Happy Bride Blog

“Forest bathing” may have been pioneered in Japan, but the benefits are available to anyone.

Here at Hidden Botanics we believe strongly that the way to enjoy a fulfilled and prosperous life is to have an appreciation of nature and a respect for the world around us. This extends not just to the love and care we put into our floristry and the sustainability of our business and our attempts to limit the harm we cause our planet in our day to day lives, but also our support of the Japanese concept of “shinrin-yoku”.

Your honeymoon is your and your partner’s chance to relax as a married couple, so you don’t want to spend that time worrying about environmental impact. Here’s a quick guide to a more eco-friendly honeymoon, to alleviate your worries.

When we wrote about flowers with rich histories, we also delved into the place of some flowers within myths and folklore - like the peony, which has two disparate origin stories in Greek mythology: one as a result of Zeus wanting to protect Paeon, the physician to the Gods, from his angry master, and another in which a nymph was turned into the peony by a jealous Aphrodite - and in this post, we’ll be investigating these further. Flowers have fascinated humanity for millenia, so it’s no surprise that they are often linked with Gods and legends!

Myths are frequently strange, often tragic, but always fascinating. It’s brilliant to be able to look at a flower and above the beauty of its petals or its fragrance, also being able to remember that millenia ago, people told incredible stories just to explain how it came to be..

The history of the white wedding dress is shorter than you might think, so don’t feel guilty if one of the below options speaks to you more!

When I first overheard the term “japandi” in reference to home decor and interior design trends, I guessed that it was a portmanteau - which it is - but didn’t quite get the right answer in one go. Not having seen it written down, I first assumed that it was perhaps a combination of “Japanese” and “indie” styles. It was only as I investigated the trend further that it became clear how far off I was. Looking at examples of japandi now as I browse the internet, the Scandinavian and Nordic interior influences feel so obvious that I can’t believe I didn’t see that it was a merging of “Japanese” and “Scandi” all along.

Combining Japanese minimalism and practicality with Scandi cosyness and warmth - and laying on top of it all a cool, muted colour scheme - japandi has been on the rise recently.

The contemporary kitchen is a nightmare to all dreaming of sustainability.

If you use paper towels regularly, you are contributing to the 254 million tons of waste that just paper towels alone create globally each year. Over 51,000 trees need to be cut down to accommodate the paper towel usage of the world in a single day. That’s so wildly unsustainable I’m struggling to put it into words! And that’s just one item in your kitchen. Don’t even get me started on the sponges.

However, there is a way to beat back the mind-boggling amounts of waste that ordinary kitchens create. Below, we’ve collected 6 items that every person even attempting an eco-friendly kitchen needs (and before anyone gets worried, they’re all very reasonably priced).

Read on to find out how you can fight the environmental impact of your kitchen!

Dried flowers are a must-have of contemporary decor and interior design. They’re growing in popularity not just because of their beauty, but because of how long they last compared to fresh flowers, their versatility, and their low level of required maintenance. It helps that compared to constantly re-stocking a vase with fresh flowers, a one-off purchase of dried flowers is much more affordable.

For those wanting to get in on the trend but unsure what exactly to do with your dried flowers (or how to display them) we’ve assembled 4 suggestions to get you started. We’ve tried to cover a good range of different starting points for displaying dried flowers, so see what stands out and inspires you!

There are many reasons you would have a wedding dress to sell and want it gone fast. Some are more upbeat than others. Whatever the reason, you just don’t want the thing anymore.

Thankfully, these days it’s easy to sell your wedding dress quickly and help a bride feel beautiful walking down the aisle.

This blog post is going to run you through the ways you can sell your wedding dress quickly: online or in person. It is also going to end with information about various charities you could donate your wedding dress to, should that be something you are open to doing instead.