Wedding favour

[Shallysally]

Opinions please on if this is a good idea or not.

We are having a small wedding and looking at wedding favours.

There’s a poet we like and would like for one of his poems to be converted to a sound wave and have a QR code embedded so when people scan the soundwave the poem will play.

We would have it on the card with the design of the wedding invites.

As a guest, is this something that you would think is nice or naff?

Fully aware that the cards will probably be scanned once then put in a drawer!

While I agree that wedding favours are a waste of money, this is a lovely idea.

Sorry @Shallysally I and, I suspect most people, wouldn't bother scanning it. I don't like scanning random QR codes due to them being used to scam people.

And I don't like poetry either. The card wouldn't even go in a drawer but straight into recycling.

I don’t think people would listen to it.

We had sweet cones as our favours, as we figured most people like sweets! We got the sweets from Macro, the cones from Shein. Didn’t cost most.

I also did personalised name tags for place settings, with everyone’s names engraved on them, which doubled up as favours. Everyone except one person took them home with them.

I would include the poem in the ceremony instead (if appropriate! But I assume it’s not about anything taboo if you were going to give it as a wedding favour).

I would hate this and this it was a bit ridiculous

do a sweets table or rent a Photo Booth instead

I like poetry, I'd be interested - but I'd be annoyed to have to scan a code (though as it's an unusual design for a QR code, unless there was an obvious instruction that it was a scannable code I'd probably not even realise that's what it was). I dislike listening to audio books etc, so I'd probably follow the code, then copy the name of the poem and find a text version, and never listen to your recording. It's probably easier just to print it on the invitation somewhere, or on the table.

Generally speaking favours are pointless. I have four packets of seeds in my kitchen from the last time we went to a wedding - almost two years ago and still we haven't got round to the planting. If you're going to do favours, make them edible!