Favors
by Being that I'm planning a wedding, I'm interested in feedback about your favorite wedding favors.
Let's pretend money doesn't matter. Hah.
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depends on budget. i loved these wine carafe's we got at my cousin's wedding.
A wedding I was at this weekend had little tiny white metal buckets with the couple's name and date inscribed, filled with saltwater taffy. Mmmmmmmmmmmmm delishhhh hehe. They also had glasses, like drinking glasses, with their name/date/location of wedding inscribed. The glasses were really nice!
Another wedding had huge jars of pink, orange, yellow and lavender gumballs as their centerpieces, and some kind of gumball thing as their favors, I thought that was creative and probably cheap.
Jordan Almonds are always a good deal. TheKnot.com has these Hersheys mini chocolate bars that you can get in wrappers with your name and date on them and it's really cute, and not that expensive. I used those.
We're planning on making a type of food, although I won't divulge what yet. I want to hear everyone else's ideas first.
yeah food stuff is always good. I always wonder what people really do with all the trinkets and stuff that people give out as their favors. Do people really keep those things? What happens to all of them.. especially after all these weddings that have been happening lately... do people just have boxes and boxes of favors from people's weddings....Ooh that would be a good poll.....
my mom sells them for 25 cents at garage sales
i think as people walk in , you should just punch them in the face.
i mean, after the punch in the face , the wedding would seem much much better.
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WAY TO GO DAD!! WAY TO GO!!!!
at my girlfriends wedding it was a "hawaiian" theme and for the favors they had shotglasses with a sillouhette of my friend and her hubby, a little hawaiian saying and their wedding date. Filled in the shot glasses were sand and sea shells then placed in these tule-like packet thingy's (my minds drawing a blank on the name) it was SO unique and she received MANY compliments
That is a really cool idea. We're not really having a theme, though. Our reception's going to be at a ski lodge hotel, but it's at the end of October, so a winter theme would be weird. We're trying to be creative by doing our own favors in a cute way...
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Thanks a lot! .
how awesome, a winter wedding, how about a candle with yours and your finace's silouette, wedding date and then a cute saying.....i think that would be adorable
No, it's not a winter wedding. That is a cute idea, though. :)
haha, didn't follow to closely, sorry. ;)
I really liked our favors... i think its cool to have the memories and everyone seemed to like the pick of songs... id like to take credit for it, but it was pretty much all katies doing...
yeah dude, i was definitely a saves the day fan after "nightingale", because that's a really good song.
I've actually been listening to your CD the past day or so. :)
at a wedding that i was in, they made little boxes out of chocolate and put m&ms in it .. so good but man did they take FOREVER to make
i never want to see those chocolate molds again
we went to a wedding with my friends who moved to scotland and we all got glass (porcelain) castles. I guess they were paperweights...
you know my friends for their wedding gave everyone a really nice pillow with nice dangly beads and stuff
wat's a wedding favor?
something that the bride and groom choose to give those that attend the wedding, me and katie did a mix cd.
ooooh cool, like presents
haha Peter you should know. We are getting married to each other LOL jk nah to hot girls baby YEAH
i don't have a hot girl yet :'(
haha you can always marry the girl with the field goal on her chin
is she still dating that guy she never met?
melody and jeremy sitting in the tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G!
so anyways Peter you copy?
LOL SHUT UP!!!!!!!
melody and who? are u speaking of me?
this isn't a wedding favor..but just a wedding related idea I recently had and felt like sharing:
Traditionally people throw rice, not cool. Last wedding I was at they had bubbles, very cute. How about rose pedals!
Wow, that would be soooooooo expensive! If a dozen roses is about $50 and is about 5 handfulls of pedals, think about how many roses it would take to get all those pedals! I'm pretty sure the rice-throwing is a tradition that we don't follow, and as far as bubbles, I don't think either Donovan or I are that cute-sy. We could never pull it off.
carnations can be very cheap. buy in bulk. if i ever get married, i'd consider getting my flowers in the city from a street vendor--they have great prices and gorgeous fresh flowers.
Yeah, but keeping them and transporting them is the problem. You need to keep flowers refrigerated and in fresh water, or they'll wilt. You can't handle them out of water until the day you're going to use them, and I don't know what you're planning for your wedding day, but I'm going to have a lot more to do than spend the morning making bouquets and flower arrangements. It's not really practical to do that.
this is why brides have friends.
But brides like to spend time with their friends the morning of their wedding, not turn them into slave laborers. I've done my share of work for friends' weddings, but I would never ask one of my friends to do that.
well hey it's different in each situation. to each her own.
Interesting..there must be a way that this can be done without being expensive.
i want sunflowers. they're just the most gorgeous flower and i can't find pretty ones besides the huge ones that they sell in the city. i might just do that for a wedding.
talk to forreste... she has a whole collection of sunflower items haha
oh goodness no. make them go away. the only thing left is the lamp.
i find very few nice household products decorated with my beloved flower but the real thing is so gorgeous. i once saw a floral arrangement with sunflowers and violets and it was gorgeous. that's what i want.
my neighbor used to grow them every year. they got to be a good 6 ft tall sometimes.
I was recently in a wedding where they had 2 favors. One was a mix CD, of all sorts of cool songs. The other favor was really creative. It was 2 Hershey's Kisses, placed together with the flat sides touching. Then, they wrapped purple cellophane around them, stuck silk leaves and a fake stem in it, and it looked exactly like a rose!! It was really cute. And really easy to make, too.
Ian & Mikayla had favors like that too. I still have mine, as a matter of fact. :)
i would definitely go with something like a set of refridgerator magnets that say 'asian rice has got the spice' or ya know, one of those cool phrases, ya know what i mean? im sure you do.
then everytime you come over ask 'ohhhh hey so did you get my favor from the wedding.. or no? hmm i might have some extras.'
I prefer... ASIAN LICE is o-so NICE.
That way people come up to me like little chimps, groom me, and eat my lice balls.
my boyfriend's friend had shot glasses with their name and wedding date inscribed on them. i was thinking of stealing that idea. i think it's so cool.
a wedding i went to had martini glasses with a little bottle of rum and sand in it, it looked really nice. it was simple and clean looking, ,and not really a throw away item
if ya get them a little keepsake its bound to be in the trash a few months from now.
get them something they can use or will use or can eat.. cause sometimes you get left with favors simply because people dont want them. who really wants a chachki to just place somewhere. and nothing sucks more than taken favors home, only to throw out yourself.
my favors where basically unknown for AWHILE,, and i ended up doing chocolate rochiers in a tiny chinese take out box, with ribbon,, and then my table ornaments where vases with bamboo and japanese fighting fish,and people took them home as well. ( a lot of those fishes are still living people tell me)
i didnt take much home that night, maybe a handfull of chinese boxes, and no vases, so that was cool..
I would say to go with something practical like.
Really? We were going to do the japanese fighting fish! Wow, we thought we were so original. The reception place we got has nice floral arrangements that are included, though, so we scrapped the idea. That's so funny - we were really proud of that idea. :)
i swallowed one of those fishes at the wedding. then i swallowed one at the end of the wedding. and my stomach was rumbling for minutes