One thing to keep in mind with any favor you present to wedding guests… make it something they can use. There’s nothing worse than a futile trinket that guests feel compelled to keep for no other reason than to place on the mantle when the wedding couple visits their home (and to otherwise collect dust). Here are a couple of easy ways to keep green with your wedding favors.
Lucky Bamboo – Many people don’t know that tradition states one should never buy bamboo for themselves but should instead be given bamboo. By giving bamboo to wedding guests, the couple expresses gratitude and sends a wish for luck. Find small, simple square pots in the colors of your wedding (try Old Time Pottery near the Florida Mall on Sand Lake Road) and fill each with one 6-8 inch stalk of bamboo (depending on the number you need, try the gardening section of Lowe’s or Home Depot or check out some of the area’s Farmer’s Markets including Celebration or Lake Eola.) Complete the look with small rocks in place of soil. Nothing beats a simple, beautiful gift. Lucky bamboo is ideal for any season of the year and keeps you thinking green by eliminating waste from your wedding.
Sweets – You can never go wrong with yummy sweets! A cupcake beautifully decorated in the colors of your wedding (presented in an eco-friendly box or wrapping) is a perfect gift that definitely falls under the category of useful. Sweet! By Good Golly Miss Holly (in Waterford Lakes Town Center on Alafaya Trail) makes fresh cupcakes using quality organic products while delivering a green promise consisting of plastic-looking containers made of corn, serving products made from sugar cane fibers and biodegradable vegetable starch. The choices of unique colors and flavors on their everyday menu, not to mention what they’ll create custom for your wedding, will leave your mouth watering (and the mouths of your guests). Go for a super-cool display stacked high on a table in your ballroom or place a cupcake at each guest’s place setting with a note saying it was sweet of them to come.
In staying green with wedding favors, there are countless possibilities. Countless striking, fun, unique and (most importantly) useful possibilities that leave guests smiling when they discover the thoughtful gift meant as a memento of the beautiful day they shared with you at your wedding! Have fun with it!
Did you know Doris is the Orlando Green Weddings and Events Examiner? Check out her articles here: http://www.examiner.com/x-35614-Orlando-Green-Weddings-and-Events-Examiner~y2010m1d27-Green-and-useful-wedding-favors-your-guests-will-actually-like#
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