A wedding usually uses many items and decors for the venue since couples only want the best for this special occasion. However, it might cause harm to the environment as many of these things would go directly to the trash bin after the event. If you don’t wish your special day to be adding more to the landfill, you can choose to go and do your own Planning An Eco-Friendly Wedding.

If you’re frowning upon the idea of an eco-friendly wedding and anxious about how it might turn out, you don’t have to worry. You can still allow your special occasion to look fabulous without your guests knowing you’re going economical. You can still achieve the look you’re going for without the need for one-time-use things that could harm the environment.

Listed below are some tips on how you can plan for an eco-friendly wedding.

• Purchase Fresh Flowers From The Local Store

A wedding is almost never complete without flowers as they could add romance and liveliness to the venue. With that, you may want to place as many fresh flowers as possible. You could look for bouquet trends and be able to apply delightful flower combinations that’d surely go well with your theme.

However, to be eco-friendly with your flower option, it’s better to purchase ones from a local store that’s nearest your ceremony and reception areas. In this way, you won’t have to worry about shipping methods, which could take a toll on the environment, especially if you’re planning to have imported ones.

• Reuse A Wedding Dress

A wedding dress is an expensive gown you may only get to wear once in your lifetime. After your wedding, you could either keep it in a box for safekeeping or choose to sell it. But with the amount of fabric used in the wedding dress, you can ensure it won’t be a friend to the environment.

To be more eco-friendly, thus, consider reusing an old wedding dress. It could be the dress your mother or grandmother used at their wedding, or you could go thrift shopping for one. If it doesn’t fit you perfectly, you can always bring it to a tailor for some adjustments. If you want, you could also include a veil.

Reusing a wedding dress wouldn’t only save you money. You’d also be helping preserve the environment by not adding another fabric waste into the landfill. Moreover, it’d add more meaningful memories if you use a family member’s wedding gown.

 

• Use E-Invites

With the aid of modern technology today, you can skip giving out physical copies of invitations and opt for e-invites. In such fashion, you’d not only save more money, but you could also help conserve the environment.

Using e-invites could also help you better manage your RSVP list. You can send invitations to your guests’ email, and they could immediately respond to you about their availability and if they’d be tagging someone along. This would save both of you the hassle of sending RSVP cards back and forth and calling them to confirm the name of their plus one.

Moreover, if there’s a sudden change in your wedding plans, you won’t have to reprint all the invitations and send them again to your guests. With e-invites, you could easily make the changes on your computer and alert your guests about any updates through their emails.

• Choose Eco-Friendly Souvenirs

After the wedding, you’d probably send your guests thank-you gifts for attending your very special day. Most likely, however, they’d be throwing away your packaging into the trash, which could be an added waste to the environment.

A solution to this is going for an eco-friendly gift. You can use biodegradable containers and include gifts they can surely reuse or consume. For instance, you could give away cupcakes with edible wrappers, cookies in reusable bags, coffee beans in a reusable mason jar, and many others. This way, you could help lessen the trash that pollutes Earth while still providing your guests amazing souvenirs.

• Limit Transportation Time

Any kind of gas transportation could harm the environment. While you can’t prevent your guests and vendors from using vehicles to get to your venue, it’d be best if you could limit their travel time.

Ideally, the location should be near everyone’s home so they won’t have to travel for hours, which could cause more gas emissions, harming the environment. As much as possible, pick a venue with easy access to public transportation, which may encourage guests not to bring their own cars.

If you’re having trouble finding a central location, you may want to set up a shuttle service to pick up your guests (for instance, from the hotel) and transport them all together to the venue. This would help reduce gas pollution, aside from making everything convenient for your guests.

It would also be favourable if you could hire local vendors instead. Since they’re near the venue, they won’t need to travel too far from their place of work. By doing this, you’re not only limiting their transportation time and thus taking part in saving the environment, but you’re also helping support local businesses.   

Conclusion

Planning an eco-friendly wedding would always be worthwhile. Not only would you contribute to protecting the planet, but you could also save on wedding costs. What’s more, you could use the money you saved on other important things, like a new home or your honeymoon. Truly, nothing feels better than being able to have fun without destroying Mother Earth.