If you’re theming your wedding, it’s often best to choose something that you care deeply about for your theme. If you love the environment; perhaps you should consider changing your ‘White Wedding’ to a ‘Green Wedding’. That’s not a colour suggestion!

Because lifestyle choices and waste affects nature, you can plan ahead so that your wedding to uses sustainably produced and biodegradable goods and services.

First of all, think about the things used for your wedding are biodegradable. Try to find out what flowers are the most sustainably produced; without too much freight (and thus, CO² emissions) between the flower-farm and your wedding. You can use your creativity to achieve the best floral combination yet still take care of the environment.

If you’re providing wedding gifts to wedding attendants, think about long-term gifts. Instead of giving disposable plastic items; you might like to consider gifts made from steel or glass that can be re-used or re-cycled. You can give away different seeds or plants as natural wedding favors.

For your venue, you might prefer an outdoor venue instead of staying inside the building. In this way, you will be able to have natural venue that provides fresh air for everyone. There are a host of great outdoor wedding venues, from botanical gardens and beaches to vineyards. Having a ceremony and reception in the early morning and afternoon also means you’ll create less environmental drain by using less electricity for lights. If you’re looking for a starlit reception, you could always look for low-power drain lights like LEDs.

A lot of wedding suppliers are conscious of the environmental effects of their goods and services; so when you’re engaging a wedding planners, wedding florists, dressmakers and venues – tell them you want an environmentally friendly wedding, and they’ll let you know of what they can do to help.