Wedding boxes

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My friend and I are having a slight disagreement and we need the MN jury to help us find an answer please.

It's your wedding day, you have invited friends and family which include 10 ish children that are from ages 3 to 14.

Would you supply a Children's wedding box? something along the lines of this, www.etsy.com/uk/listing/233278795/childrens-personalised-wedding-boxes?&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_uk_en_gb_e-weddings-gifts_and_mementos-wedding_favors&utm_custom1=a61b7819-bdb5-4f81-a84a-227beb347e5f&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIyLKpke2D1QIVIrHtCh0zYg2GEAQYDCABEgIT0fD_BwE

Or are you of an opinion that children would rather use their phones/DS etc and would bring their own entertainment?

Do you think it just a bit useless and over the top?

WIBU to suggest that it may be a slight waste of money as I don't think children will actually use most of the stuff if they have the choice of their iPad etc
Or am I being UR and actually your kids would have lived it and used the contents?

Colouring books, little lego kits, puzzles, word searches, magazines, jewellery kit - did party bags for kids that were age and child appropriate for them to play with quietly during speeches.

SiL hired a magician to keep the kids enterntained at her wedding

We went to a wedding recently where they had a jar of crayons on the tables with children and each child had a plain paper notebook. The jars and notebooks were customised to look suitably wedding-ish. It worked really well for all ages as some did drawing or parents drew to keep them amused, older ones did hangman, etc.

We gave out party bags to the kids at the start of our wedding reception - had colouring in and other little bits for them to play with during the meal. We also had someone doing face painting during the reception - it was amazing how many adults were also sporting painted faces by the end of the evening :D

We made our own for the 8 children at our wedding, ages 13 and below. They all had in colouring pencils or crayons, an activity booklet with puzzles that we put together ourselves, stickers, bubbles, sweeties and an inexpensive toy. We had different ones for all ages like bracelet making kit, lego, Happyland figures, teething toy etc. Anything that isn't messy or nosiy is good! You can get things quite cheaply if you shop around and have plenty of time to wait for sales, discount codes etc.

Went to a wedding recently with lots of kids (babies upwards) and each child got a party bag containing: sweets, Play-Doh, a colouring in picture + crayons and some cheap pound shop plastic tat toys (foam planes, mini army men etc).

Seems to keep them entertained and they could play with each other and make friend etc rather than looking at individual screens.

We did kid boxes, we had around 10 kids it seemed to go down well.

They all contained
A pack of sweets
Drawing pad
Colouring pencils
A glow cup (like a glow stick but a cup)
Either loom bands/paracord bracelt kit
Yellow Stretchy men
Plain cotton tote bag (fabric pens on the table to design their own bag)
Glow sticks
Tacky princess rings/Chinese finger traps.
Bubbles

You can get companies to do them for great expense but I did them myself & the kids really enjoyed them & it kept them busy during the speeches

We just popped some colouring pads and pencils on the kid's table. But they played in the park on the village green in the afternoon, our dinner wasn't a formal sit down 3 course affair and we had minimal speeches so it didn't take them to the point of boredom, then straight into the ceilidh which most got up and joined in with, so they didn't really need much 'entertaining'.

I bought a huge box of lego and split it up into bags for the dc who ranged from 5 to nearly 12 year old dd. They all loved it. I also booked an entertainer and tried to time it for the point where the dc would be getting fed up sitting and the adults would be letting pudding settle and possibly having coffee. He was one I'd seen at a child's party and very entertaining. A few of the adults went through to watch him as well.

I avoided the boxes because it actually just became a bit confusing and a bit expensive to get them to cover different age groups so I went with the lego and it was a huge hit. The big box gave them enough of an assortment each to build some imaginative things. Oh I also did sort it out so the bags had enough wheels to build or doors and windows etc. So that they didn't have something like one wheel a window and no door.

Colouring books/pencils (and a sharpener and rubbers)
Word search/crosswordy type things for the older ones
Little toys that they could play at the table with
Foam swords (it fitted with the venue). The adults had LOTS of fun with these.

Great idea. Do not hire an entertainer!!' It's a Wessing not a birthday party!!

*wedding. Obviously!

We had a children's corner in the venue with some toys, blankets, cushions etc. It was well used.

I have been at a wedding that had similar in the day time, kind of a den for the kids, and in the evening there was a kids' room (they didn't have to use it!) with cushions, blankets and a DVD playing, where they could snuggle down.

I have also been to a wedding with activity bags for the kids on the table and my two year old loved that -colouring, wind up dinosaur, jumpy frog etc

As above but with a pack of cards for the teenagers, gave old uncles a chance to get their hustle on with the younger ones, showing them card games

I got married at easter and did the kids easter baskets that contained crayons, paper, wind up toy, glow stick necklace, glow stick spinning toy, and Filled a plastic chick with Easter eggs. The kids were all the same age and each one loved it. I also did an Easter egg hunt for the kids and they all got a medal we had glow stick for adults aswell and everybody was wearing a glow stick

We did some lunchboxes, with small party tat gifts thrown in - The kids loved them, even the older ones (10+)

We told everyone there were plain sandwiches in the kids boxes, and other snacks, but the kids were free to eat from the main food too, didn't get any complaints, and no phones/ipads in sight!

We provide the kids at our wedding a box of goodies each. Babies got a mini board book and soft toy. Under 5s got colouring books and sweets and the pre teens were given puzzle books and a pack of cards. The meal and speeches can be long and boring for young children. A colouring book could be a real help to keep them quiet and entertained.

3 year olds don't have phones and iPads (do they? I don't know any who do).

I'd say it's a lovely idea for the younger children. You could hand out a pleasingly grown up notebook and pencil to older children so they can draw/ doodle/ write/ play battleships but activity boxes would be better aimed at 3-6 year olds IMO.

Oh yes a pack of cards is a great idea too.