Wedding Favors For a Country Garden Style Wedding

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Gardens often present themselves as wonderful venues for weddings and it is little surprise that they have become very popular locations for weddings in late spring and summer. Themeing your wedding favors to your venue as well as your wedding style can be an easy way of producing perfect favors for your special day. Here are a few ideas for country garden style wedding favors

If you are the creative type then you have plenty of choice for your favors. The easiest is the increasingly popular flower seeds. Although you could give this a twist by actually growing the seeds yourself to being with and then potting them into separate plant pots just before the wedding day. Try to choose varieties of flowers that coordinate or match with those in the garden venue itself.

Another variation on the flower seeds favor is to give herbs or even vegetables. Many garden centers and gift stores stock herb garden kits and you may also find kitchen window kits for those who do not have a garden at home. » Read more: Wedding Favors For a Country Garden Style Wedding

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Traditional Japanese Garden Styles

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Traditional styles of Japanese gardens include the pond and island style, the dry landscape Zen garden, the Japanese tea garden, a stroll garden, and a courtyard garden.

A pond and island style garden is where a pond is created that is large enough for a boat or where a visitor can walk around the border of the pond. All the plants, rocks, and other features can be seen from the pond area. The plants and background elements are placed so that they blend into the natural landscape beyond the garden. There will be small islands with small bridges which span from the shoreline to one or more of the islands and then back to shore again on a different side.

Zen gardens were primarily used by Buddhist monks within their temples. These gardens contain large and small rocks, gravel or sand, and occasionally some moss or a few trees or shrubs. The carefully positioned rocks symbolize islands. The raked gravel or sand symbolizes water. » Read more: Traditional Japanese Garden Styles

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