Category — favors

Cooking is a favorite hobby for so many of us and because your wedding should reflect your personality, it’s easy to bring in your hobbies to your favors!

I love these recipe card favors - you could DIY with recipes for your favorite dishes or a course you are incorporating into your reception menu.

 
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A fellow blogger posted this resource on her site last year and I’ve used repeatedly for idea inspiration.  These would all make great escort cards, guest book entries, or favors.

Lee Valley Tools

Enjoy!

A.

Beautiful and easy to do yourself (thanks to Martha’s great DIY instructions found here), teacup candles make great favors for your wedding, shower, or bridesmaids’ luncheon.

Infuse them with your favorite scent and use teacups from the flea market, the antique shop, or bargain buys!

E.

Calling all Crafty and Creative Brides

I love thinking up fun and inventive ways to spruce up your wedding, make it fun for guests, and keep it affordable. I randomly had this DIY inspiration about how to handle the tricky task of assigning seats for your single guests. It’s hard enough to seat couples and family, but single friends can be trickier as you don’t want them to feel left out and you don’t want them to be seated as the lowly single among a table of parents and children. This may be a bit quirky and offbeat, but I think it would be fun and adventurous if you have open minded single friends

For this quick and easy project, purchase two birdhouses either on a stand or the kind you can hang. On a skinny roll of paper, write table numbers and seating numbers in a random order. Use one birdhouse for the guys and the other, for the ladies. Place the roll inside with a portion hanging out. Let your single friends know ahead of time that seating will be determined the wedding day and have an obvious sign to direct them. Then, let the intermingling and fun begin! That wasn’t too hard, right? After the wedding, you can use the birdhouses in your backyard and create a nice haven for the birds which ties in with the weddingregionalism theme of this week and a lasting memory of your big day. I’m all about dual purpose ideas!

Crafty project #2 will make a tree hugger out of all your guests and you and your hubby.

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Loyal reader Stephanie emailed to ask if we had any ideas for gardening-related favors.  This was fun to research because I love the idea!

Small potted plants are inexpensive, gorgeous favors that can also double as place cards or escort cards.  If you have the time and the talent, why not grow these yourself for the absolute personal touch?

Clockwise from top left: {frolic!}, Brides, Martha Stewart, the Knot

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My fiancé and I are getting married in early August, and we have definite priorities when it comes to spending our wedding budget.  Certain things are important - the ceremony and reception locations, getting the right officiant, serving great food; certain things are not – having a DJ or a wedding band, having an elaborate cake, flying in exotic flowers from halfway around the world.  The bottom line:  we want a classy, elegant, fun, easygoing, unpretentious evening that our guests will remember more as a truly outstanding party than as a traditional “wedding.”

That said, we have been searching for inexpensive, but useful, favor ideas.  My mom and I may have just stumbled upon the ideal combination:  simple and elegant flower-topped favor boxes (based on a Martha Stewart tip) that require only simple prep work and, when grouped together on each table, can double as an additional centerpiece.  Anything that gets the job done, and even gives us more bang for our decorating buck, is a welcome find!

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What better way to tell your maids how much you love them than by giving them some eco friendly gifts?

Eco Friendly Bag (to carry all the lovely stuff to and from the wedding)
Emergen-C (so they don’t get sick before your big day)
Soy Candles from Zionsville (so they can relax in the hotel room)
Gift Card to Whole Foods (so they can eat healthy)
Subscription to Dwell Magazine (um, it’s pretty?)

Our next bride in need is Jessica who is planning a very intimate wedding in a small Swiss village. Her colors are teal, gold and white. The wedding will be held at Le Vieux Manoir and the reception at Maison Vallier.

Image Credits: Art.com, Flickr, Studio Stems, Pronovias, Impressionen, Forever21, Catrocks, Brides.com

As you can see, she’s picked a fabulous color scheme.  It fits the venue perfectly!

Most of Jessica’s budget is going towards the food and so she’s doing a lot of DIY.  She’s already completed her menus and invitations.  I found a few great ideas for favors and escort cards.

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I recently came across a fun blog, Little Miss Planner, created by a recent bride who had some wonderful DIY projects that she’s letting us share with all of you today.  The best thing about these?  They are all elegant and simple, yet cost very little to make and are not difficult to undertake.  If this sounds like your kind of DIY, read on!

Loving the DIY newsletter for the out of town bags (made using only MS Word)!

Instructions and more pictures here

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Have you seen Miss Penguin’s favors on Wedding Bee? Wow! Love them.