Wedding Favour Ideas on a Budget (From 60p)

Weddings add up fast. By the time you have booked the venue, sorted the flowers and paid for the food, favours can feel like the bit where you either overspend or quietly give up and skip them. You do not have to do either. A good favour does not need to be expensive. It needs to feel like it came from you, and it needs to give your guests a small moment at the table.

We are Lee and Sam, and we make personalised scratch cards and prints by hand in our studio in Hessle. Wedding favours are one of the things couples ask us about most, so here are our favourite ways to give guests something they will actually keep, without the cost creeping up on you.

1. Scratch card favours from 60p a guest

Our personalised wedding favour scratch cards start at 60p each. That is the whole favour, printed with your names and your wedding date. You pick a design (we make four: plain, thank you, eucalyptus and heart), tell us the wording, and we set it up and send you a proof before anything is printed. At 60p a head, a table of ten costs less than a round of drinks, and every card is personal to the two of you. You can see all four designs in the wedding favour scratch cards collection.

2. Turn them into a game

The scratch panel is the fun part. You choose a prize (a free drink, a small gift, a bit of money, whatever suits your day) and tell us how many winning and losing cards you want. Some couples make one card in every handful a winner. Others keep it to a few bigger prizes spread across the room. Either way, guests scratch, compare with the person next to them, and you get that ripple of noise around the tables that a folded printed card never quite manages.

3. Let the favour do two jobs

Our thank you design says thank you right on the front, so it works as a favour and a little note in one. Set one at each place and it doubles as a place setting too. That saves buying separate thank you cards or place cards, which is where a lot of the hidden favour cost usually likes to hide.

4. Personalise it so it is a keepsake, not landfill

The reason a lot of cheap favours end up left on the table is that they are generic. A sugared almond in a net bag could be from any wedding. Put your names and your date on something and it changes. Guests take it home, it goes on the fridge or into a memory box, and it carries a bit of the day with it. Personalising costs us the same as not personalising, so it costs you nothing extra to make the favour genuinely yours.

5. Only order what you actually need

There is no minimum order on our favour cards. If you have 48 guests, you order 48, plus a few spares, which we would always suggest. You are not buying a pack of 100 and binning 52 of them. It sounds obvious, but ordering to your real guest number is one of the simplest ways to keep a favour budget honest.

6. One statement piece where it counts

If you would rather spend a little more in one spot than a lot everywhere, our foiled reveal tickets start at £10. They are a proper keepsake with real foil, and some couples use one or two as a top table touch or a reveal for the wedding party, then keep the 60p scratch cards for the rest of the room. You get a bit of shine where the photos happen without lifting the whole favour budget. Have a look at the foiled tickets range for those.

How we make them

Everything is made to order in our studio in Hessle (HU13). Nothing is printed until you have seen a proof and said yes, so a wrong date or a misspelled name gets caught before it is on card, not after. Because each one is personalised to you, favour cards are non-returnable for a change of mind, which is exactly why that proof step matters and why we never skip it.

If you are still pulling the rest of the wedding stationery together, our favour cards sit alongside bridesmaid proposal cards and wedding prints in the same handmade style, so the table, the getting-ready morning and the wall at home can all match without much effort. For more on the favour cards themselves, our complete guide to wedding scratch card favours walks through designs, wording and quantities.

Have a look at the full wedding favour scratch cards range and pick your design, or send us your names and date and we will put a proof together for you. Small studio, real people, and a favour your guests will not leave behind on the table.