Wedding Dresses for Green Weddings

Series Summary

To be environmentally conscious and friendly, many couples are opting for ‘green’ weddings. A green wedding is an ecologically responsible wedding that avoids some of the trappings of a traditional wedding in favor of environmentally sound alternatives. Decorations, cocktails, wedding cakes, the wedding dress, centerpieces, reception menus—These are only some of the wedding elements a couple can decide to ‘Go Green’ with. A wedding ceremony does not have to be a celebration of excess to be memorable and classy, and many couples are keeping that in mind when planning the big day. Decorations and centerpieces that get thrown away after one use and unhealthy, catered food seem irresponsible to today’s environmentally-minded lovers. In this free video series on wedding planning, professional event planner Lori Randall teaches couples how to have green weddings. Randall gives many tips for going green with a wedding, from having an environmental theme to just making eco-friendly choices in decorations, foods and venues. Randall gives specific tips on traditions, cocktails, specialty items, gift bags, wedding cakes and more.

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is Lori Randall with Simply Divine Events, and I'm a wedding planner. And I've been planning events for ten years. Next I'm going to talk about what attire you should wear at your green wedding for your green wedding ceremony. First a lot of what's very popular for your environmentally friendly green weddings are hemp dresses. And you can find a lot of those on-line, too. And depending on where you live throughout the country there might be more bridal shops that carry them versus you know living in an area where it's a little more rural. You might have to go on-line and and order that way. But that's very popular. You can also look into your organic silks and your organic cottons for your bridal gown as well as your bridesmaid dresses. If you don't want to go the hemp route or the organic cotton route, you can also just think vintage and go to vintage shops. You can also use a dress from a family member, maybe your mother or your aunt or or your sister and re-use their dress. Basically you want to think of organic. You want to think of recycling and re-using. For the guys, there's also organic cotton suits. You can do hemp suits as well. Or you can also do like the silk suits if you want to go that route. You can also look in your consignment shops. If you want to just go ahead and buy a dress that's just more simple and casual, something you can buy at a department store and just re-use that later. You might want to go that route as well. So those are some ideas on what attire you should wear for your green wedding ceremony."