How many of us olds gave out CDs as wedding favors?

[akayf]

No CDs but we did have the disposable cameras. Got some great pics too. We wound up with multiple favors. White candy boxes with a burgundy ribbon and silver monogram sticker. I think the candy inside were jelly beans in our wedding colors. Our place cards were supposed to be tied to mini personalized champagne bottles but the bottles kept breaking when the company shipped them. I tried to cancel the order and ordered personalized votives to attach the cards to instead. Champagne refused to refund and sent more bottles. We wound up putting a table of bottles by the door at the end of the night and telling people to just take them. My cousins joked that my wedding was like an episode of Oprah when she gave out her favorite things. lol.

[heygrey]

Apr 23, 2023 17:19:29 GMT -5 googled said:

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 😂

What is a flip flop bucket?

If it's meant to trade uncomfortable dress shoes for flip flops, I'm all for it. 

[definitelyO]

I didn't - but my best friend did

[DotAndBuzz]

Well that would have been an adorable idea.

I gave out 2 little candy buckeyes.

[pinkyp]

We didn't do CDs but I got several over the years as favors. I love mixes.

We did gourmet jelly beans in little monogrammed boxes and I ate the shit outta those before, during and after the wedding. I thought it would turn me off to jelly beans forever but I still love them.

[macmars45]

I neither received or made CDs as favors. I got married in 2009.

My favors were magnets of pics of H & me. My mom, oldest sister and I made them ourselves with pics printed from costco, hodge podge and those flat clear marble glass pebble gems. (Link below if you have no idea what I'm talking about.) I still have one magnet of each of the pics guests could choose from on my fridge.

www.amazon.com/Galashield-Pebbles-Fillers-Marbles-Stones/dp/B07KDWXNTP/ref=sr_1_2?hvadid=616931597641&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9033664&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=3207394577048382899&hvtargid=kwd-37854968867&hydadcr=24631_13611696&keywords=clear+glass+vase+filler&qid=1682302582&sr=8-2

[UMaineTeach]

Apr 23, 2023 14:08:57 GMT -5 expectantsteelerfan said:

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.

I was just coming here to say that our wedding of this same era was probably the last round to do the disposable cameras on tables. Digital cameras were a thing, but smart phones were not. You had to deliberately set aside time at a computer to post photos on Facebook.

Most of the pictures were junk. The groomsmen did a whole camera of one of them making faces dubbed “The 27 Faces of John Smith” I have all the pictures from those cameras except for those faces. I must have tossed them. I was looking for them for John Smith’s funeral 🙁. One of those things where you don’t want them until you want them.

I am 98% sure we didn’t have a favor. There might have been like 2 Lindt truffles in a bag. Maybe.

[livinitup]

My favorite wedding favor was a bag of Tates Cookies. The wedding was in the Hamptons.

[sdlaura]

We had a candy buffet/bar. One of my favorite pics from our wedding is my BIL trying to balance like 5 of the small takeout containers that he had filled with candy on his way out, looking guilty

[pumpkin]

I’m not sure I knew that CDs as favors were ever a thing - I certainly never got one, but maybe it just wasn’t a thing at the time of the weddings of my friends.

My wedding favors were individual truffles from a local chocolatier.

[wise_rita]

It blew my mind to see disposable cameras for sale at a store in London a few weeks ago.  Where can they even be developed?!

[wise_rita]

Apr 23, 2023 21:19:07 GMT -5 macmars45 said:

My favors were magnets of pics of H & me.

Who on earth wants a magnet of another couple?!  Did anybody keep them that you've seen?  

I don't even want a magnet of my H & I.  

[starburst604]

Apr 23, 2023 20:45:59 GMT -5 heygrey said:

Apr 23, 2023 17:19:29 GMT -5 googled said:

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 😂

What is a flip flop bucket?

If it's meant to trade uncomfortable dress shoes for flip flops, I'm all for it. 

Yes a basket of flip flops to change into. We did that and I remember standing in line outside waiting for Old Navy to open when they were having their annual sale where flip flops were like $1, so I could buy a bunch.

Our favors were $2 scratch tickets in an envelope and the seal on it said “Lucky In Love”. We included a shiny penny on the seal for scratching. I remember the labor of finding 230 perfect shiny pennies lol. A few people won between $50-$100. We married in 2013, so past the time of CD’s as favors but I was the MOH in a wedding in 2001 that had them and I listened to that CD for a long time.

[ssmjlm]

We got married in 2008 and just did Virginia peanuts as favors since we got married at Colonial Williamsburg.

I don’t think I got a CD favor at any friends weddings.

One friend’s husband is a train engineer and they gave our train whistles as their favor. The kids at the wedding were thrilled. 🤣

[shauni27]

my mom works with ceramics and made little maple leaf ornaments for people to take as our favors. Saved us a lot of money! lol.

[expectantsteelerfan]

Apr 24, 2023 5:43:51 GMT -5 wise_rita said:

Apr 23, 2023 21:19:07 GMT -5 macmars45 said:

My favors were magnets of pics of H & me.

