Create Your Perfect Wedding Ceremony – Let Your Wedding Favors Live Long After Your Perfect Wedding
“Living” wedding favors are a great idea, if they are transportable (ah the old problem!). There are a whole lot of different ways you can give your friends than you presents (which is what wedding favors are) that will keep growing. The reason to give presents that keep growing is as a reminder that the marriage and the community that supports it will continue to grow. So, here are some choices:
Trees: You can get tiny redwood saplings in a tube for your guests or you can leave them a note or pamphlet about the trees that you are planting in a park down the street, in an area recently deforested or ruined in a natural disaster or in the rainforest. Trees bring life to the planet and your community brings life to you. Talk about your gift during the wedding ceremony, commit in your wedding vows to be a couple who is dedicated to the health of the planet and let those trees support your marriage. If you make a donation rather than give your guests the gift, make the donation in the name of your friends and family rather than just your own.
Flowers: You can give people individual little rose bushes or pansy plants. Red roses mean everlasting love and pansies mean free thought. Either is a lovely gift at a wedding. You can also give people seeds of a favorite flower or of a mixture of flowers to be sown either in a field or in a garden. You can give people tiny little test-tubes with individual flowers in them and use them as your table decorations. The flowers can simply be color coordinated, or they can have meaning in the language of flowers.
Plants: One wedding I attended started lettuce, tomatoes and cucumbers from seed they made a huge tray of little seed pots tied a ribbon around it and called it a table decoration. Then they invited their guests to unwrap their centerpieces and take things home. Anything that didn’t get taken someone had volunteered to take to the community garden at the food kitchen. It was a lovely thought. Someone else had pots of red hot peppers on the table to symbolize their red hot romance.
Nature has a lot to say to love, marriage and community. These little tokens are not usually expensive and they’re quite beautiful and unusual. And that’s always a good thing.
Bottom Line?: Give your relationship the chance it deserves to succeed wildly, against all odds! After all, you deserve it. Your relationship deserves it! And now I’d like to invite you to sign up to receive 2 free templates for creating the wedding ceremony of your dreams, the wedding vows of your heart and the marriage of a lifetime: http://annkeelerevans.org/weddings/free
The Rev. Ann Keeler Evans – helping you move from “I do” to happily and healthily ever after!
Article Directory: EzineArticles http://ezinearticles.com