Plants—including flowers—can be used in more than just bouquets, centerpieces, and as general wedding décor. One of our favorite ways to embrace them on your big day? Giving them out as wedding favors. With the help of a florist, planner, and/or vendor that sells blooms or greenery, you can buy, style, and gift them to your liking, and to the pleasure of all of your guests.
There are tons of creative options when it comes to sending attendees away with flora. A popular idea is to order or DIY potted plants—succulents and other durable varieties are especially common. You don't have to hand out large ones, either. Mini plant favors are adorable, more affordable, and more manageable when it comes to transporting them (your celebrants have to take them home, after all). You can also present guests with bud vases, or other unique vessels that speak to your personal taste or wedding style, filled with stems that you love. And if you're working with something like air plants, they don't need to be placed in anything at all!
Nature-inspired favors don't stop there, though. Alternatively, you can gift petals, which can be savored for their scents, or seeds, which can be grown, or in some cases, eaten. If you'd rather not work with natural materials, faux florals and foliage are pretty, too. Click through to see all of these ideas and more, and start brainstorming your own wedding favors. Many of these gifts offer double the inspiration, serving as things like seating "cards" as well.
Pressed flowers were preserved in frames and tripled as favors, décor, and seating assignments at this event.
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Seed Packets
If you love to garden, send your attendees home with your favorite flower seeds. These packets also doubled as escort "cards."
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Potted Succulents
These favors pulled double duty. Attendees were guided to their tables with help from potted Balconi succulents, which served as both escort cards and favors.
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Bud Vases
Lovely little bud vases were filled with on-palette blooms by Nicolette Camille and tagged for this celebration's attendees.
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Boxed Ferns
Give out keepsake boxes, and fill them with plants that coordinate with your event's natural décor. These ones also contained attendees' seating assignments.
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Bagged Saplings
Westcott Weddings bagged pine saplings in burlap for guests to take home and plant.
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DIY Nosegays
Blooms were available at this celebration's flower station, and crafted into takeaway nosegays in paper cones.
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Edible Seeds
Don't let the vintage-inspired seed packets fool you: These pretty favors are actually filled with candy-coated sunflower seeds.
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Potted Cactuses
How sweet were these mini cactuses with names clipped to their pots?
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Flower Bulbs
You have two options here: either gift actual bulbs to be planted, or craft faux ones like these, which were filled with surprises like trinkets and paper notes.
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Flower Necklaces
Forget jewelry with floral motifs—these bridesmaids were gifted items made from actual flowers, including arm cuffs, belts, headpieces, and necklaces. A mix of these and more (like boutonnières) could be presented to all of your celebrants to wear during the party.
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Flower Snapshots
Your favors don't have to be made from actual flowers and plants. Guests at this party were encouraged to pose for pictures in front a rose-covered wall and took home copies at the end of the night.
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Air Plants
Air plants are some of the most self-sufficient plants of all, which means that guests won't need a green thumb to take them home and care for them.
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Lavender Satchets
Scented sachets make for pretty and soothing favors. These ones that came with simple labels saying, "Thank you!"
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Petal Boxes
At this wedding, freeze-dried rose petals were packaged in vellum boxes for guests.
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Dried Buds
Fragrant dried flowers—including chamomile, rose, and lavender buds—were given to these celebrants in leather bowls. Do the same for gifts that include both take-home potpourri and reusable catchalls. (Also supply baggies for easy transport of the former.)
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Flower Pins
This couple gave their groomsmen dogwood-inspired pins, but similar accessories can also serve as favors for everybody.
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Single Stems
These stems were used to guide guests to their seats, but could be taken home, too. If you opt for favors like these, pick a sturdier flower that isn't likely to snap from lots of handling.
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Natural Crowns
Crowns of flowers and greenery were made by AvaFlora and left out for guests to grab and wear at this outdoor wedding.
Any plant that is thoughtful and means something to you will be a welcome gift to the happy couple. A plant as a wedding present says that you think enough of the bride and groom to really consider what they would like and how they can mark their wedding day.
Traditional favours include individual chocolates, candles, and various other knickknacks. CDs featuring the bride and groom's favourite music, shot glasses filled with coloured sweets, or a charitable donation in their guests' names are also popular modern present ideas.
If you are giving one favor per guest, present each gift at each place setting or as part of the table centerpiece. If you decide to give each couple a favor, label the wedding favors with the couple's or family's name and place them on a table so that guests can pick them up upon entering the reception.
The simplest and most versatile form of displaying your wedding favors is to lay them out on a table. From jewellery stations to luggage or name tags, everything can be displayed in a convenient way.
For example, white flowers like lilies and roses are often associated with purity and faithfulness. Including these blooms in wedding arrangements symbolizes the couple's commitment to remain loyal and devoted to each other throughout their married life.
While you're not required to give out wedding favors on your big day, it's a sweet way to add a custom touch to the celebration. If your budget allows, thank the family and friends who traveled to celebrate you with a small gift.
The answer may surprise you. Yes – some couples still make wedding favors a big part of their wedding day – and many others are forgoing it all together to enjoy the night making memories with guests instead.
Parents of the bride and groom often divvy up certain expenses such as food, drinks, wedding guest favors and rehearsal dinner costs. Others prefer to give a lump sum toward all expenses. Let them make a proposal they are comfortable offering unless they ask for suggestions.
Even homemade applesauce is beautifully presented in Mason jars. Or you can keep it simple and fill your rustic Mason jar wedding favors with goodies like chocolate-covered coffee beans, jelly beans or M&Ms in your wedding colors.
Your guests won't remember if you don't give favors and they won't be upset you aren't providing any. In fact, they probably won't even notice their absence at all! As someone who attends more than a dozen weddings each year, I know guests don't miss favors.
Favors at the Wedding? You're a “Mrs.” now so place the groom's name first. The second choice is stick with Personal Preference. It seems the strict etiquette really applies mostly to the formal stationery, so for other items use your personal preference on what looks and 'feels' right to you.
To get the most bang for your buck buy a bulk amount of the sweet treats of your choice and portion them out into individual jars or bags. Finish each favour off with a pretty ribbon a handwritten label t0 give them that extra special touch.
It's probably not the answer you want to hear but wedding favors are the responsibility of the couple. Of course, you can dish out jobs to other people to make this a little easier. Say for example you want handwritten name tags for each of your favors.
A symbol of peace, prosperity and innocence, Peace Lily Plants are another excellent choice for a remarkable gift for the newly married couple. Peace Lily Plants looks impeccable in spring as a multi-petaled flower grows on it.
Plants don't lend themselves to gift wrapping, which is why placing a plant in a well-appointed pot with a festive bow is the ideal way to present it as a gift. Bring the plant and pot indoors to place it under the tree or leave it on the front porch and show it off out there.
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