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wedding favors

This is our collection of posts all about unique wedding favors — including tons of DIY wedding favors and cheap wedding favors. (Oh and a few posts discussing if you even need to do wedding favors at all!) You may also want to check out the unique wedding favors in our Vendor Guide.

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How to make your own bad-ass magnetic bottle cap wedding favors

I’d seen bottle cap magnets on craft sites before and was interested in playing with craft resin so I put the two together and voila: nifty home crafted wedding favors! Once you have your random (but of course self-representing) bits and bobs to cast in resin –anything that fits in a bottle cap works great — have fun making these personalized bottle cap magnets.

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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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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.

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Give your “perfect match” favors a new spin with fancy jars

Tim and Amy celebrated their own perfect match by giving out these jarred matches with custom labels as favors. I realize that matchbooks aren’t totally new favor territory, but you have to admit these look pretty snazzy and very “take home and display”-worthy.