Actor Dia Mirza spoke to Brut on how she planned her zero-waste wedding. ️
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00:00You know how people love to give gifts to announce their weddings and stuff.
00:15So even with that, we made sure we had handcrafted woven baskets made by artisans in Meghalaya
00:25and we sent everybody a plant.
00:31All our decor, which was primarily the use of wasted twigs and wood and locally grown
00:41flowers.
00:42I think when we think of big events and weddings, we tend to use, you know, exotic flowers from
00:49all over the world.
00:50There's obviously the carbon footprint of transport, etc.
00:53So making it sustainable would entail going local and it also makes it just more easily
01:02accessible and earthy and beautiful.
01:05And we wanted a very earthy wedding and a very rustic Indian wedding.
01:10So all the decor elements were natural and were locally available.
01:16A lot of them were recyclable and were obviously on hire, so they would get recycled again.
01:27We chose to keep the ceremony and the wedding extremely intimate and private.
01:34That ensured that we had a good control on numbers, we knew exactly who ate what.
01:39We ensured we knew exactly how many vegetarians and non-vegetarians were attending the wedding.
01:46We made sure we did food plating accordingly.
01:49And of course, we ensured that there was absolutely no food waste.
01:54We tend to make garments that we can only wear once and never wear again and it's most
02:05unfortunate.
02:06So the last time around, I auctioned my clothes and this time around, I made sure I got a
02:11garment that I could reuse, wear again and again and actually pass on as a very wearable
02:18but a very beautiful item of clothing.
02:21So I chose a saree and even my husband chose an outfit that he could continue wearing through
02:28life and wouldn't have to just wear it on that one day and hang it up in the cupboard
02:32and never touch it again.
02:38So there were no plastic straws, there was no plastic cutlery.
02:42There was no plastic bottles, you know, water, you know, those horrible, dreadful little
02:45bottles that people serve water in.
02:48We, in fact, bore an additional cost on water because we chose glass bottles which are more
02:55expensive than plastic bottles but we said we'd rather do that and, you know, reduce
03:00cost on something else than create all that plastic waste which was so unnecessary.
03:09So we were very proud at the end of that day and that evening because we succeeded in creating
03:15a completely sustainable event.