DIY wedding favours

For creative and inexpensive gifts for your guests, consider DIY wedding favours as an alternative to ready made favour boxes. When planning your wedding, a great way to cut costs while at the same time providing a personal and unique gesture is to create do it DIY wedding favours. These DIY wedding favours for your guests show them how much you appreciate them and give them a memento to keep long after the wedding is over. Remember that in planning your wedding you will have a million and one things to do, plus a lot of expenses, so your DIY wedding favours should be kept as simple as possible. There are many DIY wedding favours ideas that don't require many materials. Some of the most common materials used to make DIY wedding favours include curling ribbon, tulle, hot glue, artificial flowers, potpourri, candy (pastel almonds, foil-wrapped chocolates), and small tins or ivory favour boxes. Traditionally wedding guests have been given small bags of rice to throw at the bride and groom, but in the years since it was discovered that this was unhealthy for birds. Now the tradition has shifted to giving bags of birdseed instead. Birdseed DIY wedding favours parcels can be made with a square of fine-mesh tulle bundled around a small amount (about two tablespoons) of wild bird feed and tied with curling ribbon or satin ribbon. Another popular DIY wedding favours idea is a small bottle of champagne bubbles decorated with curling ribbon and a personalised favour label. A fun, springtime touch can be added by hot-gluing an artificial flower, such as a daisy or a rose, to the lid of the bottle. A DIY wedding favours discussion wouldn't be complete without including everything edible. Sweets of all types can be tied up in loose-mesh tulle with ribbon and a charm to create pretty DIY wedding favours. Sugar-coated almonds have been given since Roman times (traditionally in a package of five) to symbolize the bittersweet commitments of marriage. Other elegant choices that you can put in your DIY wedding favours include pastel mints, foil-wrapped chocolates, heart-shaped candies, and orange or peppermint sticks.