How to have a green Wedding in Toronto

Weddings are beautiful. There is nothing better than seeing two people who love each other getting married. However, the wedding industry has a dirty secret.  The average wedding has 400 pounds of garbage and 62 tons of Co2, a greenhouse gas. So what can we do with 2.5 million marriages a year? We can all make small eco-friendly Toronto wedding choices that will save us money and cut down our waste. Having an eco-friendly wedding is trending this year so make sure your guests know what you’ve done.

Silk flower wall backdrops in Toronto

Instead of fresh-cut flower decor, there are many eco-friendly- options.

• Potted plants (make great decor, you can paint the pots to match you wedding colours)
• Composting the fresh cut flowers
• Local flowers, transporting flowers that are not in season, creates a lot of emissions 

Toronto Paper products

• Instead of handing out a million wedding programs, have a chalkboard sign placed where guests can see it 
• Wedding invites a lot of paper that goes into sending things like a to save the date, and then the real invite, and then they mail it back RSVPing. There are digital ways to create beautiful invites and add it to their calendars, through wedding websites and other e-invites.  
• Paper napkins, go with linens they are reusable.   

Sustainable food in Toronto

• Getting locally sourced food means that it doesn’t travel as far creating fewer gas emissions
• Talk to your venue about food bank donations after the reception. A lot of food gets discarded at weddings, try and make sure someone who needs it gets to take it home. 

While talking to your venue, see if they can help you set up proper garbages for guests to sort their mess such as recycling, garbage, compost and paper products. If the venue disposes of this properly, you’ll be doing your part.

Eco-friendly wedding decor in Toronto

If you don’t have another use for it, try and rent it instead. Single-use decorations pile up quickly. If you must use single-use decorations see if you can donate them to the local thrift store after.  A good rule of thumb is to rent not buy.

Rentals get reused several times for other events and are of high-quality products. Renting decorations like Our Toronto flower walls rentals for photos and Our Toronto marquee lettering is cost-effective, pretty and eco friendly. 

At Events 365, we are a top-rated wedding décor service company in Toronto and surrounding areas such as Hamilton and newmarket. We offer beautiful Toronto flower walls for rent as well as wedding balloon decor. Our big block letters rentals in Toronto are always a hit at weddings. Our event decor services are second to none.

Eco-friendly wedding favours in Toronto

These are the bane of existence for all couples and planners; Since they are costly and usually get thrown out. Anything that’s engraved with your names and isn’t personalized to you guests they generally don’t want.

  Renting a photo booth so they can take photos that they would love to take home. Our Toronto photo booths Rentals can email you the images as well, so you have them digitally cutting down on paper waste. 

Confetti

Confetti is beautiful but very harmful to the environment. Small bits of plastic and paper get left around. Why would you even want paper confetti once you see how beautiful it is to use organic materials like rose petals/lavender and other herbs that can come in a plethora of colours and fresh scents. Using a compostable bag to hold them is a fun eco-friendly way to have confetti at your wedding.

Sustainable wedding rings in Toronto

Finding that perfect wedding ring is hard enough without having to be environmentally friendly. There are a few options here to be more sustainable. Perhaps a family heirloom ring would mean a lot more than just picking one out, and it’s reusing the ring. Lab-grown gemstones are ethical and also half the price. Talk to your jeweller before buying to make sure all your precious metals and gemstones are ethically sourced.

Wedding attire

The dress, almost everyone buys their dream wedding dress spending extravagant amounts of money on them when they are only going to wear it once. They are beautiful but you can get the same dresses for less by renting them. This can be your something borrowed for your wedding. These dresses come in all shapes and sizes and fit so well that you won’t even notice it’s not specifically tailored to you. This saves textiles from waste and saves your wallet from a dress you’ll only wear once.    

These are a few ways to be eco-friendly at your Toronto wedding. There are a ton more out there including having a minimalist wedding or buying everything from a thrift store. These are the easy ways to pitch in to help reduce waste. Read about when you should start booking rentals.