How to Make Creative and Cheap Wedding Favors
Finding the perfect favor to give to your wedding guests can be expensive and time consuming. It can easily be stressful when handling this task on your own. Your wedding day shouldn't be demanding. It only takes a few items to really set the mood at your wedding. I will show you how to make simple favors that you can use at any wedding.
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Things You'll Need
- White Favor boxes
- Labels for Names, or Labels for Your Initials
- Ribbon in the Choice of Your Wedding Colors
- Tulle Favor Wraps
- Candy That Matches Your Color or This Ingredient List to Make Hard Tac Candy (Which is What I used):
- 1 ½ cup sugar
- ¼ cup water
- ½ cup white Karo
- food coloring (Matches Your Wedding Colors)
- OILS for Flavors
Instructions
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First, you will need to choose favor boxes. You can find them at the Dollar Tree. These are perfect because they are inexpensive wedding favors. Any favor box will do just fine though.
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Ok, Now you will need to buy tulle that you will wrap around your candy. You can use Tulle that you already have, or your local craft section will have these already cut out into circle for you. Make sure that you have plenty of it to work with, especially if you have a lot of favors to make.
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Now you will need to pick a ribbon color. I chose Orange and Blue for my wedding, so I alternated Orange and Blue Ribbon with the Hard Tack Candy colors. You will need to pull off enough ribbon to tie a decent size bow onto the candy wrapped in Tulle. Make sure you have plenty of it on hand. Hard Tac candy is a great alternative to making discount wedding favors that are unique.
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You can use any candy choice that you prefer, especially if you can find a great color choice that matches your wedding. However, making these Hard Tack Candy favors will show your guests that you took the time to make these. You can use food coloring to match the flavor oils that you use. You can buy these oils almost anywhere: Wal-Mart, Michael's, AC Moore, Etc. Make sure that you personalize your wedding favors for an extra special touch.
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I included a great recipe for Hard Tack Candy in the Resources under this article. You can find this recipe anywhere on the internet, but make sure you are using Oils instead of Flavorings. This is another project that you can be creative with as well. You can attach name tags with ribbon, you can use sticker tags, you can add embellishments. These will look like you paid a lot of money, but yet they are simple, elegant, and cheap wedding favors!
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Tips & Warnings
Making the Candy can be messy.
Have a friend or relative help you.
If you want to make chocolate wedding favors, you should make sure that you keep them cool before the wedding, and not sitting inside a hot car all day!
