Wedding Favours

[JaneSparrow13]

As a guest at a wedding, would you appreciate a favour that is something like a wine glass with the couples name and the date on it?

I feel like it would make a good gift for the couple actually getting married, but it's a little self-indulgent to expect guests to take home and keep something like that.

AIBU?

Would be something for a family member to give the bride but I wouldn’t want it as a favour. Sorry for being blunt but I’ve got enough tat in my home already. Give a £1 scratch card… easy and more fun

Not what I would want.

Our favours had our names and wedding dates in in small letters but they were useful notebooks.

Naff.

But nice for the charity shop I suppose.

Honestly, wedding favours are utter self-indulgent crap that only the bride gives a shiny shit about. They're also hugely expensive.

If you must do wedding favours, make them edible or practical. I had a wedding favour of a charity keychain once (donation to the charity, fairly inoffensive design). I still have that.

No idea where any of the personalised favours are from over the years. The bin, I expect.

I realise I'm being very blunt here. But when I nearly got married, I spent a disproportionate amount of time planning what favours we might have. I'm over my ex, but part of me is not over getting to making ridiculous favours for 100s of people. There's something about favours that call to the ridiculous part of the female soul, and we cannot drown it out.

Friends need to intervene and drown that voice out for us, lest we waste lots of money on something no one else cares about.

No to anything personalised to bride and groom but esp a wine glass

Wont get used

We are doing bags of chocolate hearts

In all honesty, personalised notebooks are no more useful or desirable than wine glasses.

Nobody wants anything with the bride or grooms name or wedding date on it. End of.

My cousin had glasses with the guests names on. Doubled up as place cards and favours

We still use them

I agree with them being fairly recent, eg last 10, 20 years. They never made an appearance at any wedding I went tto before that.
Went to loads of weddings in the 60s in London with proper favours ie sugar almonds and Loukoumia My DF was Greek Cypriot so we went to a lot of greek cypriot weddings.
Even had sugared almond favours at my wedding (30 years next month) which was an english style wedding. I think its a tradition that has been brought over here from Mediterranean immigrants, although it was common over here back to the 16th century in noble families

One of the nicest and most practical favour i had in New Zealand was from an arty family. The bride designed a tea towel with all their favorite things on it

Something smaller, fun, or edible or a consumable

Absolutely this. If it can't be stuffed into a small bag or a pocket it will get left behind, and the idea of guests trying to transport glasses home when they're all pissed tired is a recipe for disaster.

Not to mention that no, I really don't want a wine glass with the couple's name and the date of their wedding on it. It's just tat that I have to either find somewhere to keep it before it accidentally gets broken or feel guilty about putting into landfill.

Favours should be small and/or consumable. Sweets are good, little bottles of blowing bubbles, small packets of seeds. That sort of thing.

And absolutely definitely not different favours for men and women. I went to a wedding where the women got chocolates and the men got whisky, and of course the labels were pink for women and blue for the men

@Blondeshavemorefun

No to anything personalised to bride and groom but esp a wine glass

Wont get used

We are doing bags of chocolate hearts

Ours were all used and liked.

Notebooks @SunshineCake. Yes I would use that

But you have to agree a wine glass with date and name of couple is likely not to be used

I agree not to my taste and possibly not useful @Blondeshavemorefun

😂

Little bags of sugared almonds are my favourite!

I've never been to any wedding where they've had favours for the guests and I've never heard anyone complain about it. They just seem like a huge waste of money and resources to me; what's the point in them?

Ours werent costly - compared to our wedding

And all the extra payments we had to make due to covid for new dates /venues and bans as over a year old

I don't think I even did favours 😂 small wedding.
My cousin did little candles with their names and wedding date on them, they were nice.

Sorry but really naff... I don't really understand wedding favours.. I think people just take them home out of politeness.. stick them in a drawer or cupboard then chuck them out at a declutter at a later date ... only ones I like are sweets !!

@Frazzled2207 .. jam
Is a brilliant idea .. yum

@twiggytwoo .. ha ha .. I think I'm the only person who likes sugared almonds ... I'd eat everyone else's !!!

[quote BrumCahoots]@Frazzled2207 .. jam
Is a brilliant idea .. yum [/quote]
Is it, though? It's better than an engraved wine glass, certainly...
But who would actually care whether they got a mini pot of jam at a wedding or not?

@GreyhoundG1rl .... yep .. I just meant better than the wine glass ! We didn't have wedding favours as we didn't have guests !!! Went to Vegas and had the photographer as witness !!

[quote BrumCahoots]@GreyhoundG1rl .... yep .. I just meant better than the wine glass ! We didn't have wedding favours as we didn't have guests !!! Went to Vegas and had the photographer as witness !! [/quote]
That's the way to do it!

@KeepScrapingBy

Little bags of sugared almonds are my favourite!

I am Partial to them

But have a nut allergy guest so was a no at ours

If sugared almonds are so great, why don’t people buy and eat them all the time?

They only time you ever hear about sugared almonds is in relation to wedding favours. So odd. If I was going to do food, I’d do something that people like as a treat all the time. And no, that wouldn’t include jam.