Cookie wedding favor ideas for a diy favor that decorates, delights, and delivers your theme in a delicious way.

You can have a lot of fun with cookie wedding favor projects because cookies can do so much for you and your guests. Besides endless varieties of flavors, designs, sizes, and styles there are just about as many ways to present and display them. So...

Before we get started, let's take a broad look at the options. The things that will matter most when deciding on a cookie wedding favor are taste, cost, presentation, and personalization.

Taste - This is the easiest to figure out. You know what your crowd likes. If not, you can't go wrong with a choice of chocolate chip, m&m, peanut butter, and sugar cookies.

Cost - The least expensive route to take is to make cookies yourself and present them buffet style or at guest tables.

Add a little more to the cost by buying bakery, specialty, or gourmet cookies. There is an advantage here in that these will likely come in some kind of nice packaging, which leads us to our next thought...
Make a big difference for very little cost by buying specialty containers such as cello decorative bags tied with ribbon, colored chinese food takeout boxes, favor boxes, decorative or metal mini cookie tins, and so on.
Add a little more detail by personalizing these items with professionally printed labels or favor tags. You can also do this yourself with a computer, printer, and blank labels. Tip: See our do it yourself wedding ideas page for articles on this subject.
Of course, you can skip all of that by ordering personalized favor containers, boxes, or tins.

Here's a cool best of both worlds idea: buy inexpensive cookie cutter wedding favors and make cookies that are cut with those cookie cutters as a unique cookie wedding favor.

Presentation - How do you make a cookie wedding favor look good?

Have a cookie jar centerpiece filled with cookies.
Stack smaller cookies in a pyramid design.
Use a large (we're talking pizza size) cookie with a frosting message (birthday cake style) on a stand as a centerpiece.
Display cookies in the center of tables arrayed to form the letter of your monogram.
Hang cookie wedding favor bags from little centerpiece trees or one big tree.
Put your cookie wedding favor in decorative cello bags tied with ribbon, specialty containers, favor boxes, or personalized tins.
Or just use one big tin or basket in the center of the table.
You can make mini cookie jar favors.

Personalization - You can personalize your cookie wedding favor yourself or you can have it done for you.

The simplest form of this would be to order personalized decorative cello bags, favor tins, or boxes.
Or you could have labels or favor tags professionally made.
More difficult but doable would be to make do it yourself labels or favor tags on a computer to put on your chosen container.
A large cookie has plenty of room for frosting decorations and personalization.
You can have a picture or logo cookie wedding favor made with a photo of your choice baked into the cookie.
You can order cookie wedding favors that have your message inside.

For more about cookie favors, see our page on monogram wedding cookies.