Mason jars are one of the best ways to decorate your wedding. Cheap and cheerful, easy to get hold of and they look amazing. Here are 10 Mason Jar ideas for your wedding.

10 Mason Jar Ideas For Your Wedding

If you’re having a sustainable wedding then using mason jars is one way to ensure part of your wedding decoarations can be recycled or reused. Even better, you can use recycled jars to begin with. If you need loads, why not ask friends and family to start saving them for you in the run up to your wedding?

Wedding Savings Jar

Before you even get started with the wedding planning, it’s likely that you’ll need to save up some cash.

A mason jar makes a classy but cute alternative to a more traditional piggy bank. Of course, I do advise taking any cash that builds up to the bank every few weeks!

Vases For Your Wedding Flowers

One of the most common ways to use mason jars in any wedding is to use them instead of vases. While mason jars a shorter than typical vases, they make the perfect alternative if you’re having wildflowers, for example.

You can also easily decorate the jar to fit in with your theme. I love this rustic look created with burlap and string – perfect for a rustic wedding!

Candle Holders / Votives

Another way to use mason jars in your wedding is to fill them with candles. Whether you’re planning a romantic twilight wedding, want the church to be filled with candles or just want that extra glow, mason jars make great votives and of course, using jars will help stop the candles from getting blown out too.

As you can see here they can be used to lin the paths around your venue in the evening.

Fill With Lights

If candles aren’t your thing, mason jars can also be filled with lights. I love the affect created here which is bright and bold yet still feels like it belongs at a wedding.

You could choose colours that tie in with your wedding colours or for something more traditional use warm coloured fairy lights for a softer glow.

Aisle Decor

Mason jars can also be used as part of your aisle decor. Simply fill with flowers and tie or hang from the edge of the chairs.

You can also get special metal hooks that have been placed in the ground and jars can be hung from them. Perfect if you’re planning an outdoor wedding.

Serving Cocktails

Every wedding needs a cocktail hour, right? While this is more of a wedding tradition in the U.S than it is here in the U.K it’s definitely something I think more British couples could get on board with.

Probably because I love drinking cocktails!

Many couples like to create their own special wedding cocktail and what better way to serve it than in a mason jar.

Of course, it doesn’t even have to be alcoholic and there needs to be a mocktail for the kids too – just like the fancy lemonade pictured below.

Fill With Your Favours

If you’re at the start of the wedding planning process your might not have given much thought to favours.

Some people like to do them as they are traditional while others prefer to ditch them in favour of spending that money elsewhere.

If you looking for wedding favours with a different you could try these ideas for mason jar wedding favours, where the jar comes filled with something delicious. You could pick something that is special to you and your partner and then make it yourselves.

• Cookie Mix (dry ingredients only)
• Cake Mix (dry ingredients only)
• Chutney or Pickle
• Lemon Curd
• Marmalade
• Jam

You could even do a combination of several of these, so for example the ladies get jam, the guys get chutney and the kids get cookie mix. As Part Of Your Candy Bar or Sweet Table

Serving Jam

So, putting jam in what is essentially a jam jar may seem like a pretty obvious idea. But, mason jars create a lovely aesthetic if you’re having afternoon tea and don’t want the jam ar labels on display.

If you’re on a budget it also means you buy whichever jam you like and no one will be any the wiser if you go with the cheapest brand.

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Place Name Holders

Mason jars can make lovely place name holders. If you opt for one’s with handles they can then double up as drinks glasses or as a wedding favours.

Names can be added using glass pens, blackboard stickers and chalk or by attaching a Kraft tag.

Candt Table / Sweet Table

If you want to have a sweet or candly table at your wedding, it can be quite expensive. One option is to DIY your own version and mason jars make great containers for sweets.

I actually had a DIY Harry Potter Sweet table at my wedding which I loved creating.

Final Thoughts: Mason Jar Wedding Ideas

I hope this post has given you plenty of inspiration for using mason jars in your wedding. Remember, you can essentially use any type of jar for most of these ideas – mason, kilner, basic jam jar – it doesn’t matter as once they filled with sweets or flowers, they’re sure to look fab!