Category Archive

Favor DIY

We all know that wedding favors are never required… But if you want to go the DIY favor route, we’ve got lots of unique wedding favor tutorials and DIY ideas below. We’ve also got an archive of non-DIY wedding favor ideas.

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Give your guests itty bitty succulents in teeny tiny jars

Catherine and Agustin were very focused on creating most of their wedding decor and favors themselves — including these adorable teeny tiny succulent gardens!

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Sailor Moon bridesmaid proposal gifts: Will you fight for love and justice with me?

We recently looked at gender-neutral bridal party proposals. Now let’s look at one that celebrates the girly. Is it any wonder that the bride who brought us the manga engagement party created the Sailor Moon bridesmaid gift?

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How to make your own bad-ass magnetic bottle cap wedding favors

I’d seen bottle cap magnets on craft sites before and was interested in playing with craft resin so I put the two together and voila: nifty home crafted wedding favors! Once you have your random (but of course self-representing) bits and bobs to cast in resin –anything that fits in a bottle cap works great — have fun making these personalized bottle cap magnets.

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Make these custom chalkboard mugs for your wedding party

I was totally stumped about what to get our wedding party as “thank you” gifts for helping us out on our wedding day. I mean, nothing I found was going to say thank you quite the way I want. After a lot of thinking, and probably too many hours on Pinterest, I settled on an idea I thought was fun… chalkboard mugs. Here’s how I pulled these off…

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Make and decorate your own pillow boxes for your favors

Pillow boxes: cute and easily dressed up for any occasion. I love how simple these guys are, and how endless the options are to customize to your own theme. This is my simplified, easy-to-make tutorial — please adapt, improve, invent, be as creative as you care to.

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Package your cookie favors in CD Sleeves

Giant cookies make great wedding favors. To package them for individual gifting, try a CD sleeve and sticker wrap.