Hug This Tree: Green Wedding Tree Favors
May 9, 2009 by Jennifer
Being that it’s green wedding month here, I figured we’d hug a different sort of tree this week, the wedding tree favor. Small tree seedlings can be used as wonderful and green wedding favors. Some ideas about where you can score wedding tree favors include:
Tree Seedling in Tubes Favors for Weddings – 6-8″ majestic blue spruce seedling (roots need to be wrapped in plastic bag), personalized imprinted paper wrap in a handmade paper image with thank you message, poem, growing instructions, tube, raffia ribbon. Choose from oatmeal or forest green raffia ribbon. Tree-tube favors are also personalized for each couple and contain this message: “Thank you for sharing our “growing Memories”. Please plant this Seedling and nurture it in the spirit of love and watch it grow just as we will grow together in our new life.”
Tree Seed Gift Box Party Favors – This cool “green” wedding favor is made of recycled papers. The card is handmade paper and is personalized with your message. There’s a terra cotta clay pot included along with a peat pellet and tree seed packet. For this favor you can choose one of the following trees; Blue Spruce – Black Pine- Douglas Fir – Loblolly Pine (southern pine – Giant Sequoia (California redwood)- Honey Locust -
Paper (canoe) Birch.
The Arbor Day Foundation has some lovely seedlings available for weddings as well as plenty of ideas about how to display seedlings at your wedding.The hardy evergreen trees (Redwoods, Pines, or Spruces) included in these favor tubes can be planted outdoors when timing and conditions permit, stored in a refrigerator, or grown for months indoors. The trees come in a recyclable tube that converts into a birdfeeder after the tree is planted. You get to customize your own wedding label as well (see example below).
What do you think? Would you give trees as a wedding favor? I love the idea.