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I'll state right off that this project is not for the impatient. This is for the crafty folk who have coordinated helpers, and ideally a smaller-size wedding. What I am about to suggest is making your own super-Earth-friendly seedling guest favors out of recycled newspaper, soil, and seeds*.

The step-by-step directions are on the Seeded blog, in the post titled Roll Your Own, including photos. While the finished product may at first seem a little pedestrian even for a green wedding, you can easily dress it up in one or several ways. Instead of the typical black white and read all over newspaper, you can use the pink papers that are found at larger newsstands, or dye the paper to match your wedding colors. (Food coloring should do it.) Or if your wedding colors are bold, it might be more effective to just tie up each little pot with twine, raffia, or ribbon in the appropriate color.

If all of this seems just too much to take on when you're already busy planning a big event, numerous seed-embedded tchotchkes are popping up on the market (to be featured in future posts). But with this project, risky and involved thought it may be, you can give your guests plants that are already growing, at one of the lowest prices around, and you can choose whatever plant or plants you want to give.

*I am aware this is one of the crunchier suggestions I've ever made.