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How much does a favour button really cost once you have counted every guest on the list? That is the question most people planning a party in Farmingville open with, and it has an arithmetic answer rather than a vague one. Pick a size, multiply by the number of guests, then add one flat shipping figure that depends only on how many buttons are on the order. Nothing in that calculation shifts around based on who is asking or how large the order gets.

Party favours are a slightly different job from most button orders. The count is usually fixed by a headcount rather than a guess, the artwork is often a photograph or a date or a name rather than a logo, and somebody has to be able to hand the whole thing to a host without a surprise at the end. So the numbers below are laid out the way a planner would want them, with the total written out in full.

Five sizes, counted separately for the discount

There are five round pin-back buttons and nothing else. The 1.5 inch is $1.89 each. The 2.25 inch is $1.99 each. The 3 inch is $2.49 each. The two to know about at the small end are the 1 inch at $1.49 and the 1.25 inch at $1.69.

The rate steps at three counts and holds level between them. It is the same at one button and the same at a thousand. Do not inflate an order hunting for a discount. Do check whether your count for one size is a few short of 100, 250 or 500, because those three numbers are real. If you need 180 buttons, order 180. The per button cost is identical to what it would be at 900.

What that means in practice is that the size choice is the only real lever on the buttons line of the total. The gap between the smallest and largest is a dollar per button, which is modest on a small party and substantial on a large one. For a favour that sits at each place setting, the 2.25 inch is the usual middle choice. For something meant to be seen across a room, people tend to go to the 3 inch. For a run where a lot of people are getting one on the way in, the 1.5 inch keeps the line short.

The part of the total that does move

Shipping is flat too, but it steps by the total number of buttons on the order:

• up to 100 buttons, $9.99
• up to 250 buttons, $14.99
• up to 500 buttons, $19.99
• up to 1000 buttons, $24.99

The two things a bigger count changes are the band each size is priced in and the one shipping charge on the order. An order a little above 250 pays the same $19.99 as an order of 500. If you are at 260 and you were already thinking about a second design, or a few spares for people who were not on the original list, those extra buttons ride on shipping you are paying anyway. The reverse is also true: if you are at 255 and the last five were an afterthought, dropping them takes you back to $14.99.

A worked order, written out

Take a large party and use the biggest size. 400 of the 3 inch button at $1.87 each, the 250 to 499 rate, 25 percent off, is $748.00 in buttons. A 400 button order sits in the up to 500 tier, so shipping is $19.99. The order comes to $767.99 before tax.

That is the whole calculation. There is no setup line, no per design line and no minimum that pushes the figure somewhere else. If you swapped that same 400 to a different size you would change only the first number, because the shipping tier is set by the count and 400 stays in the same tier whichever size you pick.

Nineteen miles east, and two neighbours at the same remove

Farmingville sits 19.1 miles east of the shop in a straight line. That figure is a straight line measurement, not a route and not a travel time.

The more useful geography for a party order is closer in. Holtsville and Selden both sit 2.2 miles away, at exactly the same distance, one on either side. Medford is 2.7 miles, Coram is 3.1 miles and Centereach is 3.2 miles. We cover all of them.

That matters when the guest list is not confined to one household. A guest list often reaches into two or three of those places at once, and people often want a handful of favours going out to relatives who could not make the date. Because shipping is charged once per order on the total count, it is almost always better to put the whole thing on a single order and sort the buttons into piles afterwards than to place three small orders and pay three shipping tiers.

Artwork for a favour table

Full colour, printed from artwork you upload. A photograph works, a scanned invitation works, a name and a date set in type works.

Two practical notes for party artwork. First, the round button is a circle, so anything important needs to sit away from the outer edge, where the print wraps around the curve. A face centred in the frame survives that. A line of text running right to the edge of a rectangular image does not. Second, if you are putting a year or a name on it, set it larger than looks right on screen. A 1.5 inch button is smaller in the hand than it is on a monitor.

You can run more than one design on a single order. Separate artwork per design, same rate table per button within each size, and the shipping tier is still worked out on the combined count.

Four ways an order like this usually starts

If you are planning a milestone birthday, you probably already have a firm headcount and a photograph everyone has seen before. Work from the headcount, add a small margin for people who bring someone, and check where that lands against the tier table above.

If you are marking an anniversary, the common request is a single design with two names and a pair of years, often sized at 2.25 inch so the type stays readable. One design, one count, one total.

If you plan parties for other people, the published band rate is the useful part. You can quote a client from the size and the headcount without waiting on a figure from us, and the only variable you have to look up is which shipping tier the count falls into.

If you are collecting money from a group, the same flatness helps. Divide the buttons line by the number of people contributing, add the single shipping figure, and the split is exact. Nobody has to explain why a rate changed.

Questions people ask

Can one order cover a party in Farmingville and favours posted to relatives in Holtsville and Selden? Yes. Put the whole count on one order, pay one shipping tier on the total, and separate the piles yourself. Both of those places sit 2.2 miles from you.

Our Farmingville guest list has crept past 250 buttons. Does the price per button change? No. A size reaching 100 moves every button of that size onto the lower rate. The only thing that changed when you crossed 250 is the shipping tier, which moves to $19.99 and then holds all the way to 500.

We want 400 of the 3 inch button for a party in Farmingville. What is the total? $748.00 for the buttons at $1.87 each, the 250 to 499 rate, 25 percent off, plus $19.99 shipping for a 400 button order, so $767.99 before tax.

Is the 11738 ZIP code in Farmingville covered? Yes. That ZIP, and the surrounding parts of Brookhaven township in Suffolk County, are all inside the area this page covers, along with the neighbouring places listed above.

Can we use three different designs for one Farmingville anniversary party? Yes. Upload artwork for each design on the same order. The price per button is unchanged, since the count for that size has not moved, and the shipping tier is calculated on the total number of buttons rather than on the number of designs.