{"id":7831,"date":"2011-04-21T00:50:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T07:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theweddingyentas.com\/?p=7831"},"modified":"2011-04-21T00:50:43","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T07:50:43","slug":"gotta-have-it-eco-wedding-favors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.bryanfriedman.me\/yentas\/gotta-have-it\/gotta-have-it-eco-wedding-favors","title":{"rendered":"Gotta Have It: Eco Wedding Favors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why  not give the gift that literally keeps on giving?<\/p>\n<p>In honor of Earth Day tomorrow, here&#8217;s an idea for wedding favors you&#8217;ve got to check out! <\/p>\n<p>When you send your guests home with a favor of some sort, you are expressing gratitude for their presence on your special day as well as offering them a memento to remember the exciting day everyone just enjoyed. Typically, couples send their guests home with candles or tokens from the wedding location. Lots of couples also choose edible favors that express their tastes or something unique to them. We like the food idea, but for Earth Day, let it be a food item&#8230; for the birds.<\/p>\n<p>Literally. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/yentas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Gotta-Have-It-Eco-Wedding-Favors1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Gotta Have It: Eco Wedding Favors\" width=\"580\" height=\"434\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7833\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Wedding Yentas stumbled across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\">etsy<\/a> seller <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/2birdsinlove?ref=pr_shop\">2birdsinlove<\/a> and the custom birdseed wedding favors are adorable! In fact, you gotta have it!<\/p>\n<p>There are flexible price points for bulk packages of heart-shaped birdseed so, for example, you could <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/72331460\/handmade-75-heart-shape-bird-seed\">spend under $100 for 75 favors<\/a>. Check out the rest of the store for different prices and grouping options. The guests take the birdseed hangings home and enjoy the beauty of aviary friends coming to nosh, which promotes the continuation of Mother Nature&#8217;s winged creatures! See? It really is the gift that keeps on giving! <\/p>\n<p>Your guests have been to enough weddings and have received their share of homemade cookies or taffy favors. Think outside the box, and help plant another seed for planet earth! You&#8217;ll feel good about it, and your guests will chirp in delight!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/yentas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Gotta-Have-It-Eco-Wedding-Favors2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Gotta Have It: Eco Wedding Favors\" width=\"580\" height=\"539\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7834\" \/><\/p>\n<div style='float:right;margin:5px 15px 0 0;'><div style='float:left;'><g:plusone size='medium' href='https%3A%2F%2Farchive.bryanfriedman.me%2Fyentas%2Fgotta-have-it%2Fgotta-have-it-eco-wedding-favors'><\/g:plusone><script type='text\/javascript'>  (function() {    var po = document.createElement('script'); po.type = 'text\/javascript'; po.async = true;    po.src = 'https:\/\/apis.google.com\/js\/plusone.js';    var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s);  })();<\/script><\/div><div style='float:left;'><a style='font-size:11px;color:#CCCCCC;' href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/share' class='twitter-share-button'\r\n                          data-url='https:\/\/archive.bryanfriedman.me\/yentas\/gotta-have-it\/gotta-have-it-eco-wedding-favors'\r\n                          data-via='WeddingYentas'\r\n                          data-text='Gotta Have It: Eco Wedding Favors'\r\n                          data-count='horizontal'>Tweet<\/a><\/div><div style='float:left;'><iframe src='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.bryanfriedman.me%2Fyentas%2Fgotta-have-it%2Fgotta-have-it-eco-wedding-favors&amp;send=false&amp;layout=button_count&amp;width=90&amp;show_faces=false&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;font=verdana&amp;height=21' scrolling='no' frameborder='0' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; width:90px; height:21px;' allowTransparency='true'><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why  not give the gift that literally keeps on giving?<\/p>\n<p>In honor of Earth Day tomorrow, here&#8217;s an idea for wedding favors you&#8217;ve got to check out! <\/p>\n<p>When you send your guests home with a favor of some sort, you are expressing gratitude for their presence on your special day as well as offering them a memento to remember the exciting day everyone just enjoyed. Typically, couples send their guests home with candles or tokens from the wedding location. Lots of couples also choose edible favors that express their tastes or something unique to them. We like the food idea, but for Earth Day, let it be a food item&#8230; for the birds.<br \/>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.bryanfriedman.me\/yentas\/gotta-have-it\/gotta-have-it-eco-wedding-favors\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[24,108,109,319,400,1127],"class_list":["post-7831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gotta-have-it","tag-2birdsinlove","tag-bird-seed","tag-bird-seed-favor","tag-etsy","tag-green-wedding-favors","tag-wedding-favors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.bryanfriedman.me\/yentas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.bryanfriedman.me\/yentas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.bryanfriedman.me\/yentas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.bryanfriedman.me\/yentas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.bryanfriedman.me\/yentas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.bryanfriedman.me\/yentas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.bryanfriedman.me\/yentas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.bryanfriedman.me\/yentas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.bryanfriedman.me\/yentas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}