Fall Favors

Hi. I`ve been coming up with a few ideas for favors for my outdoor fall wedding, and I think I`ve narrowed it down to two. In the Winter 2005 InStyle Weddings magazine (in case any of you like this idea or have the magazine) it suggests giving out baby trees. You can get the trees from the National Arbor Day foundation, and I`ve also found a couple other websites online that sell baby trees. I was thinking this would be a really cute favor. You can put a little sign by the stack of trees that says "plant a tree for love" or maybe a cute poem or something. I really love the outdoors, and would love people to plant trees in honor of my marriage. The only problem with this idea is that I`m not sure how many people would actually plant the trees. I`m afraid some people would just throw them away. I`m also not sure what kind of trees I would get, since I will have people attending my wedding from all over the country. Right now I`m toying with either Red Maples (since the colors of a red maple are similar to my wedding colors and are really gorgeous) or some kind of evergreen. I need to do some more research first to see which trees will grow where. The trees come in little tubes, about a foot long. I would wrap the tubes in some kind of fabric and tie the ends with ribbon.

The other idea I came up with was little jars of preserves. At first I was thinking about making my own, but if I can find good deals online then I`ll probably just buy them. It would save me a lot of time (especially since I`m planning this while in college). I would buy some fabric that matches my wedding colors (typical fall colors, reds, oranges, yellows...) and then tie the fabric around the lid with some ribbbon and attach a note to the ribbon.

I wanted to post these ideas on here and see which one you guys think I should do. Pretend you`re attending a fall wedding. Would you rather get trees or jam? If any of you have any other suggestions for favors, I`d like to hear those as well. Thanks in advance for everyone`s help!