Wedding Favour Tag Wording: Ideas for Every Style

A favour tag is the smallest piece of paper in your whole wedding suite, and somehow it's the one guests actually take home. It sits on a jar of honey or a mini bottle of something fizzy on the way out the door, and it's often the last thing people touch before they leave your day behind. Worth getting right.

What to put on a favour tag

A tag isn't a card — it's a glance. Most work best with three things: a short line of thanks or a pun tied to the favour itself, your names, and the date. That's it. Anything longer than about ten words starts to feel like homework for someone standing by the door with their coat on.

• The line — thank-you, pun, or short sentiment
• Your names — first names are usually enough
• The date — optional, but a nice keepsake touch

Sweet and simple wording

If you'd rather not force a pun, a plain thank-you still lands well — especially on a favour that already does the talking, like a mini jam jar or a box of chocolates.

Thank you for celebrating with us
Grace & Tom · 14 June 2027

With love and thanks

It wouldn't have been the same without you

A little something to say thank you for being here

Food and drink favour wording

Edible favours are still the most popular route, and they're also the easiest to write a pun for — the favour more or less writes the line for you.

Honey jars

Meant to bee — Grace & Tom

Mini bottles or minis

We think you're grape — thanks for celebrating with us

Coffee or hot chocolate

We love you a latte — thank you for being here

Doughnuts or sweets

We donut know what we'd do without you

Jam or preserves

Just jam-ming about how grateful we are

Seeds, plants and candles

Favours that outlast the day — seed packets, small plants, candles — tend to earn a slightly softer line, since guests are meant to keep or grow them rather than eat them on the drive home.

Seed packets

Let love grow — plant these and watch us both bloom

Candles

Light this and remember the day our love was lit

Succulents or small plants

Thanks for helping our love grow

Funny and playful wording

A favour table is one of the few places at a wedding where a bit of silliness is not only allowed but expected. These work well on stickers or small hang tags.

We tied the knot — take a shot

Take two (paracetamol) and thank us in the morning

No love story ever started with a salad — drink up

We're sweet on you

Personalising with names and dates

If you want the tag to double as a keepsake rather than something binned on the way to the car, add both names and the date in full, and keep the sentiment underneath short.

Grace & Tom
14th June 2027
Thank you for sharing our day

Etiquette and practical tips

• Keep it to 5–12 words. Anything longer gets skimmed, not read.
• Match your invitation suite. Reuse the same font and colours so the tag reads as part of the same day, not an afterthought.
• Size to the favour, not the reverse. A standard tag is around 2 x 3.5 inches; mini favours suit something closer to 1.5 x 3 inches.
• Choose your attachment method early. Baker's twine through a punched hole feels rustic, ribbon feels more formal, and a self-adhesive sticker is the fastest option if you're assembling thirty of these the night before.
• Order roughly 10% more than your guest count. Tags tear, get printed wrong, or simply get left behind at the shop — a few spares save a last-minute scramble.
• Proofread names and the date twice. It's a tiny piece of paper with almost no room to hide a typo.

Making yours

You don't need a different tag for every favour on the table — pick one line that sounds like you, in a size that suits what you're tying it to, and let the favour do the rest of the talking. If you'd like a head start, browse our editable wedding favour tag templates — swap in your own names, date and wording, and print as many as you need at home or with your local printer.