Sustainable Wedding Hacks

Plan a gorgeous wedding while keeping the environment and your budget top of mind

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Weddings are memorable celebrations of love and commitment, but they can also be incredibly wasteful. So much so, the average amount of waste produced from a wedding is four hundred pounds. From extravagant installations to non-recyclable favors, weddings have a significant impact on the environment. However, it doesn't have to be this way! By making sustainable choices, you can still have a beautiful and notable wedding while reducing your environmental footprint.

From renting to recycling, keep reading to successfully throw a beautiful eco-friendly wedding!

Rent Your Wedding Flowers

The ultimate sustainable choice on the wedding day - renting your wedding flowers! After all, flowers are arguably the biggest waste day of the wedding. Most flowers are just used for a few minutes for the ceremony or hours for the reception before being thrown out. What a waste!

At Something Borrowed Blooms, we specialize in premium silk wedding flowers that are both on-trend and on-budget. We offer 20 beautiful collections of on trend silk wedding flowers that are recycled and refreshed after each use to ensure the highest quality. Flowers are passed on from one wedding to the next, providing one of the most sustainable wedding flower options on the market. And these eco-friendly florals also include many other benefits including full price transparency; our prices are the same all year long, so you don’t have to pay a premium during holidays, and unlimited availability; our flowers are always in season no matter where or when you tie the knot!

SBBlooms also source packaging from SFI-certified suppliers! This means our boxes are corrugated, 100% recyclable, and also reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

SBBlooms Bride, Kayla used the stunning Audrey Collection to complete the classic all-white floral look so envisioned for her special day.

Rent your Jewelry

Did you know that you can rent your diamonds!? Verstolo Fine Jewelry offers diamond necklaces, earrings, and bracelets to rent for your special day. They understand that buying real diamonds for your wedding isn’t always an option and want every bride to feel beautiful while on the best day of their life. So, they rent out their gorgeous pieces to allow brides to experience the luxury of wearing high-quality diamond jewelry on their wedding day. 

All Verstolo diamonds are ‘100% natural and conflict-free and they use the internationally recognized Kimberly Process to certify that all of their diamonds are obtained using legitimate means and are not used to help fund conflict.’

Shop all Verstolo jewelry here!

Use Digital or Eco-Friendly Invitations

Creating your own wedding website and sending e-vites to your wedding not only reduces waste but also saves you time and money! If you opt for traditional paper invitations, try and stick to recycled paper options. Minted.com has thousands of designs created by real artists that are ready to be personalized and are all 100% post-consumer recycled paper.

Read about Minted’s sustainability pledge here!

Buy and Sell Pre-Loved Attire

Finding an outfit for each of your pre-wedding events can add up quickly! Once you’ve worn it once, odds are it’ll be in your closet for months on end. Our friends at Rowely have created a perfect solution for selling and buying bridal pre-loved bridal essentials for every wedding-related event. From the shoes to THE dress, Rowely has it all for an affordable price. 

The best part? It’s sustainable. Producing new clothes requires a significant amount of resources, including water, energy, and raw materials. By buying pre-loved clothes, you're helping to reduce the demand for new clothes, which can help to conserve these resources.

Shop all Rowely has to offer here!

Planning a sustainable wedding is not only good for the environment, but it can also be a fun and creative challenge! By choosing eco-friendly florals and decorations, recycled jewelry, invitations, and pre-loved attire, you can have a wedding that reflects your values and your love for the planet.

Tell us in the comments below how you plan on incorporating sustainability into your wedding day!