Eleven mini jars survived my wedding. I know because I counted them the next morning, hungover, on my mother in law’s counter, and the rest had walked out the door in coat pockets. That almost never happens with favors. Usually you find a basket of sad little soaps still sitting by the exit at the end of the night.
Honey did the opposite. We filled the jars three days early in my friend Priya’s kitchen because mine had one outlet that worked. Sticky disaster. The funnel I bought was the wrong size and I gave up and used a spoon and a steady hand and a lot of paper towels. But the tag is what fixed it. A scrap of cardstock that says meant to bee turns a jar of grocery store honey into a thing your aunt keeps on her windowsill.
So here are the tags and labels I would print again, plus the jars I actually ordered. I print one test on plain paper, hold it up next to the jar across the kitchen, and squint. If it reads from the sink it works. A couple of links below are affiliate links, so if you grab one it sends a little something my way. Costs you nothing.
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The kraft tag that hid my crooked cutting
I wanted the tags to match the jars, which were that warm brown glass, so I went looking for something earthy. These print on kraft paper and the slightly fuzzy texture forgives a lot. My paper cutter drifts left, every single time, and on these you genuinely cannot tell.
The print and cut lines are the part I leaned on. I am not a Cricut person. I cut all forty by hand at my kitchen table on a Sunday while a baking show played, and the marks gave me a line to follow so my thumb did not wander.
One gripe. The brown ink can come out muddy on a home printer if your toner is low. I did a test page, it looked like wet cardboard, swapped the cartridge, and the second batch was clean. Check before you commit a stack.
When you want the honey to do the talking
If the eco ones feel too rustic for your tables, these are the quiet version. Thin lines, lots of white space, a little farmhouse feel without the burlap energy. I almost used these instead. They photograph well too, which mattered because half my favor pictures were taken by guests on phones in bad lighting.
They are built to print and cut, same as the eco set, so the cutting was painless. I tied mine on with thin twine I already had in a drawer from a Christmas two years back.
The catch is the font runs small. At default size the writing got lost against the jar. I bumped it up a notch in the file before printing and it sat right. Took me one wasted page to notice.
Stole these from the kitchen aisle
These read like something off a nice pantry jar, which is exactly why they work on honey. My cousin saw the test print on my fridge and asked if I bought the honey from a fancy shop. I bought it in a flat of twelve at a warehouse store. The tag did all of it.
I used the blank ones and wrote meant to bee by hand in gel pen. My handwriting is not great. Looked charming anyway, in that way handwriting does at a wedding when nobody is grading you.
Downside, there is no spot built in for a date or names, so if you want that you add a text box yourself in Canva. Fiddly but doable in ten minutes.
For the out of town people who got a basket too
We did welcome baskets for the guests who flew in, and honey went in those as well, so I needed a tag that said welcome rather than thank you. This one covers that. It is sized bigger than the favor tags, which is good because hotel room baskets eat small things.
I tied it to the basket handle and tucked the honey inside next to a water bottle and a local pastry. My maid of honor dropped six of these at the hotel front desk the night before the rehearsal. The desk clerk asked for one for himself.
The one thing, the editable area is a little tight if you have a long venue name. I shortened ours to just the town and it breathed better.
If your wedding lands in October like mine almost did
We got married in late September and the leaves were turning, so the warm tones on this square tag fit without me trying. It sits flat on top of a small box too, if you box your jars instead of tying tags on. A coworker of mine boxed hers and used this exact one.
The square shape is a nice break from all the rectangular tags floating around. On a round jar lid it looked deliberate. I punched a hole and threaded ribbon through to attach mine rather than gluing.
Gripe, the autumn palette is committed. If your colors are pastel this will fight them. Great for fall, wrong for a May garden thing.
A label bundle I bent to fit a jar lid
Okay, this one is a stretch on paper. It is sold for tequila bottles. But the layout is a clean circle label with an editable middle, and that is precisely the shape you want for the top of a honey jar lid. I swapped the wording in Canva to meant to bee and our names and the date underneath.
It comes as a bundle so you get a handful of layouts to pick from. I tried three before settling. Sized the circle down to fit my 2 inch lids and printed on sticker paper from the office supply store on Bell Street.
The honest catch, you are doing more editing here than with the ready made tags. Worth it if you want the lid covered and matching, skip it if you just want to tie a tag on and be done.
The sticker that sealed the little paper bags
Some of my jars went into small glassine bags instead of getting a tag tied on, and these thank you stickers held the folds shut. Editable, so I added our names. I printed them on a sheet of round label stock and they peeled off clean, which is not always true with the cheap rolls.
My niece, who is eight and very serious about jobs, stuck these on every bag the morning of. She put a few on crooked. Nobody minded. They looked handmade because they were.
The drawback is they are stickers, so once it is on it is on. I lost two bags to a wrinkled application before I learned to press from the center out.
The Questions I Get Most
Are honey favors a good idea?
Short answer, yes, and I am biased because mine actually got taken home. People eat honey. They do not eat a scented candle shaped like a wedding cake.
The one thing I would say is fill them a few days ahead, not the night before. I waited too long and ended up doing forty jars at midnight with sticky fingers and regret. Give yourself an afternoon and a friend’s kitchen.
Where do I get mini jars?
I bought a case of small hex jars online and they came with lids, which saved a headache. A warehouse store also carries flats of tiny mason jars seasonally, I saw them near the canning stuff in late summer.
One warning from experience, order more than your guest count. I cracked two unloading the box and gave three to people who asked at the rehearsal. The extras vanish.
What tag goes with honey?
Anything with a meant to bee line is the easy win, and most of the tags up top take that text. I went with the kraft eco ones because they matched the amber glass.
Honestly though, a friend asked me this and I told her to just hold a tag next to the actual jar before buying a whole set. The color of your honey changes everything. Dark wildflower honey wanted my warm kraft tag, a pale clover honey looked better against the clean minimal one.
One Last Thing
I still have one of those jars. It is in my pantry, half empty, label peeling, and I cannot bring myself to toss it. That is more than I can say for any other thing from that night except the dress.
If you do honey, pick the tag that matches your actual jar, print a test on plain paper first, and rope in a friend for filling day. Bring paper towels. A lot of them.