Saving money is on the minds of everyone these days and this can be especially true if you happen to be planing a wedding. There are many ways to save of your wedding day by doing things like borrowing a wedding dress, making your own food and decorations, inviting only a small group of people and so on. Speaking of making things yourself you can prepare your own unique wedding favors to save money and put a really unique stamp on your wedding day.
You could create little decorate your own cookie kit as a wedding favor. This will keep your guests busy as they are sitting at the reception tables. All you need to put together these kits are sugar cookies, small dishes containing icing and sprinkles and colored sugar and utensils to apply the items.
Another fun idea for making your own wedding favors is making personalized key chains to commemorate your big day. You can put you and your spouse’s names and the date of your wedding and place it in the key chain. This can also be done with refrigerator magnets as well as small picture frames.
While we are on the topic of personalized gifts you could make personalized candy wrappers. You can print them from your printed with the same information as the other personalized gift ideas or you could decide on something like “Thank you for joining us on our wedding day.” Cut apart your wrappers and then tape them around mini candies like bite size candy bars. It would be a very cute and unique idea for making your own wedding favors.
You could burn CDs of you are your fiancee’s favorite songs. This would be a homemade wedding favor that your guests could enjoy for a long time to come.
You could get small tins of pails and stamp your wedding date on them and fill them with either candies or mixed nuts.
Giving seed packets as your wedding favors would be a fantastic idea. They would be a very different and unique choice and your guest would remember your wedding year after year as the flowers begin to bloom.
If you are planning on making your own wedding favors you should do plenty of research to make sure that you find the perfect gift to make for your wedding guests. You want to make sure you decide on something that your guests will enjoy for a while after your wedding and not something that will end up getting dusty packed away in a box.
