Boho Baby Shower Favours
Baby Shower · Boho Favour Guide
Boho Baby Shower Favours
Why boho favours are the most kept of any shower style, three criteria that determine whether a favour survives the journey home, five complete favour directions from honey jar to seed packet, budget breakdown per guest, and the tag that closes the celebration.
Boho favours have a structural advantage over the favours at most other shower styles: the boho material vocabulary — kraft paper, natural twine, dried botanical tags, warm honey jars and wildflower seeds — produces favours that look exactly as beautiful in the guest’s hand on the way to the car as they did on the favour table during the shower. A boho favour is not an object that looks good when arranged; it is an object that looks good when held, when unpacked at home, and when used. This guide covers exactly what produces that quality, and five complete favour directions that achieve it.
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“The best boho favour looks as beautiful in the guest’s hand on the way home as it did on the favour table — because boho favours are beautiful objects, not beautiful displays.”
Section 01 The Boho Favour Standard — Three Criteria
Criterion 1
Natural Packaging Materials Only
✓ Gets kept: Kraft paper (warm brown, slightly textured, belonging to the same material world as the rattan and wooden serving boards at the table); natural undyed twine (the specific warm off-white of natural jute or cotton twine — not coloured ribbon, not synthetic bow, not metallic ribbon); warm ivory tissue inside the packaging if an inner layer is needed; a dried botanical tag element (a single dried pansy or dried chamomile flower glued to the kraft tag surface, or a small dried pampas tail attached to the twine knot). These materials belong to the boho material vocabulary and communicate the same warm, natural, handmade quality as the rattan vessels and linen runner on the table.
✗ Gets discarded: Clear cellophane bags (even with a kraft label attached, a clear cellophane bag belongs to the generic party supply register and reads as a wrap rather than as a considered packaging decision); synthetic ribbon in any colour (synthetic ribbon reads as manufactured regardless of its colour; natural twine in the same colour would read as organic); bright ribbon in any tone (even natural ribbon in a bright or saturated colour breaks the warm, muted boho palette); and plastic or acrylic closure clips, which belong to a completely different material world from the boho aesthetic.
Criterion 2
Palette Coherence — Packaging Must Read as Part of the Designed World
✓ Gets kept: Kraft paper as the primary packaging material reads as coherent with the boho aesthetic across every palette direction — warm brown kraft belongs to terracotta and oatmeal, to fall boho amber and rust, to pink boho dusty rose, and to wildflower boho equally. A dusty rose ribbon on a kraft package reads as the Pink Boho palette direction; a natural twine tie on a kraft package reads as the Classic Earthy or Wildflower direction. The packaging colour and material communicates the favour’s relationship to the shower’s aesthetic world before the tag is read.
✗ Gets discarded: Packaging that belongs to a different aesthetic world from the shower — a bright pink sachet at a Classic Earthy boho shower; a glossy white box at any boho shower; a metallic gold bag at a muted earthy boho shower. Each of these makes the same error: it introduces a material or colour that does not belong to the boho vocabulary, and the result is a favour that reads as sourced from a different aesthetic system from the decoration and the stationery, regardless of how beautiful the item inside is.
Criterion 3
The Tag Is the Most Important Element
✓ Gets kept: A personalised boho favour tag in the shower’s stationery illustration style, printed on warm ivory or kraft paper, with the guest of honour’s name and a short warm message on one side and the shower date on the reverse. This tag — tied to the natural twine knot or attached to the kraft package — is the element that transforms a kraft-wrapped item from a nicely packaged generic favour into a boho shower favour. When the tag shares the same illustration style as the invitation, the favour becomes the final chapter of the stationery suite: the guest opened the celebration with the invitation in their hand and closes it with this tag in their hand at the favour table.
