Choose Seasonal Organic Wedding Bouquets
If you’re tying the knot, there’s a good chance there’ll be a bouquet for the bride, buttonholes for the groom and best man, and flower posies for bridesmaids.
Yet most wedding flowers are imported from abroad (not Fair Trade), wrapped in plastic and have no scent. And look/feel like you would, after a long-haul flight.
Instead, choose seasonal organic flowers from artisan florists (who use zero waste floral foam). Then donate bouquets (upcycled for hospice patients).
Many flowers (including lilies, peonies & winter ranunculus) are unsafe near animal friends (as are delphiniums, often used for flower confetti).
So ensure such flowers only go to pet-free homes (even brushing a tail past such flowers can harm). Same applies for ‘plantable cards’. Read more on pet-friendly gardens.
For indoor displays, never face foliage towards outdoor gardens, as this can confuse feathered friends, who think the ‘inside’ is ‘outside’. Read more on how to help stop bird strike.
Grow Your Own Organic Wedding Flowers
If you’ve got green fingers, you may wish to grow your own wedding flowers (this book is by a sustainable flower farmer in Somerset).
Her farm supplies sustainable wedding flowers to locals (but as they only deal with seasonal blooms, you won’t be able to have a winter wedding!) It also offers DIY flower buckets for more affordable weddings (to arrange yourself).
