Vintage Skeleton Key Bottle Opener Keychain Wedding Favor

A working opener hidden in a vintage key

• A working opener

  The notch at the end of the key bit grips the bottle cap, so the key opens beers as well as it looks. Hook the notch under the rim and lift in one even motion. The shaft is slim enough to hold in a palm, and the metal is solid enough to use again and again at a party. If you already keep a "wine bottle opener" in the kitchen drawer, this one sits better on a keyring.

• Filigree detail

  Each head has open scrollwork finished in antique bronze and copper-brown tones. It suits a rustic barn wedding, a vintage tablescape, or a themed home bar without looking like a bar tool left out on the counter.

• A favor that stays

  Guests clip it to their keys and carry it home, unlike a favor left on the table. A small useful object stays in use long after the reception, so the favor keeps working every time the keys come out of a pocket.

Heart, crown, bow, or scrollwork

• Heart head

  Antique bronze with bottle-cap notch

• Crown head

  Antique bronze with bottle-cap notch

• Mouse-ear head

  Antique bronze with bottle-cap notch

• Scrollwork head

  Filigree detail with bottle-cap notch

• Bow head

  Filigree detail with bottle-cap notch

Favors guests leave behind

The favor table problem

Most favor tables end the night the same way: a stack of printed magnets and tealights that nobody takes home. Guests pick one up, set it down, and leave it behind. By the second toast, the bar looks like an afterthought.

A key that opens

The bronze key is a real opener. Slip the notch under a bottle cap, lift, and the cap comes off. Guests find that out right away and start using it for their own drinks, which is the moment a favor stops being decoration.

Kept after the toast

By the end of the reception the key is clipped to a keyring in a jacket pocket, and it stays there. It is the favor guests remember, and it turns up again at the next barbecue.

Kept on a keyring, not left on a table