| Personalize Your Wedding With Handmade Favors |
Cathie Filian and Steve Piacenza, cohosts of Creative Juice, toss out a few ideas for creating homemade wedding favors.
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Handmade favors are a thoughtful way to show how much you appreciate your wedding attendees.
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By Cathie Filian and Steve Piacenza
June 30, 2008 — It used to be that wedding guests would collect a party napkin or a few candies to remember the special day. Now, brides and grooms are turning to more personalized and elaborate favors as a way of placing a signature on their day. Handmade wedding favors are a thoughtful way to show how much you appreciate your wedding attendees. You don't need to be super crafty to make these simple and fun creations. All you need is a little time, imagination and a few helpful friends or family members. Some favors, such as the Fore Ever Golf Set, are easily assembled from purchased items. Others, such as the Toast Often Wine Stoppers, are entirely homemade and require more time. Fore Ever Golf Set Fill a small, square box with a little green paper, colorful golf balls and a few tees. Top the box with a monogrammed label that reads "Fore Ever." Personalized Cookies and Recipe Card Share a family recipe with guests by packing the baked cookies with the recipe card. S'mores on a Stick Pierce a large marshmallow with a lollipop stick and dip into melted chocolate, then roll in chopped nuts or sprinkles. Let cool, wrap with a cellophane square and tie with a ribbon. Seashell Candles Fill seashells with microwavable candle wax and mini-wicks to create beach-themed favors. Wrap with a piece of tulle and tie with a ribbon. Lucky in Love Wrap lottery tickets in cellophane and attach a tag that reads "Lucky in Love." Bottled Soak the labels off hot-sauce, jam or honey containers, small bottles of wine or other regional food items. Add your own label using inkjet-printable sticker paper. Hot Cocoa Make a large batch of instant hot cocoa. Fill small, sealable plastic bags with the mix and place in sheer drawstring bags with instructions. Toast Often Wine Stoppers Materials: wine cork
decorative drawer pull
craft drill
screwdriver
decorative metal initial (found in the scrapbooking section of craft stores)
thin wire-edged ribbon
card stock
hole punch
oval punch or scissors Steps:
- Drill a hole in the center top of the cork; make sure the hole is slightly larger than the stem of the drawer pull.
- Use a screwdriver to insert the pull until secure.
- Punch an oval of card stock or cut an oval by hand. Punch the oval with a hole punch at the center top.
- Attach a metal initial backed by the cardstock oval to the wine stopper with either a thin piece of wire ribbon or a scrapbook metal curlicue. Curl the wire-edged ribbon's ends.
(Emmy nominated Cathie Filian and Steve Piacenza cohost Creative Juice. For more information log on to www.cathiefilian.com. Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service.) | Get DIY On Your TV. Just follow the instructions to see if DIY Network is available through your cable or satellite provider. |
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