Eco-Friendly Wedding Flowers
When it comes to your wedding flowers, be a green, eco-friendly bride. It's all the rage, and it's the easiest thing to do...
Choose flowers that are in season. You will get better quality, price, and they will have probably been grown a lot closer to home. If you aren't sure what is in season around in the month you are getting married, have a look at the Flowers & Plants Association.
Ask your florist to source your flowers from UK growers. Although the choice isn't as vast, you can still get a whole host of beautiful blooms, especially in the summer months. Look out for Roses, Delphiniums, Lisianthus, Freesias and Sweet Peas, to name just a few.
Why not pick a garden wedding venue? Not only will you get extra pretty pictures and a lovely laid back feel, but you will be surrounded by readymade decorations.
Be extra lovely to family members and friends that have pretty gardens, or green fingers! Hand grown and picked wild flowers have a beautiful charm all of their own, and are in fact my idea of heaven.
There is a huge trend with my brides next year, which I love. Instead of cut flowers, use pretty plants and potted herbs for your table centres (which will help the room smell delicious). You could even give them away to your lucky guests as wedding favours. Two birds, one stone?
If you don't want to give plants away, how about recycling some old glass bottles with a single wild bloom in it, or give each guest a packet of seeds or a Pocket Garden so they can grow their own memories of your special day?
Where you can, re-use your flowers. Move table centres to the ceremony room to decorate the space, and then ask your ushers to move them to the wedding breakfast. Your guests won't even realise they were the same blooms.
Use natural rose petals instead of normal confetti. The petals are completely biodegradable, will match your big day perfectly, and look extra pretty in your pictures.
Look out for Fairtrade and organically grown flowers; although these can work out to be more expensive, the environment will be a lot happier.
Article by Middlesex Wedding Florist Steph Turpin
Images Courtesy of:
Flower Close-Ups: Fairy Nuff Flowers
Garden Display, Pot Plants: Marianne Taylor Photography
Pocket Garden, Petal Confetti: Randall Photography
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