Etiquette Rules For Wedding Favors - Is There Really A Need To Give Wedding Favors?

Is there really a need for a wedded couple to give out wedding favors to their sponsors and guest?  This question is surely on the minds of couples to be wedded who are very tight on their wedding budget.

Surely, a couple can be wedded, have sponsors and guest even without the customary wedding favors. But if you are one sensitive to what your guest might comment about your very special day, I am sure you would not consider the idea of not following the customary tradition of giving out wedding favors to your wedding guests and sponsors.                                                             

As the name aptly describes it, this thing called wedding favor is simply a token of appreciation shown by the bride and the groom to their hundreds of wedding guests and sponsors for attending their wedding ceremony. Although we do not have a clear idea if how and when the practice of giving out wedding favors started, this practice has been religiously followed by nearly all those who have been married for some time now.

Actually, there are some who say that wedding favors started from France or Italy. And that it was started by the rich and affluent families who gave the guest and all sponsors of the weddings of their sons and daughters tiny boxes as gifts to show their appreciation for attending the weddings. These tiny gifts were never tiny in value. They usually contain costly gemstones.

A couple who will be getting married on a very tight budget need not be so concerned with wedding favors.  There is just so much idea right now in the internet for wedding favors that will not cost you a lot there are even sites who will give out free wedding favors ideas and would even provide you tips where you can easily get cheap materials for these wedding favors.  All that you have to do really is to take some time and browse the internet for these very cheap DIY wedding favor ideas.

You have to remember that although nobody can stop you from not giving out any wedding favors due to budget constraint, you can just imagine those behind the back talks by your guest and sponsors where they would surely be amazed by your wedding since it was the first time they have attended a wedding where no wedding favors were give them. Surely, you do not want them to talk about your very special day as something of a weird occasion, right?

Thus, since you do not want any thing to spoil your very special day, you can look for ways to go about giving your guests and sponsors the needed wedding favors that would be very affordable to you since you are on a tight wedding budget. One idea here is to arrange for your wedding photographer to take individual shots of your guests and sponsors during the ceremony and have it printed right away since with the present digital photography tools, it would be very easy to do.  These individual shots would then be given away to your guests as your wedding favors.  You surely can save this way since your wedding photographer can even just consider this additional work as some sort of a discount for the over-all cost of his work as your wedding photographer.    

Another way to save on cost in your wedding favors is by arranging with the one in charge of catering your wedding reception to provide candies with thank you ribbons for all the guest and sponsors during the wedding reception. You can even ask him or her to just consider this as some sort of an add-on to their catering services for your wedding.  Chances are, the caterer will gladly accede to your request.