The best favors I ever created for a wedding were the books from the last big flower project I did.

The couple are both writers and scholars, so the books were either in their areas of expertise, or well-loved for one reason or another.

I covered the ones outside the color scheme in a lovely batik.

An unexpected delight was that tables began negotiating with each other for the books they really wanted. Some took the covered ones just because they were pretty. Some titles sparked bidding wars paid by good deeds!

eta: I should add that the books all came from yard sales, free piles and second hand shops. Much less expensive than a lot of traditional favors.

We gave out small plastic toys (dinosaurs, mermaids, eagles, polar bears, etc.) at our wedding. We weren't necessarily planning on doing favors, but we found several boxes of cool and cheap little toys at a local toy store and decided our guests would love them, and indeed they did.

Work has been a major pain the last two days. I am buried in paperwork and keep having to put it aside to deal with other things.

Closed! About to start appliances and beds. Lordy.

DCJ, my utmost condolences, I just saw.

We gave out Big Boyz Bail Bonds pens! Practical! (That's what I was dressed as when Bob proposed. )

My friend K made delicious jam for her wedding. And when my friends J and G and got married (at Treasure Island on the pirate ship) they gave out eye patches and fake cutlasses.

The best favor I ever got at a wedding is the only one I still know where it is. It was a super cool, low key outdoor wedding in eastern Tennessee. Favors were frisbees with the name & date of the wedding printed on them. Love. That bride was also so awesome that the (handmade) bridesmaids' gowns were totally usable lovely spring dresses that I wore for a decade afterwards.

Christmas us. If you scroll through backwards, you'll see our little live tree, complete with ornaments from Kat!

I can't remember what we did at our wedding because it was a million years ago. We gave everyone in the wedding party Swiss Army Cards which promptly became useless a week after our wedding when 9/11 caused them to become illegal on planes. (I still have mine, sans knife.)

I think we may have prepared welcome bags at the hotel with, like, bottled water and maps in them? Since I got married before everyone carried Google Maps around in their pockets.

[eta: I will say, I have never received anything in a wedding favor bag that was anywhere NEAR as pointless and annoying as what passes for favors at kids parties. DOWN WITH TINY POINTY PLASTIC THINGS! PENCILS AND ORANGES FOR ALL! YES I AM THAT MOM!]

I am not down with party favor bags at kids' parties, either. I am giving you cake and more than likely, a craft and other food. I am not giving you a present as well. Piss off. And no - I don't have organic juice. Red dye Kool-Aid, Bucky. Drink it and love it.