18 Cheap Wedding Favors That’ll Make Your Event Look Like A Million $$s
We know, we know. You’ve got a wedding budget to think about. However, you can’t bear the thought of sending your guests home with a wedding favor that looks as cheap as it actually is.
Not to worry, there are oodles of affordable wedding favors to choose from that won’t break the bank, and will give your guests reason to smile!
Remember, the purpose of a wedding favor is to say thanks to your guests for helping you celebrate your big day. It’s totally possible to do that without racking up the ol’ credit card debt.
We’ve rounded up our list of inexpensive wedding favors under $5 that are certain to be treasured by your guests.
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We tried sorting these into neat price tiers—under $1, under $2, etc.—but with prices constantly shifting (sometimes down, sometimes up!), it became a full-time job. So instead, we kept everything in this list under $5 at the time of writing.
If something’s no longer available or suddenly way more expensive, drop us a comment under this article, and we’ll update!
Cheap Wedding Favors Under $1
You won’t believe they’re really a dollar or less. Seriously.
Tropical Wedding Favors
Imagine each of your wedding guests discovering a beautifully crafted Baltic birch coaster at their seat, engraved with a monogram that commemorates your special day. Choose from a palette of colors including natural wood, umber, gray, chestnut, or black to seamlessly integrate with your wedding decor. For a truly unique touch, personalize each coaster with guest names or special messages—making your wedding favors as memorable as the celebration itself!
Skeleton Key Bottle Opener With Escort Tag Card
If you’re having a vintage or rustic wedding, these favors are a fantastic option. You can display them in so many ways too, whether it’s incorporating them into your place settings, adorning your centerpieces, or hanging them from trees or fairy lights. The only limit is your imagination.
Stainless Flower Shaped Coffee/Tea Spoon
Tie each seating card to an elegant flower shaped spoon with a beautiful tulle ribbon and place them in the middle of each setting. Ta da – you’ve got a favor that’ll look pricey without breaking the bank.
Personalized Matchbox Favors
So the guys are going to retire to the… gentlemen’s (?) table after dinner for some fancy scotch and cigars. Do you want them to light them with someone’s Bic or with a proper match from a super classy box of personalized matches?
I think we both know the answer to that one.
Cream Cheese Wedding Mints
Ooooooh, butter mints. So delicious, so creamy, so buttery. Just when you thought they were done being fabulous, they’ll dazzle you with their delicate beauty. These WILL disappear quickly, so order some extra just for you and your true love.
Note: this wedding favor is made-to-order!
Custom Mason Drinking Jars
These sweet drinking mason jars are perfect for a rustic themed wedding but will also fit right in at a more posh setting! Your guests will love them and will be using them long after the big day!
Magnetic Bottle Opener
These magnetic bottle openers check every box for a wedding favor: useful, compact, and totally customizable. We love how they double as both a keepsake and a fridge magnet—so your guests will actually use (and remember) them long after the last dance. With sleek designs and text options in any language, these make a great fit for multicultural weddings, destination events, or casual backyard celebrations. Bonus: they’re shipped fast and look fantastic tucked into favor boxes or place settings
Coffee Wedding Favor Bags
We can’t get enough of these adorable “Perfect Blend” coffee favor bags—they’re practical, personal, and just plain charming. Each resealable kraft pouch holds up to 2 oz of your favorite ground coffee or beans (not included) and comes with a custom sticker featuring your names, date, or a sweet message. What we love most? They’re a great mix of sustainability and sentimentality. Ideal for weddings, rehearsal dinners, or morning-after brunches, these make a warm, thoughtful sendoff your guests will actually use and remember.
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Custom Slate Coasters – Engraved Stone
These engraved slate coasters are one of those wedding favors that just get it right. We love the modern, minimalist designs—think crisp initials, meaningful dates, and elegant icons—all etched into natural slate that’s as functional as it is beautiful. Whether you’re setting them at each place setting or popping them into gift bags, these sturdy, felt-backed coasters leave a lasting impression. Choose from round or square shapes, six stylish center icons, or even upload your own design for a truly one-of-a-kind favor your guests will actually want to take home.
Favors From $2 – $4
Custom Fortune Cookie Favors
OK, we think these are SO cool. If you’re having an Asian-themed wedding, custom fortune cookies a must-have.
What better way for an ice-breaker at tables where guests may not know each other. They’re also inexpensive, personalizable, and, from what we hear, they’re as delicious as they are beautiful. Pair them with the personalized chopsticks below and your guests will be posting on Instagram before you can say “I do”.
