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It used to be that wedding guests would collect a party napkin or a few candies to remember the special day. Now, brides and grooms are turning to more personalized and elaborate favors as a way of placing a signature on their day.

Handmade wedding favors are a thoughtful way to show how much you appreciate your wedding attendees. You don’t need to be supercrafty to make these simple and fun creations. All you need is a little time, imagination and a few helpful friends or family members.

Some favors, such as the Fore Ever Golf Set, are easily assembled from purchased items. Others, such as the Toast Often Wine Stoppers, are entirely homemade and require more time.

• Fore Ever Golf Set: Fill a small, square box with a little green paper, colorful golf balls and a few tees. Top the box with a monogrammed label that reads "Fore Ever."

• Personalized Cookies and Recipe Card: Share a family recipe with guests by packing the baked cookies with the recipe card.

• S’Mores on a Stick: Pierce a large marshmallow with a lollypop stick and dip into melted chocolate, then roll in chopped nuts or sprinkles. Let cool, wrap with a cellophane square and tie with a ribbon.

• Seashell Candles: Fill seashells with microwavable candle wax and mini-wicks to create beach-themed favors. Wrap with a piece of tulle and tie with a ribbon.

• Lucky in Love: Wrap lottery tickets in cellophane and attach a tag that reads "Lucky in Love."

• Bottled: Soak the labels off hot-sauce, jam or honey containers, or small bottles of wine or other regional food items. Add your own label using inkjet-printable sticker paper.

• Hot Cocoa: Make a large batch of instant hot cocoa. Fill small, sealable plastic bags with the mix and place in sheer drawstring bags with instructions.

• Toast Often Wine Stoppers: Assemble materials including wine cork, decorative drawer pull, craft drill, screwdriver, decorative metal initial (found in the scrapbooking section of craft stores), thin wire-edged ribbon, cardstock, hole punch, oval punch or scissors.

Drill a hole in the center top of the cork; make sure the hole is slightly larger than the stem of the drawer pull.

Using a screwdriver, insert the pull until secure.

Punch an oval of card stock or cut an oval by hand; punch the oval with a hole punch at the center top.

Attach a metal initial backed by the cardstock oval to the wine stopper with either a thin piece of wire ribbon or a scrapbook metal curlicue. Curl the wire-edged ribbon’s ends.

Cathie Filian and Steve Piacenza created and co-host "Creative Juice" on the DIY Network and HGTV. For more information, log on to www.diynetwork.com or www.cathieandsteve.com.