A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Plants and Flowers Forum Wedding ideas: planting

Hi everyone,
I'm planning an indoor wedding for April 16, 2009. The ceremony is intercultural, and so my fiance and I are trying to come up with some creative ideas that could be appreciated by both sides of our family. I thought it would be really nice for us to plant something together as part of the ceremony, but since we'll be indoors we can't do a tree planting. Does anyone have any ideas? Are there any two beautiful houseplants that we could plant together in the same pot? Any other thoughts? I really like the concept but I'm having a hard time figuring out how we would make it work without being outside and without getting really dirty in our fancy duds!
Thanks,
Jaime

How about planting a seed? Or sowing seeds that could be transplanted later? I'm trying to make some metaphorical reference to the fact that you two would, together, be instrumental in helping to bring forth a new being-- the two of you as one-- represented by this seed you plant. Geeze-- I'm trying hard! I'm almost tempted to suggest the two of you hand pollinate a flower to produce a seed... . But that sounds a bit wacky.

Actually-- now that I think of it, maybe there's a beautiful plant with an imperfect flower (an individual flower is either a male or female flower, but not both). You'd bring the female, he'd the male, you could do a ceremonious hand pollination and hope that it results in a seed(s) which you could plant on a (one month?) anniversary. Some fruit trees have imperfect flowers.

Any one out there have any other idea? This is a fun question.

Good luck, Jaime!

Marica

you could indeed plant something !!

My niece and her new husband gave little spruce seedlings as thank you gifts when they got married, they were only about 6 inches long.

So a small thing like that would not require more than a small flower pot, and the dirt in that could be prepared weeks before time. All you would need to plant it (or them) would be a pencil and one or 2 finger tips. all you would need to clean up would be a 'wet one' or two.--no muss no fuss.

The seedlings would be happy in their new "pot home" until the two of you had a place of your own to plant it/them.

I do not know where they got the seedlings but I would be happy to find out if you are interested.

Hi!

Though this is not planting a seed, it is an idea that I saw at a wedding my husband and I attended just last week. They did something that I have not seen before, but I thought was nice. The ceremony was outside, and they had 3 vases on a table between the two of them. one vase had the bride's name engraved, one had the groom's name and the middle vase had the new last name. Each vase was filled with a different color of sand and when they were married, they combined the two, indicating that it could not be sepearted. Much like the breaking of the glass in a Jewish ceremony. You could combine wildflower seeds and then plant them later. No mess, nobody gets their hands dirty, and yet you get what you want.

Just an idea.

Carol