DIY Wedding Favours

Today we are very lucky to have a post by the lovely Chloe Adlington from Love Making It (soon to relaunch as Adore by Chloe - what a gorgeous new logo eh!) who provides some fab ideas for DIY Wedding Favours. Enjoy.......

DIY wedding favours

Wedding favours are small gifts from the bride and groom to show their appreciation to their guests. There are so many creative options out there and doing-it-yourself not only makes them more personal but can also be more cost effective, sorry sugared almonds!

My first suggestion would work well for ‘natural’ or ‘rustic’ wedding styles and were really simple to make, here’s what I used:

The mini buckets are from Hobbycraft [www.hobbycraft.co.uk] and the flags and ‘Love Bloom’s stickers were both printed onto self-adhesive address labels beforehand to make the assembly really easy:

Next up is homemade jam… perfect for an ‘autumn wedding’ or ‘country fete’ theme. You can even be creative with the type of jam you make; the BBC Good Food website [www.bbcgoodfood.com] has some great recipes.

Again my label was made using self-adhesive address labels but you can buy ready made jam jar labels and fabric lid covers like this one from Hobbycraft:

I’ve saved my favourite idea until last… a cup of tea makes any situation better in my eyes! These tea bag favours are lovely for a ‘vintage tea party’ theme or an ‘English afternoon tea’ party.

To make you’ll need tea bags with strings, small clear treat bags (available from Hobbycraft), some patterned paper that matches your theme and pre-made labels:

These were the quickest to make as you simply glue a small piece of folded paper over the teabag string label, pop the tea bag in the treat bag and glue a larger piece of folded card to secure the top:

So there you have it, three lovely DIY wedding favours that would be easy to make in large quantities!

….I tried but I can’t end without sharing this idea of Scrabble tile fridge magnets that I found on Project Wedding too, so cute:

Here’s the link for the tutorial: http://www.projectwedding.com/wedding-ideas/diy-wedding-challenge-2010-scrabble-magnet-favors

Thanks for reading, you can find my blog at www.lovemakingit.co.uk which features more ideas for creative homes and DIY weddings, come along and say hello!

Chloe x

This post has been provided by Chloe Adlington of Love Making It - soon to be Adore by Chloe 

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