25 Cheap Wedding Favours for £1 or Less
You can still have fabulous favours if you’re on a tight budget! We’ve rounded up 25 brilliantly cheap wedding favour ideas for £1 or less
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If you’re planning a wedding on a budget, the idea of buying dozens of favours for your tables might be keeping you awake at night. That’s why we’ve rounded up the best cheap wedding favours (that look anything but), to help keep your budget in check.
Because there are plenty of ways to save money on your wedding – and cheap wedding favours are one of them. So we’ve searched high and low to bring you the very best inexpensive wedding favour ideas, all of which cost £1 or less. That’s right, cheaper than your morning flat white by a mile!
The Best Cheap Wedding Favour Ideas Under £1
This selection of cute, fun, affordable and even unusual wedding favour ideas are perfect for couples looking to decorate their tables on a budget. From edible favours to fridge magnets, wedding favour boxes and handy accessories you didn’t even know you needed, there are plenty of cheap favour ideas for weddings in our roundup below.
Happy shopping!
Cheap Wedding Favours Under £1
Find your favourites among our pick of the best cheap wedding favour ideas for less than £1 per person
1. Mini Popcorn Boxes – Etsy
Popcorn is always a crowd pleaser! Treat your guests to a miniature box of this rather-moreish snack before they sit down for dinner or as a late-night nibble with these cute, personalised boxes from Erickson Design at Etsy, that you can cheaply fill with your own shop-bought popcorn.
They come in a sweet array of pink hues and will look great either on a single table for guests to help themselves to, or at each place setting.
2. Personalised Chocolate Heart Wedding Favours – Etsy
What better way to spread the love among your sweet-toothed guests than with these adorable foil-wrapped chocolate hearts and personalised cards?
Choose from a range of foil colours to work with your wedding theme, including lilac, gold, hot pink, rose gold, navy blue and more. On their own, the notecards are priced 75p each, and a total steal with the chocolate for an additional 20p per head.
3. Personalised Wedding Fortune Cookie Favours – Bunting & Barrow
Fortune cookie favours are so fun and a highly affordable wedding favour option. They’re such a great way to break the ice, too.
These cheap wedding favours from Bunting & Barrow come in at just 90p each, making them great value for money. Pick from a wide selection of wrapper colours and personalise with up to 10 different messages for the inside.
4. Match Box Wedding Favours – Etsy
Personalised match boxes make excellent, handy favours – but they can be expensive! Thankfully, Made by Haitch has created these brilliant and budget-friendly personalised stickers to cover both sides of your shop-bought matches. We love the cute illustration, too – choose from paper or vinyl, depending on your preferred finish.
The stickers are sold in pairs (so five 'stickers' will cover 10 match boxes) making these even more affordable than they first appear.
5. Personalised Colour-In Table Place Mats – Chi Chi Moi
Looking for cheap party favours for your younger wedding guests? These personalised place mats from Chi Chi Moi will go down a treat and keep them entertained during the speeches. You might even find the adults having a go after a wine or two!
Don’t forget to pop some colouring pencils on the tables so these can be enjoyed by everyone. Choose from a floral or geometric design.
6. Retro Drinks Token Wedding Favours – Love Lumi
If you’re having a vintage-themed wedding, these incredible drinks tokens from Love Lumi are such a great wedding favour idea that’s cheap!
If you’d rather the money spent on favours went towards additional drinks for your guests, put your money behind the bar (or BYOB – even cheaper if it’s a no-corkage wedding venue) and allow guests a free drink each. The tokens are made from mirror acrylic in a choice of gold, rose gold or silver – or you can choose natural wood for a totally different vibe. They include your names and wedding date, too.
7. Festival Wedding Wristbands – Etsy
These fun and colourful festival-style wristbands from WedFest at Etsy will complete any festival-themed wedding day!
You could choose to send them off with your invites or hand them out before the ceremony as guests arrive. They’ll look great in the photos and make a great keepsake. After all, your guests are VIPs!
8. Coffee Wedding Favour Bags – Etsy
If your love language is your partner bringing you your morning cup of coffee, then why not gift your guests a miniature bag of beans?
