As a young bride getting married for the first time, busy running around planning the wedding details and trying to get as much done in that short amount of time as possible, you might tend to underestimate the importance of giving wedding favors to your guests. And who could blame you? With all the craziness of rushing here and there trying to get all the details of your wedding perfect, you might not have the time to sit and put a lot of thought into what wedding favors would be most appropriate for your guests.

That is why you should start early. Because you need to keep in mind that sometimes you might not be able to find exactly the kind of wedding favor you want and are most likely going to have to make them yourself if you want to get it just right. Making your own wedding favors is a great idea and if possible you should go for that option because it adds a more personal touch to the gift. Or perhaps you might have been thinking about making the wedding favors yourself but you were worried that you might not have the time to do so.

Either way, wedding favors to make on your own are going to require time and effort, which is why you should begin as early as possible. Not only is it going to require a lot of time, but wedding favors that you are going to make on your own are going to be a little tricky if it is your very first time ever making a lot of handmade gifts for a large group of people. If that is the case and it really is your first time making wedding favors, then here are three tips you want to keep in mind to help you along the way.

First, look at the theme of your wedding. Is your wedding going to a formal or informal one? A seasonal one? A beach themed wedding, a garden wedding or a fairy tale concept wedding? The reason you need to focus on the theme of your wedding is because the wedding favor should reflect the theme of your wedding as clearly as possible so your guests don’t get confused. It won’t do to have a wedding that is say, a beach themed wedding but the wedding favor you give has nothing to do with the beach theme at all. So decide on a theme before you begin on the wedding favors that you are going to make on your own.

The second tip is to decide on the type of wedding favor you want to give your guests before you start on wedding favors that you are going to make on your own. Once you have the theme of the wedding firmly in place, you then have to decide if you want the wedding favors to be the kind your guests can keep as keepsakes, or you want it to be the kind that your guests can eat like chocolates, or even cookies that you make yourself for example. If you are a whiz at baking, then by all means go ahead and show your skills off but don’t forget that the wedding favor has to carry the details of the wedding too. If you are going for the keepsakes type of favors, then make sure the details of your wedding are printed on some part of the gift, and if you’re the culinary type, then write on the details of your wedding in whatever it is you may be baking.

The third tip of keep in mind when it comes to wedding favors to make on your own is the sort of message you want to send your guests with the wedding favor. A wedding favor is much nicer and much more memorable when it has a short, simple message written on it from the couple. It doesn’t have to be anything fancy, just something short and simple will do (unless you have a flair for writing and you do want to write something fancy of course). But whether your message is short or long, it is best to put some thought into it so you can get out exactly what you want to say to your guests.

Once you have the answers to all these three key areas, making your wedding favors should become a much simpler process. Making anything on your own is all about focusing on what you want, having a firm idea in place, and then bringing that idea to life, and with these three guiding steps, making your own wedding favors should be a piece of cake.