Soap as a wedding favour?

[jumperweather]

They'd be personalised or have our names on.

What do people think of this?

Thank you

Honestly? I’d be a bit bemused to be honest. It’s kind of old fashioned and do your guests need soap?

I think the best wedding favours are something you don't have to take home with you, otherwise they just get left on the tables.

Although soap would be useful if the venue isn't good at filling it's soap dispensers in the loos.

I'd like it - but I love all wedding favours. Imagine a few might get left though so be prepared to use a lot of soap in the year after! I can't see all of the male guests wanting to pocket a soap.

If I was to do it again, I'd be tempted to buy everyone a scratch card.

We did Lego men and bottle openers for ours - which all got taken home. Was slightly miffed as wouldn't have minded a load!

My friends had soaps as favours. Offcuts from the Lush factory, I think they went down well.

The personalised idea with names seems a bit twee.

I'm appreciating all the comments so far, thank you! Keep them coming :)

It's so hard to decide. I'm a really indecisive person and I struggle a lot with 'little' decisions like this.

I like the scratch card idea too :)

Yes scratch cards is fun,inevitably someone will win which is funny talking point

Honestly? I'd be a bit

Are you trying to hint that your guests need a wash ?

Seriously, just don't do 'favours' they are such a waste of your time, effort and money.

I'd leave it on the table to be honest

I'd like it as I like nice soaps

Wouldn't waste any time or money on favours. At a push maybe edible (or drinkable) ones. Scratch cards arent a bad idea too.

But honestly most of the keyrings/ wood tags/ candles/ pencils (all wedding favours I've been given before) are absolute tat.

bride and groom name on a soap? Eugh. Getting lathered up With Mr & Mrs jumperweather.

Do you really want scented soap on a table as you're serving a meal?
Agree they're a stupid idea, whatever - nobody wants them.

I would just ditch wedding favours, to be honest, does anyone ever really want them? Save your money!

A bit strange at the best of time, but right now even more so. Do you REALLY want to make your guests think about Covid at your wedding??

Any wedding I've been to with favours you need to take away ends up with the favours left behind really. People usually have small or no bags and forget by the end of the night.

Saying that, at ours we put a tunnocks tea cake on everyone's place mat (married in England but with Scottish links) and they mostly got eaten up. It barely cost us a thing and guests seemed to enjoy it!

Mmm tunnocks tea cakes,

At an Easter wedding we were given Easter eggs, it went down very well!
Another one gave plants/small trees, that was OK.
I wouldn't notice if there were non.
If you don't have a theme or a particularly drawn to something then don't bother :)

Ooh tunnocks tea cakes! I could get behind those as wedding favours!

Maybe I could have packets of Tayto crisps at my (Irish) wedding...

I got married 25 years ago and didn’t do wedding favours because I thought they were old fashioned/ out dated, all that time ago. Best ones are chocolates IMO.

Honestly, don't go to any great effort as it matters more to you than anyone else. Nice chocolates is fine. Teacakes sounds great!
I really don't think anyone wants soap with your name on it. In the nicest way. You're wasting money.

Are you making the soap yourself? Do you have a soap company? If not, it would never occur to me to give it as a wedding favour! I would also think its a bit odd as a wedding favour. Sorry, but if they werent personalised, I'd assume the wedding couple had just picked them up free from hotels and decided to use them as favours!

I agree that something edible or drinkable goes down far better! I did home made chocolates. I bought those giant cadbury blocks, melted and added various fillings and put into shaped silicone moulds. A selection of milk, white and dark chocolate with coconut, mixed fruit, nuts etc. I got clear, plastic gift bags off ebay, added a personalised thankyou sticker and there were none left on the tables.

You would sell sweets at your wedding? Sorry that’s really odd.

I agree with @namechangelegalquestion , selling sweets is really weird. Comes across as a bit tight arse tbh if you're not going to give them a few cheap sweets for free.