A wedding all ethical

by Annalisa Audino

Imagine the scene: flowers that come from a cornfield to decorate the church, invitations made with recycled-paper, a boy that wears a white linen smoking, a girl that comes towards him with a dress made by biopolymers of biodegradable mais and an elegant dinner with local products.

It isn’t a strange dream, but only an eco-friendly weeding for all those that also in the most important day of their life want respect the environment and communicate to their wedding attendants their efforts for ecological causes. And there’s more: also the honeymoon can be eco-friendly if you choose to travel by train, by bike or on foot through Buthan or Holland.

The ethical weeding fashion comes from United States and reflects about environmental and social impacts of every choice. And also vips like this new trend: for example Stella McCartney, crying “to be an ethic person is to demonstrate that the wedding day is not an egoistic day”, invited her wedding attendants to plant flowers and trees in a park.

There’s everything for a eco-friendly wedding day. Wedding skeep-sakes, invitations and wedding lists can be created in the same eco-shop with juta, hyacinth, straw, natural inks, african ceramics and woods. Those persons that are more zelous can ask their wedding attendants to replace the wedding skeep-sake or a present with a donation of money for a developing community or a eco-friendly project.

You can buy also eco-wedding rings in shops of cooperatives composed by people differently able that make rings with natural materials that haven’t substained chimical treatment and without precious stones. Or you can buy on Internet a greenkarat wedding ring: rings made by recycled gold and diamonts that come from places where there isn’t war and black market.

And then there are dresses. In Italy there are two eco-friendly proposals. The first is proposed by the stylist Igam Ussaro: he uses textile materials with termoplastic characteristics that come from biopolymers and synthesis plants or recycled materials. The collection, all biodegradable, is called Eco Fast Dress and it’s ecofriendly and cheap. In Sondrio, instead, the Shop Solidarity has created a collection of twelve dress handmade by Bangladesh women.

Finally, also the wedding banquet has to be eco-friendly: so it’ll be in the same place of the cerimony and based on local and biologichal products or vegetarian.

And if your mariage is too expensive, you can follow the American example of Andrea Parrish e Peter Geyer. To pay their marriage, on 31st July, they have to gain money recycling 400 thousands cans. Their friends gave them a lot of cans and they have the collaboration of people coming from all the world, but to have all the money they have to recyle 57,143 can per month, 14,286 per week and 2,041 per day. If you want to help them you can visit www.weddingcans.com.

The artist E. Moises Diaz helped them using cans to realize very strange works in aluminum: the 40% of the money he gained will be donate to the couple.