Our wedding theme is vintage, old hollywood. Our colors are black and white with red and silver as accent colors. Instead of escort cards and an escort card table we will making a large display listing table assigments.
I plan to use picture frames as the place card holders as well as favors. I love antiques and I would like to spend the next year seeking out silver vintage/antique picture frames. I understand that not everyone appreciates vintage and antique items but I already have a beautiful collection of vintage frames. And I would love to give people a favor they can actually use instead of some useless tzotchke item. However, many people equate vintage and antique to used and second-hand.
My question: Is it tacky to offer up vintage/antique items as wedding favors?
Re: Honest Opinion - Is this tacky?
ETA: OP, for future reference, when you post to more than one board (I just saw this thread on the Reception board too), preface your post title with "XP". It denotes that it is a cross-post that also appears elsewhere.
I LOVE it!



I would want to take it, but I wouldn't know I could...
Hope you can figure something out with letting your guests know that the frame is their favor as well
But keep in mind that many favors are thrown away or given to thrift stores after the wedding, if and when people take them.
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I don't love potpourri either, and I seemed to pick up bags and bags of that as wedding favors last year at weddings. I still took it, because thats what you're supposed to do. If people don't take 'em, well then, you've got a whole bunch of new frames for your own use!