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Wedding Planning
It's booked!!
After much umm-ing and ahh-ing, a dinner tasting and a good look around, (actually twice!) we have finally booked our wedding venue! We have gone for something a little different for the day, well actually two days, this decision was reached for a number of reasons some of them eco centered.
Weddings have a tendency of getting big, growing in fact right before your eyes, becoming all consuming, but if you're concerned by the basic waste, money and miles this will effect, have you considered doing a two date affair?
Basically we are having a very small ceremony and dinner, it looks like 14 of us on a Wednesday, and then a cheap and cheerful party the following Saturday, 'two do’s' you say, surely that can’t be very eco, that’s just extravagance no? Well no, we hope.
This has two main outcomes for us. Intimacy and affordability. But will also, I hope, keep it eco centered.
So the ceremony, with our very nearest and dearest family and friends, parents, best man, etc. means that afterwards, for the wedding breakfast, we can eat at one table, enjoy really good local food in a beautiful private dining room, the same room in which we will earlier have been married, and we can all stay over in the same place keeping travel miles low. Intimate, relaxed and personal. One room to decorate, 14 mouths to feed, no going to or fro!
For the following Saturday we have managed to book a local village hall meaning it will be very DIY. I’m roping in friends and family to cook, supply decorations, help tend bar and provide music, any decorations we used for the ceremony will be reused to decorate the hall. Admittedly I’m lucky that they are, on the whole, a talented bunch but really if you ask around and think a bit laterally you need outsource for very little, keeping the overall footprint low.
Things I’m thinking about for instance, local ale and cider, wine brought back from France by relatives who are going there anyway, decorations made by grandma and friends, amusements, games, tent, DJ equipment all to be found within the county! Actually with a little help from Google and GreenUnion you will be amazed what you can find! In fact the more I research small, handmade, low impact weddings, the better I feel about the choices we are making.
Another good resource for those planning to throw small, handmade, eco weddings is the Wedding Series of articles on etsy's blog the Storque. If you haven’t found etsy yet, and you're planning for your wedding this is exactly the right time to check it out!
Posted by Esther - Blogger Bride
Thanks Esther. I can't tell you how refreshing it is to hear how your wedding plans are shaping up. It all sounds so intimate and personal and the low carbon footprint is a bonus! Can't wait for the next installment.
Esther is a very creative artist and you can see and buy some of her illustrated, upcycled vintage chinaware in our Eco Chic Boutique.
