How to Create Homemade Wedding Gifts

Frame the Wedding Invitation

Take the invitation they sent and frame it as a gift! Maybe you have some framed art at home that you are not using. Just replace the picture with the wedding invitation or maybe you can find a frame at a thrift shop. This framed invitation is done by www.framersworkshop.com.

Homemade Wedding Gift Basket

How about a homemade wedding gift when you're invited to that big wedding, but funds are really tight. You can make a homemade wedding gift basket especially for the bride and groom from unopened items in your own home along with 99 cents store items -- including the basket! Do you have an unopened bottle of champagne or wine in the house? Put it in the gift basket! You can find gourmet cookies at the 99 cents store. Buy a couple of champagne glasses, scented candles, bath salts, matching coffee mugs, a picture frame -- the list goes on and on. If you have any of this stuff in your home that has never been opened, you can include it. The gift basket on the right is from www.giftbaskets.com. It sells for $79.99, but you could make it for much less.

The advantage of ordering this lovely basket from this site is if you are shipping a gift and you don't have the time to put one together. It includes chocolates, cheese, crackers, sparking pear juice, champagne flutes, frame, and photo album. but, if you are presenting a gift in person, you can get all of this at the 99 cents store except for the pear juice. Just put in your own bottle of wine.

A Scrapbook Personalized for

the Bride and Groom

Collect photos of them from friends and family. List important dates in their lives. Includes quotes from people about them. You can buy instant wedding scrapbook kits at Amazon.com

Make Them a Wedding Collage

You can buy a frame or use one you have at home. Put together, photos of the bride and groom, a wedding poem, silk flowers, decorative paper, or anything else that would make a nice arrangement. This is an example from www.snapfish.com.

Michael's Craft's gives instructions to make a beautiful tray in just an hour. You can even use old broken tiles. The wooden trays they sell are only a couple of dollars. This project looks a lot harder than it is. You can put a stencil on the tray to give the outline of the teapot and then just lay the tiles on tip of it. But, it would still be really nice without the teapot in the middle. You can get tiles very cheap by going to a local tile store and asking for broken tiles. If you have some old chipped dishes, you can break them into pieces and use them as tiles. Just make sure than you break them inside a pillow case so that you don't have dangerous flying pieces hitting you in the face.

In today's economy, it can be quite a burden to buy wedding gifts, especially if several people you know are getting married. But, you can make beautiful, personalized wedding gifts for a fraction of the cost, even if you are not a skilled crafter. On this page, we provide some great, easy ideas for wedding gifts.

Homemade Wedding Gifts

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