Yup. This is going to be a thing.
Let’s be honest. Weddings are quite wasteful. All that hullabaloo for just one day.
The biggest investment in our “special day” is feeding all of our guests. As a couple, we decided to avoid the detested dry chicken breast and sad, floppy asparagus in an unidentified sauce.
Instead, we are going for food that we love and that we know our guests will love. This will hopefully lead to less food waste since everyone will be cleaning their plates and filling their bellies.
But being realistic, everything will not be eaten. There will be food waste.
I have not yet researched into whether or not it is an option to donate unused food, but for now, I do know that composting is my number one option right now.
Healthy Soil Compost is a member of the Green Wedding Alliance and also the service that picks up my household compost. Since I love supporting my bicycle powered pick up service, it only makes sense that they come and collect any leftover taco bits from our reception.
Up front, I can already tell you that no, my guests will not be scraping their plates into an orange compost bucket. That should be taken care of by our caterer when cleaning up.
Either way, I am super excited to have this important element be a part of our important day!
Love this SO much! Wish every wedding would have composting!
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I felt real awkward asking each vendor if we could compost, but no one was weird about it thank goodness!
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Wow..this is inspiring. Hopefully more people will do this 😍. Congrats for the wedding, btw.
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Thank you!
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What a wonderful resource! We are having our wedding in Palo Alto in Dec and I have been figuring out how to keep it as low waste as possible. I am really lucky because we are having the service in my (future) in-laws garden and they already compost 🙂
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That sounds fantastic!
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Who is your caterer in Chicago?
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One off Hospitality!
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