8 DIY Bachelorette Party Favors That Aren’t Junk
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Giving cute, useful, and thoughtful bachelorette party favors to the bridal party is a great way to start your party off on the right foot.
Your bridal party is working hard to help you have a great wedding. Gifting them items that are generic and junky is more common than you would think – let’s avoid this.
In this post, you’ll learn how to create DIY bachelorette party favors that your bridesmaids actually want.
Do bachelorette parties have favors?
Whether or not bachelorette parties give out favors to the attendees is up to the host and/or bride.
Typically, guests love bachelorette party goodie bags – especially when they contain items the attendees can use on the trip or reuse at home.
If it’s in your budget, put together some nice favors to give to your guests. They’re supporting you throughout your wedding planning experience and spending their time and energy celebrating you. Giving them a thoughtful bag full of things they look forward to using is a great way to show your appreciation.
Gift bags are not the right fit for every party. Some brides purchase a spa day or bachelorette weekend activity for their bridesmaids in lieu of physical items. If you’re close with everyone you’re inviting, ask them what they’d prefer – this is a foolproof way to ensure everyone enjoys what they were given.
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Why should you DIY bachelorette party favors?
Bachelorette party favors are generally DIY. The host or bride determines what items to give, puts them together in a bag, and assembles all the items. “DIY bachelorette party favors” refer to the ones that you truly make on your own – further than just some assembly.
Typically, you aren’t saving money by DIYing your bachelorette party favors. A store-bought alternative is likely cheaper and higher quality. Despite this, DIY bachelorette party favors are well-received by the bridal party. There’s extra love and care that goes into creating DIY bachelorette favors, and the bridal party feels this.
DIYing your bachelorette party favors is a great way to show your bridal party how much you appreciate them. However, this only comes across if you carefully choose what gifts you’ll be creating yourself. No one likes to be gifted a bag of junk – and you definitely don’t want to be the person giving a bag of junk.
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DIY Bachelorette Party Favor Ideas
We collected fan-favorite DIY bachelorette party ideas that are easy to make on your own and quality enough to give to your bridal party.
body and lip scrubs
Body and lip scrubs are super cheap to make and easy to customize.
Look through some lip and body scrub recipes online, pick your favorites, and pack them into these cute containers.
candles
Making your own candles is a fun craft – even something you could work into your bachelorette party itinerary.
There are millions of ways to customize your DIY candles. You can use a kit like the ones we listed below or sift through TikTok to find a fun candle-making trend.
bath salts
Similar to candles, DIY bath salts are a fun group or solo activity.
Add essential oils, herbs, and dried flowers to bulk bath salts and package them for your goodie bags.
customize Compact Mirrors
If you’re DIYing aspects of your wedding, you probably own a Cricut!
Cricuts are great for customizing items that you can buy for a decent price online. Add the first initial of each bridal party member to each mirror to give them a cute, customized gift.
initial luggage tags
These classy, embroidered luggage tags are the perfect custom gift for a destination bachelorette party.
This gift isn’t the most DIY gift ever, but it is very customized and cute.
Friendship Bracelets
Any Swifties in the bridal party?
DIY friendship bracelets are another item that can be fun to do as a group or make in advance. Make everyone a bracelet that’s commemorative of your bachelorette party and a few that are specific to that person.
DIY beaded keychain
If you ask me, beaded keychains are seriously underrated. This cow-themed one? Too cute!
Amazon has a million different bead keychain kits—take a look to find one you like, or better yet, one that matches your bachelorette party theme!
magnet picture frames
These magnetic picture frames are perfect for giving empty to be filled with photos from the party. Or, you can print off your favorite photo with each person and gift it inside the magnet.
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