Green Wedding Tips for Seattle - Catering and Flowers

avantbride — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:15:24 +0000

Green weddings or even just adding a little green to your wedding has been a major trend for brides growing increasingly stronger over the recent years. There’s no denying that there are limitless options to having a “green” wedding – you can go as far are you’d like. The hole in the ozone’s the limit! Seattle in particular has great resources for green weddings. Here are just a couple of suggestions that I have come across. Although I do have to mention a caveat, which is that just because a vendor doesn’t say they have sustainable or local produce, recycled materials or conflict-free diamonds, doesn’t mean they won’t be willing to work with you. Although our choice for a caterer was limited due to our location, I was able to change the fish on our menu (among other things) to one that was recommended from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch list.

Green Catering & Flowers in Seattle –

A simple way to think greener involves taking the time of year and where you are into consideration. In doing so, you’d have more information from the local farms about how they grow their flowers and you wouldn’t be wasting energy and creating emissions from the trucks and planes that haul out of season flowers to Seattle. The Pacific Northwest in the spring means tulips, daffodils and cherry blossoms, in the summer you can have anything you’d like – dahlias, roses, lavender, and zinnias and in the fall ornamental gourds, more roses, gladiolas, and in the winter – go ahead and give yourself a break by ordering those flowers from Ecuador. Of course, you can try to go organic with an online company like Organic Bouquet, but then you’d be shipping it in…or you can work with a florist who uses local and organic flowers like Terra Bella Flowers on Phinney Ridge in Seattle.

In regard to food, making your wedding more environmentally friendly can be as simple as swapping Chilean seabass for wild-caught salmon. The former is not only overfished but is also known to have high levels of mercury. When you’re reviewing your menu choices months ahead of time think of the produce that will be in season for your special day. Fresh baby greens, asparagus and peas in the spring, cherries, berries, corn, beans and anything else you can think of in the Pacific Northwest in the summer, and squashes, apples, and nuts in the fall. A couple local caterers known for sustainable, organic ingredients are Herban Feast and Ravishing Radish.

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Green Wedding Tips for Seattle - Catering and Flowers