After almost 13 years of being together, my husband and I got married a few months ago and it was the best day! We wanted totally chilled and very us and we designed around that. We used local as much as we could and that didn’t stop for favours either.
While I’m definitely the bigger reader of the two of us, we do both enjoy a good book and it felt like a special idea to give our guests something we love.
We selected eight of our favourite books to use as wedding favours and they went down a treat. It was tricky choosing only a small selection, but we went with some we both loved and some of our individual favourites:
- Firekeepers Daughter – Angeline Boulley
- The Wizard of Earthsea – Ursula Le Guin
- Pet – Akwaeke Emezi
- Dungeon Crawler Carl – Matt Dinniman
- Chain-Gang All-Stars – Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
- Family Lore – Elizabeth Acevedo
- For Such A Time As This – Shani Akilah
- Havisham – Elle Machray
While we toyed with the idea of hand picking a book per place setting, we loved having them all on a bookshelf for guests to help themselves to.
We bought them through our local indie bookshop, Pigeon Books, of course. We had their bookmarks for everyone too and we love them to bits!
We also had a stamp that guests could stamp their book with as well, with our wedding date. This went down a treat!
All our photos are by the incredible Clearly Wild Photography – I cannot recommend her enough for all kinds of photography. Please, please go check her out if you’re looking for a photographer for a wedding or more.
Would you love a book as a favour?
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And don’t forget to check out my other blogs and reviews – you can find books with similar themes in the same folder link below, or click back onto blogs to see the whole offering.
Last updated 09/11/2026
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