Budget Saver – Homemade Favors!
Posted on 08. Jul, 2010 by Why White in Budget Saver
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How many times have you left a wedding and dumped your favor in the trash after getting home? Don’t let your wedding favors fall into the same cheesy category. Get creative and make up your own favors which are both meaningful and useful. Ones guests will truly appreciate and remember. Plus, you will be saving some money yourself.
Some of the cheapest and most useable favors are edible. Food is fun, and it’s hard to go wrong with a creative treat!
- Bottled water: Put your engagement picture with your wedding date on bottled water. This is especially a hit if your wedding is on a hot summer day!
- Carmel/candy-covered apples: What’s more tantalizing than carmel-coated apples?! Easy—and fun!—to make. Push a popsicle stick into a apple and roll in hot caramel. Leave apples caramelized, or roll them in graham crackers, sprinkles, your favorite candies, nuts…the list goes on! Gently wrap in cellophane.
- Chocolate covered coffee beans: A coffee connoisseur? Share your love of coffee with your guests. Plus, coffee beans are cheap to purchase.
- Chocolate dipped biscotti: You can bake biscotti a month in advance and freeze until the wedding. Pull them out in time to thaw, wrap them up, or set them out in jars for guests to munch on on their way out.
- Cookie bar: Bake up bunches of your favorite cookie recipes, place in labeled baskets (or jars), and provide guests with their own snack bags to pick three or four cookies to take home. Definite hit! (Hint: To make baking easier, make cookies with similar ingredients, i.e., chocolate chip, oatmeal. Bake ahead of time and freeze.)
- Hugs and kisses candy: Wrap a few hugs and kisses candy and tie with a note saying, “Hugs and kisses from (your names).”
- Rock candy: Easy to make, colorful, and tasty—plus very creative!
- Wedding mints: If you’re making your own mints, wrap several in cellophane with a coordinating ribbon, and place them at each guest’s plate (or hand them out as guests walk into the reception room)
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