Sandy
Sarah
carolejeanne
Party planning is one of my favorite things. Just one short month ago I got to experience the culmination of an entire years worth of party planning, my wedding! One aspect of planning the wedding that I had a tough time with was choosing a favor. Every favor out there under the traditional heading seemed really wasteful, and in all honesty how many mini frames, bottle stoppers, and candles do we all really need anyway. Thank goodness for Arbor Day! Random? Maybe. Arbor day is what inspired our wedding favors, and apparently many other people to do the same as they have an entire section on their website for gift trees. It’s a perfect parting gift not only symbolic, but also a fantastic way to do something good for the earth and offset carbon emissions.
We decorated our favors with the help of a fantastic Etsy vendor Kendra Zvonik of Green Post. Her handmade seed paper is beautiful and 100% recycled!
I chose the red heart shaped seed tags...
and the sheets of seed paper...
It was simple we just rolled each tree in a sheet of paper, tied with a green length of twine and attached the seed tags with our personal message written on them. Our guests loved them. All my worrying that I would get a lot of ‘what the heck is this, where’s my bottle stopper’ looks, turned out to be completely unwarranted. Lesson learned – don’t be afraid to show your green side in front of all your friends and family. : )
