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JNMWineBride Posted: Nov 29, 2005 02:10 PM+

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Posted: Nov 29, 2005 02:10 PM

Donations as Wedding Favors

Anyone have any good ideas as to how to present donation wedding favors?

I'm thinking of offering a donation option in the response card...let the guest choose between 3 charities that we've chosen...and then customize thier placecards with their choice somehow.

johnsae Posted: Nov 29, 2005 02:12 PM+

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Posted: Nov 29, 2005 02:12 PM

Re: Donations as Wedding Favors

Posted by JNMWineBride

Anyone have any good ideas as to how to present donation wedding favors?

I'm thinking of offering a donation option in the response card...let the guest choose between 3 charities that we've chosen...and then customize thier placecards with their choice somehow.

that's a great idea about letting the guests choose with charity to donate to! it will give you extra work, but it's a nice, thoughtful gesture!

carlsbride Posted: Nov 29, 2005 02:13 PM+

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Posted: Nov 29, 2005 02:13 PM

Re: Donations as Wedding Favors

Our donation is in honor of my Dad so we will have a photo and message on the placecard table, explaining that in lieu of favors, a donation has been made.

kissy27 Posted: Nov 29, 2005 02:18 PM+

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Posted: Nov 29, 2005 02:18 PM

Re: Donations as Wedding Favors

Our donation is in memory of my grandparents...I made up scrolls with their pictures & a poem...We are attaching them to a box filled with Dove chocolate

mtdr1106 Posted: Nov 29, 2005 02:34 PM+

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Posted: Nov 29, 2005 02:34 PM

Re: Donations as Wedding Favors

i donated to st.jude - for no other reason but that my heart breaks to think of sick children - they sent me a really nice scroll which i am going to leave on their plates.

what are the 3 charities you chose?

JNMWineBride Posted: Nov 29, 2005 02:52 PM+

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Posted: Nov 29, 2005 02:52 PM

Re: Donations as Wedding Favors

Posted by mtdr1106

i donated to st.jude - for no other reason but that my heart breaks to think of sick children - they sent me a really nice scroll which i am going to leave on their plates.

what are the 3 charities you chose?

We're pretty sure we're going with Make-a-Wish, and two that are in honor of our parents (diseases/disorders they've had - and thankfully survived)

Laura&Phil Posted: Nov 29, 2005 03:15 PM+

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Posted: Nov 29, 2005 03:15 PM

Re: Donations as Wedding Favors

It's very nice but a lot of work. Plus, since there are 3 and 2 are personal choices that matter to you and FH you may want to donate evenly to all 3. FH and I thought about it but I didn't want guests to go empty handed and it started to get costly so we're making a small donation on our own. I love the idea tho!

Nina Posted: Nov 29, 2005 03:47 PM+

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Posted: Nov 29, 2005 03:47 PM

Re: Donations as Wedding Favors

great idea , very thoughtful

eroxgirl Posted: Nov 29, 2005 04:17 PM+

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Posted: Nov 29, 2005 04:17 PM

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We did 2 donations, each to charities for diseases that have taken people close to us. At first I was going to do individual scrolls, but that became too much for me to deal with, so we just printed out a nice poem explaining our donations and put it on display near our head table in a frame.

Ang&Rich Posted: Nov 29, 2005 04:24 PM+

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Posted: Nov 29, 2005 04:24 PM

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We donated to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. I love your idea but maybe instead of including it in the response you could put a card at each placesetting at the wedding and have the guest choose. Then afterwards you can make your donation and include a card with the thank you to let them know.

Beth1210 Posted: Nov 29, 2005 04:27 PM+

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Posted: Nov 29, 2005 04:27 PM

Re: Donations as Wedding Favors

I just picked on charity near and dear to us

and had simple cards printed and attached to a cookie baked my my FMIL

JNMWineBride Posted: Nov 29, 2005 05:12 PM+

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Posted: Nov 29, 2005 05:12 PM

Re: Donations as Wedding Favors

Posted by Ang&Rich

We donated to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. I love your idea but maybe instead of including it in the response you could put a card at each placesetting at the wedding and have the guest choose. Then afterwards you can make your donation and include a card with the thank you to let them know.

I like that idea a lot!

JNMWineBride Posted: Nov 29, 2005 05:13 PM+

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Posted: Nov 29, 2005 05:13 PM

Re: Donations as Wedding Favors

Posted by Beth1210

I just picked on charity near and dear to us

and had simple cards printed and attached to a cookie baked my my FMIL

Nice idea!

ccraz Posted: Nov 29, 2005 06:01 PM+

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Posted: Nov 29, 2005 06:01 PM

Re: Donations as Wedding Favors

Great ideas ladies! One question though, how do you begin to go about making a donation? Also, do they usually provide scrolls or something once you make a donation? TIA

JNMWineBride Posted: Nov 29, 2005 06:06 PM+

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Posted: Nov 29, 2005 06:06 PM

Re: Donations as Wedding Favors

Posted by ccraz

Great ideas ladies! One question though, how do you begin to go about making a donation? Also, do they usually provide scrolls or something once you make a donation? TIA

You can look at the websites of the charities you're interested in and make donations online by CC. One of my friends donated to a children's charity - I forget which one - but they did provide pre-printed sheets of paper that we turned into scrolls tied with ribbon. From what I understand they were really nice to deal with.

ncd623 Posted: Nov 29, 2005 09:32 PM+

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Posted: Nov 29, 2005 09:32 PM

Re: Donations as Wedding Favors

I think save yourself the work of letting them choose and pick something close to your heart and print up a nice card for the table

DMcK Posted: Dec 02, 2005 08:19 AM+

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Posted: Dec 02, 2005 08:19 AM

Re: Donations as Wedding Favors

We donated to St. Jude Children's Hospital as our favor, and to let the guests know, we made bookmarks. They came out nicely and it was a good way of letting them know.

sophisticat13 Posted: Jul 31, 2009 10:53 AM+

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Posted: Jul 31, 2009 10:53 AM

Re: Donations as Wedding Favors

Ladies...this post is very old....!!

MrsCtoB Posted: Jul 31, 2009 11:57 AM+

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Posted: Jul 31, 2009 11:57 AM

Re: Donations as Wedding Favors

We are doing a donation in memory of FH's grandfather and uncle and my college roommate.

We are putting a little saying in the menu to let everyone know.