The Wedding Favors

The inspiration...

Our version...

From the very beginning my goal was to include as much of us as possible in our wedding. I love purple, lavender, and we love cooking. I wish I had a green thumb and could actually say I enjoy growing the herbs that I cook with but sadly I did not get my mother's green thumb. Still we thought herbs would be a great gift to give our guests (hopefully they can keep things alive better then I can).

This was one of the projects that I was afraid I was going to have to nix but ended up being great. At first we were going to get terra cotta pots. They were .88 cents at Micheal's I think. This was going to be a big expense. We spent a lot of time walking around walmart, target, and the mall in preperation for our wedding. One day I ran across something like these at walmart. We paid $10 for 70 of them. This saved us $34. Then I bought some purple raffia to tie around them.

The herbs were what I was afraid I wouldn't be able to find. I couldn't find them too far in advance or I would kill them but I also had to have time to replant them. I attempted to start them from seed, hahaha. Spent about $30 attempting this. Some sprouted but I ended up killing them all with in 2 weeks. Poor herbs! I found some about a month in advance at a local tailgate market but wasn't ready to purchase them. I got his email and said I would let him know what I needed. The basil and thyme was $1 a plant (what I was looking to pay), the lavender &  rosemary (which I wanted the most) were $3.50 and I wasn't going to pay that. I did end up getting the basil and thyme from him the week before the wedding though. I found some more herbs at the flea market for around $2 which was reasonable. Let them know I would call them and tell them what I wanted. Of course I lost their phone number. Frustrated, I looked up herbs in Asheville and low and behold there was an herb festival the weekend before my wedding at our farmer's market! SCORE! We walk around till I found rosemary and lavender for $2 a plant. Talked to a wonderful lady and bought what we needed. She threw in a couple of extra lavender plants and a really sweet note. All in all we paid $84 for the herbs. We could have gotten away with buying a lot less. We had a lot left over.

The plant markers were made with purple scrapbook paper, Martha Stuart Butterfly punch, craft pick's from Micheal's, and a silver sharpie.