Ever since we decided to have a destination wedding, we concluded that it's definitely necessary that we put a bit more thought into the wedding favours as a way to show our guests that we really appriciate their attendance.
So the choosing criteria are:
1. we want something that's meaningful.
2. Practicality. Basically, I want to make sure the favour is actually a favour, instead of becoming some useless item that we force our guests to take home and fill up their storage space.
3. Another consideration how easy it is to transport them to dubrovnik.
4. Price. Yes, we do want to spend a little money, at the same time we don't want to break the bank.
Research of wedding favours started from internet, wedding planner, friends who has been to wedding a lot. Here are a few items we have considered so far:
Souvenirs from Dubrovnik such as natural cosmetics and local art work. Local weddding favours seem to fulfill the criteria 1 and 3. They will definite remind our guests where they attend our wedding. The wedding planner kike is able to order them for us locally, so no tranportation problem. However, local art work and practicality they dont' seem to go together. And I don't think any of our male guests will consider natural cosmetics practical. Also as a thumb of rules, souvenirs are never reasonably priced.
Next we moved to consider wedding favours from Taiwan. The first thing I thought of was the traditional pastry that groom's parents would send to all the family and friends. It is a sweet and savory tasted pastry. I didn't know what exactly it is, the only thing I know is that I love eating those, and if I can order some for my guest and save some from myself that would be super nice :)
After consulting with my mother, she convienced me that it is a lot of trouble to ship them to Dubrovnik. The pastries are very heavy. My mom also revealed the myth of the ingredients in the pastry: pork fat!!! Importing meat to Dubrovnik might get my mom into trouble. So this option is definitely out of the picture. There are a lot of little things that I found on line, like little rice gift boxes, small bottle of soy sauce, but again they are just too heavy to ship to Dubrovnik.
The quest of searching for a perfect wedding favour continued. So I was reminded that a while ago I found some wedding favour that was very meaningful, practical, and easy to ship. However, the price was skyrocket so we had to give up on that idea. But recently, I have found someone in Taiwan producing something very similar (with no packaging) for much lower price. I have sent my wonderful mom to contact the person and negotiate the price. Bargaining - that's something my mom specializes, I figure why waste it. So I am not revealing that the favour is since I think there is a very good chance this will end up to be our wedding favour, and I think it's more fun to keep it as a secret until the wedding day.
Are you curious? Come to our wedding to find out what it is!
