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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 “Yay!” celebratory flags

I made these “Yay” flags for our wedding, intending for people to wave them for us as we walked away after the ceremony. They ended up being such an integral part of the evening, with everyone waving and shouting “YAY” every time we walked by! And since I added our names and the date to the back of them, they also served as the only favor we had for our guests. It is a quick and easy project — I hope you enjoy it!

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Wedding pins and buttons personalize the heck out of your wedding day

Reenie (of comic book style wedding invite fame) mentioned that she’s DIYing the boutenniers for the guys and has accented them with nerdy pins. And it struck me that pins are definitely becoming a full on offbeat trend. Here are ways to use pins as fun wedding accents.

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Fabric fortune cookie favors

Brassy Apple’s tutorial is simple yet will have the “oohh” impact. The look could vary based on your theme and your fabric, and who says you can’t jazz it up with some felt, ribbon or silly pom poms?!?! Dare I say, bedazzle it! To get step-by-step instructions for how to make these fabric fortune cookie […]

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Dice wedding favor: the ultimate gamer favors!

Offbeat Bride reader Julia-Gulia and her future husband are big gamer geeks. So when it came time to come up with wedding favors, they thought, “What better favor for our gamer geek wedding than personalized custom wedding dice?”