Wedding favors...

(Still trying to catch everything on the blog up to where we are right now...)

I'm a little on the fence about wedding favors. Most of the time, the bride and groom seem to spend wads of cash personalizing some sort of trinket and at the end of it, within a week, none of the guests still has it or even remembers what it was. T got personalized m&ms, which was cool (even if Littles ended up eating mine, lol), but since my entourage is so diet inflexible, I figured food wasn't a good option for us.

I shopped online, and everything seemed either tacky or ridiculously expensive. Like, really, spending $500 on wedding favors seemed like such a waste, especially considering the things I was finding.

And then I stumbled upon these magnets:

As one person on my facebook put it, "But... you're not cat people." Indeed.

Indeed.

But most people we know are cat people. And those who aren't cat people are cat-with-mustache people. Or cat-with-monocle people. And those who are none of those... well... you can't please everybody.

And so far, even the people who have ridiculed our choice of favor, when asked if they'd keep their mustache kitty magnet, replied that yes, in fact, they would definitely keep it.

I figure they'll be like Christmas ornaments. Ornaments are rarely personalized and rarely even all that directly personal (it's all about the stars, the Jesus, the snowmen, the Santas and the angels), but you always remember where you got them.

So there you go. All that's left is ironing out the kinks in the shipping because apparently, magnets qualify as "dangerous goods" and have rules about them. It wouldn't matter so much if we weren't buying so many.

Oh, and since they're so cheap, we figured we'd also donate a lump sum to a rescue here to balance it out.

So yey.