An Impact-Focused Real Wedding Feature

Check out the unique ways this couple brought sustainability and impact into their wedding ceremony.
Table of Contents
  1. Intro

Want to bring impact into your ceremony? Check out how Stephanie and May did it below, then sign up at Provenance.co for more unique ways to make your ceremony feel personalized for you!

'We are very much plant people, and our plants are very important to us. We wanted everyone to be involved in the ceremony and have it feel like an event everyone is participating in. So we decided to have a wedding plant, where my sister passed around a pot with a half-planted ZZ plant, and everyone put in one scoop of dirt to finish planting it.

To incorporate our respective cultures into the wedding, we prepared a post wedding lunch where we served classic Persian, Yemenite, Israeli, and Hispanic foods. May loves to cook, so he prepared Horesh Subzi, Badenjoon, Taadig (all 3 Persian), Hummus (Israeli), Empanadas, and Flan (both Hispanic). Sustainability is important to us, so we ate with plates, cups, chairs, and tables that we accumulated second hand from around the area.

Finally, before we left Israel, we chose to make our own rings. There is an organization called Beit Ifat which employs adults with cognitive disabilities in their jewelry workshop and they help you design and make your own wedding rings. I made May’s and he made mine. His is a mobius ring, which has no beginning and no end. We inscribed the day we first met on the inside: 1.8.18, which also spells chai chai in Hebrew meaning “life life.”'" - Stephanie B.

  • Suit: Aritzia for Stephanie, Bonobos for May
  • Photographer: Madde Lesnewich (@maddeles) & Igal Brener (@igal_photo)
  • Food: May Sar Israel (@antenna)
  • Wedding ring: made by the couple here: Beit Ifat (@beit_ifat)
  • Engagement bracelets: Made by Stephanie
  • Florist: N/A
  • Hair: Stephanie's friends
  • Makeup: Stephanie
  • Venue: Couple's backyard
  • Wedding planner: N/A

Check out the unique ways this couple brought sustainability and impact into their wedding ceremony.
Write Your CeremonyGet Started with provenance
Open article

Bringing Non-Traditional Wedding Ideas to New Heights

Friends on stilts, group hugs, and flower crowns- read on for the story of Monica & Avo's wildly special, joyful, camp-themed wedding.
Open article

Four Cultures, Fourteen Readings, One Incredible Wedding

We wanted to represent all 4 of our cultures: Lithuanian, French, Filipino, and African American. We did this through incorporating readings and readers in our ceremony from all of those cultures. We had 14 different people read quick excerpts in multiple languages. They just stood up where they were sitting and read, it felt very organic.
Open article

A Non-Traditional Wedding Featuring (Quotes from) Shakespeare and Led Zeppelin

This couple added personal touches to their ceremony by way of their favorite quotes from literature and music.
Open article

A Midwife Officiant in the State's Capitol

Two officiants, an incredible venue, and a weekend of bliss in Madison.
Open article

Their Black and White and Rainbow-Colored Wedding Ceremony

From ways to honor deceased loved ones, to colorful displays of joy, to rituals bringing families together, we can't get over this beautiful wedding.
Open article

Feet Washing, Cairn Building,  Books Instead of Bouquets, and an Aerial Performance

Read the meaning behind the unique selection of rituals Mae and Tyler chose for their wedding.
Accept cookies? View our Privacy Policy for more information.