Category Archive

Favor DIY

We all know that wedding favors are never required… But if you want to go the DIY favor route, we’ve got lots of unique wedding favor tutorials and DIY ideas below. We’ve also got an archive of non-DIY wedding favor ideas.

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The wedding program with a built-in pocket for confetti (or favours!)

I wanted a cheap one-sheet wedding program that I could print myself, and an non-messy way for the maple leaf ash seeds (helicopter seeds) to be both distributed and contained during the ceremony. I couldn’t find any straight-forward ways of doing it by Googling, so I wasted a couple of hours folding paper and found the solution!

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Make your own eco-friendly DIY seed bomb favors

My wedding is based on eco and environmentally friendly themes so when I found Mademoiselle Chaos Blog on making seed bombs, I thought it would be perfect for our wedding favours. This is our effort into the world of seed bombs.

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Give guests natural, handcrafted mosquito repellent at your late-summer wedding

One thing we don’t get to see in gorgeous outdoor wedding photos are the tiny bugs that might be lurking around the guests and causing itchy mayhem. If you’re lured into those lush forest ceremonies, barbecue and lawn games receptions, and beach blanket parties, check out this tutorial.

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80+ free wedding printables – our humungous list of downloadable DIY wedding projects

There are hidden freebies all over the web: downloadable templates, patterns, fonts, fingerprint trees, and more. I stumble across them all the time while browsing blogs. But now I’m attempting to compile a MEGA-SUPER-MONDO list of all kinds of free printables and downloadable templates for wedding DIY projects.