Garden Wedding Favors

Garden wedding favors are an environmentally friendly win-win situation.  For those environmentally conscious brides, giving your guests wedding and bridal favors doesn't have to be a challenge. Plenty of choices are available to merge the theme and style of your celebration with your desire to maintain a green attitude. Whether your idea of being an environmentally friendly bride includes providing favors that keep on giving, or favors that are simply produced in a more eco-conscious manner, there is always something to fit every bride. Here are some of the more popular choices being made today:

 

Natural Favors

Are you having a surf or beach themed wedding? Consider using seashells as a favor idea. You can use them as place card holders/favors, or you can gather several small ones and stick them in an organza bag with a wedding favor tag. What a simple, elegant, and appropriate theme!

 

Is there a garden wedding in the planning? Consider using freeze-dried flower petals in organza bags as favors. Just be sure to check with the provider that they freeze dry their petals in an environmentally friendly manner. Some of the best ways to prepare these types of materials are freeze-dried petals that are manufactured using wind and hydro generated electrical sources for their energy.

 

Choose Recycled Materials

When deciding among wedding favor ideas, the green-minded bride can choose those crafted from recycled materials. Paper and wood are environmentally friendly choices. Look for recycled wood trinket boxes that you can fill with candy or your favorite small item.

 

Give Something Back

Decorative plants and flower seeds are very popular wedding favors. You can give your guests packets of personalized flower seeds, personalized plantable magic beans or small individual rose topiaries. All of these ideas are fun, easy to prepare and plant, and promote a green environmental theme.

 

Make Green Choices

A bride who likes candles can still implement them as a favor idea. However, she has the greener option of using a soy-based candle, as opposed to traditional ones. These candles burn cooler and longer than regular wax ones.

 

Let Your Guests Get Lucky

Lucky Bamboo plants are a unique, fun and different wedding favor option. They are said to cultivate luck and promote strength and resilience when presented as a gift. They last forever as long as you keep them watered

 

Herbal Favorites

If flowers and plants aren't your idea of the perfect favor, consider herbs instead. They smell wonderful and can be used later to prepare a special dinner for the newlyweds.  You can easily make satchels of potpourri and attach a tag letting your guests know about the significance of the chosen herb(s). Popular choices for herb-based favors include Lavender (which represents devotion) and Rosemary (which represents fond memories).

 

Still at a Loss?

If you're still at a loss for favor ideas, consider making a donation in each guests' name to an environmentally friendly charity of your choice. Some popular ones include The Rainforest Action Network, The World Wildlife Fund, GreenPeace and The Arbor Day Foundation.

 

Going green with your wedding favors doesn't need to be stressful. Expand your mind and let your natural creativity take over! With a little careful consideration, your guests will be pleased with their unique lasting token of your special wedding day reception and no trees will have been killed in the process!