✗ Gets discarded: A generic label or no tag at all. A favour with no tag has no personal identity — it reads as a packaged item rather than as a considered gift. A favour with a generic printed label (a white rectangle with a sans-serif font and no illustration element) reads as commercially packaged rather than as part of the designed boho world. The tag is the smallest item on the favour and the one with the highest impact on whether the favour reads as designed or assembled.
✨ Styling Tip
The most boho-appropriate favour tag is one that has a dried botanical element attached to it — a small dried pansy flower, a dried chamomile head, or a single dried strawflower petal glued or pressed onto the kraft paper tag surface before the tag is attached to the favour. This element — a single dried flower on a small piece of kraft paper — costs almost nothing and produces a tag that guests pick up and look at rather than skim and discard. The dried botanical communicates the boho aesthetic in the smallest possible format: natural material, warm in tone, slightly imperfect, beautiful in the specific way of things that have been allowed to dry and remain. The invitation communicates the aesthetic world at its largest; the favour tag communicates it at its smallest. Both should be equally intentional.
Section 02 Five Boho Favour Directions
Five complete favour directions, each with a specific item, packaging format, and tag wording direction. In all five: kraft paper as the primary packaging material, natural twine as the tie, and a personalised boho tag as the closing element.
Most Thematically Perfect
Custom Honey Jar Favour
40–60ml Jar · Kraft or Warm Ivory Label · Natural Twine · Dried Botanical Tag
The honey jar favour is the most thematically perfect boho favour available — and the most affordable of the five directions at the quality level that reads as genuinely considered. Honey belongs to the boho aesthetic for four reasons that stack on each other: it is natural and produced by the natural world without manufacturing; its warm amber colour belongs directly to the terracotta and oatmeal boho palette; its sweetness is an appropriate metaphor for the warmth and celebration of the occasion; and it is edible, which means the guest never faces the ‘do I keep this or discard it’ decision — it is kept by being used, and every time it is used the warm amber honey colour reads as belonging to the same boho world as the shower table. The jar: 40–60ml glass (small enough to be carried easily, large enough to read as a gift rather than a sample). The honey: raw honey, acacia honey, or wildflower honey in the specific warm amber tone — processed honey in a pale or cool tone breaks the palette. The label: a personalised watercolour boho illustration label in the shower’s specific palette direction, on warm ivory or kraft paper stock, applied directly to the jar. The closure: natural jute twine tied around the jar neck in a single clean knot, with the personalised tag attached at the knot.
The Boho General collection carries warm earthy botanical illustration in terracotta and oatmeal — the most authentic palette direction for a honey jar label that reads as specifically designed rather than generically printed.
✨ Styling Tip
A honey jar without a custom label is a honey jar. The same honey jar with a personalised watercolour boho illustration label — a small giraffe in warm honey brown, a dried pampas illustration in oatmeal, a botanical wildflower cluster in the shower’s palette — is a boho shower favour. The label is the design investment; the honey jar is the vessel. Both are necessary; the label is more important. The most affordable route: print the label at home on warm ivory card stock using the stationery collection files, cut to size, and apply with double-sided tape. Total cost: the printing and the card stock. The result reads as professionally designed because the illustration quality comes from the stationery collection rather than from a home-designed label.
Most Sustainable
Wildflower Seed Packet
Kraft Envelope · Dried Botanical Tag · Natural Twine · Warm Ivory Insert
The wildflower seed packet is the most sustainable and the most specifically forward-looking of the five favour directions — it gives the guest something that will grow into a living reminder of the celebration in the weeks and months following the shower. A seed packet of wildflowers in a warm palette direction (varieties that bloom in warm tones — sunflower, cosmos, calendula, chamomile, strawflower — so that the blooms, when they appear, share the same warm earthy colour world as the shower) arrives in a kraft envelope with a warm ivory inner insert carrying the shower details and a single instruction: ‘Plant in a warm, sunny spot and think of us when they bloom.’ The envelope closure: a wax seal in a botanical motif or a small sticker in the boho illustration style, rather than a standard glued envelope flap. The dried botanical tag: a small kraft tag with a single dried flower face-glued to its surface, tied to the envelope with natural twine. This favour requires no assembly beyond folding the seed packet into the envelope and attaching the tag.
