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.
Jayne, you'll scare the women.
Zoe ,'Bushwhacked'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kate P. - Dec 27, 2013 9:01:02 am PST #15626 of 30000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
msbelle - Dec 27, 2013 9:04:36 am PST #15627 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
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.
sarameg - Dec 27, 2013 9:17:00 am PST #15628 of 30000
Closed! About to start appliances and beds. Lordy.
DCJ, my utmost condolences, I just saw.
lisah - Dec 27, 2013 9:30:39 am PST #15629 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
We gave out Big Boyz Bail Bonds pens! Practical! (That's what I was dressed as when Bob proposed. )
Kat - Dec 27, 2013 9:33:16 am PST #15630 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
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.
Liese S. - Dec 27, 2013 10:31:27 am PST #15631 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
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.
Liese S. - Dec 27, 2013 10:50:05 am PST #15632 of 30000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Christmas us. If you scroll through backwards, you'll see our little live tree, complete with ornaments from Kat!
Jessica - Dec 27, 2013 11:09:29 am PST #15633 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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!]
Aims - Dec 27, 2013 11:20:48 am PST #15634 of 30000
Shit's all sorts of different now.
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.
Steph L. - Dec 27, 2013 11:27:38 am PST #15635 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
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.
I'm suddenly wishing I made Avengers favor bags for the wedding.