Homemade Wedding Favors: A Time-Honored Tradition


The tradition of giving gifts to wedding guests at a couples wedding is a very old one. In centuries past and in many cultures, it was believed that the bride and groom were good luck and everything they touched was charmed or blessed. By bestowing homemade wedding favors to their guests, the newly married couple would be passing on good luck to their wedding guests for the rest of the year.

Before the advent of mass-produced items, all wedding favors were handmade. Brides of old would distribute their good luck by crocheting small bags and stiffening them in order to place sweet confections, nuts, and fruit into wedding favors. Five Jordan almonds, that symbolized health, happiness, wealth, long life and fertility for the wedded couple, were gathered into beautiful fabric bags and given as homemade wedding favors to the bride and grooms wedding guests.

Wonderful Homemade Wedding Favors

Couples in the 21st Century are opting to keep the tradition of homemade wedding favors alive by making their own one-of-a-kind creations. Wedding favors can be fashioned from a variety of materials and goods that would accent any wedding theme and dcor. Tulle fabric used in wedding apparel can be made to carry cookies, candies, nuts and fruit. These elegant bags can be cinched with a colored ribbon to match the bride and grooms color scheme. Although companies specializing in wedding accessories make tulle rounds, the money conscious bride and groom can make these sophisticated homemade wedding favors at a fraction of the cost.

If the bride and groom are planning a seasonal wedding, wedding favors can be made that correspond to the time of year chosen for their nuptials. A few ideas for homemade wedding favors for a summer beach wedding are a seashell picture refrigerator magnet with an insert of the bride and groom, homemade cookies made from beach theme cookies cutters such as sailboats, fish and seashells, and chocolates placed in mini tin beach pails. Many of the needed items such as cookie cutters, mini beach pails, and refrigerator magnets can be purchased at numerous craft stores.

A wedding planned around the Christmas holiday can include homemade wedding favors fashioned into gifts boxes topped with berries. The contents of the box can include sweet homemade confections or individually wrapped white and red peppermint candies. Unique wedding favors can be made with scented pinecones beautifully displayed in transparent plastic carry boxes that would accent any winter wedding. A unique idea for homemade wedding favors for a spring wedding would be personally decorated birdhouses containing small marshmallow birds. Designs for wedding favors that encompass a seasonal theme are virtually endless. The only limits to homemade wedding favors are those placed on them by the imagination.

Homemade wedding favors are an old, time-honored tradition. Making one-of-a-kind creations to be given to wedding guests adds a truly personal touch to the day a couple says those immortal words I Do.