Boxes for Wedding Favors and
How to Make Your Own

One of the most popular wedding favor ideas is to fill little boxes for wedding favors with nuts or candies like mints or M&Ms. And since small favor boxes come in a variety of sizes, shapes and colors, they're easy to fill with and easy to decorate and coordinate with your wedding theme.

Different Styles of Boxes for Wedding Favors

You can go with a simple square, which is great for cupcake wedding favors, or a pillow box to arrange some nuts and wedding favor candy inside of, triangular shapes make great wedding cake favor boxes and Chinese take-out boxes are handy for giving small plants or an assortment of cookies.

There are even favor boxes that look like little chairs and can double as place card holders at the guests' tables.

Different Colors and Themes

The wedding favor industry has come a long way in adding to the colors and themes of retail wedding favor selections. This makes it a lot easier to find exactly what you're looking for, even with themes and colors.

And if you're starting out with white boxes, they can be decorated in colors that coordinate with your theme as well.

But if you're looking for some wedding favor ideas that are even more unique, and you're a pretty handy person as far as crafting, why not make your own custom boxes for wedding favors so they'll be one-of-a-kind.

Make Your Own Boxes for Wedding Favors

It's actually pretty easy; just follow these simple steps and you can start off with a white box that you can embellish with ribbons or decals, or you can go to an arts and crafts supply store and buy card stock in a variety of colors and themes.

1. Find a box that's the right shape and size.


2. Open the box up to see what size it is when opened and flattened out.


3. Get some white card stock - or the color of your wedding theme - and trace the box on the card stock, being sure to write only the side of the cardstock that will be on the inside of the box. If you do this with pencil, you can erase the lines before you fold and glue the box together.


4. Mark up your homemade box templates with where they need to be folded and cut; use a solid line to indicate cutting and a dotted line to indicate folding.


5. Score the folds so they're easier to work with and it'll give you a neater looking crease and fold.


6. Glue or use double stick tape to secure the box sides together.


7. Optional: If you've started with a white box but you're going to use a decorative paper on it, you can glue the paper on the box before you actually assemble and glue it together so it looks nicer.


8. After your boxes for wedding favors are assembled, place a piece of tissue paper in the bottom then add your goodies to the inside - cookies, candies, nuts or mints.


9. Close the lid on the boxes and tie decorative ribbon around them or even wrap them in nice white tulle or organza then secure them with a ribbon.

For cupcakes or wedding cake favors, obviously you won't be filling the boxes ahead of time, so make sure you keep your boxes stored neatly for the day of the wedding.

And finally top off your boxes for wedding favors by adding custom laminated bookmarks to the favors, especially if you're giving edible favors to your guests.

If any of your guests are unable to eat the favors, for whatever reason, or even after they've eaten the favors, they'll still have beautifully customized wedding favor bookmarks to take home as a memento of the event.

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