Last October, I got married. Like a lot of stuff in our lives, my fiancé–now husband–and I didn’t want to do things like everyone else. Specifically, we didn’t want to feed into the wedding-industrial complex that says you need to buy, buy, buy and spend, spend, spend for an event that represents only several hours–albeit several wonderfully amazing hours–of your life. It’s a racket, really. So we set to work crafting a wedding that was about us and not stuff. As you might expect, this meant making a whole lot of things for the wedding, often from reclaimed/reused items.
While we were planning the wedding, a number of people commented that I should be blogging about all the stuff we were doing to make our wedding as sustainable as possible, so that other people could see how it can be done and be inspired to do the same. The problem was that, while that sounded great in theory, I really didn’t have a whole lot of extra time to be doing something like that because, well, you know, I was planning a wedding. So instead, I figured I’d save it all up until some later date to share with the world. That day has come. I invite you to take a little trip down recent-memory lane with me and see how we put together a handmade wedding that was about us–not stuff. (Fair Warning: This post is a little long, so if weddings aren’t your thing, you might want to stop right here. And if you don’t want the details but like wedding eye candy, you can just scroll through the pictures.)