What is the point of wedding favours?

londonsurrey

They're a fun bit of frou-frou, a whimsical gift to guests, or a chance to show off, and innovative individuals like Imp find really, really good uses for them. :rotfl:

I didn't have any at my wedding, but at my husband's funeral asked attendees to donate any money destined for flowers to the local London Wildcare Hospital, which we had both supported and helped us with our animals after a house fire.

Errata

I think there's a law that says if you dress up the chairs with fabric, ribbons, bows and flowers (a la bondage chairs) you also have to provide favours. And vice versa.

pimento

... and don't forget, you're not actually married unless you have a chocolate fountain and a harpist.

londonsurrey

Errata wrote: »

I think there's a law that says if you dress up the chairs with fabric, ribbons, bows and flowers (a la bondage chairs) you also have to provide favours. And vice versa.

Now that's a picture. I've now got a image of the normal cream beribboned chairs, and then another room with the same chairs clad in black latex and accessorised with chain, black whips, handcuffs...

That certainly would be one way of making the wedding distinctive. :rotfl:

Errata

In my family you're not properly married unless some female guests have had a screaming match and some male guests a punch up in the car park. Happy days!

balletshoes

luxor4t wrote: »

Wedding favours seem to have arrived in the last ten years or so, I'd never seen them at any weddings before that.

I suppose they're a bit like children's party bags - in my day you went home with a bit of cake in a paper napkin and a balloon if you were lucky.

I have the opposite experience - every wedding I went to as a child with my parents, and probably up to and including my sisters' weddings 20 years ago, favours were given out to every female guest.

Since then I don't think I've seen any at any weddings I've attended.

I also, like the OP, don't see the point of them at all.

balletshoes

Errata wrote: »

In my family you're not properly married unless some female guests have had a screaming match and some male guests a punch up in the car park. Happy days!

are we related Errata???

pimento

My lot are OK at weddings, it's the funerals where we have the traditional punch-up.

skintchick

Poppy9 wrote: »

I couldn't do that. What if one of the guests won £5m and didn't offer the B&G a share! Could cause so much bad feeling.

Some friends of ours did that and I felt awkward as we are Christians and don't gamble. I wanted to just bin it but OH gave it to his non-Christian parents. It didnt win. for those who are bound to ask, no, I wouldn't have taken any of the money had it beeen a winner.

As for favours, they are unecessary but having said that we did little heart-shaped lollies for ours, they were about 9p each so verry cheap and looked nice set on top of the napkins. I've no idea what people did with them but none were left. I think they got eaten during the evening.

Errata

OMG my niece is doing her own favours! It would be very rude if I asked her what they were, but you lot have me quaking in my shoes and I know without a shadow of a doubt I'll remember this thread when I see them at the reception and will have great difficulty in not hee hawing into my napkin