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Clever or Interesting Wedding Favors (DIY)

What was the MOST CLEVER or INTERESTING wedding favor that you've seen / given / received?

Is there one that REALLY STICKS OUT in your mind?

Looking for interesting or unusual ideas that aren't run-of-the-mill, and that I can make myself.

Yes, I'm making a lot of my wedding stuff. I enjoy it, and I'll have a good bit of help.

Thanks for any ideas!

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Thank you all for the multitude of ideas...

I'm trying to sort of combine the favor with the name card or item that will lead people to their seats... I have a couple ideas, but I am trying to make them one and the same, so as to eliminate one.

Of the ideas listed, there are a couple I really like... I, too, like the cutting board idea. This is definitely something useful, and my fiance can make them... so that's a plus. They just seem to be a lot of work, so not sure on that one, but love the idea. I also LOVE the idea of the photos of the names in the sand in a little frame. What a great idea for a beach wedding. That doesn't really fit with our theme (nor do we live anywhere near a beach) but a really cool idea. My cousin went to the beach a few years ago, and sent me a picture of my son's name that she had written in the sand, and I still have that pic saved in my phone. I love it.

Anyhow, thanks again for all the ideas!

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One wedding I went to had lottery tickets as the favor! It was so cute and clever! They are only a dollar a piece and they were at every one's place setting. People scratched them off immediately and only took home the winners. It was fun and exciting and the clean up crew took care of the extras! This was after my wedding or I totally would have stolen this idea too!

You could also do personalized M&Ms, they aren't homemade, but they're cute and fun. I thought the spoonful of hugs and kisses was cute too. Best Wishes!

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Small potted herbs in white ceramic mugs (the kind you'd get in a 99 cent store). Not only were they pretty on the table, they were also a gift that kept giving, we used that basil for a few months.

The couple also incorporated the herb theme in their placecards which had some leaves or flowers or something printed on them.

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I like the cutting board idea the best!!!

I made truffles & truffle stuffed figs (both super easy, just time consuming. About $100 worth of schtuff yields about 500 truffles & 100 truffle stuffed figs... I look at boxes of 4 figs for $20 an snicker up my sleeve). ((Trick on summertime and chocolate... and chocolate in general... make the truffles and figs and keep them in ziplock bags in the freezer. Then box them at will, and put in a BIG ziplock bag, like for sleeping bags, and keep frozen until day of))

If it had been a wintertime wedding I would have done blown glass tree ornaments.

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My favorite wedding favors were little scrolls that read "in lieu of a traditional favor, we have made a donation to [insert charity here] in honor of [insert name here]." We liked it so much that it's what we did for our wedding, and we donated to the American Cancer Society in memory of my husband's late mother and all of our loved ones who have been affected by cancer.

I don't remember any of the trinkety favors from any other wedding.

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Cutting boards. My SIL bought some nice wood and had my hubby cut them into rectangles and used his router to make rounded edges. And then we all sat in the garage and sanded them. We used food safe mineral oil to make them look pretty. They were used as part of the center pieces. There was bread, cheese and champagne grapes out on them for the tables. Pretty and everyone could snack while waiting for the food. Towards the end, the wait staff collected them and cleaned them up a bit. At the end of the night they were passed out at you left. Seven years later and I still use that cutting board. The only thing my SIL wished she did was burn the date or their names on something on the back as a reminder.

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You know what I'm doing? I found bottle openers in the form of an actual key with a heart shape at the top... 'the key to my heart'... yeah, my friends will DEFIANTELY use them!! To personalize, I'm cutting little circles out and stamping our initials on it, them putting our wedding date on the other side. For the kiddos, I'm literally making goody bags with candy and bubbles ;) Like you, we're only having about 50 people, 10 of which are kids!!

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One wedding I went to had lottery tickets as the favor! It was so cute and clever! They are only a dollar a piece and they were at every one's place setting. People scratched them off immediately and only took home the winners. It was fun and exciting and the clean up crew took care of the extras! This was after my wedding or I totally would have stolen this idea too!

You could also do personalized M&Ms, they aren't homemade, but they're cute and fun. I thought the spoonful of hugs and kisses was cute too. Best Wishes!

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I had a very nice wedding and I had to cut corners to make everything inexpensive...because the place I picked was very expensive. So here is what I did for favors:

Plastic spoon (pink)
White Tulle
Black Ribbon
Hersheys Hugs and Hersheys Kisses
(My colors were black, white and pale pink)

We put a hug and a kiss on the spoon, wrapped it in tulle, tied it up with a black ribbon. Then we attached a little card that read "A spoonful of kisses from the Mr and Mrs" Then I think we added our names and the wedding date or something. It was real cute, easy and cheap!

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We had kaleidoscopes (simple tube ones) as favors. We bought them, but I am sure you could make them too. Kids who were there seemed to enjoy them and MANY grown-ups took the extras home, so they must have liked them too. : ) It was fun.

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I don't think I did a wedding favor....unless the little bottles of bubbles that were given to them as they left the church counted? I had purchased the little white bottles from Oriental Trading Co. and tied pink and grey ribbon around each one and then when we arrived at the Reception everyone blew bubbles :) I also gave away the centerpieces of mason jars/flowers that were placed all over the barn. We did have disposable cameras all over the place and got some really great pictures! While we were away on our honeymoon my mom had them all developed and put together a photo album for us and gave it to us on our return. It was so much fun to see some of the stuff we missed!
I have been to a lot of weddings and cannot remember for the life of me what kind of favors we were given....
**edit** I just checked with my sis and she had gotten tulle (I think) and tied up pink/silver hershey kisses in them and left them all over for our guests.

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You know, I hate to be a sourpuss, but for me, really none of them are memorable. As I am writing this I can only think of one...a "love songs" CD with a photo of the couple, reclined and looking all romantic. I guess that one I remember because it was corny to me and, I mean really, was I expected to listen to the CD on a regular basis?

What I have found and actually, I appreciate, is that more and more weddings have no favors at all! I always feel sort of guilty when I find myself at a wedding and feel the urge to either ignore the favor completely or take it home and stash it somewhere for years, feeling again guilty if I toss it. I feel so guilt-less when I just don't even have to think about it.

A great ceremony, lovely exchanging of words, seeing a beautiful bride and groom, decent food, and great dancing is more than enough for me, really. My favorite part of weddings for me is always that moment when the bride and groom see each other for the first time -- always brings a little tear! I just love that. I feel favors are just not necessary.

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