Summary
What can weddings teach us? To be intentional, to build ritual, to connect with our community, to co-create celebration, to build co-relational practices. Weddings are the perfect ‘on ramp’ for people to consider their long term shift for the way they live their life - its feel good activism that's fun, love filled and purposeful.
Show Notes
- Creating a wedding carbon calculator
- Her aha moment on the ground in Malawi
- The average western wedding costs $35k
- Incorporating more giving into our weddings
- Using weddings as a chance to give back
- The fundamental lack of sustainability mindsets in the wedding sphere
- Creating a day that represents peoples truth
- Rewriting wedding culture
- Covid weddings - smaller, simpler and more meaningful
- Reverse the wedding plan design to build from the basics up
- A midday nap = success
- Enough is living a life where I can look after myself, my family and my mental health
- Learning to be satisfied with who we are within ourselves
- The more grateful you are the more generous you are
- Building your community through your wedding
- Wedding rituals
- Coregulating by placing a hand on each others heart and breathing together
- Cocreating the wedding with your community
- Slowing down and honouring the ceremony
- Repeating the wedding rituals with a small group of special people
- Weddings are one of our very last traditions and this means it carries much weighty expectation
- The smaller weddings are more intimate and allow more room for open emotional vulnerability
- Weddings that don’t follow the rules but create their own patterns
- Ensuring that you are awake and heard by each other not just on your wedding day but for a lifetime
- The way you celebrate your wedding day is the foundation for the way you will spend your life together
- If the wedding planning is all driven by the bride does this set the tone for the relationship
- Having the hard questions about values alignment before you get to the altar
- Reframing value and reconnecting multi generations - yearning to recreate traditional connections
- Shared stories across generations
- Using our privilege to share knowledge and action resilience
- Reducing travel and guest size is the single greatest way to reduce a wedding footprint
- Avoid imported flowers opt instead for ‘slow flowers’
- Not letting pinterest be the guide but the seasons
- Think about every decision you make as something that can regenerate, sustain or degenerate something or someone
- Small weddings are more relaxed
- Defining a united vision and purpose of something thats greater than yourself
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