Show me your wedding favours!

[Hudson_Hawk]

My friend used to work for Burdick''s, she''d hook us up with those little penguins and the mice all the time. I love them!

 

[surfgirl]

mela lu, those Italian trays are awesome! Great idea...

 

[Pandora II]

I had no idea about favours till I lived in Italy, where the couples selection for ''bombonierie'' was much talked about after the wedding! There are shops that sell nothing else!

At one I got a beautiful sterling silver sugar shovel which I do actually use all the time. No engraving and very simple design. At another a mini murano glass paperweight.

In the UK it''s a very new idea, and I always swore I''d have them for mine as I loved so many of them in Italy, however I don''t think that they are a ''necessity''.

For mine, I am hand-printing 2" x 3" unbleached cotton drawstring bags with the monogram design I made (custom rubber stamp and fabric stamping ink from ebay

) and filling them with a medieval herb mix which I am making, using the same herbs as I have in my bouquet (all ingredients courtesy of ebay).

The herbs all have different meanings - ie lavender for love/devotion, marjoram for joy/happiness etc, and the attached label will have a message from us on one side and an explaination of the meanings on the other.

Most favours just get chucked in a drawer - so I thought I''d go with one that was meant to be chucked in a drawer!

There are also rather a lot of ''stiff upper-lipped'' men at my wedding, who don''t go in for that kind of thing, so I wanted them to be quite subtle - the printing is tone on tone - and not too girly. FI said he would def. take one home if he was given one - which is quite a good benchmark!

I don''t know what I''ll do if I get left with loads of them - I''d prefer there to be more knickers than herb sachets in my drawers.