Sustainable Wedding Alliance

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Who is the Sustainable Wedding Alliance?

The Sustainable Wedding Alliance’s mission is to drive change to create a more sustainable wedding industry. Raising awareness and tackling climate change and attitudes, by proactively encouraging businesses to develop future thinking strategies and make responsible decisions.

We inspire and educate couples, encouraging them to make conscious choices when planning their wedding.

Founded in 2020 by Michelle Miles

Press releases

Sustainable Wedding Summit: Action, Inspiration, and Mother Nature Join Forces
Sustainable Wedding Summit: Action, Inspiration, and Mother Nature Join Forces

Love and action bloomed at the Sustainable Wedding Summit! Businesses learned practical steps to sustainability & join the movement for ethical, conscious weddings. Read more...

Sustainable Wedding Awards Shine Spotlight on Industry Champions!
Sustainable Wedding Awards Shine Spotlight on Industry Champions!

UK's Sustainable Wedding Awards announce winners championing environmentally conscious practices and positive impact within the industry. Innovative ideas, impactful initiatives, and unwavering dedication to sustainability are celebrated! Read more...

Sustainable Wedding Alliance Ties the Knot with B Corp – becoming a Certified B Corporation
Sustainable Wedding Alliance Ties the Knot with B Corp – becoming a Certified B Corporation

SWA is now a B Corp certified business. Part of a global community of businesses that meet high standards of social and environmental impact. Read more...

Features and Mentions

Reducing Food Waste

The results of our sustainable couples survey were featured in the Independent article ‘Is a zero-waste wedding possible? Meet the company making it their mission to do so‘.

Yet, many Britons have become much more eco-conscious, and demand for sustainable weddings have risen. According to the Sustainable Wedding Alliance, 78 per cent of couples who took part in the group’s wedding sustainability survey said overall sustainability was a factor that was important or very important to them.

This article highlights how important it is to reduce food waste in the wedding industry. 

Sustainable Wedding Dresses

Bridal Buyer

The Future of Bridal Fashion: The Sustainable Wedding Alliance

The Sustainable Wedding Alliance is a network of environmentally conscious businesses passionate about creating a sustainable wedding industry. We chat with founder Michelle Miles to find out more about their origins and their active role in making a difference.

Sustainable wedding business conscious couple

Glam

15 Tips For Planning An Eco-Friendly Wedding | Weddings of the past few decades have continued to grow more and more extravagant. 

We try to encourage couples to think about the life cycle of a product,” Michelle Miles, founder of the Sustainable Wedding Alliance, tells The New York Times. “So, for example, if you are ordering table runners or napkins, can they be hired rather than purchased?”

Luxury London

Environmental concerns have never been more important to engaged couples. We spoke to Luxury London about how you can plan a wedding that doesn’t harm the planet.

“… suggests asking potential venues about their sustainability policy before booking, as well as what they’re doing to balance people, profit and the planet.”

Building a Community

We’re proud to be a partner of Green Union, in March 2021 they told their audience how we were ‘Helping Environmentally Conscious Wedding Businesses Come Together To Create A More Sustainable Industry‘.

Naturally, this is a mission that is close to our hearts here at GREEN UNION! The network’s founder, Michelle Miles, and I first became acquainted last year when she submitted a couple of fantastic styled shoots as her alter ego, Fusion Events & Weddings https://fusionliveevents.com, and I was delighted to welcome her as a GREEN UNION Partner earlier this year.

Our Wonder Women

Our founder, Michelle Miles was interviewed as part of the University of Oxford’s Wonder Women series.

What is your definition of entrepreneurship? To me, it about freedom; I come from a family of entrepreneurs, I grew up exposed to my family’s own business model. It gave my parents the freedom to spend time with their family. When I joined the world of work I was shocked by how regimented working routines were, and I struggled because of it. Being at a desk for a certain time and duration just didn’t make sense to me. To really flourish I needed freedom, and it’s one of the factors that helped me to make the jump into starting my own business, working hours that suit me

In this interview, Michelle shares how she started her career, why sustainability has become her passion and what’s next for her and the Sustainable Wedding Alliance.

Sustainable Bridal Fashion

We were asked by Brides.com to shed light on sustainable bridal wear and what couples are looking for when searching for environmentally friendly outfits.

 

According to the Sustainable Wedding Alliance, “More designers than ever are choosing to work with sustainable fabrics and are advocating [for] slow fashion.” They also reveal that companies are now offering eco-conscious options to help complete an entire bridal look, like creating vegan bridal shoes.

“Being sustainable isn’t just about reducing waste or energy consumption, it flows through everything we do, in our businesses and at the weddings we produce. The most common thing we hear when talking to business owners is that they want to be more sustainable, but taking the first step can make them feel a little overwhelmed. That’s where we can help, by giving them the resources and support they need to develop a business with sustainability at the core.”

Michelle Miles, Sustainable Wedding Alliance, Founder