Garden Wedding Favor Ideas

Fresh new and affordable ideas for your garden themed wedding!  Spring weddings make me think of fresh air, fresh fruit, fresh flowers and new beginnings.  Capture the essence of your refreshingly beautiful garden wedding with these charming, low-priced garden wedding favors from our friends at Beau Coup.

Seed Packet Wedding Favors

 

Mini Woven Picnic Baskets

 

Charming Honey Jar Favors

 

Engraved Glass Photo Vases

 

Asian Wedding Fans

Charming Heart Cookie Centerpieces

I found this amazingly simple recipe while snooping around on the back of a Betty Crocker sugar cookie mix (17.5 oz pouch). If you know how to ice a cookie and are a pro at making polka dots, serve these at your next bridal shower or use as a heartfelt edible wedding centerpiece.

Heat oven to 375 degrees (or 350 for dark or non-stick pan). Make cookie mix as directed--except decrease softened butter to 1/3 cup and stir in 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour with the cookie mix. Roll dough on floured surface until about 1/4 inch thick. Cut with 2-inch cookie cutter. (Keep remaining dough covered while rolling and cutting first batch of cookies.) Place 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake as directed above. Cool 1 minute before removing from cookie sheet. Cool completely, Frost and decorate as desired.

Easy Royal Icing Recipe (that hardens and shines)

3 egg whites
1 lb. confectioners' sugar
1/2 tsp. cream of tartar
1/2 tsp. almond extract or white vanilla extract

Place all ingredients in bowl and beat on medium high for a full 10 minutes. Icing will become thick and glossy but will not increase in volume. Keep covered with damp cloth while using, removing small portions to bowl as needed. Tint if desired. To thin, add a few drops of water. Royal icing hardens with a nice sheen.

Recipe courtesy of Cooks.com

Custom Letterpress Wedding Invitations

Heirloom quality wedding invitations.  A team of 55 wildly talented artists, and self described letterpress love fools housed in a hundred-year-old warehouse in upstate New York are waiting to design custom letterpress invitations just for you.  At Bella Figura their eco-friendly invitations emcompass the modern, post modern, vintage, traditional, better than traditional, art nouveau, and art deco styles printed on a luxurious 100% cotton paper (from recycled garment fibers, not trees).  Antique cast-iron presses and a ridiculously talented staff produce a full set of pieces offered for every design—letterpress save the dates, direction cards, reception cards, thank you cards, menus, place cards, and coasters.

Lazaro Wedding Dresses

Lazaro’s inspiration for his Fall 2010 Bridal Collection is based on a girl named Alice we all know and love who chases a talking white rabbit down a rabbit hole to a marvelous imaginary place with dream-like qualities. And it shows. These hand-beaded wedding dresses with jewel encrusted bodices and lavish tulle trains with cascading petals are probably not for every bride. But for those inspired by Lazaro’s ulta-glamorous vintage details, wearing one of his haute couture wedding gowns is the ultimate fantasy come true.