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Save Money By Creating Your Own DIY Wedding Favors

These days many brides are finding it difficult to stike the right balance between the wedding of their dreams and their monetary resources.  But when it comes to wedding favors, these brides won’t have to compromise at all.  With a little imagination and elbow grease, brides can create wedding favors that will exhibit their unique personality and style while also saving their resources for other parts of the wedding.  Here are some wedding favor ideas:

Idea #1: Seeds Encased in Glassine Envelopes
These eco friendly wedding favors are inexpensive to make and an earth-friendly option that underscores the bridal couple’s concern for the environment.

Materials: Glassine Envelopes, Flower/Plant Seeds, Personalized Wedding Stickers

Instructions: Fill each glassine envelope with a handful of seeds bought at your local supermarket. Seal the envelope with a decorative label printed with your names and wedding date. Lay an envelope at each place setting or all together in a wicker or wooden basket or tray – a great earth-friendly favor for green weddings.

Idea #2:  Car Air Freshener Wedding Favors
Your wedding guests are sure to be in for a sweet aromatic surprise as they enter their cars after the reception. Wish your guests a safe journey home by having the valet hang your aromatic wedding favor from the car’s rearview mirror!

Materials: Sheer Favor Drawstring Pouches, Bridal Hang Tag, Potpourri, Tape

Instructions: Fill a pouch with your favorite potpourri. Pull the drawstrings tight to secure the aromatic contents. Around the neck of the pouch, tie a personalized Bridal Hang Tag to thank your guest for their presence and to wish them a safe journey home.  Request the valet driver to attach the air freshner to the back of the rearview mirror with a piece of adhesive tape.  What a creative and practical wedding favor idea!

Idea #3: A Perfect Pear Wedding Favor
Juicy pears make delicious wedding favors! Either displayed in the center of a guest’s table setting or as a batch in a large crate at a central table, pears are a festive nod to the holiday season!

Materials:  Personalized Ribbons, Anjou Pears, Clear food wrap

Instructions: Wrap each pear with clear cellophane. You can also use colored cellophane to give a hint of the season or holiday in which your wedding will take place. Tie each package with a satin ribbon printed with your names and wedding date.  Chocolate-brown is a good color ribbon to use because it will give a beautiful contrast against the green-colored pear. (AJG080109-AMA)

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