Feed Birds with Your Confetti

We are fond of showering newlywed couples with confetti. That is our act of welcoming them to society as a married couple. The usual trick is to give the guests rice grains, cut paper, or anything that has colors and throwing them over to the couple right after they finish the wedding ceremony.

It’s fine for simple, small-time weddings, but what about for the grand weddings where guests are flown in from different parts of the country? Surely, as a couple you won’t like to think you have cut several trees and have thrown away a whole month’s crop produce by using them as confetti on your wedding. That is downright unhealthy for the environment.

We don’t have to be archeologists to know the tradition. When we look back to our Greek mythology subjects in junior high, you would encounter some of the marriage practices of the ancient Greeks. For the same purpose of wishing good luck to the newlyweds, Greeks shower the couple with nuts, figs, dates, and small coinage.

The best thing about it is that the birds will have a grand time gobbling up what you have thrown away and your guests would be more than happy seeing birds, adding beauty to the spectacle. Read more on this here.