£1 FlipFlops - Wedding Favor

busiscoming2

As an aside, I don't know if they are favours or not but, I LOVE the bubbles in the wedding cake shaped pots!!

suki1001

Interesting the people talking about weddings being big and competitive. The majority of weddings I've been to recently have consisted of the wedding, then a slice of wedding cake and cup of tea in the church hall, very close family go for a meal after. These are young first time brides not third time rounders.

I think people do get hung up on the gimicks and the detail and agonise over it to get it right and most people aren't in the slightest bit bothered what colour scheme has been chosen. Having said that my SIL had a very lavish fantastic 40th birthday with more money probably spent than a lot of people do on their wedding, but she could afford it and everyone had a brilliant time.

I really didn't want to spend any money when I got married because I found it a bit obscene. I looked at hiring a room that did a free buffet if you had a set number of people. I really wasn't bothered about much. My in laws weren't happy and put their foot down and said they would pay for the food. I know a lot of people who would probably be mortified at that, but I just wanted to get married and wasn't really very bothered about spending a lot and couldn't see where the money went in the bigger weddings I'd been to. I felt like any wedding related supplier I spoke to just had pound signs in their eyes and it put me off.
I'm glad I wasn't either, we're heading for 11 years of marriage next year.

Seanymph

I am getting married in four weeks or so now - the dress came from ebay, the jacket from Tesco for £10 and we are only having the kids there and then going to a pub for lunch.

I spent nearly £14,000 on the first one (well not me personally you understand) and we were together for less than six months.

It really does seem to be something you start looking at and get all carried away - I know I did when I was younger.

Dunroamin

I posted on the Weddings Board once (what I was doing there, Heaven only knows!) and asked why everybody seemed to thing favours were traditional when they never used to exist. Someone replied that of course they were traditional as their sister had had them in 1985!

I've never been back since.

pulliptears

marshmallowbliss wrote: »

Hey Everyone !

I'm looking for £1 flipflops for my guests at my wedding.
Ive heard it is a great gesture and the women love it. It will be park of there favor

Anyone help ?

Nope, can't see anywhere in there where it says

"Please give me your opinions on flipflops at weddings"

"Please tell me that 'favor' is an Americanism and I should have something more English"

All I see is a lady planning HER wedding HER way with what SHE wants asking where she can purchase something. Funny how few people have actually answered her in comparison to how many people felt the need to belittle and laugh at her ideas.

OP, its your wedding, if you want flipflops honey you have them! Matalan currently have a summer stock sale and they had them, also Sports direct have a few styles for a quid.

Good luck and have a lovely day
xx

suki1001

Dunroamin wrote: »

I posted on the Weddings Board once (what I was doing there, Heaven only knows!) and asked why everybody seemed to thing favours were traditional when they never used to exist. Someone replied that of course they were traditional as their sister had had them in 1985!

I've never been back since.

To be fair wedding favours do go as far back as the 13th century - so I'd say that's pretty traditional, just not probably in England!

I wanted favours at my wedding because I liked them rather than thinking they were traditional, just like I added those little bottles of champagne bubbles that the children loved. I used sugared almonds in boxes that I decorated. I didn't spend a lot of money on my wedding, but there were little things I wanted to add because I liked them.

Incapuppy

Dunroamin wrote: »

I posted on the Weddings Board once (what I was doing there, Heaven only knows!) and asked why everybody seemed to thing favours were traditional when they never used to exist. Someone replied that of course they were traditional as their sister had had them in 1985!

I've never been back since.

I don't blame you, I think the whole idea is completely and utterly bonkers!! :rotfl:

I got married first time around in 1985 and we didn't bother with favours, that sort of extra cost seemed to me to be more for people who had more money than sense and were more concerned about impressing people than merely wanting to share a very special day with friends and family.

It seems increasingly to me that people just try to out-do each other with fancy add-ons and completely unneccessary stuff for the sake of 'show'

Pah! What do I know? I'm obviously just a grumpy old bag! :rotfl:

Dunroamin

suki1001 wrote: »

To be fair wedding favours do go as far back as the 13th century - so I'd say that's pretty traditional, just not probably in England!

Or the States.;)

suki1001

Dunroamin wrote: »

Or the States.;)

Well they are an Italian tradition and as there is large amount of Italian families in the states maybe it's not so daft to wonder why it has taken off in a big way over there.

However, there are a lot of fads that do make you scratch your head somewhat.

One I do like is the wedding cake made of cheese. I would have done that if they'd have been around. Then everyone gets cheese and biscuits




Yum, yum!

suki1001

ps - anyone think this looks bad. Having looked at pictures they look quite pretty: