Aibu.. Not to do a wedding favour for these reasons.

[MarmiteAndCheeseRolls]

So it's a while off yet.
But been collecting bits to spread the cost.

So was just going to do the little organza bags with maybe sugared almonds for adults and something diff for the kids.
The reception is at a pub.. The pub holds maybe 180 people but seating for 100. Some other seats at benches etc.
So would be difficult to lay them out.

Also we have a sweet cart so therws plenty for people to take home. Which there will be loads as doing wholesalers for them
Don't want to spend unnecessarily
But don't want to look tight

Also I should point out the staff will only eat the cut cake cos usually most of it gets ignored after it goes out in the evening and would otherwise be chucked! We’re not just scoffing your expensive cake I promise.

God, the last wedding I went to that gave sugared almond favours was when I was a teen in the late 80s.

At most weddings l scurry around picking up the favours dumped on our table as don't want poor bride to be insulted nobody bothered with them.
Only one l liked was handknitted napkin holders with little flower on top . I kept my eye out for the dumped ones as they were sweet.
Also hate sweet cart but they seem popular.

Didn’t have them at my wedding, didn’t see the need and didn’t have the budget!

Don’t do sugared almonds! They are horrible, thoughtless, tacky and a throwback from the 1980s! Avoid avoid avoid!!!!!!!

I love sugared almonds.

I love sugared almonds. And the last wedding I went to the cut cake was left out on the buffet table. It was nearly gone when I left to go home. It was delicious though.

I thought this thread was about something else. My Bad. Ooops

Don't do favours.

At the end of the night everybody pissed or not couldn't care less and either don't take them or take them and bin them on the way home or at worst start throwing them at each other (drunk blokes mostly).

I've organised a number of budget weddings and never seen people want them.

Most likely because, let's face it, sugared almonds are fucking disgusting. I've done other types of sweets and trinkets at the bride's behest too, still no bugger wanted them.

Total waste of money.

Also, if you're considering it, don't do disposable cameras either, same story or they get pinched.

I really like sugared almonds

I don't need any favour at all, come to watch you get married and have a dance with dh. Fun!

Friends of ours spent a fortune on minatures of spirits that were labelled for each guest personally. By the end of the evening all that was left was a load of empty bottles and a VERY pissed off bride! She had been sure that people would save them as a momento of her uniquely special day (no one else had got married before them.....you know the type).

They are the only favours I particularly remember, sugared almonds always get left behind ime and the ones that do go home end up in the bin. They used to be the done thing, but these days I would say more people dont do them than do.

I'm sad that I've never been to a wedding with a sweet cart. Is it a thing? Old timer here. We had sugared almonds early 90s, but that was the only think people did for favours then... I had a collection of them for a while until a mouse got in & enjoyed them

I did favours, little organza bags with sweets (celebrations, quality street etc) got the bags really cheap. Was fun doing them but in reality not needed. Flower girls enjoyed giving them out.

Most weddings I have been to have favours of some kind, my favourite was a miniture baileys for after dinner

Twee, olde-worlde ‘shabby chic’ sweet carts are exponentially tackier than a small bag of sugared almonds. The latter are at least a European-Middle Eastern tradition: if they’re now infra dig, that’s only because we’ve made them so. Totally agree about the miniatures. Honestly, love, no-one is going to place 5 cl of Famous Grouse with ‘Kimberley and Jake: The First day; The ‘Yes’ Day: The Best Day 12.05.18’ in a Soddy keepsake box. They’re going to surreptitiously neck them fifteen seconds after they sit down

I have never understood wedding favours. Don't bother, they are completely pointless, they get dropped into the bottom of a handbag where they will probably stay until the handbag is next used and then they will get dumped straight into the bin.

I once went to a wedding where they had done some goody bags for the kids; a bit of chocolate colouring book / activity book and pencils which they had put out instead of favours for the kids. I bloody loved that wedding, extremely thoughtful of the b&g (No kids) and kids were all quiet during the speeches

Whatever you do, DO NOT do one kind of favour for the men and another for the women.

I am still deeply unimpressed with the wedding where men got a booze miniature and women got flower seeds.

Don’t bother with favours. They are completely unnecessary. I went to a wedding recently where the homemade place markers were little slices of a wooden branch decorated with a little felt flower, and hand painted with the persons name. Simple to do, and everyone took theirs home.

When I said sugared almonds I said maybe sugared almonds.. Wouldn't be a definite as know most wouldn't eat..
Either way we have now decided on the charity idea..
Didn't realise how many people don't do favours anymore.. Last wedding I went to had them.. But it was a mad hatters tea party themed party one (dunno why) and it was a teabag in a bag.. I took it home. Never made a drink with it.. Then ended up in the bin anyway