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?

It'd be a pain in the arse to take home after a few drinks. We donated money to charity.

How would people carry them home?

@Mumdiva99

Are you at a wedding and complaining about the favours? If.you don't want it don't take it. Or are you contemplating it for your wedding? If so why, If you don't like the idea?

Pointless post....

@Mumdiva99 fucking hell. “Pointless post” as first reply. What a fucking delight you are.

Also please don't take your personalised glasses, candles, baubles or whatever to the charity shop.

If you - the person who was actually at the wedding - doesn't want the favour, what makes you think some randomer will want it? They won't, it won't sell, and you're just passing the job of binning it onto the charity shop.

Also please don't take your personalised glasses, candles, baubles or whatever to the charity shop.

Do you work in a charity shop?

How do you know people don't want it? People want all sorts of weird stuff IME.

No don't dump personalised glasses on a charity shop it costs them money to get rid of them.

Single item with a popular child's name half a chance of finding a buyer but not glasses from a wedding.

God, no. More tat to take up space in the cupboard. We did scratch cards which went down well.

The glasses are a terrible idea.

I like the op who had wooden tokens to swap for a drink. I like the charity pins too.

We had a lottery ticket for each guest. We did the numbers in the evening, a few people had wins which was quite nice!

@Mumdiva99

Are you at a wedding and complaining about the favours? If.you don't want it don't take it. Or are you contemplating it for your wedding? If so why, If you don't like the idea?

Pointless post....

You've literally made a previous thread about your cat being bored, but yeah, this is pointless 🤣

@sunglassesonthetable

Also please don't take your personalised glasses, candles, baubles or whatever to the charity shop.

Do you work in a charity shop?

How do you know people don't want it? People want all sorts of weird stuff IME.

Yes I do. I'm a volunteer. We see a lot of personalised stuff and it just doesn't sell. Unless it;s a kid's bag or money box with a very standard name like Katie or James.

Single glasses don't sell at all. Pairs sell better. But when you can get a single champagne flute in Asda for 50p, nobody wants a glass saying "Sharon and Dave 10.7.21". Especially when they have no idea who Sharon and Dave are.

Personalised glasses are a terrible idea. Just just clutter and landfill waiting to happen. It's also nightmare to transport home.

best wedding favour I've had was a lovely fan, wedding was mid summer in an overseas venue - absolutely essential on the day, easy to pack to take home and has been used at home since.

The first wedding I ever went to, when I was 7 in 1969, the serving staff put a large dish on each table when they brought the tea and coffee round after the meal.

On the dish were sugared almonds in twists of gauze, whiskey liqueur chocolates, and pink and white sugar mice with string tails. Everyone could choose what they liked.

I agree that personalised stuff doesn't sell in charity shops - unless it is an antique.

People that make those awful glitter glasses might buy them. In the name of reduce, reuse, recycle 🤷‍♀️

But that's a stretch.

And people don't want favours unless they can eat them imo.

We didn't do favours, DH said we're having an open bar and paying for hotel rooms, we aren't giving out goody bags too, and when put like that, I agreed with him 😂

The best favours are things that be used up, eaten or drank.

@cariadlet

Wedding favours are completely unnecessary. I'm convinced that they're a comparative recent invention of the wedding industry to screw more money out of the future bride and groom.

Permanent mementoes will either be left on the table (maybe cunningly transferred to a different table if a guest doesn't want to be identified as the ungrateful recipient), shoved in the back of a cupboard or donated to a charity shop.

If your friend is insistent on favours, try to persuade her to get something edible or drinkable.

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.

And favours are naff. Most people won't bother with them. The last wedding I went to, they had those personalised love hearts. When we were leaving, I saw so many left behind (I snagged a few because I like love hearts).

Even edible favours are hit and miss. Save the money to improve another aspect of the wedding.

I guarantee that no one ever talks about the wedding afterwards to discuss the wedding favours. People talk about the wedding in terms of drink, food and maybe the wedding dress (or in one case we talked about the amazing table decs; homemade and brilliantly done by the bride and friends). I've never heard anyone talk about favours. And I'm happy to be quoted on this

Best favours I’ve had:
Miniature whisky and Scottish tablet
Small bottle of bubble mixture which was quite fun a look lovely in the first dance pictures
Lottery tickets
A wine glass wouldn’t be taken as I’d break it and I don’t have places for tat bc and they are tat.

I've been to a few weddings which gave a tumbler or beer glass with the couples names and wedding dates. It's a nice looking favour but costly and to be honest they're mostly shoved up the back of the cupboard as we have our matching sets of glassware.

When we got married, we gave little bags of chocolate hearts to the guests. I don't think any were left behind haha.

*Yes I do. I'm a volunteer. We see a lot of personalised stuff and it just doesn't sell. Unless it;s a kid's bag or money box with a very standard name like Katie or James.

Single glasses don't sell at all. Pairs sell better. But when you can get a single champagne flute in Asda for 50p, nobody wants a glass saying "Sharon and Dave 10.7.21". Especially when they have no idea who Sharon and Dave are.*

Noted. 👍🏻

@JaneSparrow13

Googling.

Oh my gosh. Why have I never even heard of this??

Do I make it myself or is it better bought from a professional?

Buy it, it very hard to get right

The best favours I had were little jars of Chutney with the date of the wedding on, and they had a little slate with our names on attached. we didn't need the slate though as extra!

We were given shot glasses with married couple's name and date of wedding. I kept meaning to thrown them out - they were pointless and naff but my daughter uses them for water when paintings

What happend to those little bag of sugared almonds - I loved those things.

Is she going to be giving each guest a set of six??

Because one is about as much use at tits on a bull.

Of course, the only thing worse than one wine glass personalised with the B&G’s names and wedding date is six of the fuckers.