Best wedding favour you've had!

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Teabags . Seriously, teabags. Why?

Don't! Buy people a drink, bottle of water even. If you really must buy a commercial chocolate bar and leave on each place - printing your name on things is quite frankly ridiculous

Actually I do like a sugared almond... most recent wedding I went to was excellent, no gifts just bring food for the local food bank, no favours, bride and groom sponsored the Christmas dinner for the homeless

Yes!

Serve real food!

Total utter waste of money.

It makes me want to howl at the moon that couples feel in some way obliged to buy or make numerous little bits of tat that very few of the recipients will either look at or keep.

I would much prefer the money was spent on the Honeymoon.

We just had a basket of paper fans to help themselves to (very hot day!)

@Maireas to be honest I have absolutely no recollection, I did have quite a big fancy wedding thanks to my wonderful, amazing DM (who is gone now). But they won't have been cheap.

How is bread and jam a favour?

Indeed. Those were exceptionally generous favours - my favourite Chanel perfume is about £80 for 50ml.

I love the idea of bringing donations for the foodbank instead of gifts. Now that most couples live together before marriage the traditional wedding gifts are pointless and asking for money always feels a bit cheeky.

but most people have a budget. And if you spend £3 per hea don wedding favours, x 100 people, that is £300 of budget spent.
Which would be better spent on more food/booze

We did miniature baileys and whiskeys so that the coffee at the end could be made Irish. We also filled little jam jars with skittles. Not a single favour was left so I think they went down well (although I definitely think the little guests had a feast of skittles!).

We did homemade raspberry jam and brown sauce (only enough raspberries in the garden for half the favors. Brown sauce was something DH had made before)
We did then split them jam for ladies, brown sauce for men. I did first tie myself in knots trying to figure out a different way to split them. But as most attendees were couples, they would end up with one of each. And where I knew people would particularly prefer one or other I did change them.
Anyway, very few got left behind and we were getting comments for weeks from people about how tasty they were.

We did then split them jam for ladies, brown sauce for men

And this is one of the reasons people hate wedding favours. So you essentially gave people something potentially messy that could spill inside their bags, which they felt compelled to carry home as you'd made it, and which they may not want to eat anyway - and on top of that you split it according to sex?!

If you were my friend I'd have been polite and thanked you for it - but I would have also been wondering why the actual fuck you'd done something so weird as jam for ladies and brown sauce for men. The "so couples got one of each" argument doesn't work either. If you must make homemade condiments then at least give people a choice, or split them randomly.

If you were my friend I'd have been polite and thanked you for it - but I would have also been wondering why the actual fuck you'd done something so weird as jam for ladies and brown sauce for men
I have to agree.
Why do it at all? Put the condiments on the table with the meal if you think there's a call for them; but brown sauce to take home is so, so bizarre.
Sorry, but I'm gobsmacked that anyone would think this adds anything to the proceedings whatsoever.

This thread has made me realise that any time I've been polite about wedding favours I've really been feeding the notion that guests want jams and gins and keyrings with another couples initials on them.
I thought there was an unspoken understanding that the favours are a faff and I'm just being nice 😐

My daughters wedding is coming up and instead of favours she has booked a caricaturist who will do one of each guest which they can take home. Cost is around £250 and he will be there 4 hours. 100 guests so price comparable to the usual favour type things I think

I think it's a typical British trait. I do the same compliment-gushing when I view houses as I don't want to upset the vendor by being honest. Along the lines of "how convenient to have a loo next to your bed rather than in the bathroom" (this loo was a terracotta colour for some reason) or "what charming kitchen units" (derelict relic from the 1930s).

I know I'd be doing the same for a homemade wedding favour. "Thanks so much for making me brown sauce" which I threw away as I dislike brown sauce but you're a lovely friend for going to that level of effort so I will effuse over it at length.

Wow at the Chanel perfumes...

The most recent wedding I went to, there was a sweets table, it was a pick n mix type thing. For those who wanted to, could fill up with whatever took your fancy. So it was left open to whether you wanted to take anything or not.

There were all individually wrapped sweets, chocolates, homemade fudge, biscuits, but they had dried fruits and some savoury bits too.

Best on? Wedding was at a vineyard about 1 hour 15 drive out of our city. We were transported by bus. Favours on the way out - mini bottle of wine with straws and a surprise food van with mini burgers and hot chips.

My worst one was a vial of sand in a glass bottle. It was a beach wedding so I guess they were keeping in theme. I have no idea why I took the damn thing, but it smashed in my bag (no surprise there). I memories of that wedding were a sliced finger and having to clean glass and sand (and blood) out of my handbag.

It is, yes.

It's notable that on a thread called "Best wedding favours you've had", it's not the recipients of the brown sauce, jam jar full of sweets, egg cup with a photo emblazoned on it, cactus in a pot, etc, that are posting.
It's the one's fondly imagining that their guests were beside themselves with glee to haul such treasures home at the end of the evening.

Why a caricaturist? Is this something that your daughter enjoys?

It's someone who draws cartoon pictures of you and exaggerates certain features