Wedding Favors?

[luvmarypoppins]

Just wondering if you have gone to a wedding lately, did you receive a wedding favor? Or is this a regional thing?

My ds went to a wedding here in NY the other week. I did ask him if he got a favor. Usually he gives me things he gets like little candles etc.

This time he said he got a little box with some Hersheys kisses in it. Guess he must have ate them!

Anyone get anything really unique or special if you got anything at all?

 

[pryncess527]

My favorite favor ever was a little chinese take out box for taking home wedding cake! I'm almost always too busy or full to enjoy cake at the ceremony, it was an awesome treat when we got home

 

[wiigirl]

My favorite was a candy bar....we went through with a little bag and filled it with whatever we wanted.

 

[zurgswife]

Wedding where live in PA no favors. Personally I think they would be silly. I do think a box for the wedding cake would be fun but just a connivence not an actual favor.

 

[Meriweather]

Last one we went to was a small can of diet coke and a granola bar.....to represent the groom (granola bar and a runner) and bride (diet coke......always drinking it). Cute. Tied together with ribbon in their colors and a card taking about them.

We're always received some kind of favor.

 

[goofyintoronto]

We always recieved some type of wedding favour, the most recent wedding last week the bride/groom made a donation to the cancer society, which was nice because both of the brides parents had died of cancer. In addition to that, everyone got a pretty little box with two chocolate truffles inside. I think chocolates make the best wedding favours.

 

[Janepod]

Always some kind of favor. Recently, printed M&Ms with the faces of the bride and groom. Before that, a fancy cookie in cellophane with the couple's monogram. I can't remember the last non-food favor I've received ... a harmonica several years ago. Baseballs with the couple's name printed on them.

 

[mrsclark]

At our wedding we gave out trees (still in their small "seedling" form). The attached note said "To All the Branches on our Tree of Life, We Say Thank You." For a couple of years afterward people would tell me where they planted them.

At my step-brother's wedding, they did a candy buffet in the color theme of the wedding (blue and brown). But I really enjoyed the photo booth, the attendant working the booth turned our strip of photos into a bookmark to take home - I still use it to this day!

 

[Cindy B]

Just went to a wedding Saturday- bag had one food item and a non food item. The non food item did not make sense since it is really just one thing you can use at one time during the year.

Prior to that I haven't had a favor in a long time.

 

[MrsDuck]

Most weddings I've gone to have given favors. I think it's pretty widespread across the USA.

 

[Poohforyou]

I think edibles are the best favors. You could do candies in the wedding colors.

 

[mamamary]

The last wedding I attended was in CT in July. Wedding favors were bottles of wine for the adults. I liked it because it was something we actually used instead of just socking away in a drawer or cabinet.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

I've never gotten a favor at a wedding, but plenty of them at the bridal shower. I'm in the Philadelphia area. Custom in our area is to have some sort of chance-off or contest to see who will get to take the table centerpiece home if they're not rented.

 

[lizabu]

I think edibles are the best favors. You could do candies in the wedding colors.

Me too. I've gotten candles and little photo frames but they just end up in a drawer somewhere.

 

[scrapquitler]

The last wedding I attended was in CT in July. Wedding favors were bottles of wine for the adults. I liked it because it was something we actually used instead of just socking away in a drawer or cabinet.

That's what we used for our wedding favors.

I like a consumable favor like wine, candy, cookies, etc. I do NOT like getting something like a little knick nack of some sort...I don't have room or interest in those and usually just leave them on the table at the end of the night.

 

[bigbabyblues]

My brother's wedding in August...they gave out packets of sunflower seeds to go with the theme (very informal, Saturday afternoon wedding with about 30 people).

 

[Cindy B]

That's what we used for our wedding favors.

I like a consumable favor like wine, candy, cookies, etc. I do NOT like getting something like a little knick nack of some sort...I don't have room or interest in those and usually just leave them on the table at the end of the night.

I tried to leave my "goodie bag" at the table. Someone put it in my hand!

Darn!

 

[apirateslifeforme]

For our wedding, we found an online place that did decorated chocolate-covered Oreos. Because it was October, we got the ones that looked like pumpkins; one orange and one white in a cellophane bag, tied with a purple ribbon (same color as my wedding dress). I don't think anyone took them home - they ate them all during the reception!

 

[burnurcomputer]

I gave out favors at both of my weddings. I havn't been to one with out favors.

 

[PollyannaMom]

The most recent wedding I went to had a candy buffet - yum! And our table assignments were also in a little summery frame. I put a quote in it on my kitchen window sill.

When I got married, we did chocolate bars, and made wrapper covers with a symbol from the wedding on the front and fake "nutrition info" on the back.