£1 FlipFlops - Wedding Favor

scrappie_2

OP I think it's a lovely idea!

A friend did this at their wedding last year - a basket of ballet pumps by the dance floor. The dancing started quite early and went on 'till very late. Myself along with several others were glad of those shoes.

I have been to several weddings and never taken additional footwear with me, but may well put some in the car when I go my next wedding!

Whatever you decide to do, I hope you and your partner both have a lovely day.

Northern_Princess

suki1001 wrote: »

Wow - insulted?
There are lots of things people don't need to do for a wedding, but it's down to the bride's preferences not the guests. I wouldn't call a 99p pair of flip flops one-upmanship exactly anyway.
As it happens, I've never really liked a lot of the favours given to me, but it's all well meant and it's not my wedding - it's what couple's have wanted to do for their day.

I wouldn't say providing flip flops or favours was one-upmanship either. However, I do think there is a LOT of 'my wedding will be bigger and better than yours' these days. (Jeez I sound old:rotfl:). I was married first time around in 1980 and back then weddings were very traditional. Sugared almonds were favours at most weddings I personally went to back then, there was no sweetie bars or entertainment ie photo booths, table games etc.

When I remarried a few years ago I joined 2 wedding forums and good grief some girls weddings sounded like a circus to me:eek: Everything had changed. From invitations to dresses, jugglers and packs for children, favours, ice cream vans and evening buffets had me bamboozled! The one-upmanship on these forums was awful. I do think there is a much bigger expectation on the bride and groom now compared to back in the 80's to when I was married before, which is a shame and puts a lot of pressure on brides to be to provide that 'perfect' day. While everyone wants their wedding day to be perfect I do feel sometimes the reason for a wedding day is forgotten in among all the 'we must have x y z' which saddens me.

meritaten

oh never mind - apparently the wedding is all about the bride and the venue and the colour scheme and whether the chairs should be dressed..........not actually about sharing the joy of a couple getting married.

maman

Northern_Princess wrote: »

I was married first time around in 1980 and back then weddings were very traditional. Sugared almonds were favours at most weddings I personally went to back then, ...

Sugared almonds! You were lucky! When I was first married people just had a piece of wedding cake:D Perhaps we could start a trend for retro weddings and go back to that!!:rotfl:

Northern_Princess

maman wrote: »

Sugared almonds! You were lucky! When I was first married people just had a piece of wedding cake:D Perhaps we could start a trend for retro weddings and go back to that!!:rotfl:

Fab idea :rotfl: I still have my rather modest lace wedding dress and some little blue and pink cake bags that I bought to POST wedding cake to guests that couldn't attend .

Hermia

Northern_Princess wrote: »

I wouldn't say providing flip flops or favours was one-upmanship either. However, I do think there is a LOT of 'my wedding will be bigger and better than yours' these days. (Jeez I sound old:rotfl:). I was married first time around in 1980 and back then weddings were very traditional. Sugared almonds were favours at most weddings I personally went to back then, there was no sweetie bars or entertainment ie photo booths, table games etc.

When I remarried a few years ago I joined 2 wedding forums and good grief some girls weddings sounded like a circus to me:eek: Everything had changed. From invitations to dresses, jugglers and packs for children, favours, ice cream vans and evening buffets had me bamboozled! The one-upmanship on these forums was awful. I do think there is a much bigger expectation on the bride and groom now compared to back in the 80's to when I was married before, which is a shame and puts a lot of pressure on brides to be to provide that 'perfect' day. While everyone wants their wedding day to be perfect I do feel sometimes the reason for a wedding day is forgotten in among all the 'we must have x y z' which saddens me.

I do think that a lot of this is that younger brides just think this is the norm. I remember a couple of girls at my work fretting over how much a professional make-up artist and hairdresser were going to cost for their weddings. A middle-aged colleague pointed out to them that when she married brides all did their own make-up etc. These girls were really surprised! It's like the photography has now evolved into something like a fashion shoot for Vogue with endless moody shots of the bride staring into the distance or arty still-life photos of her shoes. I am sure my young colleagues would be astonished to know that wedding photography used to just consist of some shots of the couple and guests.

Mrs.W_2

This 'favours' debate all boils down to what are the folk on the guest list likely to want/need. Her favour choice isn't something I'd go for, but the OP bride-to-be knows her guests. And she's buying accordingly.

If the flip-flops mean her guests go away with fond memories of her thoughtfulness, who's to say that isn't a wedding favour?

elle_gee

My favourite favour was a little card next to our place name cards on the table saying a donation had been made to Macmillian Nurses as they looked after the brides recently passed Grandad in his later months. The card had a Macmillian pin badge in various designs for each of us to take away.

Mrs.W_2

elle_gee wrote: »

My favourite favour was a little card next to our place name cards on the table saying a donation had been made to Macmillian Nurses as they looked after the brides recently passed Grandad in his later months. The card had a Macmillian pin badge in various designs for each of us to take away.

The above is perfect.

MarilynMonroe_2

Have skipped but Asda were selling them for 50p.

It sounds weird to me and I would think it was a strange thing to hand out BUT it's your wedding at the end of the day

I gave out wedding themes little soaps in organza bags and some people thought they were sweets!