14 Elegant Tea Party Favor Ideas

Planning an adorable, elegant tea party for yourself or someone else? Then you need these tea party favor ideas to gift your guests a keepsake to commemorate the event. Providing your guests with thoughtful party favors as they leave will extend their enjoyment of the gathering, and potentially inspire years of fond memories every time they use the items you give them!

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So, if you’re ready to choose an ideal venue and host the perfect tea party, here are 14 elegant tea party favor ideas that’ll help!

1. Tea infuser balls and tea

Attach tea infuser balls (heart-shaped like the ones here are a great idea for an extra sweet vibe!) to small sample-sized containers or sachets of tea.

2. Adorable sugar cubes

Continuing with the tea-related tea party favor ideas, how about making your own heart-shaped sugar cubes (or another shape, if something like stars would be more relevant to your tea party’s theme)? Offer them to your guests in small, aesthetically pleasing bags or jars so they double as attractive display items.

3. Mini jars of local honey

Another tea sweetener that makes a fabulous tea party favor idea is mini jars of local honey. Dress them up with pretty, colorful ribbons, and if possible, provide a wooden honey dipper to go with them for extra usefulness and impact.

4. Vintage teacups

Here’s another tea party favor idea that can also double as decor for your party: giving each of your guests a vintage teacup (and a matching saucer, if you like) to take home with them! They’ll love preparing cups of tea for themselves with these elegant drinking vessels, and every time they do so, they’re sure to think back to your party. 

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5. Or give out vintage teacup candles

Another use for vintage teacups would be to make them into candles. Here’s a guide to making them yourself from The Craft Patch, but if you’d rather buy the candles, you can purchase them from sellers on Etsy like The Hobbyist Box.

6. Vintage-inspired lace gloves

It is hard to imagine anything more elegant than sipping tea with your pinky out while wearing a pair of classic lace “tea gloves”! Offer each guest a pair at the beginning of your party, making sure to provide a variety of sizes so everyone can wear gloves if they like, regardless of their hand size.

7. Tea bag-shaped cookies

You really can’t go wrong with a sweet treat to go with tea, and while regular, round cookies are all well and good, cookies in fun shapes are that much more fun and festive. Check out this guide to making chocolate-dipped shortbread tea bag cookies from As Easy as Apple Pie!

8. Or small packages of madeleine cookies

Originally from France, madeleines are a delicate, seashell-shaped cookie with lots of butter and hints of vanilla and orange zest in the batter. Wrapping them individually and offering them to your guests as they leave your party (or including them in a larger bag of party favors) is an ideal send-off.

9. Or stunning pastel macarons

Similarly elegant to madeleines, macarons are another French cookie (with filling sandwiched inside, like a fancy Oreo!) that come in a variety of pastel hues that would go beautifully with almost any tea party aesthetic. Not only can you serve macarons at the party itself, perhaps stacked in attractive towers, Marie Antoinette style—you can also offer them as party favors in individual bags.

10. Vintage tea ads or postcards

Keeping the vintage theme going, what about including thank you notes for each of your guests (perhaps on the back of vintage tea ads or tea-related postcards!) in your bags of party favors?

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11. Stack party favors on a three-tiered tea tray

Here’s an impressive idea for presentation: offer your party favors on a classic three-tiered tea tray for a convenient and attractive display.

12. Homemade tissue paper butterflies

Party hosts with a crafty side will enjoy making their own tissue paper butterflies using not much more than layers of multicolor tissue paper and pipe cleaners in an array of different hues! They’ll also help cultivate an ethereal vibe for your party, especially for an outdoor garden tea party.

13. Tiny teaspoons in your favor bags

Tiny gold teaspoons are an adorable and useful addition to a bag of tea-related party favors! We love how they look tied to a semi-sheer bag containing teabags, as in this example from Roses and Teacups (which you can also purchase from them as pre-assembled party favors)

14. Heart-shaped tea bag dishes

You can buy these simple yet adorable heart-shaped ceramic dishes in a 24-pack from Amazon, and for not much more than a dollar per dish, you’ll have yet another useful and pretty addition to your bags of party favors. 

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