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Wedding Favors

Make Your Own Wedding Favors

How To Make Basic Wedding Favors

By: Amy K. Spade

Wedding favors are traditionally given to guests as a sign of appreciation for their coming to the wedding.

Many times they have driven or flown from other parts of the country to see the couple, so sending them home with a little something is a good idea.

Do-It-Yourself Wedding Favors

When you’re on a budget, or just have a crafty side, then you may want to create your own wedding favors. Even if you’re not domestically inspired, these are really very easy.

You will first need an idea. For this example, we will be describing how to make little sachets. The great part about these instructions is that you can adapt them to include any sort of filling (chocolates, candles, etc.) into the bag.

You can find great prices on craft items at your local craft store, but online is always a good resource too. Many times, you can buy in bulk when you’re online, so that saves you money in the end.

Determine how many small bags that you need and what color you would like them to be.

Something to consider: if you’re getting bags of a finer material, the picture on the Internet will look darker than it is in real life.

Also online or at your local health food store, you can buy herbs and flowers by the ounce. Consider that one ounce of herbs or flowers is a lot when the item is dried.

This is why it’s best to go to a store in person for your ingredients —lavender, dried roses,and other flowers are best. This way you can see and smell the things that you have chosen.

Find Something Fragrant

If you have smaller bags, you won’t need as much filling, but the larger the bag, the more filling you need.

Easy As Can Be Wedding Favors

All you really have to do is mix up your ingredients and put some into each bag. Many bags will even have drawstring closures so that you can tie them up to look very pretty.

If you’re inspired, you can include a small card about the significance of the herbs that you included — perhaps there’s an old wives’ tale about weddings that is related.

And like I said before, you can always change the ingredients to be something that suits you.

Enlist the help of the bridal party if you have a lot of wedding favors to make!

Amy Spade is an expert on planning weddings.

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