Personalized Chopstick Favors
These unique and utterly charming chopstick favors are available in eleven beautiful styles and two lines of personalized text. They come beautifully packaged in their own colorful silk pouch.
Mini Mason Jars
These little jars are perfect for a rustic barn wedding down south. Fill them with apple butter, honey, or something else yummy! Honey is also a fabulous favor (in fact, we love honey so much, we published an article all about honey favors), but apple butter is uniquely southern.
Of course, it’s delicious no matter where you eat it, so no geographical rules need apply.
Rustic Tea Favors With Customized Tags
Tea favors are gaining in popularity, and we couldn’t be more pleased. Each tea is packaged in glass (NOT plastic) tubes with customized tags all tied up in a little twine bow. Choose from mallow, jasmine, chamomile, or order a variety.
Mini Lanterns
In our opinion, outdoor weddings and tree lighting go together like peanut butter and jelly. These beautiful little tea-candle lanterns would look perfect lit with a place card to greet your guests as they find their seat. They’d also look beautiful hanging throughout the trees with personalized notes of thanks or lined on a table for each guest to take as they leave.
Votive Candle Holder
This favor is absolutely perfect for a vintage-style wedding, but is still elegant enough to fit in anywhere. Not only will they make your guest’s tables look like absolute works of art, they won’t believe they get to take one home to add to their decor collection!
13. Rustic Wood Tea-Light Holder
Rusting weddings are still very much the rage and many of our favors on this list are right at home in a barn or any outdoor rustic setting. These tea-light holders fit the bill perfectly. They feature real dried flowers and a personalized tag tied to each light, making them just perfect for place settings.
Favors From $4 (and beyond!)
Assorted Succulent Plants
Succulent wedding favors range from tiny plants in plain plastic pots (alliteration, anyone?) to posh arrangements in custom pots. We opted for a little higher-end here because we thought the white, hand-painted pots were simply beautiful. Plus we liked the idea of having a choice of three cuttings per pot. Oh, and yes we love succulents so much we did a round-up of 10 of our favourites in this article.
Personalized Jewelry Dish
IMHO, trinket dishes are underrated.
We love how sweet and simple these personalized ceramic jewelry dishes are—and even more, how they feel like a meaningful little treasure. Each one is handmade and customized with your own text, making it a heartfelt gift for bridesmaids, a thoughtful anniversary token, or the perfect place to keep your engagement ring safe. You can choose from different shapes and font colors to make it your own. What we really appreciate? It’s not just pretty—it’s practical, too. A keepsake that gets used every day.
Personalized Hand Sanitizers
Unfortunately, it seems like no contemporary wedding is complete without some sort of quarantine favor.
Fortunately, many retailers have jumped to the rescue, making quarantine favors beautiful enough to be wedding-worthy. Get any product you want, and then order these printed labels to make favors personalized and stylish. Now that’s lovely and functional.
Personalized M&M’s
There are a ton of colors and styles to choose from, and it turns out you can personalize M&M’s favors for almost anything. We loved these favors so much, we had them at our own wedding!
These silver love ones are super pretty, but have a look at the website and you’ll see there really is something for everyone there.
Chocolate Favors
We’re completely smitten with these luxe chocolate favors—and so were your guests, apparently, since they’re flying off the shelves! Each chocolate comes topped with a glossy mirror finish in gold, silver, or rose gold and is engraved with your custom names, initials, date, or floral design. We love how polished they look on reception tables or tucked into favor bags—like a little bite-sized thank-you with major style. Whether you’re planning a glamorous soirée or a chic destination wedding, these treats are the perfect blend of elegance and indulgence.
Are Wedding Favors Really Necessary?
Well no, they’re not.
And if figuring out how many wedding favors you’ll need, what you can afford, and who will like what gives you a headache, don’t do it!
A lot of couples are opting out of the favor tradition for various reasons. Trust us, no one’s expecting anything from you but a good time and maybe some tears of joy.
But if you love the idea of sending your guests home with a favor that reminds them of your fab day (or, you know, one that they’ve already eaten by the time the dance floor) we hope this list will serve as a kind of second wind.
Picking out wedding favors can be fun, we promise!
Meredith
Despite her dreamy wedding blogger lifestyle, Meredith's day job is running ClassicVeils.com and a full-time mom to an active toddler. If she could, Meredith would spend her days taking cruises, helping animals in need, and watching Big Brother!
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