Create Your Own DIY Wedding Favors!

Learn a little about wedding favors first,then scroll to the bottom of this page to see step-by-step DIY projects.

Ah, the ever delightful wedding favors. Why do we give little tokens of appreciation to the guests at weddings when the wedding is supposed to be completely about your groom and you? Shouldn’t your guests be giving you gifts? Like many wedding day traditions, this one starts hundreds of years ago.

The History of Wedding Favors

These mini gifts gets their start back in Europe a couple hundred years ago. In well-to-do aristocratic events, it was fashionable to gift guests with small decorative boxes made out of precious or semi precious materials. These little boxes housed sweet treats such as bon bons or sugar cubes. At the time, sugar was expensive and highly prized. Eventually, sugar became more affordable, and your every day bride and groom of the time was able to adopt the fancy custom of giving guests sweet treats. Sometime later, almonds became a popular gift, and sometime after that, candy coated almonds took their place. This practice is still alive today in the form of Jordan almonds, a still popular wedding treat. Traditionally, the bride would give each guest five pieces of candy wrapped in pretty cloth.

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The five pieces of candy were to represent the common wedding day wishes from guests to bride and groom. These are fertility, longevity, wealth, health and happiness. Now because the wedding was considered to be a very lucky occasion, brides and grooms felt that giving their guests a gift on their special day was like transferring their wonderful luck to their guests.

Wedding Favors Today

Today you can find no shortage of different wedding day gifts available. Go to any internet search engine and you will be looking for quite some time! There are tons available by color, theme, price, and so on. Many available today are also reasonably priced. But if you find that store bought favors still are just not right for your wedding, don’t worry. There are tons of creative, hand made ideas out there. Many of them right here!

DIY Projects - How to Make DIY Wedding Favors Yourself!

In this section, you’ll find all manner of diy wedding favor projects to gift your guests with. From edible treats to timeless keepsakes, these projects are bound to give you some ideas. Before you run out and invest in tons of supplies for your upcoming crafts, be sure to look at the projects and decide if creating all of your favors is something within your skill level and comfort zone. Try a few out in advance to make sure. And as always, have fun!

Hershey Kiss Rose Favor

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