These tips from local wedding stylists and planners will help couples create an eco-friendly wedding YOUR DAY, A SUSTAINABLE WAY HIRING INSTEAD OF BUYING Gemma Halliwell, the founder of the West Country Wedding Planner suggests how hiring instead of buying wedding decor is seen as more sustainable because the items get reused. She tells us, “The napkins and runners that we provide are handmade and look beautiful placed on tables. The candlesticks are Victorian while the bottles are a mix of vintage medicine and cider bottles that have been upcycled as vases. They look fantastic filled with pampas and dried flowers which have all been used again and again meaning zero waste.” Gemma continues, “As sharing board meals has become increasingly popular, we have made rustic-inspired raised board centrepieces from pallet wood so that the tables can still be decorated and the food can sit in the middle of them. Our wooden vintage ladder provides the perfect sustainable seating plan, decorated with pots of herbs which can also be given away as gifts, and the recycled card can go back in the recycling bin after.” Gemma says how their vintage steal love letters have been handmade out of reclaimed metal with LED lights so use minimal power. “The bulbs last a wedding season (or two) without needing to be replaced,” she tells us. www.westcountryweddingplanner.co.uk www.facebook.com/westcountryweddingplanner www.instagram.com/wearewestcountryweddingplanner www.unsplash.com www.hannah-wilde.com VENUE STYLING 53
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