Two Big Sustainability Trends To Bring To Your Wedding This Year

 

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You’ve seen countless wedding trends that pop up for a year or so and disappear into the abyss. Themed weddings were a big thing a few years back, but now nobody cares about them. It’s good to be aware of flashing trends like these so you can avoid adopting them for your wedding and looking back in anguish at how cringe everything was. At the same time, it’s also great to know of long-term trends that will always be a hit - and that brings us to today’s topic. 

Sustainability is one of the most prominent wedding trends in 2025 and it looks set to continue being a big focus for many years to come. People are realizing how non-eco-friendly a lot of weddings can be, so they want to switch things up and introduce some more sustainable elements. It’s a great trend to jump on, and here are two excellent ideas to get started. 

Minimizing Food Waste

Research from a major grocery store across the pond suggests that as much as 10% of all wedding food is wasted on your special day. That equates to a lot of food thrown in the garbage - not to mention a massive waste of money. 

Cutting down on food waste is therefore one of the biggest sustainability trends for modern weddings. You can achieve this in two simple steps: hire a catering company and partner with local food banks/charities. 

A catering company lets you manage how much food you produce, and you can run a set menu so you only provide a specific number of meals. Partnering with local food banks or charities gives you somewhere to donate any uneaten food products at your wedding. Maybe you have some small bites leftover from a buffet. Take them to a food bank or homeless shelter and they don’t go to waste. 

Cutting Down On Transportation

Despite the fact that eloping is making a comeback, many couples are eager to cut back on transportation for their weddings. When you elope, it’s usually just you and your partner - not the entire family. For more traditional weddings, couples look to hire coaches or buses so loads of people aren’t driving dozens of cars on the big day. 

There’s also this big trend of one singular wedding venue for the day. You get married and have the celebration in one place, which slashes your wedding’s carbon footprint because everyone travels to one location. It also helps your wedding budget because you’re not renting out two separate venues; churches and other places of worship are notoriously expensive! 

The one venue option also gets rid of a very non-sustainable wedding tradition: driving away in a wedding car. As nice as this is, most wedding cars are old classic vehicles that guzzle gas and pump out loads of fumes. Removing that from your itinerary helps to make the wedding that little bit more eco-friendly. 

Once you start thinking of sustainability ideas for a wedding, thousands flood your mind. These two have arguably the biggest impact in terms of making your wedding a greener place. Use them to spark as many other ideas as you can think of to get on board with a trend that’s genuinely worth following.