Favor Flavor

Wedding favors?  Whose idea were these anyway?  A trinket to take home that will inevitably sit in a drawer somewhere…. I guess to me they just seem like an idea that a marketer came up with.  I mean, really, as I look at The Knot and the like, some of these things are $5 a piece!  Times 100 guests… Well, it just adds more to the bottom line.  Plus, to me, the welcome bag in the guests’ rooms seems like a nicer idea.  Here, one could include local activities and little items that would make their stay that bit nicer.  Mike and I attended his cousin’s wedding in Arizona in September of 2008.  When we arrived at the hotel, our hosts had left a nice bag with an itinerary of sorts.  Even better, they included a scarf-like thing that you soak in water.  This proved very useful, as we are not used to the dry heat of Arizona.  In fact, we still use this if it’s really hot in Florida.   Hence, my search commences for (inexpensive) “favors”.  We’ll see what I find!