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?

Posted to soon- small pretty box with Lindt and chocolate hearts in it

I would not want anything ‘permanent’ as a favour. Consumables only!

I would like it and would consider it a nice sourvenir of a friend's wedding. We have a bunch of fridge magnets on our fridge with friends names from various weddings and one engraved bottle opener.

@PattyPan

I would not want anything ‘permanent’ as a favour. Consumables only!

Definitely. Your wedding date is of no particular significance to anyone else. I've seen people suggesting Christmas tree decorations and claiming they go down a storm, but for the life of me I can't understand why you'd want a bauble on your tree with someone else's name and wedding date printed on it. These things look far cuter from the giver's perspective, I'm afraid.

@sunflowerdaisies

Another I kept was a Christmas tree decoration. Not personalised but lovely. Some wouldn't use it as it wouldn't go with their matched decorations but we love it and I think of them and their wedding every time we decorate the tree.

@lidoshuffle I guess we all have different tastes!

I wonder if we were at the same wedding? I have a Christmas decoration from a wedding ten years ago, and every time I put it on the tree, I have a little moment, thinking how perfect it was as a gift. Not personalised, not overpriced, but it because it doesn't match any other decorations I have, it has more meaning. Small enough to be stuffed in a bag, not likely to get broken, but it's lasted longer than jelly beans in a jam jar.

Jesus no.. the only wedding favour we still have is a (undated) cute tiny cup that had a couple sweets in it. I use it now for storing £1 coins for random school fundraising days.

I had mini bottles of whisky 🥃 for all the men and mini bottles of Prosecco and chocolates for all of the women . ( also a side table of mini gins , vodka , rum for people to help themselves too )
Only non consumable favour - I had a teddy bear 🧸 placed in the seat of every child attending in order they had something to play with during the speeches .

If I went to a wedding with wine glasses as favors that would definitely be left

We didn't bother with favours at our wedding, I just could not be arsed

@babbi now that's the kind of wedding favour I could get on board with 🥂

Who said tablet was not the best thing on this planet? Thar there is fighting words. You are utterly wrong and must take that part back. Report yourself, go on. Tablet. Good Scottish tablet. Nothing else is quite like it, and I love it. So there.

As you were.

I made biscuits for sil 😂 i don't like the glass idea personally

We made home made chocolate truffles and we found out later their was a fight when one guest opened their box to find someone at the table had already eaten it

Ooooh I kind of love the idea of a pencil. Not a pen, which is crap, but there's something charming about a pencil. Plus it gets used so no one can expect you to take it out a drawer six years later.

But yes, the wine glasses are an appalling idea. No one wants them, not even the bridal party.

We had sweets, cake and a personalised coaster engraved with guests’ names on. And plantable sheets of wildflower paper tied around mini bouquets at the ladies places, plantable veggies around flowers at the gents places.

I wouldn’t be interested in the slightest. I’d leave it behind on the table. A nice looking plain wine glass - yeah I’d take that home. But why would I want a glass with someone else’s name and wedding date?

Tell her they will be too difficult for people to remember to take with them. Most will get left on the table by accident and the rest will be in danger of getting broken - no one's going to be able to fit a wine glass and their partner's in a teeny tiny clutch bag.

It will be a waste of money. If she wants something personalized go with a tiny tin of M&Ms or something with their initials and the date on instead of the Ms. Easy for blokes to slip in their pockets and you can customize the colours of the sweets to match the wedding.

www.mms.com/en-us/cheers-candy-favor-tins/p/cheers-candy-favor-tins

I think it's a nice idea. I am happy to remember the weddings I have been invited to. When I recently cleared out my parents' house I found several reminders of past weddings and it was lovely to think of the people they used to know.

Waste of money. Guests will never use.

We just did favour boxes with a couple of handmade chocolates in. We bought £40 worth of chocolates at a food fair & boxed them up ourselves. £1 a head not including the boxes.

All I’ve got from this thread is that I want some Scottish tablet

Unless it's something small that you can eat, favours are pretty much always crap. No one wants a personalised lavender cushion, or a coaster, or a wine glass. Hand made or not, they are generally shit. Just save yourself the money as no one will care that they aren't there.

And I especially hate favours that are different for men and women. Fuck off with your stereotypes!

The poster above who did tiny boxes of chocolates - that's fantastic, and the guests will appreciate that.

The best wedding favours I had

• bet on a horse race which happened to be run during the reception - we won and shared it with the table for extra booze 🤣

• donations to a specific charity relevant to the bride and groom

If I was to get married again I would do the charity donation one - guests don't want/need favours - I have a cupboard full of random stuff and anything etched with the bride/groom details on it is just really self indulgent sorry