Grow your own wedding!

Jennifer Chait — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:18:53 +0000

There is an awesome series at Telegraph.co.uk about growing your own wedding. From the flowers to the food, if you’ve already got a small plot of land, you can grow it all and you can save BIG bucks. This is also a super choice for an organic green wedding. The series looks at the possibilities of growing your own wedding – is it possible, what you could serve, and how to manage it all.

Some of the cool ideas offered include:

Peach or raspberry Bellinis for guests, made with some fruit picked from the garden.
For canapés with the early drinks, lots of different bruschettas made with garden tomatoes, garlic, and plenty of home-grown basil and a minty bean humus as well.
Plates of just-picked baby vegetables – radish, mini carrots, peas, purple-podded mange touts, and the late, mini broad bean ‘Stereo’ – on plates covered in ice.
Crisp courgette wedges with anchovy mayonnaise and stuffed courgette flowers with goat’s cheese and honey.
Fresh salads and new potatoes served with dinner.
Lebanese tahini salad, home-made mint jelly and platters of salad scattered with blue borage and orange marigold flowers included with the main wedding meal.
Flowers such as, Cosmos ‘Purity’ and dill flowers for decor, table centres of potted acidanthera, and a bouquet of roses, alchemilla and sweet peas.

I LOVE this idea; they offer some great creative ideas, and I see how you could expand it to all sorts of cool events – grow your own… potluck, graduation, baby shower, birthday, the list goes on and on. Growing your own food and flowers for a major event is a super way to cut costs and makes for such a charming event too. Plus, it’s so versatile. You could grow all sorts of different items for various events.

Read the series:

See more ways to save money on your wedding.

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