It’s marriage ceremony season and a tremendous time to reminisce about my special occasion. Whereas I had an especially over-the-top, uncommon marriage ceremony (examine it in Time Out NY), it was extremely sustainable. Waste isn’t in my DNA, so whereas everybody ought to do what’s proper for them (it’s YOUR DAY!), listed here are some suggestions.

7 tricks to having a extra sustainable marriage ceremony:

  1. As a substitute of paper invitations we used Paperless Publish. It not solely helped us hold observe of visitors and immediately customise a wonderful invitation (did I point out I deliberate my marriage ceremony in underneath 2.5 months?) but additionally allow us to reassign the paper finances to extra experiences for our marriage ceremony visitors.
  2. No new rings… my engagement ring is classic as we’re not absolutely assured within the diamond trade and for each of our marriage ceremony bands as an alternative of latest rings, we melted down my grandfather’s gold ring and inscribed them with ‘Workforce James’ and ‘Workforce Lara’ on the within. It made the day further tremendous particular for us as my husband by no means obtained to fulfill my grandfather.
  3. All 8 outfits designed by Patricia Discipline outfits had been all classic, loans, second hand or rented together with the diamond earrings from Verstolo, except a couple of key items bought from small enterprise that may all be reworn.
  4. Lease every part but additionally give attention to distributors that do all of it. For our marriage ceremony we picked a rental firm that did levels, meals/beverage/utensils objects in addition to chairs/desk linens to keep away from a number of distributors.
  5. For the after-party we served pizza (essentially the most sustainable of meals when you think about it is available in a cardboard field that may be recycled/composted), a pretzel wall additionally makes for an ideal alternative!
  6. Registry – In lieu of bodily presents on our registry we had choices of ‘purchase us a drink’ at $15 choices, or donate a tree to the Armenian Tree Challenge to assist offset our carbon footprint. 
  7. Get artistic with flowers – in lieu of a proper cover or alter our florist, Christina Evangeline of @GardenByEvangeline pinned flowers alongside the brick wall to create a extremely stunning house that was rather more eco-friendly. She additionally used all reusable vases/objects to keep away from waste and flowers that had been simply compostable. Nevertheless, we didn’t even make it to that step as a result of all flowers had been tied and visitors had the choice to take them dwelling on the finish of the night time — and did. We additionally utilized accents from Venus et Fleur, so our preparations would outlast our marriage ceremony (they final for 1+ years!) and vases perpetually!