These personalised coffee bags come in three sizes (and are handily resealable to keep those beans fresh) and up to 500 can be purchased at one time, making them great for large guest lists.
9. Alcoholic Wedding Favour Lollipops – Holly’s Lollies
At just £1 each, these fun adult lollipops from Holly’s Lollies make great affordable wedding favour ideas.
The colourful designs come in 20 different cocktail-inspired flavours, including Rhubarb Gin, Peach Bellini, Margarita, Whiskey Cola, Irish Cream, Limoncello, Espresso Martini and more. We highly recommend taste-testing all of them to discover your favourite… They’re vegan-friendly too!
10. Wedding Favour Boxes – Etsy
Wondering, how can I buy wedding favour boxes in bulk? These simple yet stunning designs could be just what you’re looking for – and they’re great value for money.
Pick up these wedding favour boxes in batches of 20, 50 or 100 (the latter offers the best value for money) and choose from burgundy, red, blue, light green, gold or pink ribbon to complement your wedding theme. The only difficult decision will be choosing what to fill them with!
11. Botanical Lottery Ticket Wallet Favour – Love Lumi
Add a little excitement to your wedding favours with these fun lottery ticket or scratch card holders. It’s fun, it’s cheap and could even lead to some big wins!
Remember, if you go for the scratch card option with this cheap favour idea, pop a penny into each one so your guests aren’t scrabbling around trying to find loose change. Note that you’ll also have to factor in the cost of the lottery tickets or scratch cards themselves.
12. Wedding Favour Pencils – Etsy
These cute, engraved pencils from Secret Creations are super handy, especially when it comes to signing the wedding guest book.
Each one can be personalised with your name and wedding date for a cheap wedding favour idea everyone will appreciate.
13. Hexagonal Magnet Favour – Love Lumi
For a sweet and affordable wedding favour idea that will remind them of your wedding day every time they reach for the milk, these botanical-inspired magnets from Love Lumi start from just £1 each.
Choose from maple wood or rose gold, gold or silver mirror acrylic (though expect to pay a little more – 20p each – for the acrylic versions) and personalise with your names and wedding date.
14. Charity Donation Cards – Etsy
If you’d rather the money spent on favours was donated to a good cause, pop some of these charity wedding favour cards on your tables.
The cards can be personalised to share the details of your chosen charity to your guests, explaining that you have donated on their behalf. It’s a great way to ensure your money is focused on a cause that’s important to you, while still presenting your guests with something physical.
15. Wooden Puzzle Game – Party Packs
Even if your guests don’t have time to give these fun puzzles a go at the table, we bet they’ll come in handy for killing time on the way home.
These travel-size wooden puzzles from Party Packs make perfect cheap wedding favours – and a nice alternative to cheap plastic versions, too.
16. Personalised Shot Bottles – Etsy
Keep the celebrations going by gifting your guests a tipsy treat!
These personalised shot bottles from Personally Designed Co at Etsy can be filled (cheaply) with your beverage of choice, with different sticker designs available. Bottoms up!
17. Wooden Laser-Cut Place Name – Etsy
A great way to combine your wedding favours with your place names, these laser-cut wooden names from Mark My Word UK are elegant, stylish and look anything but budget.
The calligraphy style is so beautiful – guests will love being able to take these away post-celebrations and use them on their desk, on a shelf or hung on a door. The company has garnered plenty of five-star reviews for its service, too.
18. Engraved Wooden Heart Place Name Tag – No Ordinary Gift
These personalised heart tags also work as both cheap wedding favours for guests to keep and as a place card – a great money saving hack.
They come in a natural wood shade, so they work with most wedding styles and colour themes, but especially those with chic rustic touches. For a pop of colour, we suggest threading them with string – or metallic silver, gold or rose gold thread would look equally pretty.
Cheap Wedding Favours Under 50p
Pretty? Yes. Pricey? Not at all! These affordable wedding favour ideas include something for everyone.
19. His & Hers Love Is Sweet Favour Bags – Etsy
If you’re looking to make DIY wedding favours, the simplest thing to do is gift your favourite sweets or chocolate treats, and these cute favour bags make great alternatives to wedding favour boxes.
