Happy Bride Blog

How to preserve your wedding bouquet as a beautiful momento

You did it. You said your vows, you kissed your partner (now spouse!), and you went home, probably feeling beyond exhaustion. You got married. But now what do you do with your bouquet?

Even though it’s a new day, you don’t want to forget one of the greatest days of your life so far, where your closest friends and family celebrated you and the one you love. One way to do this is to preserve your wedding flowers. There are several options available to you. Four are below.

Weddings ravage the planet, but they don’t have to. Show you love the planet as much as you love your partner by following our easy advice.

Planning a wedding is already hard enough, from saying yes and putting on the engagement ring for the first time to finally saying “I do” there are 1001 things that need to be accomplished and sorted. Given all that, it’s completely understandable to not want to have each of those tasks mired down by having to also make sure that as much of your wedding as possible is sustainable. However, given that it has been previously estimated that British weddings annually create enough plastic waste to weigh the same as 47 blue whales, and result in over 3.6 million extra tonnes of CO2 gas created each year, some brides-to-be may be feeling the eco-anxiety building.

But fear not! There are plenty of ways to make your special day as environmentally friendly as possible!

Living more sustainably doesn’t have to be difficult. With these six tips, anyone can begin living sustainably.

Despite the largest contributor to climate change being coal and oil companies, and these organisations having similarly ruinous effects on their surrounding ecosystems, this doesn’t mean we can ignore personal responsibility, and as we get scarily close and closer to the point of no return with our environment, we should all be trying to do our part to live more sustainably and in an eco-friendly way.

That task may sound quite daunting, but don’t worry! No one is expecting you to flip a switch and suddenly become a sustainable, environment-saving machine. There are plenty of smaller ways you can start to live a more eco-conscious life.