Wedding Favours

Wedding Favours

My name is John and my wife and I have been to dozens of weddings over the years and we have always been fascinated by the little gifts that we have received from the different happy couples. I would therefore like to tell you all about the age old tradition of these wedding favor gifts and how they have more recently become the must have item. In fact, read on and you will discover that if you don't have wedding favours on your wedding tables, you could be breaking tradition!

A wedding favour is a gift that the bride and groom give to their guests on their wedding day. It is traditionally to say thank you for coming to the wedding and also serves as a memento of the special day.

Wedding Favours are usually positioned at each guest's place setting before they arrive. However, some couples prefer to hand the wedding favor to each guest individually as they feel that this gives them the chance to talk to each guest. For example, a half-hour period may be set aside specifically for the handing out of wedding favors. The bride may give the mens favours to the male guests and the groom may give the womens favours to the female guests.

Traditionally, wedding favours have been around for hundreds of years and didn't stop at just weddings. In fact it was not unheard of to be given a birthday favour at a birthday party, a christening favour at a christening and even an anniversary favour at an anniversary.

In more recent times the tradition has always been to give the men a cigar each and the women would traditionally receive a net containing sugared almonds. These days almost all couples do not give cigars or almonds but opt to give their guests an alcohol miniature. For example, the men may be given a whisky miniature and the women may be given a liqueur miniature. As I said earlier, we have been to dozens of weddings over the years and in the last 5 years I cannot remember a time when we have been presented with any gift other than an alcohol miniature.

The following are just a few of the different wedding favour miniatures that we have received recently:

Jack Daniels Miniature (me) / Archers Peach Schnapps Miniature (my wife),
Glenfiddich Single Malt Whisky miniature / Baileys Miniature,
Metaxa Brandy miniature / Ouzo Miniature (this was a Greek wedding),
Personalised Single malt whisky miniature / Personalised Brandy miniature ,
Personalised Blended whisky miniature / Personalised Vodka miniature .

You will notice from the list above that I refer to some of the wedding favour miniatures as "personalised". Well this is a fairly recent extension of the UK wedding favour miniature culture. It's still a quality alcohol miniature drink but people are going that little further to give their guests a wedding favour to remember.....

It's basically an alcohol miniature with a special label on that has the details of that particular wedding. In one of the examples above, I received a personalised whisky miniature and my wife received a personalised brandy miniature. The labels, although slightly different in their design, both had the inscription, "Thank you for sharing our special day" together with the couples names "Laura & Brady" and the date of the wedding.

Now I think that whoever dreamt up the idea of personalised wedding favour miniatures has really hit on something here. Think about it; a couple go to a wedding and receive a cigar and some sugared almonds. If he doesn't smoke, the cigar will sit in the drawer forever more and she may eat the sugared almonds or if she doesn't like them will throw them out. If they are given an ordinary branded alcohol miniature, such as Glenmorangie whisky for the guys and Bacardi rum for the girls, they will probably drink the contents at the wedding and leave the bottles behind for the cleaners to tidy up. The point is that if you receive a personalised alcohol miniature favour , you are most likely to take the bottle home with you, whether you have drunk the contents or not. It's even a great gift for any guests who don't drink alcohol as they will almost certainly take the full and sealed bottle home with them as a reminder of the occasion and this comes back to the whole tradition of wedding favours; giving your guests something to remember your special day.

Wedding Favours

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