At my sister's wedding, they gave away 4" tall pine seedlings. A nice sentiment, but the list of guests was not the tree-planting type nor possessed of the property to plant them on. I learned from that, and at my wedding, gave out little baskets of ticklish mimosa seeds. The lesson there is that they were exceptionally difficult to sprout (keep them warm and IN THE DARK).
But I was also a bit grumpy about the number of things we handed to the guests - not parsimonious, but conscious of the total uselessness of these little items. So the bottles of bubbles went over very well, but the twig baskets with seeds and miniature flower pots? The bookmarks with our names and wedding date on?
Give ONCE, I say, and only what can be used. My wedding was outside, too, but May is a cool month in Toronto. If we'd taken the money spent on the seeds and baskets and bubbles and bookmarks and blah-de-blah, and put them towards personalized umbrellas, that would have been amazing. :-)
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Date: 2009-02-25 01:09 am (UTC)But I was also a bit grumpy about the number of things we handed to the guests - not parsimonious, but conscious of the total uselessness of these little items. So the bottles of bubbles went over very well, but the twig baskets with seeds and miniature flower pots? The bookmarks with our names and wedding date on?
Give ONCE, I say, and only what can be used. My wedding was outside, too, but May is a cool month in Toronto. If we'd taken the money spent on the seeds and baskets and bubbles and bookmarks and blah-de-blah, and put them towards personalized umbrellas, that would have been amazing. :-)