Sustainable Wedding Florist in France-12 ideas to be more green.
Bundled chicken wire taped into a dish for a centerpiece
I’ve always been keen on saving packaging, paper, cartons and anything else I think might be of use some day. It isn’t every person’s cup of tea to save stuff and sometimes I give up trying to be as environmentally responsable but it started when I was a kids where we saved margarine tubs to put anything that required storage.
There’s a difference when you’re a florist ordering flowers with packaging, plastic and boxes and boxes. And we are talking about a substantial negative impact and that is what I want to mitigate. How do I try and use less, reuse and recycle?
With the help of floral companies and their usage of recyclable materials, it helps me be green too.
Bio degradable organic ‘brick’s with chicken wire for a long centerpiece.
Rubber bands! There are a lot of these. I remove them, put them in a container and use these for hanging flowers to dry.
With rubber bands, I reuse them when making bridal bouquets to tie together the flowers as the bouquet becomes cumbersome to hold all the stems together.
With the Kraft paper, usually large sheets, I fold carefully and either use it to stabilize vases in transport or keep to wrap dried flowers once they’re ready.
I use the kraft paper to wrap vases and other delicate glassware for storage and transport.
The plastic sleeves are great to put into a ball and stabilize bouquets from moving in their vases for transport.
These cellophane sleeves are good to protect worktables from all the water a florist uses.
Goodbye foam! I no longer use florist foam. With the mechanics for creating arches and installations, I use chicken wire which is easily reused over many times.
Some flowers arrive in plastic bags. These I reuse to protect a flower crown or for storage of various florist essentials. (Like rubber bands:)
The long boxes that are delivered with flowers are great for transporting stems and greenery. They’re big enough for the long garlands I prepare in advance.
Cutting holes in the lid of the box allows for the neck of the vases to become stabilized while transporting bouquets. And lay that plastic cellophane inside and it waterproofs the carton when vase water might spill.
My friend eats a lot of yoghurt that comes in sturdy, round tubs with a nice lid. I keep these to dry large rose heads with silica.
And often when dismantling after a wedding there are perfectly good flowers that I put into little bunches and leave with the chateau owner to put in various guest areas or I return home with flowers that I hang and dry for future dried flower projects and bouquets.
My childhood of saving and reusing has helped me to continue with the same mentality that “ I might use that in the future” thinking!
