DIY Weddings: How to Create Personalised Wedding Favours

DIY weddings are a great way of keeping costs down. One of the easiest ways to do this is to create personalised wedding favours that guests can enjoy and take home at the end of a long night of dancing.

After perhaps splurging most of your budget on that engagement ring or some gorgeous wedding bands at 77diamonds.com, add a personal touch to your special day and by making some of the items and accessories yourself can save money.

Here are a few ideas for favours you can easily put together yourself in time for the big day:

Bake the Love  
Delicious sugar cookies, baked in the shape of wedding bells or hearts with some sweet, pastel coloured icing, will be well received by guests who can eat them later in the evening after a few drinks. Wrap two in some cellophane with ribbon and pop them on the tables; you could get your bridesmaids and Mum involved with the creation and prep for them and can make them a couple of weeks in advance if they are stored properly afterwards!

DIY Hangover Kit
It’s safe to say your guests (and you) might have sore heads in the morning, which is why this gift isn’t only a great idea but one that people will definitely take with them. Simply pick up some paper bags, decorate them with your and your partner’s initials and fill them with a small bottle of water, an eye mask and a couple of paracetamol carefully snipped out of a strip.

Feed the Birds
If you’re a nature lover give your guests a little gift that encourages them to help their local wildlife too. Birdseed wedding favours are so easy to make, they’re inexpensive and are a nice reminder of the big day afterwards, and you can make them in cute heart shapes too! Here’s a great tutorial on how to make your own, all you need is a heart shaped cookie cutter, birdseed and some gelatin to create these pretty and unusual favours.

Something for the Kids
If you’re having little ones at your big day, then they need favours too! Some edible sweet necklaces, a small colouring-in page and a pack of four crayons is the perfect DIY favour to hand out to small hands. The guys at Something Turquoise have some fun wedding themed colouring pages you can download for free and print off at home to keep the kids occupied.

Go Crackers
If your wedding is taking place near Christmas, you could make your very own crackers and fill them with your favourite sweets or little mementos that are special to you and your partner. You’re going to need a cardboard tube, wrapping paper, some cracker snappers and a hot glue gun. This DIY is a little more fiddly than the previous ones on this list but definitely worth the time and effort – here’s a tutorial to follow to ensure you get your crackers right. 

When it comes to DIY, personalised wedding favours choose something that means something to you and that you can prepare plenty of weeks in advance – no one wants to be manically using a hot glue gun or dealing with glitter the day before they walk down the aisle!