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wedding favors

This is our collection of posts all about unique wedding favors — including tons of DIY wedding favors and cheap wedding favors. (Oh and a few posts discussing if you even need to do wedding favors at all!) You may also want to check out the unique wedding favors in our Vendor Guide.

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Offer your guests mini perfume vials as favors

Laurel and Michael had some sweet (smelling) favors at their Alice in Wonderland-themed wedding: tiny vials of perfume! They were all labeled with phrases that reflected the theme like “mad hatter,” and “drink me.” Laurel purchased the perfume from Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, which has a whole slew based just on Alice and co themselves.

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Give your “perfect match” favors a new spin with fancy jars

Tim and Amy celebrated their own perfect match by giving out these jarred matches with custom labels as favors. I realize that matchbooks aren’t totally new favor territory, but you have to admit these look pretty snazzy and very “take home and display”-worthy.

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Vader bride, tattoo rings, and fire balls on this week’s Reader Round-up

You’re going to see more of this wedding in a couple days, but I thought I’d give you a little Darth Vader-y sneak peak in this reader round-up.

In fact, there are a LOT of cute peeks into our readers’ weddings this week: tattoo rings, swanky groomsmen, and a favor idea that helped me out in my personal life. Let’s get it on…

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Gift “play-along-at-home kits” to family and friends who can’t make the wedding

Our Offbeat Intern, Liz, had an amazing idea that she made happen at her handmade well-armed wedding: a play-along-at-home kit! The concept is that you send out a care package of sorts to any family or friends who can’t make the wedding.

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Ask your destination venue for help finding fun local favors

Stephanie and Chris had an amazing destination wedding in Honduras, and one of the challenges was finding location-specific trinkets that would work as favors. Thankfully, Stephanie was able to ask the resort for help and found lots of fun items.

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Shannon & Tim’s mawwiage of two lovenerds wedding

This week we’re celebrating our sci-fi-loving, fantasy-squeeing, and comic book-collecting couples. That’s right: it’s geek week! If you want to see these two lovenerds make out, you’d better bring your d20 and your A-game — fail to our-roll the couple and you’ll be dancing like a little teapot. Win, and make them dance. Check out more of this D&D meets Princess Bride mawwiage!