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Favors & Flowers

We have SO much wedding inspiration for floral stuff like bouquets and centerpieces, and also non-floral alternatives like paper flowers and origami boutonnieres… plus oodles of wedding favor inspiration. We’ve got separate categories for floral DIY projects and DIY wedding favors.

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Make custom coffee sleeves with your wedding logo

Do we have any coffee snobs in the house? Or people planning on sending their guests home with a warm cuppa’ for the drive back? You might be inspired by Stephanie and Francis’ custom coffee sleeves.

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Memorialize a loved one after your wedding: leave your wedding bouquet at their grave

Offbeat Brides seem to always be looking for ways to honor deceased friends and family members AND ways to avoid doing the bouquet toss. I love this idea from Amanda W, which combines the two into one beautiful concept: “Rather than a silly bouquet toss, I opted to give my flowers to my grandmother, who passed a few months before our big day.”

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Flora-meets-fauna with antlers in a bouquet

Candy bouquet? Yup. Beaded flowers? Def. Balloon bouquet? Totes. Kale bouquet? Fuck yeah. Antlers… wait whaaaaat?! Oh ho ho yes! Seed to Stem shared this fern-y, woods-y, antler action and we are so down.

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Offer your guests mini perfume vials as favors

Laurel and Michael had some sweet (smelling) favors at their Alice in Wonderland-themed wedding: tiny vials of perfume! They were all labeled with phrases that reflected the theme like “mad hatter,” and “drink me.” Laurel purchased the perfume from Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, which has a whole slew based just on Alice and co themselves.