Image via Ethical Superstore
Sometimes making ethical choices for the wedding can seem difficult, it often limits our options and makes things more expensive than we expected. Balloons were one thing I had been struggling with ethically; I wasn't sure what sort of chemicals went into producing them or how biodegradable they were etc. That said we definitely wanted balloons to decorate the marquee we're having the party in (although apparently balloons at weddings is very poor etiquette, pah!), because it's a party and I like balloons at parties! We just wanted ordinary balloons that you blow up by hand (by mouth?) in assorted colours, but I had sort of given up on finding any that I could feel good about ethically. Then at the weekend these appeared in an email from Ethical Superstore, an online ethically awesome shop I get things from occasionally. They were biodegradable, and made from sustainably grown fairly traided rubber. Hurray! And at £1.99 for 25 they were hardly any more expensive than cheap balloons from possibly-suspect-websites-with-snappy-balloon-related-domain-names. Double hurray!
So we bought a few packets and they arrived this morning, and on the back of the box there's a little blurb about their fair trade scheme:
Image via Ethical Superstore
Reading that really made me smile, and now when I look at the balloons decorating our wedding party I'll think of this. It just made me so glad that we were going to the effort of making good choices, even on small things, and it's spurred me on to find the energy (and willpower) to keep doing so.
Sometimes making ethical choices for the wedding can seem difficult, it often limits our options and makes things more expensive than we expected. Balloons were one thing I had been struggling with ethically; I wasn't sure what sort of chemicals went into producing them or how biodegradable they were etc. That said we definitely wanted balloons to decorate the marquee we're having the party in (although apparently balloons at weddings is very poor etiquette, pah!), because it's a party and I like balloons at parties! We just wanted ordinary balloons that you blow up by hand (by mouth?) in assorted colours, but I had sort of given up on finding any that I could feel good about ethically. Then at the weekend these appeared in an email from Ethical Superstore, an online ethically awesome shop I get things from occasionally. They were biodegradable, and made from sustainably grown fairly traided rubber. Hurray! And at £1.99 for 25 they were hardly any more expensive than cheap balloons from possibly-suspect-websites-with-snappy-balloon-related-domain-names. Double hurray!
So we bought a few packets and they arrived this morning, and on the back of the box there's a little blurb about their fair trade scheme:
Image via Ethical Superstore
Reading that really made me smile, and now when I look at the balloons decorating our wedding party I'll think of this. It just made me so glad that we were going to the effort of making good choices, even on small things, and it's spurred me on to find the energy (and willpower) to keep doing so.
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