If you are having an outdoors wedding or reception, or your wedding location is without air conditioning (unheard of here in Texas), making your guests a fan wedding favor is a great idea. Instead of making them suffer in what could be sweltering heat on your wedding day, pass them out at the ceremony or the reception, or both as necessary, and you will help keep your guests happy and comfortable for the duration of your wedding. A fan is incredibly easy to make, and makes quite a unique wedding favor. Also, your fan can be two sided with a cute picture of you two on one side and the ceremony program on the other, or a menu, or directions to the reception site, or a romantic verse, the possibilites are as wide as your imagination. Another great plus, this handmade wedding favor is easy to make!
Heart shapes are the most popular shape of fans for a wedding fan, but you can really choose any shape that you like. Create a layout for your fan on the computer, and print it out. Then you can either buy some card stock and print off all the copies you will need on your computer or take it to a copy shop (their printers are better) and get all the print outs you need for each side. White is the most popular color, though you can get colors to compliment your wedding as well which can be very pretty.
Then, having a premade template, cut out all of your pages into the shape you have decided on, and then you can go to work. Grab some paint sticks or buy some other kind of handle like popsicle sticks or any other cute thing you can find. (Most stores will give out paint sticks for free though). Spray paint all of the handles white, and then glue the front and back of the fan to the handle with craft glue.Helpful hint, if you glue the stick near the top of the paper of the fan, it will make a sturdier fan.
If the handle you buy is already decorated, then just skip this part. You can decorate the handle of your fan a number of ways. You can tie ribbon or tulle around the base of the handle for decoration, or a group of ribbons with colors that compliment your wedding.
This is a great homemade wedding favor that only takes a few minutes to make, and your guests will enjoy looking at them as much as using them.
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December 15th, 2007 at 9:15 am
Yes. This would be a good use for outdoor wedding and unique too.
April 20th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
I am having an outdoor Texas wedding… I thought of this idea and then searched out websites. Found yours! Now I have ideas and a printout of the article to add to my wedding memorabilia! Thanks for the suggestions on the shape of the fan and the handles! I am using coordinating ribbon!