Sustainable Wedding Tips
Sustainable Wedding Tips: Florals
Posted in Sustainable Wedding Tips, Wedding Advice on Apr 17, 2024
Let's talk flowers! There's so much debate, controversy and discussion about wedding flowers, and so many misconceptions about what is sustainable and what isn't.
First off, let's explain conventionally grown flowers. Many of the giant beautiful arrangements and installations you see on Pinterest and Instagram include hothouse flowers, or flowers that have been shipped from around the globe. This shipping of course is one part of the carbon footprint, but another, less-considered issue is the amount of fungicides and pesticides used on them, as customs isn't terribly keen on non-native bugs c...
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Sustainable Wedding featured in Southern Bride
Posted in Past Weddings, Sustainable Wedding Tips on Apr 10, 2020
An Earth-friendly, Boho wedding set in early Spring stepped out in style
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Oakleaf Cottage Wedding Featured in Junebug Weddings!
Posted in Past Weddings, Sustainable Wedding Tips on Apr 10, 2018
We have to tell you about an amazing couple — more than once we have gushed at how incredible it was that they had hiked to the bottom of Cloudland Canyon State Park for those waterfall photos … without breaking a sweat, messing up makeup, or even slightly staining that beautiful dress. They came out looking as fresh and amazing as when they left!
But what we haven’t said much of is this — when Rachel and Josh first came to see our barn, it looked like this:
No concrete. No walls. No deck. There may not have even been rocks in the section of driveway out to the barn, meaning they had to wal...
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