Internet Loves Couple’s Unique Idea For Wedding Favors—’Obsessed’

Weddings are complicated affairs, and most couples feel the need to organize everything down to the wedding favors to the nth degree.

A survey by weddings app Zola in 2018 found that 96 percent of 500 engaged couples interviewed were very stressed about getting everything organized for the big day.

One couple recently came up with a novel way of personalizing their wedding favors, and reducing both stress and cost.

In a video with over 2.2 million views posted by Molly Grunewald, who describes herself as a “boudoir and wedding photographer,” she shows off the “cutest wedding favor ever.” The camera then pans over a table of mismatched mugs, with a sign that says, “choose your favorite mug to have and to hold here and at home.” Grunewald picks a low mug with a recipe for chicken soup on the side.

“It was an outdoor fall wedding—they had a hot cocoa bar too,” Grunewald explained in the comments.

Wedding traditions have morphed into many things in recent years, with some couples choosing to reinvent or adapt them completely, but the favorite wedding tradition is one that goes back a very long way.

In England, it dates back to the 16th^th century, according to artisan chocolatiers Charbonnel et Walker.

“To represent a couple’s love bond, each of the guests would be given love knots made of lace and ribbon,” it says on its website. By the 17th^th century wedding favors among the European aristocracy were made from expensive sugar, “or confectionary presented in a box made of gold, porcelain or crystal, and decorated with gemstones,” it says. “It was often called bomboniere or Bonbonnière. Charbonnel et Walker, famous for its innovative packaging, was Leopold de Rothschild’s wedding favorite chocolates of choice when he married Marie Perugia, 1881 in London.”

“Don’t most of us have mismatched, quirky mugs when first starting out in life? What a great nod to marriage and new beginnings,” said one user.

“I did something similar. But thrifted yea cups with plants in them. ‘Take one and let love grow,'” said another user.

“We did this at my wedding! I spent ages thrifting them and then whatever left at the end of the night the venue was kept! It was great,” wrote a third.

Newsweek has reached out to Grunewald via TikTok for comment.

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