Life in the Fast Lane: Favor Flav

Interestingly enough, wedding favors have been a bit of a hot topic in the Coyote household. I have to admit, I am not big on wedding favors. It's almost always some sort of useless trinket that sits around my apartment for six months until I decide to throw it out. And when I finally do I feel guilty that I have thrown away something that a couple put time and money into choosing. Because of all this, I am pretty hell bent on giving our guests a favor that won't sit around on their shelf collecting dust. Thankfully there are so many unique and interesting favors nowadays so I figured this would be an easy-peasy decision.

Oh, silly Coyote, thinking something wedding-related would be easy. When I brought up a few of my ideas to Momma Coyote I quickly learned some interesting things about what is acceptable and what isn't acceptable in the realm of wedding favors. I am not sure if this is specific to my family, or maybe to my Italian culture, but in my circle wedding favors have a few different components and are apparently a Big Deal.

First, You absolutely must have jordan almonds. A wedding without jordan almonds will have you excommunicated from the famiglia FOR LIFE. I have to been to enough family functions to know that jordan almonds are on the must have list. And so, a few weeks ago I sat down with Momma Coyote and we ordered ourselves a few boxes of "confetti":

Image via My Italian Wedding Favors

Sidenote: If you want some serious culture shock take a look at that website. It is phenomenally Italian.

Second, while the jordan almonds are a component of the favor, they cannot be the only favor. Usually they are wrapped up in tulle and then attached to the actual favor. Again, I kind of expected this and had long ago fallen in love with Mrs. Jellyfish's lottery ticket favors. I brought it up to Momma Coyote and while she loved the idea she didn't think it was enough.

Momma Coyote suggested a donation (perhaps similar to Mrs. Doily's favors), but the jordan almonds AND a lottery ticket AND a donation just seemed like too much for me. Too much paper, too many explanations.

And so it was back to the drawing board.

I kinda love edible favors. At the last wedding I went to the bride and groom had wrapped up M&M's and placed them inside a glass. I quietly went around the table eating my little baggie of M&M's. And Mr. Coyote's... And my brother's... And the random cousin I was sitting next to... Heh. Yum. The more I stumble across edible favors, the more I want them in our wedding.

How about these fortune cookie favors?