If you love to keep up with the latest wedding favor trends then you have found the right article! Here is a look at popular eco friendly spring wedding favors for 2008:
Popular Spring Wedding Favors #1: Plant Saplings
Eco friendly wedding favors are all the rage. Plant saplings are the huge trend this year and a fun and affordable wedding gift. If you are going this route, then be sure to choose plants that are indigenous to the emplace where you are getting married. This way you can be sure they will grow there.
It is great idea to have packets of seeds as an alternative for wedding guests that are coming in from out of town. This way they do not have to travel home with a small plant. Look for easy to grow seeds like wild flowers, impatients, and sun flower seeds.
Popular Spring Wedding Favors #2: Eco Friendly Water Bottles
There is a huge surge to get people to stop populating g the earth with environmentally damaging water bottles. They emit toxins into the air in manufacturing, cost more harm to the environment during shipping, and then are not biodegradable in the land fills.
Treat your wedding guest to a water bottle that will get them to fill up at home and keep all those water bottles out of the garbage. You can have water bottles customized to say your wedding date, a not of thanks, or a simple line from a poem that refers to water and the earth.
Popular Spring Wedding Favors #3: Donations to Green Charities
Finally, it has been a huge trend to make donations in place of wedding favors in the past decade. This year the big trend in wedding favor donations is to give to a local green charity.
In place of spending money on wedding favors, donate the same amount to a local charity that promotes a green environment. Every gets a bigger gift than a wedding favor this way!
If you can not see skipping the whole wedding favor tradition in preference to a donation, then give something small that will make huge impact in all of your wedding guest homes. Give an eco friendly light bulb! Buy these in bulk to save money.
This may be some of your wedding guests first time to use an eco friendly light bulb.
Published by Ann Siper
Ann Siper is a web writer who has written for online sites such as Demand Studios, ehow.com, Goodhousekeeping.com and Overstock.com. She writes on a variety of topics, including holidays, health and fitness,... View profile
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Great work. No surprise here.
So nice to see eco-friendly wedding favors as a hit for 2008. Thanks for the update, very heartening!