Post by basilosaurus on Apr 23, 2023 12:08:10 GMT -5
In my invitation. Still a great mix!
I got my first CD as a favor at a bar mitzvah. I had to play it on the family computer. Al yankovic. Living in the fridge (you can't stop the mold from growing)
I don't think we did favors. Our centerpieces were baskets of fresh apples and people were more excited to take them home than we had expected. One of H's friends took the centerpiece from his table, then walked it over to H's mom and asked if she would make him an apple pie LOL. I'm pretty sure she did it.
I would have loved getting a mix CD! Favours are the sort of thing I remember everyone obsessing over for their weddings. Either they were more costly than one would expect or made by hand and a HUGE pain. My BFF gave away homemade jam in little jars that said "spread the love" and the only reason I remember it was because I got roped into the jam making/jar decorating and it took HOURS. I cannot remember the wedding favours from any other weddings and I doubt anyone remembers the chocolates I painstakingly picked out for mine.
I've noticed a trend with my cousins who are about 10+ years younger than me - they either aren't bothering with marriage (and they have long term partners) or their weddings are scaled way back.
It's funny you say this. I want to get some of the photos of me and my dad reprinted now that he's passed away. I realized the only place I have them digitally is on a CD and we have no computers that have a CD drive anymore, so off to Walgreens I go.
our save the date was a cd. lol. For years, friends would pull it out occasionally.
We had two versions - one to send to the "grown ups" and a sarcastic one for the "kids"
Andar conmigo was on it because I really loved that song around the time I was wedding planning. I haven't thought of that song in years but I'm playing it now
Post by expectantsteelerfan on Apr 23, 2023 14:08:57 GMT -5
I don't think I ever got a CD as a wedding favor, even though I am old (40, got married in 2008). We did, however, have disposable cameras on tables for guests to take candid photos throughout the night that we collected and then NEVER developed because we were broke right after the wedding. We kept them and swore we would develop them some day, and we did move them from house to house a few times until finally giving up when we realized there was no place left to actually develop them anymore and threw them away.
Yep. Sure did. Strong possibility California Stars was on ours too.
I should go look up the playlist. I think we also included some very inappropriate songs on there - just stuff we liked (I know there was a Bad Brains song). I have zero idea what we were thinking.
Gawd...all the time spent on ridiculous wedding favors... We had a destination so made maps, things to do, handed out local cookies. I can't remember what else.
I don’t think I’m old but I also have no clue either. I was not super in to planning lol, so I think I promptly forgot most things. I do remember something happened with our florist so we had to find a new one a few weeks before the wedding and I was like oh well, and had my mom pick the flowers/make arrangements with the new florist.
Yep. Sure did. Strong possibility California Stars was on ours too.
I should go look up the playlist. I think we also included some very inappropriate songs on there - just stuff we liked (I know there was a Bad Brains song). I have zero idea what we were thinking.
Gawd...all the time spent on ridiculous wedding favors... We had a destination so made maps, things to do, handed out local cookies. I can't remember what else.
My daughter loves Bad Brains 🤣. She’d probably think yours is better than ours
My SIL was super into candy making at the time, and she made 100 heart shaped lollipops in I think 2-3 flavors and colors. I remember sitting at her dining room table putting bags over them and tying on the tiny little ribbons to hold them shut.
My BFF was my maid of honor and she made a CD playlist to play during the reception, but for the life of me I couldn't tell you any of the songs on it. I asked her for a copy after the wedding, only life got in the way for both of us and it never happened.
Nope! Our favors were cupcakes for guests to take home, because we didn’t have an actual wedding cake. We did a dessert bar and chocolate fountain instead. The parents of kids weren’t too happy about the chocolate fountain!
I don’t think I attended any weddings that had CDs as favors. Of the weddings I’ve been to recently, I don’t think they’ve had favors at all.
No CDs. I had a fall wedding and bought individual sparkling apple cider bottles from an orchard and personalized with our engagement photo, name and wedding date. I still have a few hanging around.
So funny! We received a few back in the day. One featured a song by the bride’s crappy a capella band dropped right smack in the middle of the decent tracks, lol.
We didn’t give out favors - our open bar was favor enough, thankyouverymuch.
In addition to cds, I recall getting a butterfly shaped seed thing you were supposed to plant, a few drink coozies, and truffles. Honestly I think favors are silly, although the truffles were fantastic.
I seem to recall a CD favor from someone pre-2010. But I didn't have a car with a CD player until 2012 and I didn't listen to CDs on my computer either so I threw it out.
I think we didn't do favors at mine. I have no memory of obsessing over it or having my ideas shot down which was what happened with every single other decision. I vaguely recall pricing out favors on Godiva's website or from a brochure from their store and then not wanting to add that to the wedding expenses.
I can’t remember what my favors were, but I did flip flop buckets and for some reason I thought an average shoe size was 6, so most of the flip flops didn’t fit anyone and I was left with like 20 pairs of size 6 baby blue flops I couldn’t get rid of 😂
I never heard of CDs as favors! Maybe they were out of style by my 2009 wedding planning. I never got one as a favor, either, but I think that would have been something I would actually enjoy
We did hand dipped chocolate covered pretzels, which were a huge pain to make and people probably didn't even care about them. I chose that because the budget was tight and favors are expensive. I don't think I spent much money on those.
No CD's here I had a destination wedding and we made stupid-ass welcome bags for everyone when they arrived at the resort. Do you know how many damn plastic totes we lugged thru customs to get all this crap to Mexico?