Sustainable Ideas...

With flowers, all the green talk has centered around local, sustainably grown, and fair trade, but there's still another aspect for consideration. Can your bouquet keep living beyond the day? The Los Angeles Times Magazine's wedding issue just featured a floral designer who makes a wedding bouquet you can replant after the wedding. Krislyn Komarov of Krislyn Designs chose cyclamen with succulents that were cut to keep the plants alive, then she wrapped the stems of the creation with antique ribbon. What a great idea!

That particular creation is $250 and may not be convenient to your own wedding's location, but there should be no reason you can't work with your own florist to plan something similar, or try a little DIY bouquet-making. There's plenty of info online about growing your own bouquet, but I couldn't find any other examples online of replantable ones. However, it seems doable for anyone with a green thumb if the event is local: even if you needed to keep the stems in a slender container of soil, that whole kaboodle could still be disguised by ribbons.