Most Keepsake
Small Soy Candle
Warm Ceramic Jar · Kraft Label · Natural Scent · Boho Tag
The small soy candle is the most keepsake-forward of the five directions — the jar remains in the guest’s home after the candle is burned, functioning as a small warm ceramic vessel that sits on a surface long after the occasion that produced it. The candle’s vessel (in warm cream ceramic, warm amber glass, or frosted warm ivory glass) is the element that earns its permanent place in the guest’s home; the candle itself is the occasion. The scent: warm, natural, and specifically boho-appropriate — warm vanilla, warm sandalwood, beeswax, warm botanical herb blend (rosemary and sage; dried wildflower; warm lavender and chamomile). Not synthetic floral, not sharp citrus, not anything that reads as cool or modern. The label: small, kraft or warm ivory, with a small boho illustration and the shower details. No outer packaging beyond the jar and its label — the jar itself is the packaging, and it should be beautiful enough to sit on a surface unashamed without any additional wrapping.
Most Seasonal
Fall Boho Botanical Bundle
Dried Pampas & Protea Bundle · Natural Twine · Kraft Tag · Warm Autumn Palette
The dried botanical bundle is the most seasonal and the most specifically material of the five directions — it gives the guest a small piece of the shower’s decoration to take home, in a form that works equally as a functional decoration element in their own home as it did at the celebration. The bundle: three to five dried stems — one or two dried pampas tails (honey-cream), one dried protea head in warm rust or brown, and one or two dried celosia or dried grass stems — tied with natural jute twine into a small bundle that reads as a miniature version of the shower’s centrepiece botanical vocabulary. The tag: a personalised kraft tag with a small dried botanical element pressed onto the surface and tied into the twine knot. Wording: ‘A little piece of the savanna to take home’ (for a boho safari direction); ‘Dried and kept, like the best memories’ (for any boho direction). This favour is the most appropriate for autumn showers in the Fall Boho direction — the specific tones of dried celosia in rust and dried pampas in honey-amber belong most specifically to the autumn colour world.
Most Aromatic
Botanical Tea Sachets
Kraft Envelope · 3–5 Sachets · Warm Herbal Varieties · Boho Tag
Three to five botanical tea sachets in a kraft envelope — the favour with the lowest item cost per guest and the highest rate of actual consumption, which makes it the most reliably kept of the five directions by the simple measure that it is used rather than stored. The sachet varieties: warm, naturally botanical flavours that belong to the same earthy, herbal world as the boho aesthetic (chamomile and honey; dried lavender and vanilla; dried rose and cardamom; warm cinnamon and apple; dried lemon verbena with dried elderflower). Not commercial tea bag varieties in brightly-coloured branded packaging — the sachets should be in an unbranded or minimal packaging format inside the kraft envelope, or transferred from their original packaging into a small natural cotton muslin bag tied with natural twine. The envelope: a kraft envelope sealed with a wax seal in a botanical motif (the most authentic boho closure available at minimal cost — a wax seal kit costs approximately £8–£12 and produces 60–80 seals, which makes it affordable for any shower size). The tag: a personalised boho illustrated tag with tea wording (‘Steep, breathe, and remember’; ‘A warm cup and a warm memory’).
Section 03 Budget Breakdown & Display
Cost per Guest — Five Directions
Wildflower Seed Packet — Item: £0.80–£1.50 + Packaging & tag: £0.30–£0.60 (kraft env + wax seal + tag) = Total per guest: £1.10–£2.10
Most affordable direction overall. Wax seal kit amortises across full shower quantity.
