I have no idea where these royal wedding souvenirs are being manufactured – probably in some guy’s basement – but one thing is for certain: They’re tacky and they’re cheap.
They're tacky in the sense that you really wouldn’t want to put one up in your house, and cheap in that they probably cost next to nothing to produce.
That said, all this junk sells in stores for a relative fortune! The top offender was a plastic tea tray that went for £20! At best it might make a good sled in the winter.
So, yes, it’s all a total rip-off. And seeing as I spent the U.S. equivalent of $164.10, I feel I may have personally funded the entire production run of every one of these items. Anything sold after I left town was pure profit. You’re welcome.
However, I’m still not sure that will amount to much. Despite the fact that they were selling the exact same things in every gift shop in London (and there are no less than three trillion of them – I counted), literally the only other person I met who also bought a royal wedding souvenir was another American guy. I asked him why and he responded, “Because my grandmother asked me to bring her back the tackiest royal wedding gift I could find.”
But, hey, it’s all in good fun, and it’s further proof that (for some strange reason) many Americans absolutely love the royal wedding.
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It's an awful lot like the hideously tacky NYC souvenirs they sell everywhere in Manhattan and quite a few places in New Jersey. Most are made in China, probably cost less to manufacture than the change in your pocket, but will bring a huge smile and probably some mighty big laughs from the recipients back home. I think that's the secret law of souvenirs- they must be tacky, they must be overpriced, and you must feel ashamed to have purchased them. That's why you can always feel better about saying you've gotten them for someone else at their request!
I think they wil make good couples.
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Royal wedding souvenirs are junk anyway. Not worth the buy. I could let my dogs chew them out.