Tips for a Green Wedding

Each year more and more brides think about the impact their wedding is having on the world, and opt for a green wedding.
With the wedding market growing each year, and people offering you exotic honeymoons on long haul flights, expensive large cars to take you to the wedding and people travelling all over the continent for hen and stag parties; it’s not surprising that weddings do have a significant impact on the world.

So we’ve got a few tips for you if you’re wanting to do your bit for the environment and have a green wedding.

Think small.
Not only will fewer guests mean the less fossil fuels that will be used, you’ll also be consuming less, and create less waste. Having a smaller guest list will also give you a bigger choice of wedding venues and presumably less expense.

Buy Edible or Consumable Favours.
Consumable favours are fun, and environmentally friendly. Some ideas are home-made jam, chocolate, cookies or even beeswax candles. Favours need only be a token thank you for your guests, there is no need to by something that no one will ever use.

Or don’t buy any favours.
Alright, maybe that sounds mean, but would anyone really notice ? Another option for wedding favours is to donate money to a charity in the names of each guest. The wedding guest receives a card informing them that instead of a favour, money was donated to a specific charity of your choice.

Be a ‘Locavore’.
Instead of lashing out on wedding caterers, why no buy from farmers’ markets or even to grow or pick your own food, fresh, local products are more nutritious and taste better anyway. Locavores also shun supermarket offerings as an environmentally friendly measure, since shipping food over long distances often requires more fuel for transportation – how much fun would the buffet be is your wedding guests could see that you’ve grown and made your own foods.

Have your Ceremony and Reception in the Same Location.
A lot of wedding venues in Essex of this option now, and it will mean less travel for you and your guests. Some wedding venues also offer accomodation, meaning that out of town guests won’t spend half the day driving their cars from point to point.

Potted plants instead of fresh cut flowers for your centrepieces.
We love fresh flowers, but we also love the idea of being able to enjoy the table centrepiece long after the wedding. Potted flowers are lovely, and you can allow wedding guests to take them home too.

Buy a Second Hand Wedding Dress and Bridesmaid Dresses from Special Moments in Collier Row in Essex – they are run by St Francis Hospice which is a simply fantastic charity.

Don’t bother with disposable cameras.
Why do people still do this at weddings? The images are awful, they cost a fortune to get developed and the plastics are totally non environmentally friendly. The wedding guests will all bring digital cameras – ask them to email you the copies so you can print a few favourites.

Scrap the Confetti.
Do you really need confetti? Why is it thrown at a wedding anyway ? Are you just tossing bits of paper all over the ground ? If you feel it’s a must, then use flower petals.

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