When Charlotte and Nick Baker were planning their wedding in Cumbria last month, they wanted a highly personal celebration that reflected their deeply held principles about minimising waste.
Unusually, that included asking a food waste charity, the Real Junk Food Café, to feed their 135 guests a three-course meal created entirely from food that would otherwise have been thrown away.
For Charlotte, saving money was not the motivation. “The ethos of the day, and our lives together, is that of an ethical foundation. We are aware that weddings can be an opportunity for obscene over-expense and excess and we decided to minimise our contribution to this trend.”
Charlotte’s wedding dress, for example, was a second-hand Monsoon gown spotted in a charity shop in St Andrews, while her bridesmaids’ dresses also came from charity shops. Decorations in the marquee were fashioned from discarded bicycle wheels and origami from junk mail, while all the flowers were grown by Charlotte’s mother.
The couple also eschewed a traditional wedding list, instead drawing up a “gift suggestion list” encouraging guests to give second-hand or home-made items.
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Source: The Guardian, 22 July 2017