What is a wedding favor?
Wedding favors are small gifts given as a gesture of appreciation or gratitude to guests from the bride and groom during a wedding ceremony or a wedding reception. ---WikipediaSpringtime is one of the most popular times of the year to hold a wedding. Spring is a time when flowers are beginning to bloom and everything is waking up from the cold of Winter. What better way to celebrate at Spring wedding than to incorporate a spring theme into your wedding by giving our Spring wedding favors. After a dull and dreary winter your guests will appreciate a bright, colorful and happy occasion.
Festive wedding favors are fun to set out on tables at the reception. You can fill them will all sorts of things – candy, almonds, dried flower petals, or even birdseed for guests to toss at the wedding couple. Put them in a basket for guests to pick up as they leave the ceremony if you don’t plan on having a sit-down dinner reception.
Let's take a look at some Spring wedding favor you might consider.
Seeds
Try to incorporate Spring flowers and seeds as a Spring wedding favor. Seeds represent a new beginning which is what a wedding is all about. How about giving out wildflower seed favors for your Spring wedding or let guests throw lavender buds instead of rice? What a great way to give back to the environment. Wildflower seed favors are something your guests can take with them and sprinkle in their yard and they are very inexpensive to make. You can also have personalized wildflower seed packets made up as a Spring wedding favor.
Sachets
Lavender sachets or lavender pillows will be something your guests can use in their lingerie drawer and the scent will last over a year. Rose sachets are also special Spring wedding favors and have a sweet fragrance. Every time the sachet is pulled out of the draw they will remember your Spring wedding.
Seedlings
Spring is the time when many people start thinking about the gardens they will be planting soon. Give some Spring bulbs wrapped in burlap with planting instructions as a wedding favor or consider giving a tree seedling with a note attached about planting a new life to help the environment. These are most definitely unique Spring wedding favors you can give to your guests.
Candles
Candle help set the mood and add a romantic warm glow to any table. Votive and gel candles are great Spring wedding favors that will help guests remember your springtime wedding. These candles are often floral scented. Lavender, lily, and orchid flowers are sweet smelling and make great candle wedding favors. Candles with flowers suspended in gel are also a great gift. Not everyone uses candles on a regular basis and having a lovely candle to look at will also help remind wedding guests of your springtime wedding.
Water
Incorporate water into your centerpiece by using a glass or crystal bowl and putting floating candles on top. You can also put floating plants inside of a tall glass container and include colorful beta fish. Use it as a centerpiece for each dinner table and let one guest at the table take it home. Maybe you could pick a winner from each table in a special drawing.
Butterflies
Butterflies are especially popular at Spring weddings. You can give butterfly bookmarks, butterfly glassware, candles or silk butterflies at wedding favors. Butterflies represent new life.
Spring Flowers
Daffodils and tulips make beautiful decorative touches for Spring wedding and they give off a pleasing scent. Wrap a bouquet of fresh daffodils in brown paper and give them out to as wedding favors to all of the ladies who attend the wedding.
I am sure there are many more you could come up with because Spring weddings inspire us to be creative during a season of new life. These are just a few ideas for Spring wedding favors.
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