Spin off- wedding favors

[dakcp2001]

What do you do with them? Do you take them home? Do you keep them?
Best favor you got? Worst?

 

[Jingle]

What do you do with them? Do you take them home? Do you keep them?
Best favor you got? Worst?

Honestly, I don't know why people bother with wedding favors. That's just my opinion. I don't even remember what I've seen for wedding favors at weddings I've been to.

 

[prncess674]

Favorite was milk and cookies for the car ride home! They had little cartons (like you got in elementary school) and chocolate chip cookies in cellophane bags! I am not into cheesy knick knacks that clutter my house.

 

[Pigeon]

I throw them out. I don't like clutter, and I'm not sentimental about other people's weddings.

 

[Handbag Lady]

I throw them out. I don't like clutter, and I'm not sentimental about other people's weddings.

Exactly.

I do like the ones that give cake or any food item. But a "thing" gets tossed.

 

[snowywhite89]

I love the favors that are a small treat (like M&Ms) that you can eat which is mostly what we see at the wedding we attend. Now that M&Ms have the photos you can add those make great wedding favors.

 

[Mom-to-2-Princesses]

We went to a wedding in Texas where one of the town's largest employers was a rice plant. So everyone at the wedding got a 5# bag of rice in a burlap bag with their wedding info on it. Highly unusual, but it got used and I enjoy getting food items from different parts of the country.

 

[luvmy3]

Most of the weddings I have been to give something edible, so I eat it I was in a friend's wedding and she had Yankee candle votive holders as favors but alot of people didn't take them so I ended up with a ton. I think all of them except 2 are packed away in my attic.

 

[AKL_Megs]

Worst? A glittery swan-shaped candle.

The bride said she spent $.50 a piece on them. At 200 guests, that's $100 worth of swan candles. I hope she REALLY liked them, because 99% of the guests left them!

 

[Disney Doll]

I like the edible ones. At one wedding we got a decent wineglass with wedding theme colored M&Ms in it, so that was good too...chocolate and a wineglass. IMHO, you can never have too many wineglasses cuz they always get broken, so relatively useful and if it does get broken, it's not like it's a fmaily heirloom for me that I'm losing.

I hate candles or little knick knack doodads.

My niece got married at Christmas a couple of years ago and give out a snowflake ornament that also served as the place card holder, so it was a multi-purpose item that people seemed to like.

I also have no problem with the bridal couple making a donation. I went to one wedding where the bridal couple had lost a child at her birth. They were engaged and then she got pregnant went through her entire pregnancy, the cord wrapped around the baby's neck and the baby was stillborn. It was a traumatic time for this couple which they got through, continued on to get married as planned and at the wedding they gave each table a little scroll that said that in lieu of a favir they had made a donation to the March of Dimes in honor of their daughter that they had lost. Believe me, no one at that wedding had a problem with that at all.

 

[LoriABil]

We never kept any knick knack type stuff either. That's why we did flower seeds with a little poem on the envelope. I don't know what others thought, but there were none left after the wedding ( we wanted to plant some!)

Our patents both did; in fact, the Larkspur is still going strong at my Parents' home.

I did get a cool thank you card though that was a photo card of the bride and groom (in their ceremony clothes) holding signs Thank and You. That is the only thank you card I've ever kept from a wedding!

 

[Pakey]

Our oldest son and daughter in law did fortune cookies with custom fortunes. It seemed like everyone cracked them and nobody had to haul any junk home.

 

[LivinInTheCastle]

I work for a catering company part time so I have seen lots of wedding favors. Honestly no matter what people have as the favor some always get left over. A few people have done a "serve yourself" dessert table instead of individual favors. They bought lots of bulk candies and put them out in bowls with little scoops and little containers people could fill with whatever they wanted, (the containers looked like the ones rice comes in from Chinese take out places) almost none of that was leftover.

 

[focusondisney]

Best favor we ever recieved were coasters fron my niece. They are pretty frosted glass & she wrapped 2 of them together with a bow, so each guest got a pair. Wedding was 2 & 1/2 years ago & we still use them everyday in our family room.

DD gave personalized M&Ms in a small jar. Jar could be used later for crafts, spices, office needs etc. No one left them on the tables, but lots of people started eating them that night! She also had small picture frames for her placecards. Most people can use those.

I like candy favors, seeds or practical gifts. Knick knacks with no purpose, not so much.

 

[honugirl]

The weirdest favors I got was toothbrushes with the wedding info on it (I guess it's popular with dentists?). I took a couple home 'cause truthfully, you can never have too many toothbrushes and they make good travel ones since they were free and if I don't want to haul it home after vacation, into the trash it goes. But it still was kinda weird.

 

[MsLeFever]

Got a little bottle of wine that the wedding party had helped make earlier that year - that was both a nice favor and a great time for the wedding party!

Anything consumable is good - I made chocolates for my brother's wedding.

 

[MomNeedsVacay]

We gave little pots with packs of seeds inside with a little poem about love grow and blossoming or something---it seems cheesy now, but at the time seemed cute....One wedding we went to, they gave every single person a huge tote bag filled with stuff about Washington DC (where the wedding was held) a hard back book about the history of DC, DC themed candies, shot glasses, a DC coffee mug, DC t-shirt, a $10 Starbucks gift card, playing cards, metro maps...there had to have been at least 400 people at this wedding, too... insane

 

[JaneBanks]

At our wedding, we gave a donation to St. Judes as the main favor but we also set out a small beeswax candle at each plate.

 

[indimom]

We don't see a lot of that here, mostly chocolates which get eaten while people are waiting for the couple to arrive from taking photos. Years and years ago, matchbooks were popular, but I haven't seen that in at least 10 years now.
I'm fine with the chocolates or something that would get used up, but candles or dust catchers I would probably leave behind.

 

[*JoGo*]

my SIL is giving rock candy in one of her wedding colors.

my brother is giving fruit. they're using fruit as centerpieces and we're putting a piece (orange, green apple..) in a little linen bag w/ thank you stamped on it.

at my wedding... i think we did flower seeds.