Favor DIY | Offbeat Bride

This is Offbeat Bride's archive of Favor DIY posts.

Now OF COURSE you don't need favors. You just don't. But if you want to go the favor route, we've got lots of projects below, and additional inspiration here: http://offbeatbride.com/filed/wedding-porn/favors

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Snowglobes are super rad. I Iove making 'em just as much as I love shaking 'em. Here is a quick tutorial on waterless snowglobes. If you want to put water in your globes, Martha Herself has a tutorial. But here's how the Offbeat DIY Editor rocks her some Martha-inspired crafts.

What you'll need:

Jar with lid
Sculpey clay (1 small pkg per globe)
Oven
Baking sheet
Glitter
Hot glue
Small toy (think things that could go with your wedding theme — dinosaurs, super heroes, birds, skulls, etc)

Here's how it's done:

Celebrating New Year's Eve is super fun. Weddings are a celebration of something new as well. Why not inject your event with some holiday and/or New Year's excitement with these papier mache confetti balls!?

Ariel Segall aka Ariel (but not that one) appeals to our chocolate-loving, Dungeons and Dragons-playing, favor-searching crowd as she shows us how to make your own chocolate D&D dice molds.

I picked seed bombs as favors because I didn't want to give out "stuff" (i.e. junk that will just go in a landfill) but rather give something small that was enjoyable, expressed our ethos, and was delightfully biodegradable. My husband and I had a great time making these and getting dirty! They were really easy and took no time at all.

After getting a tea shop favor quote that was $400 over-budget, one bride decided to come up with her own tea favors on the cheap with a rockin' name to boot! Here's how you can do the same.

These cotton muslin drawstring bags are an easy way to wrap wedding favors. Stamp them with your own design and you can fill them with pretty much anything!

Kristen once showed you how to make a sewing pattern out of existing clothes, now she's showing you how to make backstage passes for your rock 'n' roll wedding.