with each guest's first name. The place card IS the favor, is beautiful, functional, personalized in a way that someone will actually use later? I'm sat! Literally.

Photo by Eric Doolin Photography

Haley and Katie both love to travel, met while traveling, and Haley owns a travel business, so of course they had to work travel into their wedding! Enter: Luggage Tag Escort Cards! Escort cards serve in place of a seating chart sign. They work by guests finding their name on some kind of card which says which table they're assigned to. Then they pick it up and find their table. In this case, they put the names and table assignments as an insert on the luggage tag, so the tags can easily be used by anyone in the future. Escort card AND wedding favor? I'm a fan!

Every year my clients surprise me with their creativity and talent! I see so many weddings and when the wedding really represents who the nearlyweds are together, those are the details guests notice and appreciate!

So do your wedding guests a favor and skip the drink koozies. If you must have wedding favors, make it useful, consumable, and also creative! Or just don't do favors at all!

Happy wedding planning,

Andy <3