Bouquets look so much better when they don’t lie flat.
What makes a wedding planner eco-friendly? Among other things, this does:
The night before a wedding I had planned, the florist called. He was planning his delivery of personal flowers for the next day and wanted my input. He could lay the bouquets flat in a cardboard box for delivery, but, he said, that tended to make them come out flat on one side. His preferred method would be to stand them up in vases, which would then be secured into a re-usable crate. The only catch was that he needed to get the vases and crates back if there was to be no charge to my clients. For aesthetic reasons, I thought the vase-and-crate delivery method was superior. Also, it was less waste, which I also prefer. That’s the first thing a green wedding planner does: reduce waste. But it gets better.
A few days after the wedding, I went about the business of returning the items to the florist. I got out my trusty bike and the bungee cords, strapped the crate with four glass vases in it to the back of my bike, and rode–very carefully–the three-and-a-half miles to deliver them. Because that is also what a green wedding planner does. No matter what aspect of wedding or party planning I am working on, I am always thinking about how to reduce waste, reduce emissions, and have a greener party.
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