Good Question: Green Wedding Favors?

These handcrafted soaps from LifeTree Botanicals would be a great wedding favor for our green wedding, but I worry they might be out of our price range. Anyone have a great idea for something practical, local and green?

EmilyStyle proposed this cute donkey-stamped sack pictured above for our wedding (pictured, contains a jar of apple butter made at the Graveses' farm via MarthaStewart). It would work well with our Mexi-Cali-Fall-Green-theme that we have going on.

Our wedding will be on a working walnut farm this October, in California. I love the idea of doing something with local walnuts from the farm, but I can't think of how to tie it all together.

Other ideas include small plants or personalized teas (thanks GreatGreenWeddings).

Anyone have a great green and practical idea?

Soaps from LifeTree Botanicals.

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Our favors were organic spices in little tins. His family is Croatian and paprika is the most used spice in their cuisine. My family is maritime French and summer savory is the dominant spice. The combo of spices also complemented the red/green colour theme of the wedding.

posted by Hollie on May 22nd 2009 at 2:49pm
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Seed packets? Saplings? Soy candles? Or, don't buy favors at all?

posted by coggs on May 22nd 2009 at 3:02pm
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We had canvas shopping bags of organic cotton printed up with an image that we had used on the invitations. They ended costing just over 1$ per bag. This was a number of years ago before everyone and their mother was printing up re-usable shopping bags. But I still get comments when I see wedding guests, they tell me "we use your bag all the time."

posted by PattyOK on May 22nd 2009 at 3:10pm
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Make Nocino (liquer made from green walnuts) and pass it out with a handmade label. If you make it now it will be "ripe" by right around the wedding.

posted by sillahee on May 22nd 2009 at 3:22pm
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Ok here are ideas I have had for my own wedding.

Etsy has a lot of cute "seeds bombs", and also seed paper. You can also make them yourself.
Links:
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6760681
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5329141

My favorite idea is to buy small trees to hand out as wedding favors:
http://plantamemory.com/

posted by couleurvanille on May 22nd 2009 at 3:33pm
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We are going to have a half hour social dance lesson at our reception as our "favors". The social dance scene in the SF Bay is HUGE, and we enjoy dancing, and want to be sure out guests have fun, too. And we didn't want to give away a ton of little things that nobody is going to care about anyway.

I also love THE "seed bombs" idea, it sounds DARLING.

posted by deliriumsama on May 22nd 2009 at 6:46pm
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We didn't do favors at all and most people didn't miss em. Those that noticed said that it was nice that they didn't have something they would just throw away, no offense to those that put a lot of effort into their favors. Just saying...

posted by wesaturtle on May 22nd 2009 at 8:28pm
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Go with something local and memorable to your location. Also, go with something edible. In my experience folks aren't really into favors. We did local chocolate from the interior forest where we were married (and carbon offsets for the travel guests did).

posted by kmarie on May 23rd 2009 at 11:19pm
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We used saplings from the arbor day foundation (http://www.arborday.org/). They doubled as both favors as well as center pieces. People seemed pretty excited to take them home!

posted by amyrose13 on November 8th 2009 at 5:10pm
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