As awareness over the environment grows, many celebrities, such as Alicia Silverstone, have started leading the way in having organic or environmentally friendly weddings.
While you don’t have to go to the extent of having an organic wedding dress or serve vegan burgers as an environmentally conscious bride, you might want to consider these eco-friendly or “green” wedding favor ideas below for your guests!
Green Wedding Reception Favors
Why not present your guests with sprigs of lucky bamboo at your wedding? Lucky bamboo is considered to be an auspicious plant and is said to bring luck and good blessings to those who keep it in their house. They can be purchased easily and cheaply from your neighbourhood nursery or florist. Storage is also easy in a bucket of water and stones. The only decoration you need for these unique wedding favors are a colorful ribbon tied around the bamboo! Choose to present them either in individual pots or a bucket of water for your guests.
Wedding Favor Tip: If your wedding is close to the Chinese New Year period, you can buy these bamboo sprigs easily and very cheaply!
Fall Wedding Favors
If you are holding your wedding in fall and would like to give your guests a continuous memory of your wedding, consider giving them flower bulbs to grow in their own gardens. It can be easily bought for a cheap price once spring and summer are over. All your guests have to do are to plant them and they will always have bright and colorful memories of your wedding in their own gardens! Place them in baskets at your wedding party reception or wrap them in paper with a colorful ribbon for easy presentation.
Wedding Favor Tip: Buy the bulbs of your favourite flowers so your guests may enjoy them too!
Italian Wedding Favors
Italians are great lovers of herbs so take a leaf from their book with fragrant and delicious pots of herbs as wedding favors. Herbs are excellent for flavouring foods and many of your guests will appreciate these dainty pots of flavor for their kitchens. A range of herb plants can be bought easily from your local nursery. Easily personalise them with little strips of your names or use recycled ice-cream sticks to create handmade wedding favor tags! Cheap and easy!
Wedding Favor Tip: Place an order with your nursery but only collect the herbs the day before to save the hassle of caring for all the herbs.
With these unique wedding favor ideas, you too can have an eco-friendly wedding and do your bit in saving the environment!
Photo credits: The Knot
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