7 wonderful gestures that will win your guest’s hearts! A fun guide to DIY wedding gifts.
While wedding favours can be a wonderful way to express your love for your guests, it can also become an expensive and time-consuming affair. Given the constraints, you can consider DIY options for close family and friends.
Keeping up with new trends this year, ditch the conventional gifts like fruits, dry fruits and chocolate hampers in favour of some uniquely personal options:
1. Flavoured Edibles:
Choose from a fun and fresh range of edibles for your friends from scratch. You can spice up some honey or sweeten butters with exciting flavours like vanilla, cinnamon and lemon for a signature wedding send off.
Our recommended favourites include chilli garlic butter, thyme infused honey, cinnamon sugar and Bailey’s infused toffee caramels.
Find recipes and inspirations here:
- Making Infused Salts as home-made gifts
- Bailey’s Irish Coffee Caramels
- Herb Infused Honey
- Garlic Herb Butter Recipe
2. Minibar in a Jar
Get the party started with a minibar style favour. Select a range of spirits and place them in a mason jar or quirky wooden chest that is perfect to hand out at the start of the wedding celebrations. This is also a great gift for bachelor parties.
- Here’s a sneak peek at how to build one up: Minibar in a Jar (A Great Gifting Idea)
3. Handmade candles and scents
If you’re feeling particularly indulgent around D-day, along with the colours and themes, pick a wedding scent too! Celebrate the scent in unique ways by creating handmade candles or ittars as giveaways. Essential oils are a great hack for making both products in short time.
4. Pretty Potted Plants
Share love and joy by offering your guests potted plants such as bamboos, herbs or other easy to manage saplings. Our picks include the evergreen money plant, aloe-vera and dracaena. You can choose to personalize the pot by embossing the guest’s names or the wedding date.
- Here’s a delightful wedding album with plants used in wonderfully quirky ways: Nigel and Weiqi’s Succulent Filled DIY Wedding
5. Whimsical wraps
Pack up some delightful tea, coffee or photo frames in stylish, personal packaging. Gift wrap your favours in silk scarves, minimalist brown paper wraps or block printed boxes.
- Design inspirations after your own heart: DIY Wrapping Paper Ideas for Gifts
6. Bath & beyond
Fragrant bath salts and scrubs make a great gifting idea for all. With an array of aromatic, fruity and herbal options, you can pick from a range of DIY options. You can also opt for salts and scrubs paired as his & her sets for your guests.
- Here’s an easy and quick concoction that you can create: Easy Whipped Sugar Scrub
7. Healthy options:
Drop the conventional cookies and mithais and offer your guests healthy indulgences as wedding favours. You can create a signature trail mix, almond butter or granola bars for your guests.
- Here’s our current favourite granola recipe: Maple Almond Cranberry Granola Recipe
