Ok, so I know what I would like to give as a favor- a spoon rest. I’m going to give one per couple/family because I feel like the same couple/family wouldn’t need more than one. The problem is: how am I going to distribute them? I can’t really keep them on the table between place settings because I’m not doing assigned seating, and some tables are going to have the couple and their children, so that won’t work. Then, I’m thinking FH and I would give them out at some point during the night, but I don’t know if that will happen with all that will be going on. Then, I’m thinking I will leave them on a table for when people leave, but how will they know to take just one per couple. Any suggestions? It’s driving me loco. TIA.
grkbarbie
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usualy every1 leaves at once..for the most part lol
so when they say goodnight to u... usualy thats hwen ppl give u their enevelopes. u and fh shoudl be standing next to the favor table and giving your guests the favors then.
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I think leaving them on a table for the end of the night is the best idea. Could someone from your RH distribute them to make sure people are taking them as they go?
Jna2010
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we're going to give them out as people say goodbye at the end of the night, i feel like thats the easiest
Lsorrent
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You can either leave them on a table as they walk out, or you can hand them to people as they say goodbye.
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You can leave them on a table so as people leave, they can get one. But please either have hall assign someone to hand them out for you or assign someone, (maybe a family memeber or bridal party member) to hand them out. There's alwasy at least one person (in my family quite a few) who tries to sneak more than one out. At my cousin's e-party, some woman took about 5 favors off the table, in front of my face. So when someone came over and said they didn't get a favor, I asked the woman to please give them one of the 5 she snatched and I swear her face couldn't have been any redder.
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I would hand them out to people as they come towards the end of the night and say goodbue and give you your $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$!!!!!!!!!!!
christine2010
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i am going to have the hall distribute a specific number of favors to each table while everyone is having their cake.
ex: if there are 5 couples at the table the stall at the RH will know to put 5 favors on the table. that's how my friends have done it at their weddings & we will do the same.
we don't want to be worried about giving out favors at the end of the night.
FallBride2010
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I would do a separate table...and ask if the RH can help hand them out
Maria5117
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I would definitely hand them out as people say goodye to you. i wouldn't leave them on the table for people to take as they walk out because i'd worry people would take one each and then you woudn't have enough.... i also wouldnt have the RH staff hand them out because they wouln't know who belongs to what family so how would they know who gets one and who doesn't.
ETA - the other thing i've seen is leaving them spread out on the tables even though you don't have assigned seating. if there are 6 couples at the table and 6 favors there, i'm sure your guests would be able to figure out that it's one per couple..... this is what they did at the last wedding I went to and it worked out fine at my table....
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How about attaching the escort cards to them and have them on the escort table as they walk in? Each couple would them just get one and you dont have to worry about giving them out through the night.
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placing them at the guest's table.. will let RH know how many to leave on each table (so if there are 5 couples at a table, 5 favors).
grkbarbie
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at my shower.. as every1 said bye to me, we handed out the favors. 1 per guest but we stilll personally handed them to every1
GiannisWifey
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Posted by FallBride2010
I would do a separate table...and ask if the RH can help hand them out
this is a good idea but the only thing I would be afraid of is that they won't know who is a family and who is a couple.....so if you want to give one per family and the parents go up first and they get one, then they might hand a separate one to the other family members when they go up also???
I think if you hand them out, it would avoid any confusion and double gift giving!
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Thanks so much ladies!! I think we’ll keep them on a separate table and FH and I will hand them out as they leave. I was really freaking out about it last night.
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Posted by Future Mrs H
How about attaching the escort cards to them and have them on the escort table as they walk in? Each couple would them just get one and you dont have to worry about giving them out through the night.
ITA
Or you can put each couples name on them and have the favors @ a seperate table
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Posted by Future Mrs H
How about attaching the escort cards to them and have them on the escort table as they walk in? Each couple would them just get one and you dont have to worry about giving them out through the night.
ITA
Or you can put each couples name on them and have the favors @ a seperate table
ITA!!! If you put name tags or something on the favors, it should eliminate the whole; 'who gets what?'. That way you don't have to rely on your RH distributing them correctly and you don't have to worry about you and FH having to man the door and give them out...
JMO - HTH!
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Posted by Future Mrs H
How about attaching the escort cards to them and have them on the escort table as they walk in? Each couple would them just get one and you dont have to worry about giving them out through the night.
This is my suggestion as well. The only way to assure that people know they're supposed to take a particular item as their favor is to give it out with the escort cards.
We were at a wedding last week and they gave out fans on the table but so many people just left them.
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I would still put them out on the tables beforehand; give the RH ahead of time the specific number of favors each table gets. The people at the table will figure it out!
We've been to lots of occasions where the table has X amount of favors and we just look around and figure within seconds 'oh, it's one per couple', or 'oh, the kids don't get one', etc.
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Posted by StaceyWill
Thanks so much ladies!! I think we’ll keep them on a separate table and FH and I will hand them out as they leave. I was really freaking out about it last night.
I wouldn't rely on being able to be at the door and ready... people will begin to say goodbye early and be grabbing you from all sides... no way to say whether you'll be able to make it to the door to man it!
