You’re not alone! There’s a lot of brides out there that are on a very tight budget too. Creating your own wedding favors from scratch does not imply that they won’t be as nice as store-bought favors. To the contrary, custom made wedding favors are fun and quirky. That is, of course, if you develop a plan and follow it through. If it’s not a feasible plan, than you may not be able to handle the task on your own.
The first thing that you’ll want is gift sachets for all of your guests. The supplies that you’ll need for these sachets are a roll of white fabric mesh and a large roll of silver curling ribbon. Now that you have the material for the gift bag itself, you’ll want to fill the sachet. At your local gift shop you can purchase flavored mints or flavored jelly beans in bulk. Make sure that you have enough for all of your sachets. If you have 150 guests, you’ll need at least 150 sachets. One for every place setting.
Now that you’ve purchased your materials and goodies you can start making your wedding favors. Cut the mesh approximately five inches in length (you’ll be folding it in half and filling it with your candies). Put your candies into the mesh, twist it, and tie it with the silver ribbon. Once you’ve finished filling all of wedding favor gift sachets, you can curl the loose ribbons with a scissor.
In addition to the wedding favor sachets, you can purchase small containers in bulk for bubbles. If you purchase 2 extra large containers of bubbles, it should be enough to fill the small containers. Remember, this all depends on the size of your wedding. If you are expecting an enormous amount of people this may not be feasible. Instead, you could always use extra mesh and fill it with rice.
While table top decorations may not seem like wedding favors--they can easily become favors at the end of the night. Take for instance the idea of glass vases fill with water, colored marbles, and a multi-colored fish. It’s a fairly inexpensive idea, as one vase can be used per table. At the end of the night, the children can decide which fish they’d like to take home with them. Nevertheless, they add a touch of elegance and tranquility to the atmosphere all evening long.
As you can see, you can come up with a lot of great ideas that are fairly inexpensive. All you need is time and creativity. Today, wedding favors are used to express a warm “thank you?to the guests that joined together to share your special day. Whatever it is that you decide to use for wedding favors, your “thank you?will be expressed with sweet sentiments.
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