Earlier this week I was asked by Milena of
There Is Always Room if I would like to be a guest blogger! As a professional organizer, this month her blog focuses on wedding planning. She was interested in my ideas about not using any live flowers (or flowers at all, for that matter) in our upcoming wedding. I was very honored to be asked to do this and I hope everyone will take some time to visit Milena's blog!
Reflecting on my post about not using flowers, I started to wonder if people actually knew the environmental costs of cutting live flowers for use as decoration. There are a variety of sources explaining the environmental and social costs of the cut flower industry, and when researching one has to be careful to make sure the source is reliable. A site that I particularly like is a blog called
Reduce Footprints. They published an article in December 2008 explaining the negative impacts of cutting flowers, and also offers some ways to keep flowers around in a more environmentally conscious manner. Please take some time to learn more about the environmental impacts of the actions you take!
I've read the following environmentally conscious books and I highly recommend reading them (or watching the movie for the first one if you don't like to read... which hurts me to say, because I am English teacher):
