Top 10 worst wedding favours

We’ve all been to weddings where you get the wedding favours sitting there waiting for all the guests on the tables, sometimes there are different ones for the gents and ladies, sometimes they’re great, sometimes not.
We’ve written a few posts on wedding favour ideas and how many different possibilities there are, but today we thought we’d write with a different edge when talking about wedding favours – we’re talking about the worst we’ve heard of.
Not that we’re ungrateful or anything, we love the idea of “thanks for coming to our wedding, here’s a net of sugared almonds to remember the day by” – don’t you …….?

Our Top 10:

1. Sugared almonds – Had to be top didn’t they. For us it stinks of “last minute thought”. Traditional wedding favour maybe, boring, definitely. Surely there are millions of tastier items of confectionery out there.

2. Music on a CDR – We sort of get this idea, you want to share the music from the day with the wedding guests, you’re thinking “they’ll love it, play it in their car, listen to it at home”, they’re thinking “If I want love songs I’ll listen to the radio”. Plus, isn’t it illegal to distribute recorded music ? Who cares.

3. Spoons with chocolate. Yes, exactly….what? Who wants these ? Surely not your wedding guests.

4. Bubbles – Blowing bubbles is for West Ham fans, not wedding guests. Kids love them at the wedding, they’ll blow them all over your food, in your wine glass, spill them, and then get upset when they run out.

5. Seeds and plants – The Essex Wedding Services team where a little divided over this one. Some of us really like the idea of planting some seeds to see them grow and remember the wedding day by it. The rest of us just think they’re for green fingered people only.

6. Framed pictures of the bride and groom – Vanity, surely they’re going to take pictures of your wedding anyway, if they decide they want to put it in a frame and display it in their house, let them do it themselves. Otherwise, do it for fun, then visit your wedding guests’ homes to see who really enjoyed the framed photo as a wedding favour !?!

7. Scented candles – Again, we’re divided over this wedding favor, the girls love the idea of a scented candle – even with the bride and groom’s initials on them. The guys didn’t really appreciate the idea, not sure why….?

8. Bath salts / bath bombs / handmade soaps – You’re suggesting your wedding guests stink ? Just think, you occasionally get these for Christmas presents don’t you. You normally wrap them up and pass them onto someone else the following year don’t you. So will your wedding guests.

9. Lottery tickets – No one ever wins, it suggests you stopped off at a petrol station on your way to the wedding and thought “yikes, forgot the wedding favours”. Oh, and no one ever wins…. or did we say that already?

10. Edibles of poor quality – We all love edible wedding favours, they are the best. But please, do not buy edible wedding favours just because they look nice – at least taste them first. There are some great favour ideas that are shaped and molded just for weddings, but if the product inside tastes awful, that’s what they’ll be remembered by.

Rant over…………………..

Comments below if you think of any worse