Why eco-friendly wedding flowers? Well, what you choose for your wedding flowers and your bouquet can affect the planet just like everything else we do in our day-to-day lives. Weddings are a huge industry and so are wedding flowers.
Think about all the flowers you are going to need for your big day: the bouquet, bridesmaid’s flowers, rose peddles for the flower girls. Not to mention the flowers you need for decors such as the centrepieces for the ceremony and reception. There are flowers everywhere so why not get them in the most eco-friendly ways possible. After all, what you do with your flowers for your one special day can make a difference.
5 Eco-Friendly Wedding Flowers Ideas to Inspire
1. In-Season Flowers
Consider asking your florist about flowers that are in the same season as your wedding. By choosing local flowers that are in season, you are getting the freshest flowers and best-priced flowers for your wedding. Of course, not every flower is in the same season so if you want a flower that is not in season consider finding a flower that resembles it with the same shape and colour.
2. VeriFlora-Certified
What is Veriflora-Certified? This means that the flowers are not grown with chemicals or grown under harsh working conditions. Healthy soil, healthy flowers, and healthy workers. This is important to know because you should know that the company cares for the flowers also cares about the condition their company is in regards to their eco-friendly solutions. As well as, the workers who help them.
3. Donate Your Wedding Flowers
I am all about repurposing things and flowers are no exception. Most brides keep their wedding bouquets as a keepsake. Other brides toss it into a crowd of bridesmaids and single guest attendance. However, what happens to the centrepiece flowers? Where do those go, if no guest takes them home? There are actually companies that reuse your wedding flowers as well as event flowers.
Rebloom works with event planners to be able to take the flowers after an event is done. They make sure it keeps its quality by refrigeration overnight, then they deliver the arrangements to you.
Repeat Roses takes them and restyles them for redistribution to patients. Your wedding flowers would be in hospices, cancer treatment centers, domestic abuse and homeless shelters. Update: they closed their company due to covid however, just in case they open it back up when things start settling down I am going to keep the link here.
4. Potted Plants
Another way to be eco-friendly conscious when getting wedding flowers is to buy potted plants, plants or topiaries for your wedding centrepieces. This is a great way to have yourself or your guest reuse your decor in their gardens. This way the beauty doesn’t end simply after the wedding but comes home with you too. You can also save so much money if you get these potted plants on a great sale day.
5. No Flowers
It is safe to say that not everyone is a flower person. Some love having flowers all around while others rather not. So, those brides who want to opt-out on the flower options can think about having cool brooch bouquets, a basket of fruits and veggies for colour or holding a frame of a loved one who has passed and couldn’t make it to your wedding. Those are all perfect alternates to flower bouquets.
For not reception tables you can have candles, books, photos and more to give your table the looks it desires. A bowl of water with floating lit candles is always beautiful to see. Don’t think you can’t have fantastic reception decor without flowers because you sure can!
Final Thoughts
We talked about all the ways you can have eco-friendly wedding flowers for your wedding event. By choosing one or more of these options above you are helping the earth in a big way. Whether you choose flowers or no flowers, one bride can really make a difference. Don’t think you can’t because you can and it is not a hard task to achieve.
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