Did you/Will you do charity donation cards as wedding favors?

[minniebride]

I saw this on the Knot's store pages & immediately decided to do this. It makes perfect sense for us. We are on a tight budget but I would like to put the money toward something good. Most of our guests are traveling to WDW & don't need to lug extra stuff home with them and my mom has cancer and I would like to give to a cancer charity.

Are any of you doing this? Or have any of you done this? If so, could you tell me about it?

-What website did you go through
-What did your card look like
-How early in advance did you buy them
-How much $$ is the minimum to give

Thanks!

 

[RangerPooh]

Friends of ours did make donations (to where I've forgotten) and placed a small note, business card sized on each place setting informing the guests that a donation has been made in our honor/their wedding celebration to .... No monetary amount was mentioned as it wasn't expected. I thought that it was a nice gesture, it was different, and very thoughtful.

 

[minniebride]

Friends of ours did make donations (to where I've forgotten) and placed a small note, business card sized on each place setting informing the guests that a donation has been made in our honor/their wedding celebration to .... No monetary amount was mentioned as it wasn't expected. I thought that it was a nice gesture, it was different, and very thoughtful.

Thanks! It just seems like a better way to spend money on favors, IMO. I"m not crazy about any other favors I am across & I don't like the idea if buying something nonfunctional that guests may just throw out or toss aside in the flight home anyways.

 

[RangerPooh]

This site has a few sayings that can be used to inform guests that a donation has been made in lue of favors.
http://www.favorideas.com/favorsayings/index.php?q=contribute

Donation card

 

[Bridie1996]

We've talked about making donations as well, and I read that the ASPCA
has pre-printed cards for brides and grooms to give to their guests.

Once you choose who you'd like to make the donations too, you might want to ask them if they already have something you can give to your guests?

 

[gemmybear83]

Were not doing charity favors - but we are doing a charity giftlist instead of a regular one - were using this site but I have heard of others http://www.giveit.co.uk/index.php (this is a UK site)

 

[DisneyDmbNut]

Our local news just did a story about this last week..A couple who got married at Disney Vero made a donation to a local charity in lieu of wedding favors...I thought this was a great idea ...what is someone going to do with a candle or candy carriage?? The wedding we just went to gave us a carriage with mints in it. Pretty but I feel guilty throwing it away..but have no place for it...That is hundreds of dollars you could donate and put a note on the table "in lieu of wedding favors, the bride and groom have donated to ....."

 

[minniebride]

Thanks so much for your input!

I'm wondering now if it would be tacky to do two different charities (alternating guests so half get one donation, half get the other). I would love to do Dana Farber Cancer Hospital (where my mom goes for treatments) and also the ASPCA (we are huge animal lovers).

Would you stick with just one or would two different ones be ok?

I am loving this idea more and more. I'm just not a big fan of giving those little wedding favors at all. The donations are way more "us."

 

[dopeysgirl84]

We gave donations in lieu of favors also! We gave to three different charities, if you want to know the amount, feel free to PM me. In my opinion, any amount is a GREAT amount. I think wedding favors should be significant to the couple, not just something to "give" because you are "supposed to." We made up a card explaining each charity and it's significance to us. We gave to the organization/camp that we met through, which runs a summer camp for impoverished youth. We also gave to the organization we still work with (and have been for ten years) that encourages social interaction between people with and without disabilities. The third organization was Coaches vs. Cancer which is an organization of basketball coaches that raise money for cancer research. My husband coaches basketball ball and the person he coached with passed away two months before our wedding from cancer. We just made up one card, put it in a frame, and placed it on the place card table. That way, as people took their place card they saw the signs. I don't know if everyone saw them, but we figured that was a good way of doing it rather than putting out extra cost to print something.
If anyone needs help with the wording, I can look for the documents that we printed.

 

[BecBennett]

We will be doing donations too. Most likely to a cancer research charity, but also possibly to a pallative care center that df's grandmother spent some time at before passing away.

 

[Bridie1996]

We discussed this some more last night, and came up with what we think is a great idea. The kudos goes to my MOH for the intial inspiriational question of "why don't you use Hank ( our dog) to let them know?"

We would probably do ASPCA or a local animal shelter and the Kidney Foundation ( my Mom is a kidney transplant patient).

For the ASPCA we are thinking of taking a cute picture of Hank and making a card out of it, so on the back it says how honored we are to have them share our day with us and that in lieu of a gift, we have given a donation to the ASPCA. This way, Hank gets to be part of it as well, at least in spirit since he can't be at Disney with us.