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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Health
Adrienne Matei

How to have a sustainable wedding: six tips for a greener ‘I do’

Composite of wedding menu, planes and flowers.
The average US wedding creates around 60 metric tons of carbon dioxide – the equivalent of 71 round-trip cross-country flights. Composite: The Guardian/Getty Images/Unsplash

A wedding is a couple’s big day. Unfortunately, it can also have a big carbon footprint.

The average American wedding creates around 60 metric tons of CO2 – the carbon equivalent of 71 round-trip flights from New York to LA. You’d need to plant roughly 60 trees and let them grow for 100 years to sequester that amount of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. And with more than 2m marriages taking place in the US alone in 2022, the wedding industry’s environmental impact adds up.

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