Wedding Favors You Can Make at Home

With today’s tough times, brides are constantly thinking of practical yet fun and creative ways to cut costs on weddings. With the cost of weddings that are reaching thousands of dollars, it is indeed smart to find some parts of the wedding that you can do on your own instead of paying a supplier or provider.

While you can find a lot of wedding favors available at specialty bridal stores or online, for some of these items, you can actually make them at home. Some are very easy to make, the materials are inexpensive, and for some, you can prepare them weeks or months ahead so you need not cram your schedule to find days close to your wedding that you prepare them.

Listed below are some wedding favors that while you can find them in a wedding favor store, you can also make at home with low cost.

The classic practical wedding favors that are easy to make are bookmarks, music CDs, and candles. For bookmarks, you just have to simply purchase plain bookmarks and design and paint one side with your wedding details. Or get some card stock and print them out from your computer. For music CDs, black CDs are available at a low price and the CD cases as well. Compile your favorite love songs or select songs that will be sued in the wedding ceremony and reception itself then burn them to your CD. If you know how to make candles, you can create candles with a simple design using the basic materials such as wax and wick. You can add scents, or create a special personal mold for them.

For some yummy favors, you can bake cookies, brownies or any pastry for that special homemade taste. You can even make your own cookie cutter so that the cookie shape will be truly unique. You can make a home brew as well if you want to give alcoholic favors or give candied fruits for a sweet take home gift.

It is important to find ways to squeeze your budget so you can either save or use the money you saved on favors for an extra night during your honeymoon. You can save on your wedding favors, and you can also save on other areas of your wedding such as invitations, centerpieces, or even your wedding gown. The key is planning ahead of time so you can source out affordable suppliers, or you can make some of the items personally and cut costs.

If you know you will enjoy making or baking your wedding favors, you will save yourself not just the cost but also the stress in trying to squeeze your budget. You will also feel the added bonus when your guests appreciate your wedding favors because they know that you made them personally. Making your own favors is one of the best wedding ideas for saving money and also providing unique souvenirs for your guests at the same time.

Supermarket Specials – Get Special Wedding Favors at your Local Supermarket

Preparing a wedding takes a lot of time, effort and money to put together. As this is a major and special event, this is also just probably the same time where you would need to get in touch florists, caterers, printing shops and others – suppliers you don’t normally transact and interact with. However, you can put in something familiar with your wedding preparations – how about going to your local supermarket or grocery to find wedding favors? They’re easy, convenient, and as expected, they can be very cheap as well.

With supermarkets piling on stocks, it’s easy to find wedding favors that you can easily purchase instead of being told that it’s out of season, or worse out of your budget. Here are some ideas that you can use as wedding favors, and can easily be bought at your local supermarket.

Lip balm from the cosmetics section of the grocery can be made into a personalized wedding favor by placing label stickers on the lip balm. They are available in certain colors to reflect the flavor variant, so choose one that is the same or complementing your color motif.

There are edible favors that are both yummy and inexpensive. Your top choice would be chocolates. Whether nutty, fruity, chewy or crunchy, chocolates are a sure treat for people of all ages. You can buy some in foil wraps, plastic, boxes or some in trays. Depending on the theme and color motif of your wedding, choose a packaging that is complimentary as well. If you have a floral theme wedding, your best choice would be chocolates in transparent plastic and tied with ribbons or laces in pastel colors. For a renaissance wedding or something with a period theme, buy chocolates in foil wraps to give it that ‘classic look’.

Small packs of coffee are one of the most popular edible favors as well. Choose a brand that your guests will appreciate, so go for the gourmet ones, to make it more special.

Candy pillows are fun to give-away. Buy small packs and tie the together and of course, put your favor labels either through mini cards or hang tags.

In the supermarket, of course there are lots of practical favors available. Soaps, coasters, and specialty pens are available and they are inexpensive and are most probably stocked in your local supermarket. Make them personalized by adding a sticker with print of the wedding details.

In making wedding favors, all you need is just some creativity and a little bit of practicality can go a long way as well. When budgets are stretched thin, it is important to find all means possible to save money yet not lose your style or compromise quality. You can just put on a little ribbon, a little lace and a whole lot of warm and lovely thoughts and you can make your wedding favors truly special for your wedding day.