Soon to be newlyweds looking into Manchester wedding cars to hire at the moment might also want to consider having an ethical wedding – where all the food is so-called waste food salvaged from the rubbish heap.
This is exactly what one young couple have just done, a move that was met with great applause from all the guests, according to the Daily Telegraph.
Paul Maxwell-Rose and new wife Katherine got hitched over the summer and decided to go completely ethical for their big day, having their wedding breakfast catered by Save the Date Café and the Real Junk Food Project, which works to change the way food wastage is perceived.
“They basically intercept entirely edible food that gets thrown away and only use the food that is really healthy and really good quality. They were very excited to do a wedding so they could show off to large numbers of people how high quality this food could be,” Mr Maxwell-Rose said.
The menu consisted of Hunter’s chicken, rice dishes, vegetable flans, fennel, spring onion and wild herb flan, sautéed potatoes, summer salads and wild mushroom goulash, served as a buffet instead of a sit-down dinner so guests could interact with each other and with the chefs.
Other ethical wedding ideas you might like to consider include fair trade fashion for your dress (Celia Grace provides dresses made from eco silks) and One Hope Wine. This latter company donates half of all profits of each bottle of wine sold to non-profit organisations so you really will be giving back if you ask them to provide the wine for your wedding.