Botanical Tea Sachets — Item: £1.00–£2.00 (3–5 sachets) + Packaging & tag: £0.40–£0.70 (kraft envelope + tag) = Total per guest: £1.40–£2.70
Lowest item cost after seed packet. Quality of sachet determines whether the favour reads as considered.
Custom Honey Jar (40–60ml) — Item: £1.50–£3.00 + Packaging & tag: £0.20–£0.50 (label printed at home + twine + tag) = Total per guest: £1.70–£3.50
Best value high-impact direction. Label cost negligible if printed at home from stationery collection files.
Dried Botanical Bundle — Item: £1.50–£3.50 (3–5 dried stems) + Packaging & tag: £0.30–£0.50 (twine + kraft tag) = Total per guest: £1.80–£4.00
Item cost varies with dried botanical quality. Pampas + protea bundles at the higher end; grass + celosia bundles at the lower end.
Small Soy Candle (30–50g) — Item: £3.50–£7.00 + Packaging & tag: £0.30–£0.60 (label + optional twine tie) = Total per guest: £3.80–£7.60
Highest cost direction. Justified by keepsake quality — jar is kept long after candle is burned.
The most reliable allocation principle: 65% of total favour cost on the item, 35% on the packaging and tag. A beautifully packaged affordable item reads as more considered than an expensive item in generic packaging — because the packaging is what the guest interacts with first, longest, and most closely.
Favour Table Display
Rattan Basket or Tray Display
The most boho-appropriate and the most visually abundant display: all favours arranged in a large rattan basket or on a flat rattan tray, with the label or tag of each facing outward and slightly toward the guest. A rattan basket of honey jars tied with natural twine reads as a harvest display — a quality of gathered abundance that belongs specifically to the boho material vocabulary. Add a small dried botanical cluster at one corner of the basket (not centred — asymmetrically placed, in the boho arrangement logic) and a personalised favour sign in the stationery style positioned at the front of the basket: ‘A little something from our boho gathering — take one home.’
Tiered Wood Stand Display
A two or three-tier raw wood stand with favours placed on each tier at a slight forward angle so the label or tag is visible from the guest’s standing height. The wood surface of the stand belongs to the boho material vocabulary and requires no additional decoration — the stand itself is a boho design element. A small dried botanical cluster on the top tier beside the uppermost favours; no other decoration on the stand. The tiered display is the most appropriate format for honey jars and candle favours where the label must be visible to communicate the favour’s identity before the guest picks it up.
Kraft Box Arrangement
Individual favours arranged in a flat kraft box lined with dried botanical material (dried grasses, dried pampas tails, dried chamomile) as the nest material — each favour sitting in the dried botanical nest rather than in tissue paper or filler material. This display format reads as the most specifically boho of the three options because the dried botanical material is the display surface rather than a decoration added to the surface. The label or tag of each favour faces upward and slightly toward the viewer. The kraft box lid displayed open and leaning against the wall or the box side, with a personalised favour sign placed inside the lid face.
✨ Styling Tip
Label or tag facing outward and toward the guest — always. A favour whose label is hidden from the guest’s standing view is a mystery until picked up, which creates the hesitation moment: ‘Is this for me to take?’ A favour whose label is clearly visible — warm boho illustration, personalised text, the shower’s palette direction immediately recognisable — creates anticipation rather than hesitation. Guests who can see the favour before picking it up want it before they hold it. The display decision that most reliably increases favour take-up rate: label outward, slightly angled toward the guest, always.
Section 04 Invitations & Stationery
The tag wording should match the stationery suite’s tone. For Classic Earthy and Wildflower Boho: warm and organic (‘A little piece of warmth from our gathering to yours’; ‘Thank you for sharing in the wild and wonderful’; ‘From our patch to yours — with love’). For Fall Boho: seasonal and warm (‘A warm autumn memory, with gratitude’; ‘From our harvest table to yours’). For Pink Boho: warm and romantic (‘A little wild beauty, just for you’; ‘Blooming with love and gratitude’). Browse all six collections below — every collection carries favour tags in the same illustration style and palette as the invitation suite.
