Recaps/Details: Favours/Place names

For favours we had lots of ideas that surrounded plants or flowers (O is a gardener). 


Remember this post?


Well Rebecca left a very interesting comment on that post about seed paper and combining the favour with the place names! 


So that is what we did.


We bought seed paper and twine from here
We printed names on one side and planting instructions on the other side
We cut them out into a luggage tag shape, punched a hole in them and tied some twine through them to make them look more like luggage tags (we also folded the paper in half so it was twice as thick).

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Simples!

I think people liked them, although O's Mum has complained that she hasn't had any flowers. I'd love to blame her gardening skills but seeing as most of the food we eat when we visit they have grown themselves I don't think there is anything wrong with her gardening skills.

Do me a favour

Wellies and Vogue asked what we were doing about favours. Well we haven’t fully decided yet but we have had a few ideas. First I wanted to give everyone tiny pots of herbs. The herbs could add to the floral decorations therefore reducing costs. But then I started worrying that we’d get soil all over the place and people might just leave them - as they wouldn't know how to transport them.

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Then we moved on to watering cans or pails in which we could put a piece of oasis and a flower – again adding to the centre pieces but what do you do with a mini watering can after the wedding? Have still not completely gone off this idea.

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Now we are thinking about packets of seeds for our guests perhaps in pails

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Then I read Peonies and Polaroid’s post about her tags and it all started coming together in my head. We could have our guest’s names on one side and then instructions for the seeds/plant on the other side.

So we have finalised the place names we just need to sort out what the actual favour is going to be.