Bot of the helpful hints:
Our Blog is made for many couples one of the most tedious aspects of planning a wedding is wrapping the wedding favors.
Ah yes, so tedious!
I had a small, intimate wedding. There were no wedding favors to wrap, because there were no wedding favors. I’m not sure I’d even heard of wedding favors at the time, although I had been a bridesmaid once and was given a little bracelet for my troubles.
But on looking up “wedding favors” now, I discover that the wedding favor is a little gift given to all the guests at a wedding as a sort of souvenir, and that it is not a new innovation, but a rather old custom. And I realize that I’ve been the recipient of wedding favors before, although not wrapped ones.
The most memorable was probably from a fancy wedding on Long Island that had lasted till about four in the morning (it had started late, too). There was valet parking, and when we got back into our car and drove home, we discovered that on the rear seat had been placed a copy of the Sunday NY Times (this was back when I had a high opinion of that paper; I still enjoy some parts of the Sunday section) and a large bag of about a dozen really good NY bagels.
Now, that was a wedding favor.
Previously a lifelong Democrat, born in New York and living in New England, surrounded by liberals on all sides, I've found myself slowly but surely 
January 12th, 2013 at 7:41 pm
}}} Now, that was a wedding favor.
LOL, a friend of mine’s wife was in the wedding party of a very wealthy friend of hers.
The “favor” consisted of a week for two spent at one of those Caribbean resorts where EVERYthing is already paid for — You want a drink in a coconut shell, you pretty much hold out your hand, and it’s already paid for as a part of the tab. You want to go parasailing, that’s covered, too, just make an appointment.
Talk about favors, I think that’s pretty close to the best thing short of, “Here’s a million dollars. Have a great life.”
January 12th, 2013 at 8:36 pm
IGotBupkis: are you old enough to remember the TV show “The Millionaire“? One of my favorites when I was a kid.
January 12th, 2013 at 10:41 pm
I remember “The Millionaire”.
Didn’t they have to stay hush about the source of the money?
Our son did wedding favors at his wedding.
Candy, bottles of wine, CDs of the wedding reception music.
Bit overdone.
January 13th, 2013 at 12:07 am
Ed Bonderenka: These were the rules:
January 13th, 2013 at 1:00 am
I didn’t do favors at my wedding celebration, which was held outdoors at my cousin’s beautiful farm. I (we) did , however, receive an extraordinary wedding gift. Her golden retreiver deposited a dead groundhog in the food tent a few hours before he guests arrived. Perhaps we should have given dead mice as favors.
January 13th, 2013 at 7:35 pm
neo: It’d be a reality show today.
January 13th, 2013 at 10:33 pm
My nephew did wedding favors when he got married last year. Although there was nothing traditional about most of the wedding, the sugar-coated almonds he and his bride had as favors were right out of the 1950s. Good kids, glad they got hitched up, but I could have gone for the bagels.