Bamboo Wedding Favors

Most of soon-to-be married people are always in the quest of searching the perfect wedding favors for the guests as a token of gratitude and souvenir for being there on such a special day. There are many popular gift ideas and homemade favors for wedding that could always be the best choices to save you from the dilemma of finding a beautiful yet, unique wedding favor. "How about doing some bamboo wedding favors, for instance?" If you are looking for something really unique and lively gift as your wedding favor, then I would suggest lucky bamboo wedding favors to be the ultimate favor for your wedding. They are fresh, unique, special and lucky! "What else do you need to make people remember such a special occasion?"

Lucky Bamboo Wedding Favors
By far, we all are aware of the lucky bamboo plants. For those who are not - lucky bamboo is a shrubby species of bamboos that have slender stems and ribbon shaped leaves. It is also the reason why they are called ribbon bamboo (Ribbon Dracaena). Lucky bamboos can grow as tall as 5 feet with leaves being about 10 inch long. Native to Africa, lucky bamboo is marketed as a Chinese decorative plant.

The reason for this is also very self-explanatory. There are a lot of believes and myths about the lucky bamboo plant in China itself, along with Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan and Vietnam. Each of these cultures have their own stories to tell about the 'luck' factor involved with the lucky bamboo. There is a huge significance attached to the lucky bamboo plant in an ancient eastern practice known as Feng Shui. It is primarily based on five elements of nature; which are water, fire, earth, wood and metal. Amongst them, lucky bamboo is the combination of water and wood and is a highly stated symbol of luck and serenity. In Chinese culture, it stands for the ultimate balance of life. When you tie a red ribbon around its stem, it becomes a symbol of the positive energy of life.

Philippine and Malaysian cultures credit it for being the birth place of humanity. According to them, the mankind began from the bamboo tree stem. While the Japanese culture also forwards a myth depicting a beautiful and mysterious princess that emerged from a dense bamboo forest. Vietnamese myth says that lucky bamboo stands for a successful and long-lasting marital bonding. The common denominator among all these myths leads us to a simple outcome, that they are lucky for the mankind. Going by the sayings, it is quite unique to give away the favors and make a mark in the minds of your guests.

How to Make Lucky Bamboo Wedding Favor?
So, you have selected lucky bamboo plant wedding favors, finally? Well, it is time to think and plan about the actual task of assembling and buying the bamboos. Never buy them too prior to the wedding as there are chances of dust accumulation and 'extra' bit of care in those busy days of rest of the preparations. The best thing to do is to buy other necessities for the Lucky bamboo like vases/pots, tags and gems/rocks and store them in a dust free place for the time being. The vases that you've chosen for your wedding favors must, at least, be 2 inches bigger than the actual diameter of bunch of the plant stems. Once you buy the lucky bamboos, store them in a larger vase, so that it would be easy for you to water and clean the plants. Make sure that plants are smelling fresh, while buying them.

The biggest quandary most of the people suffer from is the number of bamboo stalks that must be included in a vase to be presented as a bamboo wedding favor. There is a significance and meaning of the number of stalks that are preserved. Each number stands for different auspicious meanings. This meanings are, 2 stalks - love, 3 stalks - health, wealth and prosperity, 6 stalks - happiness, 7 stalks - healthiness, 8 stalks - wealth, 9 stalks - good fortune and 21 stalks stand for prosperity and goodwill and blessings. As bamboo wedding favors, it is ideal to give away 3 bamboo stalks with words engraved on the tag attached to the vase.

Place Lucy bamboo stalks in the dedicated bamboo vases, a week before wedding and pack them in the boxes just a day before the actual wedding. This will allow you a safe transport of your favors. Price of the lucky bamboo depends on the region you live in and the size of the stalks that one chooses. There are always chances for you to get discount as you will be buying them in a quantity. On an average, 100 stalks of 4-inch-long lucky bamboo stalks is around $9.99, while 50 stalks of 6 inch long lucky bamboo are available for approximately, $9.95. 8 inch long 100 lucky bamboo stalks may cost you around $24.99. Similarly, one can also get the vases and the stones for relatively lesser amount. You can create customize hang tags having small, but cute thank you messages for you guest on them!

So, what do you think about bamboo wedding favors now? Well, bamboo species other than lucky bamboo can also be included in your list of wedding favors, in forms of carved bamboo shoots and crafts made out of them, bookmarks, photo frames and/or wedding favor boxes made from dried up bamboo timber. The choice is yours hence, you can take efforts to make them all more memorable and precious.

As per another myth, lucky bamboo become 'unlucky', if a person buys them for himself and hence, they must always be gifted to others and that too, with the maximum good wishes and blessings.