Unique wedding favor ideas, many of which you can DIY. These gifts are fun ideas that are practical and won’t clutter their homes.
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I wish I’d been married in the days of Pinterest; I would have had SO MUCH FUN planning my wedding. The other day, I was thinking about what would make a great wedding favor. I love practical items that are consumable (edibles! soaps! etc.!) or useful.
Think about who your average guest is:
- Are they families with young kids at home? Give something for them to take home to their kids
- Is everyone traveling? Get a smaller item that can fit in their bags.
- Are they families with kids attending? Bring something kid focused like candy.
- Is everyone in their early 20s? Alcohol is a great gift!
At a wedding with all older married couples, household items like wine bottle openers or a pepper grinder might not make sense. They likely already have a drawer full of random kitchen items.
Here are some ideas that I thought of off the top of my head….
Easy Wedding Favor Ideas
- Herbs or flowers in a planter
- Photo booth
- Chocolate bars
- Mini liquor or wine bottles
- Cigar
- Containers for/with a slice of cake or cupcake to go
- Succulent
- Sugar cookie
- Homemade items: jelly, jam, wine, spices, extract, honey with a honey dipper
- Fudge
- Chocolate covered cherries
- Candy
- Koozies
- Flip flops for people to use at reception
- Donut table
- Candy table
- Make a donation in honor of each guest and leave a note regarding it on the table.
- Personalized glasses for use at the reception (if your venue allows)
- Small container of coffee.
- Medicine kit for the morning after hangovers
- Photo frame
- To mail later: Professional photo of bride and groom with the guest and their family. You’ll need to get the photographer on board for this one.
- Bath bombs or other bath supplies
- Soaps or felted soap
- Luggage tags
- Unique kitchen items: ie. We love our strawberry corer and our pineapple corer
Having your wedding during Coronavirus? You could make a basket of masks to hand out. If you want to get creative, you could add vinyl to the front or do themed masks.
Creative DIY Wedding Favors Your Guests Will Love
Not only are these DIY wedding favors creative, but they are all budget-friendly. You can also tailor them to match your wedding theme!
Homemade Soaps with Dried Chrysanthemum Flowers and Violet Fragrance
Make homemade soaps with Chrysanthemum flowers and violet fragrance as wedding favors. You could even personalize the soaps with a type of flower that will be used at the wedding, and color the soap in the wedding colors.
Make adorable mini glitter champagne bottles as wedding favors. Get the step-by-step tutorial on how to decorate alcohol bottles with glitter!
These gorgeous cupcake planters are perfect for using as wedding party favours. Attach a sweet little tag.
These DIY mason jar wedding favors are so super easy to make! Plus they look gorgeous!
These adorable heart shaped soaps make perfect wedding favors. You can add them to personalized boxes or glass jars with a thank you tag.
Create monogrammed Goodie Bags for wedding guests and fill with treats and wedding favors.
This easy to make DIY candle party favors can be personalized with pictures of the bride and groom either as adults, or kids. Add a special verse to the tag, or the date of the wedding.
These handmade personalized soaps are so pretty and look great displayed in wooden boxes.
Create little boxes of succulents to use as wedding favors. Add a beautiful piece of ribbon and gift tags for a thoughtful favor.
Easiest Rose gold mini planters DIY - Learn to create beautiful things
If you are planning a spring wedding, create these pretty rose gold mini planters. They would be so beautiful displayed on a table. Add a thank you tag for gift giving!
Give these classic Greek wedding favors with dragees and tulle. If it's not a Greek wedding, you can change out the candy to any kind that you like!
These small burlap drawstring bags are simple and inexpensive to make. You can add anything you like to the inside of these.
DIY crochet flowers on matchboxes make great wedding favors. You can fill the box with small chocolates.
Repurpose wine corks into adorable DIY succulent magnet
Make adorable DIY Flower Seed packets to give out as wedding favors. Add a personalized note and include the date of the wedding.
Customize these DIY wedding favors to the look and feel of the theme of your wedding. Fill them with classic wedding candy or whatever candy you like.
DIY: Craft Memorable Mason Jar Party Favors for Weddings, Showers & Parties
These mason jar party favors are perfect for a country wedding. There is an included free printable to place inside the mason jar.
These adorable fall in love party favors are perfect for a fall wedding. Personalize them with names and date of the wedding.
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We gave out little bottle stops and bleh. I was disappointed when they came in because I didn’t think they were very high quality considering the cost. My mother in law and sister and law made beautiful planters for the table with herbs that they gave to guests. THOSE were awesome and doubled as a florist item! Leave me a comment with your FAVORITE wedding favor you’ve received at a wedding!
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