Most Authentic
Boho General
Classic terracotta and oatmeal — the warmest and most authentic boho favour tag direction.
Most Seasonal
Fall Boho
Warm amber and rust — the most specifically seasonal favour tag for autumn showers.
Most Joyful
Wildflower Boho
Loose warm meadow illustration — the most garden-adjacent favour tag direction.
Most Feminine
Pink Boho
Dusty rose and terracotta — the most romantically beautiful boho favour tag direction.
Floral
Floral Boho
Warm dried floral botanical — the most specifically floral favour tag direction.
Botanical
Botanical Boho
Deep sage and warm ivory — the most editorial and most refined boho favour tag direction.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the best boho baby shower favour ideas?
The five directions in Section 02 represent the most specifically boho and most consistently kept favour options: the custom honey jar (most thematically perfect — natural, edible, warm amber in tone, and never faces the discard decision because it is consumed); the wildflower seed packet (most sustainable — grows into a living reminder of the celebration); the small soy candle (most keepsake-forward — the jar is kept after burning); the dried botanical bundle (most material — a small piece of the shower’s decoration to take home); and the botanical tea sachets (most aromatic — lowest cost, most reliably used). All five share the boho favour standard: natural packaging materials, palette coherence with the shower, and a personalised tag in the stationery illustration style.
How much should boho baby shower favours cost per guest?
The realistic cost range per guest across the five directions: wildflower seed packet at £1.10–£2.10 (most affordable); botanical tea sachets at £1.40–£2.70; honey jar at £1.70–£3.50 (best value high-impact option); dried botanical bundle at £1.80–£4.00 (varies with dried botanical quality); and small soy candle at £3.80–£7.60 (highest cost, justified by keepsake quality). The allocation principle: 65% of total favour cost on the item, 35% on the packaging and tag. A well-packaged £2.00 honey jar with a custom label and natural twine reads as more considered than a £6.00 item in a clear cellophane bag — because the packaging is what the guest sees first, touches longest, and takes away in their hand.
What packaging is most appropriate for boho baby shower favours?
Kraft paper as the primary packaging material is the most appropriate choice for every boho favour direction — it belongs to the same material world as the rattan vessels, wooden serving boards, and printed stationery at the table. The correct packaging vocabulary: kraft paper envelope or kraft paper wrap (not glossy, not bright white); natural jute or cotton twine (not coloured ribbon, not synthetic bow, not metallic ribbon); warm ivory tissue as an inner layer if needed; a botanical wax seal closure (a wax seal in a botanical motif — leaf, flower, or botanical compass — produces the most specifically boho closure available for a kraft envelope); and a personalised boho illustrated tag tied at the twine knot. No cellophane, no plastic clips, no chrome or metallic elements, no bright-coloured ribbon. The packaging should read as natural, warm, and handmade — the same qualities that define every other element of the boho celebration.
How many extra favours should I order for a boho baby shower?
Order 12–15% more favours than the confirmed guest count, for three reasons: some guests will take two (and in a boho shower, where the favour is a genuinely beautiful and genuinely useful object, this is more likely than at other shower styles); the favour display looks most beautiful when it is full throughout the shower — a display designed for 25 with 28 favours looks abundant from arrival to departure, while the same display with exactly 25 looks depleted within the first hour; and packaging errors and minor damage account for approximately 3% of the total. For a 20-guest shower: order 22–23 favours. For a 30-guest shower: order 33–35. For a 40-guest shower: order 44–46. The over-order is most important for the honey jar and candle directions, where the display impact of abundance is most visible and most photographed.
Close the Celebration
Boho Baby Shower Favour Tags — Six Complete Directions
Personalised favour tags in the invitation’s illustration style — warm, earthy, and fully customisable across six boho palette directions.
