We weren’t going to have favors at all…but MOG made beautiful hand made soaps which she wrapped up, and we placed them by each person’s seat on the table. You ca. see them here at the top of each plate.
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The youngest will be 18 months, the oldest 10 yrs old. All my side of the family; there might be a few more.
Other kid’s wedding we did individual brown lunch bags w a ribbon, personalized for each w name in big letters (there was a history of wrestling over objects we wanted to forestall). But there are more, now. I was going to suggest covering the table w paper and giving them crayons and calling it enough. But we could do better/more. They are all well behaved and our tolerance for kids is very high – it’s more for their parents serenity than ours.
There will also be an infant, but I have dibs on carrying him around 
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The request from the bride was floral, floor length, muted purple, rose, or blue. Dress was on sale and they also gave me a courtesy discount because the description said pockets, and there aren’t pockets. The back is a V.
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Spectacular!!!
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I love her stuff - so classy!
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Another cute, food idea - you can have their picture put on M&M’s in their wedding colors.
I went with my daughter to try on her dress after alterations. It looks really good but boy is it tight! There were big discussions (bride, sister, me, Mia the person doing the alterations) about whether to keep the bow, but in the end we are keeping it. She has a unique way of doing the bustle and it looks good.
She also shortened the dress my daughter is wearing to the welcome dinner, taking it from ankle to mini.
Wedding 4 weeks from Monday.
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I ran into this article on my news feed and thought of this thread. There were some interesting insights about wedding favors. I particularly liked the idea of a sketch artist and thought how well that might work for the rehearsal picnic mentioned above. Kids should love a caricaturist.
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Wow—uggs and alpaca wraps sound VERY expensive! That’s an amazing wedding favor, as were high quality cowboy hats!
H wanted to give shelled roasted peanuts as it’s a chinese tradition and we gave it at our wedding decades ago. We bought small plastic zip bags and filled them with Planters peanuts and then added a sticker and DIL bought adorable net bags to put them in. That was the favor. Otherwise, there wouldn’t have been a favor. All guests took their the favors home, so we figured that was a good sign. 
I like favors to be easy, consumable and able to get prepped in advance.
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I think that’s a great wedding favor @HImom.
For D’s wedding we gave everyone a small box with 2 truffles in fall themed flavors ( October wedding). They were bought from a business owned by a friend. I was actually hoping some would be left behind, but not one was.
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A custom cowboy hat bar? Cute matching Uggs and shawls for beach wedding guests? These wedding planners must be from a different planet 
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I had a new idea but I don’t know if it will work. I was thinking about planting zinnias in the garden this year since they’re easy, and maybe I could cut some for the rehearsal dinner that will be in our yard.
Then DH asked if I wanted him to till some strips in the pasture for them. DD is planning on having some pictures out in the pasture, so she thought it would be awesome to have flowers ringing the spot that DH will keep mowed for photos.
But! The wedding is June 7 in Iowa. I would definitely have to start seeds inside to have blooms by then, something I haven’t done before, and if we do the pasture, it’s going to take a LOT. 
Going to have to think on this!
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We didn’t do welcome bags—S said no need but he did have an appetizer welcome party in Waikiki at the hotel where many of his guests were staying. We did give a local candy S and DIL love in tiny zipped bags at rehearsal lunch. We had informal drop in buffet brunch the day after for out of town guests at my sister’s lovely home, a few miles from Waikiki.
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We did not do welcome bags, party favors or anything like that. We had a lovely reception, including a photographer for fun individual/group photos, and we had a brunch the following morning. D & SIL saw no need for anything else, saying that none of their friends had favors at their weddings (or garters, or bouquet throwing …). My SIL was upset that they didn’t have a groom’s cake & send pieces home with guests, but that was her family tradition. D wasn’t interested - it wasn’t a dis, it just wasn’t a tradition that was meaningful to her.
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@kelsmom - none of the weddings we have attended in the last several years ( including D and SIL’s) bothered with the garter and bouquet throwing. I sure don’t miss it!
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Little kid and her now husband axed the garter throw (yuck!) and cake smoosh (gross!), but kid decided that she would do a bouquet throw just because she did not want to give it away to someone and make the others jealous. Let whoever wanted it compete a little Plus, she wanted to flex her muscle 
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Way back when, we did not have a bouquet throw because I think the whole idea is sexist or something. DiL also passed on the throw, FDiL is also going to pass on it. I have seen a few weddings where they hand out flowers to all the women, it still seems like some sort of “don’t worry! you too will get married and become A Real Girl”. But for some people, it’s just fun. I don’t think it’s good to get too hung up on other people’s wedding choices.
FDiL’s family does this thing where they ring little bells to say goodbye, so when the bridal couple leaves everyone will have a little bell to ring. To be collected if unwanted. They aren’t doing welcome bags, I think. It is weird to be so in the dark about everything but I know they mean it as a good thing (they aren’t excluding us, they are trying to have the parents just be VIP guests)
Many years ago H and I made the decision to forego the garter belt and bouquet toss. We cut the cake for photos but did not do the stuffing in each other’s mouth thing. We were happy when D and SIL made the same choices.
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Fun wedding favor I’ve seen…the couple got about 4 or 5 HUGE clear glass containers. They filled each with various wrapped candies. A scoop was attached to each container. This was put in the venue lobby so people would see it as they were leaving.
Guests got a cute little handled bag and could scoop whichever treats they wanted. They had things like small tootsie rolls, hersheys kisses, small Reese’s PB cups, small mints,individually wrapped life savers, etc. It was really fun. They had a wedding coordinator and her last job of the evening was making sure there was enough candy (and removing empty jars as appropriate).
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Our Pittsburgh cousins had a cookie table, as did their girls when they got married. Apparently, it’s a hugely popular tradition there. (I didn’t mind it. 
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