For When You’re Lucky in Love?

I think it’s no secret that I’m not a big fan of the wedding favor. It’s not that I think it’s horrible, more that I firmly believe that it’s in the first line of what should be cut when your budget is tight. It’s not required, it’s often left behind making it wasteful, and really most of us are quite old enough to enjoy a party without taking home a toy prize to boot.

On the other hand, every once in a while something comes along that I think is kind of a fun idea for a favor if you’re interested in giving one. Just yesterday, my brother the medieval historian who has been playing and running RPGs (role playing games, for the uninitiated) since Dungeons & Dragons was three staple-bound booklets, brought just such a favor idea to my attention.

For some reason beyond my understanding, Word Press has decided not to allow me to post a picture today. Humph. (Note to Word Press: no, I will not be downloading another freaking browser! I already had to download Firefox because you won’t format correctly in Safari. It’s your turn to compromise. Wait a minute…I can add graphics on the other two Manolosphere blogs I write for. What’s the beef here?)

Anyway, until that gets sorted out, I guess all I can do is link to the pictures (and video) of the cute custom dice I’m talking about. They’re from Custom Dice.com and you can have them made up however you like.

Why dice as a favor? Well, they can fit a theme nicely, whether it’s ‘lucky in love’ ‘casino night’ ‘geeks in love’ or ‘we’re taking a chance.’ Dice are useful whether the person in question enjoys playing craps, goes dungeoning and dragoning on a semi-regular basis, or just keeps losing the dice to the Monopoly set. If someone doesn’t want them, someone else can probably use them. What’s more, they’re not expensive. Prices start at a dollar apiece for thirty standard sized dice with pips and your name engraved on them. A hundred translucent dice with a custom logo instead of pips run “less than a dollar and fifty cents each.” If your reception crowd runs more heavily to RPGers than board gamers or gamblers, you can get your dice with different numbers of sides (I saw at a glance four-sided and ten-sided as well as the standard six-sided dice)…you can even get dominoes, though I wouldn’t recommend that as a wedding favor unless you’re inviting a very small number of people all of whom are buggy about dominoes.

Are they for everybody? No. But if they’re for you, then roll the dice and have fun!