Homemade bridal shower favors are a great idea to create a special “Thank You” to those who attend your bridal shower. Many times bridal shower favors are trinkets that aren’t used, but here are three great ideas to make your own bridal shower favors that your guests will love. These DIY bridal shower favors are easy to make and won’t break the budget for your bridal shower. Plus, guests always appreciate the personal touch of homemade bridal shower favors.
Homemade Bridal Shower Favor #1: Wine Charms
Wine glass charms are a very easy-to-make homemade bridal shower favor. They are placed around the stem of a wine glass and used to identify each person’s wine glass when having a party. Plus, wine charms are a DIY bridal shower favor that most guests will use. All you need to make this bridal shower favor are metal hoop earring findings, a selection of beads, and needle nose pliars.
Metal hoop earring findings are available at many bead/jewelry-making stores as well as online. You can get them in silver and gold colors. Try to find the ¾ inch hoops, although 1 inch hoops will work as well. Beads can be found in many colors so you can match your wine charm favors to your wedding colors. You can also find novelty beads or charms for your favors that can match the theme of your bridal shower. Just remember to make each wine charm in a set slightly different, so that when they are used, people can easily spot their own wine glass.
To make your own wine charm bridal favors, simply string one or more beads onto the hoop earring, and make a crimp in the end for securing through the end of the earring with the hole in it. Make a set of four, six or eight for each bridal shower guest. To package, simply place in jewelry boxes, miniature gift bags, or skip the packaging and tie together with small pretty ribbon. If you have a larger budget for your bridal shower favors, you could attach the wine charm favors to a bottle of wine. Add a cute thank-you note such as “Wine charms: A thank-you favor from the bride for a charming guest”.
Sources for Wine Charm Bridal Shower Favors:
Metal Hoop Earring Findings: Jewlerysupply.com (around $2.00 for 10 dozen)
Beads: Widely available at craft and bead stores or Jewelerysupply.com also has beads for one-stop online shopping.
Homemade Bridal Shower Favor #2: Body Scrub
Another great idea for a DIY bridal shower favor is to make your own body scrub for guests. Everyone loves bath products, and this homemade bridal shower favor is very easy and inexpensive to make. There are numerous recipes for body scrub on the internet, but here is one homemade body scrub recipe that smells like tropical coconuts, and it makes a pure white scrub that looks like cake frosting. Also because it is white, you can add food or soap coloring to match any color scheme you choose.
Homemade Body Scrub Recipe:
½ C. Salt (fine sea salt preferred)
¼ C. White sugar
2 Tbsp Suave Tropical Coconut Shampoo
1/4 C. Suave Tropical Coconut Conditioner
2 Tbsp Virgin Coconut Oil (available at natural food stores and some grocery stores in the cooking oil section)
Mix all ingredients together in a bowl. This recipe makes enough for one 8-10 oz jar. Scale up the recipe to make enough bridal shower favors for the number of guests you have. Also look out for coupons that are often offered for Suave products to reduce your cost for these DIY bridal shower favors. For packaging your homemade body scrub, specialitybottle.com offers a good selection of jars at less than 50 cents per jar. Add a label and a note such as “A thank you gift from my shower to yours”, and you have a DIY bridal shower favor that everyone will love.
Homemade Bridal Shower Favor #3: Spice Mix
Mix up a homemade spice mix for fun DIY bridal shower favors. Try to think of something you cook that is your specialty, or a spice mix from your region of the country. Some ideas include a Cajun mix, chili spice mix, or rib rub. These spice mixes are also great homemade bridal shower favors if you have a mixed-gender bridal shower. You can find recipes for various spice mixes on the internet.
Here is one recipe for a great rib rub:
¼ C. Black Pepper
¼ C. White Pepper
2 Tbsp Cayenne Pepper
1/3 C. Cumin
2/3 C. Paprika
½ C. Salt
This makes about 2 cups. Package up in ¼ to 1/3 C. portions for each bridal shower guest. Make sure to indicate on your bridal shower favors how to use the mix (in the recipe above, use 1 Tablespoon of the mix for 2 pounds of beef or pork ribs). For a special touch attach a complete recipe for using your spice mix favor and a note such as “Thanks for spicing up my bridal shower.” You can get small tins perfect for packaging your spice mix bridal shower favors at specialtybottle.com.
These three ideas for homemade bridal shower favors are great favors that people will actually use and appreciate since you made them yourself!
