If you’re gonna go green at the wedding, you might as well do the same with your bridesmaid gifts.  Always mindful of ways to protect and preserve the earth, we here at Favors In The City have lots of ways to help you and your favorite girls look out for their “Mother.”  Think environmentally conscious with a sense of style!

Garden of Eden

There’s no better way to bring out their eco side than with a gardening gift.  It’s a great way to save money on groceries by planting fruits and vegetables, or they can beautify the earth by planting beautiful blossoms for spring.  Either way, it’s a gift that will grow on them, for sure!  Create a thoughtful gift basket with a mixture of garden tools, plants, seeds, gardening gloves, watering cans, knee pads and the like.  You could even throw in a super cute gardening hat to keep her cool and shaded while working outdoors.

Less In The Landfill

When you think about all the bottles of water we consume each day and the fact that so few of them actually get recycled, that adds up to a ton of plastic in the landfill–not to mention all the disposable plastic and paper cups we go through in the blink of an eye.  One way to reduce the effect of all that waste in our landfills is to encourage family and friends to go BYOC (Bring Your Own Cup) whether they go.  Traveling with one of these adorable insulated tumblers will let everyone know that they are doing their part to help the environment.  And, because this personalized bridesmaid gift features their initial, we’ll also know who to thank for the kind deed.

Get Cooking!

Not only is this adorable ruffled apron made of 100% Cotton, it also encourages your girls to get cooking in the kitchen.  Saving them money vs. dining out, eating at home allows them to prepare healthy meals with organic foods that are made “fresh to order.”  Plus, you don’t have those pesky carbon deposits associated with driving to and from the restaurant.

When it comes to appreciating your bridesmaids with a gift that they–and Mother Nature–will appreciate, give a gift that will make a difference and hopefullyleave the world a little better than we found it.

“It” is getting into the Guinness Book of World Records, which is what Jill Stapleton might have accomplished when she got married to Chad Greenhill in Proctorville, OH this past Saturday. The previous world record for bridesmaids at one wedding was 90.

According to reports, Jill owns Jill’s Tumble World, a gymnastics and cheerleading studio, and she invited all her students to join in. She only asked that they wear purple or teal dresses, which are the gym’s colors.

If you want to see a video of the procession, cut and paste http://www.wsaz.com/charleston/headlines/96232559.html into your browser bar.

So I guess the Guiness World Record people have to decide whether 110+ pre-K, elementary school-age, preteen and teenage girls qualify as bridesmaids to validate the record, though I don’t think going for the record was actually part of Jill’s dream. I also wonder who paid for the flowers each girl carried, and the big question is—Did Jill get bridesmaid gifts for all 110+ “bridesmaids”? If you watch the video, you’ll notice there appear to be six or so legitimate bridesmaids in bridesmaid attire who followed the long stream of mini-bridesmaids. They probably got the good gifts, while the rest of the parade got…what? Power bars?

In the video, we never see where the gymnastic students go. Either they’re all standing up at the altar with her, or there’s a door at the other end through which they all filed out. Maybe they just sat down wherever. Regardless, I leave you with this question:  No doubt it was an adorable stunt, but should this be a Guinness world record? Why or why not?