Wedding "favours"?

Dontaskme
My daughter is getting married abroad later this year ours is in Italy where's yours

You could of course get personalised trolley coins (Ebay have lots) but I think the charity ones are a nice touch

Here in Italy they always have wedding favours or confetti as they call them here to represent fertility, longevity, happiness,health and wealth. It used to be just the almonds but since weddings have become more elaborate and expensive other gifts are often given. Mind you the bride and groom always want money and rarely a gift from their guests. They probably need it to pay all the expenses involved! When DH and I married my DD and sat and made all the favours . 5 sugared almonds in a net bag tied with ribbon!! Traditional!

My dil gave trolly coin key rings from a charity very relevant at the time. Lots of charities do them and at least they are useful

I did what Grannyknot describes when my DS got married in 2010. Each guest had a plastic document holder like this:

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In it, there was

- a sheet of A4 on which I had printed "Three pieces of advice for a happy marriage"
- a biro with the couples name, the date and their wedding motto
- a slip of paper in all the relevant languages explaining what they had to do and that they could keep the biro as a souvenir.

On the gift table, I placed a flowery decorated lever arch file for guests to "file" their hints and tips. Most only wrote "best wishes". Perhaps I should have told them again over the microphone what they were supposed to do.

Biros with personalised texts printed on them are not terribly expensive, but there is usually a minimum order number of at least 50. This was ok though, as we also gave them to people who weren't invited but had sent a card or present.

You can also get serviettes personalised, (I did that for the Christening of their son) or other useful items

Basically you are to all intents and purposes for the supplier a commercial business, ordering a large quantity. To this day, I keep getting sent samples of the pens from the same company. They are very good quality. One friend told them that they had done all their uni exams using the "wedding" biro!

You can also get all sorts of things with a photo printed on - coffee mugs, cloth bags, note pads, which would serve as a useful souvenir.

Around these parts, it is customary, nay obligatory, to have bottles of wine with personalised labels for all guests, but these are distributed at the end, or when people call at the house to bring presents. But that's just here in the Palatinate. My DiL2 from the Rhineland was not familiar with the custom. But their wedding was a completely different affair altogether. (We did go up there with a dozen or more cartons of wine bottles though, and it all went!

The last wedding I went to the wedding favours were 3 chocolates in a net bag tied with white ribbon - most of which were left on the table - just seems like an unnecessary expense to me. Do people really expect to find a little gift next to their plate at a wedding? Would they even notice if it wasn't there?

How about personalised tiny candles, some of which come in a tin, others in voile bags. Here are Ebay search results for them.
wedding favour candles

Little bags of snowdrop bulbs?

My daughter in law gave everyone a miniature bottle of alcohol (vodka or scotch) with a personalised label on so it could be kept as a souvenir of the wedding. I think everyone received a shot glass as well

My DD3 is getting married in 4 weeks time. Instead of wedding favours, they have made a donation to our local Hospice who have provided small bookmarks (see photo) for guests to keep.

You need to consult with bride. If she wants to give out favours she will have already sorted something. I don’t think it’s your place to organise favours unless she has specifically asked you to. (Remember it’s not your wedding).
The only thing you could perhaps do is buy everyone a small local souvenir from where you are going and give it people just as they are going home.

My dd was agonising about favours, and it was a fairly big wedding. I said not to bother, the vast majority will just end up in the bin. Plus anything reasonably nice (even if basically useless!) worked out very expensive for a crowd.

In the end a SiL found tiny little 'wedding' bubbles, which were very cheap, so since there were quite a lot of children, we scattered lots of these on the tables - many of the adults enjoyed them too.

The other thing dd got in the end (high summer wedding) was white 'wedding' flip flops, for later on, when so many women's feet would be killing them. I will admit that I thought it an unnecessary extravagance, but they were very comfortable - I still have mine over 3 years later - and extremely popular! Not one pair was left.

No equivalent for the blokes, but I doubt they cared.

No favours at DD wedding. She thought they were an unnecessary expense.

I thought wedding favours were a ridiculous idea when DS and DiL married 12 years ago and I still do. They had miniature bottles of port and little packets of love hearts. DiL's choice so said nothing. If it was DD mind you, it would be a different matter.
Is it an American thing? If so, enough said.
A good friend's nephew married in Italy last year, I'll find out what they had, if anything.

Where did this 'idea' come from.??? Why do you need to supply the guests with something to remind them of your wedding, surely photographs do that and now adays everyone has mobile phone that take vidieos and photographs. Seem to me 'favours'have come from the same place that 'goody bags' for children to take home from friends birthday parties.!!!!

Seriously, does anybody expect Dontaskme to pack jars and jars of Branson Pickle or bottles of Ouzo in her luggage?
Or honey, or guitar picks?

And who on earth would thank you for them?
If you must have favours (and personally I think they are entirely unnecessary) , is it not something to discuss with her son and future DIL and her family or whoever is organising the wedding?

Personalised wine-glass charms?

DS and DiL did some for their wedding that just had the guest's name on, but they could be as decorative as you like. They bought the rings and the letters separately, and making them very easy.

Pocky -I looked it up for us

Pocky is a snack food produced by Ezaki Glico. Pocky was first sold in 1966, and were invented by Yoshiaki Koma. They consist of chocolate-coated biscuit sticks. It was named after the Japanese onomatopoetic word pokkin. The original was followed by almond coatings in 1971, and strawberry coatings in 1977. Wikipedia
Place of origin: Japan
Created by: Glico

Never heard of it!

Pocky?

Mini honey pot w/dippers, embossed bottle openers, wine stoppers or coasters, tealight votive and matches, if musical guitar picks ...

But I think EveryonE loves Pocky .. It's light weight and can be slipped into some type of cellophane bag with pretty sticker for closure ..

If it is a destination wedding somewhere warm, don't choose chocolates! We had some lovely chocolates gifted as a favour, but they all melted before we had a chance to enjoy them!

If possible choose something with a theme from the destination of the wedding, for example tiny bottles of Ouzo if they are marrying in Greece. Or totally the opposite; if they are marrying in the new wife's home country then choose something very British like little jars of Branston Pickle, or Jelly Babies etc, a souvenir from son's home country.

Not wedding favours, but a nice idea: We were at a wedding recently and there were printed cards on each table, pens supplied. On the card was printed "My name is: ...." and "I look like": (with space to draw), and below that "What I like most about love is ..." And finally "The best advice I have for the happy couple is ..."

The cards created a lot of fun plus conversation piece at the table. The cards were collected for the bride and groom at the end of the day.

Chewbacca that's a lovely idea.

You can buy flower seed wedding favours online. The seed packets can be printed with the couples names, dates etc.

lottery scratch cards so that guests can share in the lucky couples happiness ?

Ones that I have had in the past
- tiny photo frames
- little net bags with 2 or 3 chocolates - with an "Eat Me" label
- small rolls of love hearts (from the sweet pick 'n mix)
- cupcakes
- traditional sugared almonds in net/ribbon pouches (these can be hard on the teeth)
- a friend went to one where everyone got a small jar or homemade jam or chutney