to like these wedding favours?

[Sweetpea01]

Okay, you caught me, not really an AIBU but I enjoy the varied responses on this board

Best friend's getting married, no idea what her favours will be but the boyfriend and I were talking about what we'd like (as you do when you're bored )

Anyway, I really like the idea of simple venetian style masks for each guest as a keepsake. Especially if it fit into the overall look of the day.

What are your favourite (or most hated!!) favours received at a wedding?

Halloween wedding here, so Vampire Teeth, chocolate eyeballs, halloween sweets in a little bag and a small packet of love heart sweets (it was a wedding) :)

Agree Wips, and we are a very close family. Most people don't want frames/household items/trinkets as the either don't have the space for them, they don't match the house decor or (like me) they don't like clutter/tat. Even if you don't think it's tat, I guarantee someone will! If I had been given a mask, however pretty, it would be binned because I have nowhere for it to go; just another thing to dust!

The best ones I've seen were little swans made out of cardboard. Inside where flower seeds and instructions around its neck. You planted the whole swan somewhere sunny and it grew into a plant of some sort. I thought that was lovely

If you gave me a Venetian mask I would hang it in the downstairs loo with all the other eclectic tat--a disco ball, some peacock feathers, a fake Oscar, a tiny velvet hatbox, a plaster of Paris Cupid, a gigantic heart made of dried roses...

It's all rather elegantly put together (I would say that, wouldn't I?) and is the only place tat lives in my home.

I like the scratch card idea. And if you give me a tea towel with your picture on it, I can't guarantee it's my hands and dishes I'll be wiping with it.

As a wedding favour I had simple organza bag with chocolates (the really nice ones) and sugared almonds (traditional where I was brought up) and sweets for kids. For table entertainment I bought things on sticks (hot lips, moustache, glasses, hat, frilly collar) and put a few on each table. People liked to take pictures, especially kids. SIL made all the kids a little party bag with stickers, colouring pens and pads, chocolate, toy car/toy doll etc. We gave most of the decorations away, the centre piece to special people (mothers, people who had helped lots) and told our guests to take the pink and purple tealights & holders.

I was tempted by the photo booth but could not justify the expense. Preferred to buy more food and wine! Ditto with chair covers etc Etc. The problem is that the good stuff is expensive, the cheap stuff is just tat.

Best: wedding just before Christmas, tree bauble.

Always acceptable: miniature of booze or sweeties

TBH I would expect them to be thrown afterwards. I don't think I've ever kept a part favour?

My family are always up for a laugh and from previous experience they would for the most part have a roaring time and throw them at the end.

We had fridge magnets with a painting on them that we used as a theme throughout our whole wedding - it is by a very famous artist from my home country, and the original was hanging in the art gallery where we had our reception. It is of a church in a forest. (Sounds twee but it's really not). I printed a photo of the painting on our save the date cards, the hotel info, it was on our website etc (yes, I had one of those weddings )

We also had little desk clocks with the date of our wedding on them. I hated them but my mum insisted. Total waste of money. They looked nice on the tables though, they were in smart black boxes with cream ribbons - this was in the days before Jo Malone and The White Company so looked quite original.

The person at the table with the birthday closest to our wedding day got to take the flowers + vases home.

Didn't bother with favours, absolutely nobody minded. Your wedding isn't that important to anyone else to want a keepsake except your parents, and they get a photo for the mantelpiece anyway.

Plus Venetian masks are yucky, sorry.

The best wedding favour I ever had was a card saying the bride and groom had donated money to a charity.

But I do like sweets or chocolates.

I would howl with laughter at a mask, sorry.

I loved the wedding I went to where people were given lego minifigures and there were bowls of lego bricks on the tables. Kept adults and children amused during speaches.

We had jellybeans, paper tablecloths and crayons as we had a large amount of children and a fair few 'older' children at the meal.
It went down quite well.

We are having charity badges. Dp's best friend and would have been beat man died a year and a half ago and our wedding will be the first big thing and the first time all the uni group will have been together since the funeral. So instead of wasting money on tat we are getting the cancer research ones that come on a little card saying instead of favours we made a donation and have a little badge on them.

Charity donation is a great idea and one I forgot to get around to.

We had a pick and mix in the evening and I put a note on the tables telling people to feel free to take home the vases of flowers and little candle holders. Lots of people did.

Best favours i have seen were miniature bottles of spirits, vodka, gin or whiskey etc. Very useful later in the night.

Best favours I've seen recently were miniatures of Baileys and my other favourite was a wee box with 2 Thorntons chocolates.

Both practical and enjoyable and way better than something that'll lie about and get binned

Favours are a complete waste of money.

I'm not sure what I'd do with a mask - would either end up in the dressing up box or the bin I think.

We had mini boxes of chocolates as our favours, plus wine glass charms made by a friend. Each place setting card held 2 charms, each couple therefore had the full set of 4 and the few single friends I invited were given a second card with the other 2 on so they also had a full set. I found mine the other day & they're still lovely 10 years on!

if you must have favours, they must be edible.

but no-one will care if you don't bother. As long as they get a meal of course!

Of course the sugared almonds weren't meant to be eaten. Have you ever tasted one? Truly disgusting.

I only like consumable things as wedding favours - sweets or drink - sweets especially when the food is rubbish or a bit thin on the ground!

Aren't favours ( traditionally sugared almonds to bring good luck to the B&G) and things to keep guests entertained completely separate things??

I had minature whiskey at mine, I don't think anyone got to bring them home - they got raided at about midnight.

I don't mind getting candles especially if they're not engraved or stickered. My friend got married in Spain, the bride gave out wooden fans as favours, they were nice.

Our friends had bottle openers - the only favours we've kept and used. They had their wedding date on them too so I do always remember their anniversary. All others have either been eaten or been languishing in a drawer for eternity, they feel like a waste of money really.

One wedding we went to had a pick and mix sweet stall, where you could help yourself to bags of sweets. That was good, especially as there was a fair gap between the ceremony and the wedding meal.