Wedding anniversary favours

[Thadeus]

We are celebrating 20 years married with dinner for the family in a top London restaurant. I want to make the evening special by giving our guests gifts but I just can’t think of anything appropriate. Any ideas?

Pay for dinner and people won’t expect gifts!

ipad with loads of photos of your wedding day to pass round at dinner table so people can giggle at hair/outfits :D

What sort of budget do you have? And are you giving gifts to each guest or per couple/family?

Agree with Anne.
People won't expect favours, and probably won't want them.

We are already paying, I think I just wanted to personalise the evening a bit more.
I like the idea of the iPad and photos.

We were considering photos of our loved ones who aren’t with us anymore but not sure if that’s a bit odd.

i would say please dont to that - those of us in a similar vintage have wedding albums full of the dead, while it is nice to have the photos it isnt very celebratory!

just buy the dinner - best favour ever!

Your guests are obviously important do you, so what about a photobook? You could include wedding pictures that show any of your dinner guests who were present, pictures taken since then, that show you with the same people , and yes, why not include loved ones who are no longer with you? If it's in the context of your married life, I think it should be fine - for instance, if it is parents who have passed on, maybe a picture of them with the grandchildren?

I would love to receive something like this, especially if it included photos I hadn't seen before.

CDs with music from that year and your 'first dance' on?

I think that’s a lovely idea display. I know someone who did things from the year their parents married for an anniversary gift and it would be a conversation starter to do it the other way round.

We were considering photos of our loved ones who aren’t with us anymore but not sure if that’s a bit odd.

See I disagree with specialsubject and would love to reminisce about how much ones who are no longer with us enjoyed our wedding day.

What were your favours at your wedding? Recreate them?

I'm afraid I think the idea of having photos of loved ones who have died, and talking about them at the dinner, is weird and inappropriate. How does that fit in with celebrating 20 years of marriage!?

I think the whole favours thing is misplaced too... if you want to give anything I would have thought just a photo of you and your DH would be enough.

I just think favours, other than anything that can be consumed, are a complete waste of money. I have never been to a wedding that had them.

Could you do a photo placecard for each person at the dinner, back to a photo of them on your wedding day? Would be a good laugh to look at 20 year old pics of themselves.

As for favours, what about little pots with chocolates/scratchcard in? Macarons? Mini alcohol (if allowed in restaurant)
If you look on Pinterest you get tonnes of favour ideas.

Depends if your budget stretches but I am desperate to give this as favours at some point... www.selfridges.com/GB/en/cat/the-bubble/