Not only are they super cheap and look great when filled with colourful and nostalgic corner-shop favourites, but there are a couple of sticker and bag designs to choose from, with phrases such as Love is Sweet, Mint to Be and even [Your Name]’s Favourite, etc. Choose from three sizes and three foil finishes for the stickers.
20. Celebration Bottle Bubbles – Rex London
These adorable champagne bottle bubbles from Rex London are so cute – and such cheap favours for a wedding too. They’ll be perfect for entertaining the younger guests (and they’re almost as good as the real thing, right?).
Each one contains 16ml of bubble mix and a wand.
21. Personalised Wildflower Seed Packets – Etsy
A great cheap wedding favour idea for nature-loving couples, rustic wedding themes or those who just want to keep things more sustainable, these stylish wildflower seed packets will allow guests to grow their own blooms and feature an instruction card in each.
Personalise with your names and wedding date.
22. Personalised Chocolate Wedding Favours – Etsy
One for the chocoholics out there… add these cute confections to your table and guests can enjoy them with their post-dinner coffees.
Choose from plain milk chocolate or mint, and gold or silver foil to suit your theme – there’s even a range of designs to choose from if florals aren’t your thing.
23. Personalised Love Hearts – Swizzels
If you love the childhood nostalgia of gifting sweets to your guests, there’s only one thing for it – Love Hearts!
Not only can you personalise these with your own message, but you can even include a photo of your smiling faces. Pop one at each place setting or put them all in a bowl for a great addition to a wedding sweet buffet or dessert table.
24. Personalised Wedding Sparkler Tags – Etsy
The perfect cheap wedding favours for priceless photos, we guarantee having sparklers at your wedding will go down a storm. Sparklers are great for outdoor evening receptions and these personalised sparkler covers add a sense of fun and style.
You’ll need to budget for the actual sparklers themselves, but when these come in at £18 for 60, that shouldn’t be too much trouble! Choose from white or kraft card.
25. Personalised Paper Bag Wedding Favours – Etsy
For a genius money saving hack, how about serving up your wedding cake for guests to take home as their wedding favour instead? They’ll likely be too full to enjoy it after dinner anyway, so this is the perfect compromise.
We love these cool paper bags from Simply Stationery UK, which make great cheap wedding favours and come in either white or brown. Personalise them with your names and wedding date for a fun touch.
Cheap Favours For a Wedding FAQ
Affordable wedding favour ideas are easy when you know where to start!
What are wedding favours?
Wedding favours are small gifts given by the couple to their guests as a token of gratitude for attending. For centuries sugared almonds were the traditional favour of choice, but they’ve fallen out of favour with modern couples. Traditionally, favours are designed to be left on the place setting for each person at their table.
What do you give as wedding favours?
It’s all about small gifts – think little candles, scented soaps, packets of seeds, bottle openers and more.
Edible favours might include chocolate truffles, sweets or hand-iced biscuits, and alcohol wedding favours are also popular. Whatever you choose, try to link them in some way to the style and theme of your wedding, or have them reflect your passions and interests as a couple.
How much should wedding favours cost?
It’s really up to you how much you choose to spend on your wedding favours. If you’re trying to save money, then you might want to double them up as place cards – for example, have something edible like a cookie or cupcake iced with each guests’ name, or cute personalised luggage tags for a destination wedding.
The most important thing is that you don’t overspend, so set a budget for favours and stick to it.
What are inexpensive wedding favour ideas?
From chocolate treats and fortune cookies to drinks tokens and trinkets, we’ve got a great selection of cheap favours ideas for weddings above – all of which come in at £1 or less to help keep your budget in check.
Do you have to have wedding favours?
There’s no rule that says you have to have wedding favours at all! Many modern couples choose to forgo wedding favours, particularly if there are other areas of the wedding that they wish to spend their money on, such as the food or entertainment.
How you choose to celebrate your day is deeply personal and should be reflective of your personalities as a couple.
Need more money-saving advice? Check out our guide to things you could give up to help save for your wedding…
