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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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Honey wedding favors are an inside joke for couples who met on Bumble

These days, it seems like most couples meet on dating apps. If you and your sweety met on Bumble, and you want to have a brilliantly subtle little nod to your meet-cute origin story at your wedding, here’s the perfect idea: HONEY wedding favors. 

These personalized popcorn favors can be food, favors, AND table numbers

Green wedding favors for your eco-friendly offbeat wedding

Choose green wedding favors for your sustainable wedding — check out five awesome categories of eco-friendly wedding favors.

s'mores wedding favors

Eat ’em or take ’em: these s’mores wedding favors are a gooey gift guests will devour

S’mores are a staple of outdoor weddings in any season, but especially in the fall when the weather gets chilly and a bonfire is apropos. You’re cooking them up over a bonfire, adding them to your sweets table, and even making them into cakes! But a perfect way to provide a dessert AND a takeaway gift is an easy-to-make s’mores wedding favor.

Here’s how to make them super easily with a few staples from Michael’s Weddings™…

Harry Potter wedding favor

In case of dementor attack, you’ll need this Harry Potter wedding favor

If you’re a Potterphile, you know that chocolate bars have their own powers of soothing you after a dementor attack. So at a wedding with Harry Potter details (where a dementor could prey, naturally!), why not offer up some DIY Harry Potter wedding favors that will do the job nicely. Plus, it only takes some inexpensive chocolate bars, some printer paper, and a printable chocolate bar wrapper.

How to DIY coloring pages from a photo for your wedding reception

How to DIY coloring pages from a photo for your wedding reception

We’ve been throwing around the idea of this wedding coloring sheet for years but never had a great tutorial for how to make one yourself, which you absolutely can do. Yep, you don’t have to outsource this project to someone else if you have access to a program like Photoshop, GIMP, or Pixlr. I’m going to be demonstrating it with Photoshop, but the steps are mostly translatable between each program.

Here’s how to do it…

Give your guests vintage valentine favors at your Valentine's Day wedding (free printables!)

Give your guests vintage valentine favors at your Valentine’s Day wedding (free printables!)

When it comes to free printables, there’s little more prolific as vintage Valentines (which I love!). Give all of the guests at your Valentine’s Day wedding a little slice of nostalgia that they can keep forever in scrapbooks and memory boxes. Plus, these are free printables so they’ll only cost you the price of the paper! What a steal.

Here are some of my favorite vintage valentine favors to save, print, and gift to your guests…