Wedding favors these days tend towards the personal.
While those couples who could care less concerning such practices, opting to simply go through the motions, will invariably just pick any mildly appropriate trinket for a souvenir, many who still believe in the idea have translated it in far more individualistic terms.
Thus, today’s catalog of wedding favors include many home-made items including audio compilations of the couples’ favorite songs, particularly those played out at the wedding reception, and copies of their favorite books – right down to fun t-shirts along the lines of “I survived…” or “I went to….”
You can even find those who hand out autographed framed photos of the wedding ceremony (or themselves, no less).
Most likely it’s a sign of the times, for it is not only wedding favors that have adopted an informal, even outright casual, attitude nowadays but the gifts given by guests are usually of a related spirit.
Large dice, a deck of cards, as well as other gag novelties are now widely presented instead of toasters and blenders.
Obviously, perhaps there is no perfect gift as there is always the matter of one’s own personal finances to consider.
Just what could a few bucks get, anyway?
More candles as well as wine glasses?
Better inject some humor into the whole affair while conserving money.
Regrettably, while that was ingenious once, it’s now just as unimaginative as the aforementioned light kitchen appliances since everyone’s caught on and it’s being done at wedding after wedding throughout the country, if not all around the world!
But just what’s going to be the memorable wedding gift – and favor – then?
The search goes on.
On the other hand, clearly, one can simply dispense with the whole tradition and choose ceremonies of one’s own creation!
