Here are a couple cool wedding presents that we’re enamored with, a pair of solar-powered garden lanterns, a square bronze-colored one and a moss-toned teardrop shape.

During the daytime, they’re beautiful garden ornaments with their traditional silhouettes and delicate colors. They soak up the sun’s rays to charge their batteries, and then at night they let off a gentle bluish-white glow that lights up the lantern’s graceful outline. Turns out one of the gifters, Sheila, an avid gardener that we hadn’t seen for years, now is involved with the website Isabella, where they’re available.

Here they are in the garden. I didn’t spend the hours to set up a catalog shot, but I think you can get an idea of how great they look. The first shot is right before dusk showing the lanterns, the second after dusk, after the lanterns have turned themselves on. The last image is the official catalog shot.

 

Note that this blog isn’t a way to get you to click over to Amazon or other retailers to buy stuff. We genuinely liked this product. If they look cool to you and you’re having trouble deciding which style to pick, my recommendation would be to go for the rounded shape if you have a lot of wind since it’s more aerodynamic. In a light breeze or a sheltered location both would be good choices, and it actually adds to the effect as they sway gently.