{"id":2857,"date":"2024-03-19T16:04:10","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T16:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/budebotanical.com\/?p=2857"},"modified":"2024-04-01T15:14:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T14:14:23","slug":"the-surprising-impact-of-your-wedding-day-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/budebotanical.com\/2024\/03\/the-surprising-impact-of-your-wedding-day-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"The surprising impact of your wedding day flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How is it possible that your wedding day flowers could cause any harm to the environment or to the communities in which they grow? How can something so lovely, so much a part of our lives and celebrations, not be anything other than, well, just beautiful?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The truth is that the beauty and \u2018naturalness\u2019 of flowers means that for years and years we have been ignoring a tale that isn\u2019t very palatable. It\u2019s a tale of a mega world-wide industry, a tale of rampant capitalism, a tale of profit over people and profit over planet. And it’s a hard tale to tell without appearing to be a wedding day killjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A bit like the tale of us expecting to be able to buy strawberries year round  (when they only truly grow in a brief window of our summer loveliness), is similar to the tale of flowers. We expect to be able to have flowers, year round, whether they are in season, or not. We expect roses on our wedding day in February, despite the rose bushes growing around us being completely bare. And we expect to be able to replicate the Pinterest-perfect weddings, without ever really considering how those beautiful flowers could do any damage to anything or anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it\u2019s absolutely fine to expect those things, because the great majority of us don\u2019t know there\u2019s a problem with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The (mainly) hidden problem of our global floriculture industry has been rearing its head for a while now. The tales of fossil fueled greenhouses, long, cold transport chains, air miles and pesticide use is only known mainly by those who have felt compelled to do some finding out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The poor and precarious work conditions for those who work in far flung overseas farms, the irresponsible use of water in countries suffering from droughts, the endless amounts of packaging, mostly plastic, used during transportation is only known mainly to the ones who feel compelled to do something about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the doing something about it, makes a wedding florist\u2019s life much more difficult, more complicated, and sometimes it feels like those of us taking action are the bad guys, for pointing out the awfulness of the cut flower industry that we have seen for ourselves or read about or studied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So here\u2019s the thing\u2026you can do something really simple to make the credentials of your wedding day flowers much more sustainable.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Simply by choosing a wedding day florist that is passionate about the environment, about workers rights, about seasonality and about sustainable supply chains can ensure you have flowers to be really excited about on your special day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Bude Botanical we have spent the last two years working out how we provide the most amazing flowers for our couples\u2019 special days, without them being an environmental, or a social disaster, especially in parts of the world that could really do without more problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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