7 Easy DIY Wedding Favors
It’s easy to get so caught up in planning a wedding that you forget what it’s all about. But at its heart, a wedding is about love, family and friends.And what better way to show how much those things mean to you than to give your guests something from the heart (wedding favors).
Not only can making your own wedding favors help you save money, but it can also provide your guests with a beautiful keepsake from your special day. Here are seven of the very best (and inexpensive) DIY ideas:
Cookies as Wedding Favors
Use paper CD sleeves to package homemade treats. You can put a sticker with your wedding date and even a photo of the bride and groom kissing on the front, then slide one or two cookies into each one. Put them on a table near the exit to encourage folks to take them home.
Cookies in CD Sleeves
Or better yet, let your guests fill the CD sleeves themselves at a cookie bar, where you can put dozens of your very favorite flavors on display.
Homemade Vanilla
If you love well-crafted things like mission and shaker furniture, then you’ll adore this idea. It’s homemade vanilla as part of a “recipe” for a great marriage! You can find instructions on how to make your own vanilla online. While it’s a lengthy but not necessarily time-consuming process that you’ll want to start eight months prior to the wedding, all it takes is a vanilla bean and small bottles. Add a cute label explaining how vanilla is part of your recipe for a good marriage, and you’ll have your guests wiping away tears.
Cake Pops
Cake pops are hot, hot, hot right now as wedding favors! And there are some adorable wedding-themed decorations, including some that make the pops appear like a bride and groom. Use your own creativity to decorate them in line with your wedding theme. You might also choose to use your wedding colors instead of black and white.
Cake Pops
Plants
You can find small herbs in jars for less than $1 a piece. Then you can decorate the tiny jars however you’d like, including with your wedding date. Attach a short poem about “growing” together in your marriage.
Wedding-Themed CD
Yes, people do still burn CDs in this digital age. Burn your wedding playlist onto a CD to give to your guests at the end of the reception. Put it in a case that has the date, your names and the location of your wedding. That would be long lasting wedding favors.
Wedding-Themed CD
Candy Buffet
Want to see your guests look like kids in a candy store? Give them a candy buffet! Get cheap penny candy and put it into big, colorful containers with spoons for scooping. Buy Chinese food containers from a craft store and invite them to stack the containers high with their favorite treats.
Candy Buffet
Kisses
Creating your own wedding favors gives you the opportunity to make it personal. My husband proposed at Hershey Park so for our favor I printed simple round labels to place at the bottom of the Kisses. For the purple mesh bags, 800 Kisses, and labels, the cost was only slightly under $50 (around 30 cents per guest—that’s pretty good!)
Kisses
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