Sustainable Wedding Flowers: The Best Choice For You And The Planet

Bride and groom on their wedding day

When it comes to planning a wedding, flowers play a crucial role in setting the tone and creating a beautiful atmosphere. From the bridal bouquet to centrepieces and boutonnieres, flowers add elegance and charm to the entire event. If you are a bride and groom who dream of beautiful sustainable flowers inspired by nature this post is essential reading.

Did You Know That Floral Foam Takes Hundreds of Years to Decompose?

Floral foam, used by many florists to arrange flowers, is made from plastic-based phenolic foam. It contains toxic chemicals. And it takes hundreds of years to break down in landfills. When floral foam becomes wet, it breaks down into small particles that can enter the water systems. These microplastics are harmful to wildlife as well as humans.

Imported Flowers: Not So Rosy

90% of flowers are imported to the UK each year - think about the impact of this on the planet. The biggest environmental impact comes from carbon emissions. Flying flowers from Kenya to the UK creates a substantial amount of CO2 emissions. Once in the UK, imported flowers are stored in refrigerators. This consumes additional energy.

How Can Something So Beautiful Be Harmful to Our Health?

Stems, leaves and unsold flowers generates substantial waste. Flower waste, if not composted, often ends up in landfills. This contributes to greenhouse gas emissions, damaging soil health and biodiversity. Also, flower waste decomposes slowly producing methane.

Imported flowers are often treated with pesticides and other chemicals. When flower waste isn’t properly composted, these chemicals can seep into our soil and water systems. This can potentially harm the ecosystems and our health.

Discover the Benefits of Sustainable Wedding Flowers

At Floral Edit, we are committed to sustainable floristry. Nature inspires our designs. We aim to:

§  Use seasonal British flowers and plants for our designs (when possible)

This helps us to create floral arrangements that are more in tune with the natural world. By aiming to source seasonal British flowers as much as possible, we do our bit to reduce carbon emissions and support local farmers and other small business. British seasonal flowers smell beautiful, stay fresh for longer and look right for the time of year.

§  Never use floral foam

This helps to reduce plastic pollution. We use alternatives to floral foam like reusable flower frogs and chicken wire or natural materials. Our arrangements look more natural and organic as a result.

§  Avoid single-use plastics

This helps to reduce pollution, waste and minimises the risk of microplastics entering the food chain.

§  Compost all flower waste

This helps to promote biodiversity and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Sustainable wedding flowers are a responsible choice. Choosing Floral Edit to create your wedding flowers means you will benefit from beautiful natural wedding arrangements that are inspired by nature and kind to nature.

We look forward to making your special day even more beautiful.