Plant a tree for a Wedding!
What better way to honor a wedding day than by planting a tree? Many Tree-Nation members are planting trees for a wedding. This group is dedicated to them. Discover how wedding and trees make good marriage.
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Discover the ancient wedding traditions that care about trees:
The loving tree: Plant a tree to your fiancé, a life-lasting symbol of your love.
“Plant a seedling on the morning of or the day before your wedding to grow along with your marriage. If roses are one of your favorite blooms, you might want to choose the plant that is always associated with love.”
“Locals in Bermuda often have a little sapling tree on top of their wedding cake. After the cake is eaten, the sapling is planted and the newlywed's new home, where it grows and matured along with the couple's marriage.”
The special wedding gift: Offer a baobab that can live 2000 years and prove that the love has no age limits, and that this love will last forever.
“In Holland and Switzerland a pine tree, a symbol of fertility and luck, was once planted outside a new couple's home.”
“In the Czech Republic friends sneak into the bride's yard to plant a tree and decorate it with ribbons and painted eggshells. Legend says the bride will live as long as the tree. Also, brides in the countryside carry on the very old custom of wearing a rosemary wreath, which symbolizes remembrance. Her friends as a wish for wisdom, love and loyalty weave the wreath for the bride on the night before her wedding.”
“An ancient Zoroastrian custom that the Parsi bride and groom observe four days before the wedding. Each of the families plants a young sapling, usually of a mango tree, in a pot; the soil of which has been enriched with betel, turmeric and rice. Amidst recitation of prayers by the priest the pot is placed at the entrance of their homes. The plant is watered every morning till the eighth day after the wedding and then transplanted elsewhere. The couple could plant a sapling of a tree either before or after the wedding ceremony.”
The present for the guests: Be original and eco-friendly.
If you are one of those who think that offer sugared almond or little figurines for the guests is really old fashioned, plant a forest for your wedding guests and make an original present. It will not pass unnoticed.
Let’s start a new tradition: offset co2…
A lot of couples are affected by the impact of their marriage on the environment.
More and more weddings are now offseted by wedding agencies, to create ecological weddings. Because, happiness moments have to be good for the planet too.
Create a new tradition and plant a forest for your wedding guests!
By offering a tree for a wedding, you make a present which is good-hearted, which is ecological and which will last for a long time.
If you have experienced trees planting in a wedding, tell us your story in a new discussion.
If you like the tradition of planting trees with a wedding, join this group.
If you want to start and spread this new tradition, join this group.