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Green Weddings Part 4
Decor And Transportation
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Decorating your wedding venue with ostentatious flowers and showcasing a fireworks display may all make your wedding look very grand - but the fact of the matter is that it is like adding insult to green injury. Make your wedding venue a neat, tidy and green haven.
Eco-friendly Wedding Décor
- Deck the halls with boughs of green: Nature is a wonderful beautician if you choose an outdoor venue helping you to minimize on artificial decorations. How lovely it may be to have a tender green grassy lawn as a wedding carpet!
If you are however compelled to hold your wedding indoors potted plants will lend a green hue. Opt for moderately priced Chinese lanterns, diyas, beewax / soybased candles instead of expensive and wasteful fireworks. Go for ecofetti (biodegradable confetti). As artificial flowers are reusable use them instead of real flowers.
Make the wedding Yagna eco-friendly: Wedding fires or Yagnas are generally very smoky and emit carbon monoxide. If you need to have the fire please abide by carbon offset norms.
Environmentalist Anand Pendharkar explains, "Ensure that the fire is burning properly as it is incomplete combustion which gives rise to smoke and carbon monoxide. So provide a constant source of oxygen with a hand fan. Brew the fire in a container with openings on the sides so that oxygen flows in. Install exhaust fans near the ceiling."
- Waste management: Use minimal disposable items to reduce waste that goes into landfill. Provide recycling bins for collecting paper, cardboard and other recyclable items.
If you receive excess flower bouquets donate them to old age homes if they are still fresh. Compost the decaying flowers. However remove the non-biodegradable silver coils, cellophane paper, clips and wires that usually come with bouquets before composting the flowers.
- Infuse melody and harmony: Keep the decibels low. No crackers and loudspeakers. Sometimes a wedding band or shenai may be so loud that the guests may not be able to hear one another even within close range.
Patronizing local artists is another feature of Green Weddings. Model and actor Kapil G Punjabi who hails from Rajasthan says, "In traditional Rajasthani weddings Banjara musicians and dancers perform. That's a performing art people usually sit and watch. Since the current trend is to dance along DJs playing popular Bollywood and Western numbers are becoming the norm. However, one can also merrily dance along with simple dholak beats. We all need to patronize Indian folk music in weddings else weddings may soon lose their ethnic touch."
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