Has anyone made there own wedding favors?

Question

was it hard? would you recommend it? me and my fiance want to save money to buy a house so i'm trying to cut down on the wedding cost?

Answer 1

We're having little glass Tiffany boxes filled with milk chocolate. We're buying the boxes and then buying the chocolate at this local place that has REALLY good chocolate. All we have to do is put the chocolate in the boxes, it can't be that hard. The boxes all together were VERY expensive though, so if your trying to cut on cost, you could use another thing as a box. There's about 200 people coming to our wedding, so all together for the boxes alone it was $13,000. 65x200. Don't recommend it.

Answer 2

You can go to a hobby shop and buy the cute little boxes that look like miniature Chinese take-out boxes (or buy them online)... fill them with hard candy, or chocolates, or exotic nuts. Then buy shear ribbon in your wedding colors and tie a pretty bow to keep the handles fastened together. It's easy and VERY cheap!!!

We got on-line and purchased mini hershey's bars with our wedding information printed on the wrappers and put those in the boxes. It was a huge hit!!!!  CONGRATS!!!

Answer 3

when my fiances cousin get married, the bride and mother and some other close family members dipped plastic spoons in chocolate --flavors like hazelnut and things of that sort so the guests could stir it in with their coffee.  They wrapped them in nice cellophane and ribbon, people seemed to like them since there were a lot of coffee drinkers.

Answer 4

it wasn't hard but we waited until the last week to do them and nerves were getting the better of every1!

Answer 5

I went to a wedding where they bought shot glasses and put a little love heart sticker on them, and wrapped mini musk lollies in tulle to put inside the shot glasses for the men, and they bought purses for the girls (just cheap toy ones) and put wrapped chocolate inside them.

I was going to buy heaps of wrapped love heart chocolates, wrap them in tulle, and put in wine glasses for my guests, then i was going to get wine charms and put all the guests names (in beads) around the stem of the glass, which would get rid of the name tag and favour in one hit.

Answer 6

We're making ours, chocolates in boxes with ribbon.  Another alternative are hershey kisses in tulle bags.

Answer 7

I'm trying to cut down on costs too.  I've kind of gone middle of the road with the 'making my own' wedding favours.  

I ordered a bunch of chandelier prisms from E-bay, looped a ribbon in my wedding colours through them and added a hand made gift card thanking my guests for attending.

I like this seller myself:

http://stores.ebay.ca/Same-S-H-Canada-US...

For my girl-friend's wedding we wrapped a Hershey Hug and Kiss in tulle and added a note that read ';Hugs and Kisses from the Mister and Missus'.  

Answer 8

Actually, my FMIL and her mom made ours.  We had bags printed with our names and a thank you note to our guests.  We filled them with wedding kuchen, a German tradition.  Our guests loved them.  If you (or a family member) has a famous recipie, see if they'll make it for you and maybe give up the recipie to include.  I would have done that, but gramma's recipies are "A little of dis, some of dat, bake til dey are done."

OR you can skip favors all together.  People don't expect them and certainly don't miss them if they're omitted.

Answer 9

I made mine it is not hard at all. I bought tiny champagne glasses filled them with candied covered almonds. I used tulle to wrap them up and ribbon to tie the tops. I had a printer make little tags with our names and wedding dates, I'm sure you could do that on the computer. The best wedding favor I ever got was at my cousin's wedding. They burned cd's with their favorite songs. They laser scribed the discs and came up with a really nice cover for  inside the case.