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Inexpensive Wedding Favors: Inexpensive and Cheap Wedding Favors You Can Make
Like most brides, you're trying to save money and looking for inexpensive wedding favors. Well, why not make your own? For little more than a day's worth of labor, you can make wedding favors for over a hundred guests and for less than $20.
Keep reading for five great wedding favor ideas that will show you how.
Sugared Almonds
Sugared almonds are a very traditional wedding favor that's also much for affordable than expensive votive candles or glass coasters that simply get thrown away. This classic wedding favor is typically given as five Jordan almonds wrapped in tulle and tied with ribbon.
Sugared almonds typically retail for between $7 to $10 per pound. Add a yard or two of tulle at $3 a yard and a spool of ribbon for $2 to $3 and you'll come in under your $20 budget and with enough favors for 100 guests.
Customized Cookies
If you bake and decorate them yourself, you can make a hundred cookies for well under $20. They're edible, enjoyable and totally personal, making them popular and inexpensive wedding favors.
To save yourself from having to bake over a hundred cookies on your wedding day, you can bake them up to three months in advance and store them in your freezer. Take them out on the day of the wedding and you're ready to go.
Bulk Spices
Go to a local bulk food store and pick up a popular spice in bulk. You can buy a pound of oregano for about $7.30 per pound or you can buy a sampling of various herbs and spices and mix them to create your very own “marital blend.”
Wrap the spices in fabric for as little as $1.00 per yard, plus the cost of ribbon.
Labeled Seeds
You can buy many seeds in bulk and then repackage them in small, blank envelopes or your own small, fabric sacks. Include a small note with planting instructions that also thanks your guests for coming and you've got a fantastic favor that will be remembered for years to come.
No Favor at All
The most inexpensive wedding favors are no favors at all. Though contentious, many people are starting to think that wedding favors simply aren't necessary – they're little more than useless knick-knacks that are eventually thrown out, making them a wasteful and unnecessary enterprise.
Consider not having favors at all or make a charitable donation in your guest's name and leave a note on each place setting explaining that a donation has been made in lieu of wedding favors.
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