A popular wedding trend for 2020 is to make your wedding as sustainable, low impact and eco-friendly as possible. Just as in our daily lives, the idea is to make small changes that will contribute to making a bigger difference. It is obviously impossible to make no impact at all, but little adjustments to wedding traditions can help make your wedding day a bit gentler on the planet.
There is quite a lot of information available on eco-friendly weddings, so to help we’ve pulled together 25 of our favourite ways to make your wedding day more eco-friendly and sustainable.
Wedding Dates and Wedding Suppliers
- Choose a wedding date in a season where the weather isn’t likely to be too hot (requiring air conditioning) or too cold (requiring heating)
- Use local wedding suppliers
- Use wedding suppliers who prioritise sustainability, are eco-friendly and state the ways in which they are so
Wedding Dresses
- Look for a second-hand wedding dress
- Upcycle a family heirloom wedding dress
- Rent a wedding dress
- Choose a vintage suit
- Choose a suit that you can wear again
- Donate your wedding dress after your wedding
Flowers
- Choose to use in-season flowers
- Use local flowers
- Donate the flowers at the end of the night to guests or nursing homes
- Re-purpose floral arrangements – such as using the flowers from your ceremony venue at your reception
- Use succulents as they require little water, last a long time, and are easy to transport or give-away as wedding favours to your guests
- Use leaf cut outs or left over petals for your confetti
- Use potted flowers and plants as they are much easier to use again or distribute to family and friends
Stationery
- Use digital invitations
- Use recycled papers
- Use biodegradable paper such as seed papers for the wedding invitations – your guests can plant these as a momento of your wedding day!
- Limit the stationery pieces to one and offer a website for more information
- Ask guests to RSVP via a website or email
- Use a few menus per table instead of one per person
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