5 Ideas to Plan Your Eco Friendly Wedding

Realizing or not, your big day which is the most special and happy moment in your life is hurting our earth by donating those non-biodegradable waste like like food waste, decoration waste, and transportation waste. Have you ever thought how many couples get married every day? Can you imagine how much non-biodegradable garbage that is produced by wedding events per day, per year, and for a decade? The consequences should be borne by millions of human beings, animals, and even plants.

Indeed, it’s really sad to know how worse our earth can be. But since eco-friendly weddings will become one of wedding trends in 2021, more couples are concerned about saving our earth by using the sustainable wedding concept. It’s not easy to hold a green wedding, but we can try. So, here are some eco-friendly wedding ideas to plan your sustainable wedding. Even though it doesn’t have a big impact, if these little things are done by many couples, it will have a big impact. Thanks to the kind-hearted couples, and here are the tips for you.

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1. Stop Use Single Equipment And Decorations For Your Green Weddings

Using single use equipment and decorations that are made of plastics and single use papers are not safe for our earth. Rather than using plastic and single use paper utensils, it’s better to rent it to a catering company. And it will look more elegant for your environmentally eco-friendly wedding. 

So do the decorations for your sustainable wedding. Reduce even stop using single use decorations, instead use the one that you can reuse at home. If it’s not cost efficient for you, rent the decoration from a decoration vendor.

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2. Cut Down Fresh Flowers, But Use Succulents as Decoration

Using succulents as your wedding decoration like decorate your tables is the other eco-friendly wedding ideas. It makes your tables look prettier. Succulents or potted plants are alive so you don’t need to throw them away after your wedding party, instead you can put them at your house or resell them to get your penny back.

Cut down fresh flowers is considered as non biodegradable because fresh flowers are often imported and shipped from far away which produce pollution for our environment. And of course the flowers must be using more chemicals to preserve it. If you really want to use fresh flowers on your green wedding, make sure that the florist you hire uses local flowers or seasonal flowers to decrease the environmental pollution.  

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3. Use Eco-Friendly Wedding Invitations

If you’re not a paper enthusiast, it’s highly recommended to use digital invitation rather than print the invitation on papers. Papers are made by plants. Using papers to print your wedding invitations means there will be more plants that should be cut down to make the paper. Moreover, the invitation papers will be thrown away after your big day is done. It is such an easy way to hold an eco-friendly wedding.

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4. Stop Using Balloons & Floating Lanterns to Hold Eco-Friendly Wedding

Balloons are single use products that quickly turn into trash and are not recyclable. So do the latex balloons. It is not completely biodegradable as it doesn’t use the natural latex. Some also think that floating/sky lanterns are one of alternatives to balloons. But it is not. Floating lanterns are not environmentally friendly. Even biodegradable lanterns made of bamboo need decades to break down. It harms animals.

A sky lantern also can cause serious burns, disrupt the flight of planes, and kill animals, even humans. Even only one lantern can take down a plane if it is sucked into the jet engine. Several countries like Germany, Austria, and Australia have banned the use of sky lanterns in their country. If you want to hold a sustainable wedding, stop using balloons and floating lanterns as the symbol of your gratitude and happiness as it is unintentionally littering. Instead, planting a plant can be a good alternative to symbolize gratitude, happiness, and love. Stop using balloons and floating lanterns are the easiest sustainable wedding ideas. 

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5. Donate Your Wedding Favors Rather Than Dispose It

Fresh flowers and foods are the other things that produce trash at the end of your wedding party. Rather than throwing the flowers and food waste into something useless, it’s better to make it into something useful like compost. You can also change the fresh flowers into dried flowers that are valuable and last long to be decorated in your house or even sell it to others. If you have no any plan for the waste of your wedding, those green wedding ideas should be useful. 

Actually, there are many ways to plan and hold an eco-friendly wedding and you can apply some of those to reduce the non-biodegradable waste of your wedding. Small actions mean a lot more than nothing. Anyway, here we have some wedding venues in Bali that suit any wedding concept of yours. Visit Ubud Villas Rental by Red Lotus Property to get more insights about villas in Bali.