Who on earth wants a magnet of another couple?!  Did anybody keep them that you've seen?  

I don't even want a magnet of my H & I.  

Our save the date was a magnet.  It had our picture on it and a calendar page of the month with the date circled.  I figured they could hang it on the fridge till the wedding then toss it.  We still have ours hanging on our basement fridge along with all my kids' sport magnets and magnets from all the places we've traveled

I'm still trying to remember what our favor was.  I think it was candy of some sort, but it's annoying me that I can't remember.  I might have to bust out my wedding album and look for a picture of the tables to try to remember.  I was big into our wedding colors and the polka dot ribbon I found in those colors, so I think it was candy of some sort in those colors in a mesh bag with the ribbon on it, maybe?

[candreco]

No CDs, I don't remember anyone doing them- we did personalized playing cards. Fifteen years later, friends still pull them out on poker nights!

[sarapocalypse]

I remember getting a few CDs as favors. We did packets of flower seeds as ours.

[NewGirlNic]

yes, we gave out CD's too. I bought labels and they were printed on the CD with our picture. LOL. 

[hermione]

We gave out scratch off tickets...Wishing you riches from the new Mr. and Mrs. I cringe now, lol. A couple people won a couple hundred bucks though.

[cereal K]

My aunt's sister owned a chocolate shop, so she arranged for us to do little boxes of truffles for each placesetting. We also had matchbooks with our names and wedding date on them. I still have a good pile of them, and then still occasionally come in handy!

[lindyanne]

We have out bottles of hot sauce. I found a company that would sell me bottles unlabeled and we put special labels on them

[jamie.1022]

I have never heard of CDs as favors. I certainly have not received one.

We gave out beer koozies.

[lo]

FYI Walgreens still develops disposable cameras! My dad did some a year ago and it was Christmas from 1988, lol.

[regencygirl]

We did! We used them as our place cards too - the labels that sealed the envelopes had the names and seating assignments on them. I got the labels for the discs custom printed from someplace several Knotties recommended. I know I have a few someplace at home but I can't remember much about what we put on it besides it was a very eclectic mix of music. "Hot for teacher" by Van Halen b/c we both teach. An Irish drinking song covered by my favorite local band - Blackthorn. Our wedding song. God only knows what else we put on there.

[kdubs923]

We didn't give CDs, but we definitely received a few over the years. We did a candy buffet (2011 wedding). It was all over the Knot at the time, but I hadn't see one done in person yet. People that went to our wedding thought it was a very original idea. Clearly they didn't spend time on internet wedding planning boards.

My parents wedding favor was matchboxes with their names/date on it. They married 41 years ago and have been divorced for 20ish years at this point. My mom is still working through the stash of leftover matchboxes. She uses them to light birthday candles each year. I'm honestly shocked they still work lol

[lostrn]

Apr 24, 2023 5:42:09 GMT -5 wise_rita said:

It blew my mind to see disposable cameras for sale at a store in London a few weeks ago.  Where can they even be developed?!

You can mail them into Snapfish still I think. We did the disposable cameras and I think the cost of the camera included mailing them back and development. Most of the pictures were terrible lol.

[Susie]

I think I'm old enough (wedding in 2007) but I don't think I ever got a CD as a wedding favor!

We did small bottles of wine at ours, I think like 375 ml.  They were a white wine from the winery where our reception was, and the winery did labels for them with our names, date, etc.  We still have one sitting on a bookshelf.  It probably tastes like vinegar by now, lol, but hopefully they tasted ok at the time.

[wise_rita]

Apr 24, 2023 8:01:18 GMT -5 expectantsteelerfan said:

Apr 24, 2023 5:43:51 GMT -5 wise_rita said:

Who on earth wants a magnet of another couple?!  Did anybody keep them that you've seen?  

I don't even want a magnet of my H & I.  

Our save the date was a magnet.  It had our picture on it and a calendar page of the month with the date circled.  I figured they could hang it on the fridge till the wedding then toss it.  We still have ours hanging on our basement fridge along with all my kids' sport magnets and magnets from all the places we've traveled

There is some utility in that.  From the explanation given it sounded like it was a magnitized photo of the two of them and that's it.

[glitzy07]

Apr 24, 2023 11:08:19 GMT -5 kdubs923 said:

We didn't give CDs, but we definitely received a few over the years. We did a candy buffet (2011 wedding). It was all over the Knot at the time, but I hadn't see one done in person yet. People that went to our wedding thought it was a very original idea. Clearly they didn't spend time on internet wedding planning boards.

My parents wedding favor was matchboxes with their names/date on it. They married 41 years ago and have been divorced for 20ish years at this point. My mom is still working through the stash of leftover matchboxes. She uses them to light birthday candles each year. I'm honestly shocked they still work lol

Same, right down to the 2011 wedding.

My BFF was married in 2009 and she gave CDs as favors, though.