{"id":214221,"date":"2017-06-30T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T21:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/uk\/real-weddings\/lara-and-ben-celebrate-organic-love-at-diy-eco-festival-wedding\/"},"modified":"2022-03-17T11:51:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T00:51:23","slug":"lara-and-ben-celebrate-organic-love-at-diy-eco-festival-wedding","status":"publish","type":"uk-real-wedding","link":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/uk\/real-weddings\/lara-and-ben-celebrate-organic-love-at-diy-eco-festival-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Lara and Ben celebrate organic love at DIY eco festival wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Is this the most environmentally conscious wedding ever?<\/p>\n<p>The day after the DIY eco festival wedding of Lara Stavrinou and Ben Brown, there was just one small bag of rubbish to dispose of. The eco-friendly couple and their families had worked hard to create an organic day, minimizing their environmental footprint.<\/p>\n<p>Lara and Ben, aged 30 and 29 respectively, married on the groom\u2019s parents\u2019 property in Devon. \u201cWe both love the outdoors and didn\u2019t want a conventional wedding, so we decided to do it ourselves,\u201d says Lara. \u201cBen\u2019s parents used eight tonnes of gravel to make the field flood proof, spent months <a href=\"http:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/WeddingFlowers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pruning trees and planted flowers<\/a> to go with our colour scheme. They even made a living arch and a fire pit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Friends helped <a href=\"http:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/WeddingDecorations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">decorate<\/a> the marquee, the bride\u2019s dad shipped in 20 kilograms of haloumi from their hometown of Cyprus and the bride\u2019s mum <a href=\"http:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/articles\/street-food-wedding-catering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">catered <\/a>the event using organic vegetarian food. \u201cThe day after the wedding, we had bags of compost and recycling, but only one small bag of rubbish,\u201d smiles Lara.<\/p>\n<p>Photos courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessicamilberg.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jessica Milberg Photography<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-100539 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_SBS_001.jpg\" alt=\"Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_SBS_001\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" title=\"\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-100541 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_SBS_003.jpg\" alt=\"Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_SBS_003\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" title=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-100543 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_SBS_005.jpg\" alt=\"Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_SBS_005\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" title=\"\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-100542 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_SBS_004-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_SBS_004\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" title=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-100508\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_002.jpg\" alt=\"Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_002\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-100512\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_006.jpg\" alt=\"Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_006\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Ben\u2019s sister was our project manager for the day. She ran with the spreadsheet I made and everything <a href=\"http:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/articles\/i-need-wedding-planner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">went smoothly<\/a> without us having to worry,&#8221;\u00a0explains the bride.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-100544 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_SBS_006.jpg\" alt=\"Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_SBS_006\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" title=\"\">\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-100555 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_SBS_017.jpg\" alt=\"Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_SBS_017\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" title=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-100546\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_SBS_008-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_SBS_008\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1920\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-100516\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_010.jpg\" alt=\"Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_010\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-100556 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_SBS_018.jpg\" alt=\"Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_SBS_018\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" title=\"\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-100548 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_SBS_010.jpg\" alt=\"Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_SBS_010\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" title=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-100517\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_011.jpg\" alt=\"Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_011\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-100519\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_013.jpg\" alt=\"Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_013\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lara&#8217;s strapless <a href=\"http:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/WeddingDress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wedding gown<\/a> with ruffles and floral adornment was later matched with a leather jacket! &#8220;It was a charity shop find &#8230; my mum pulled it apart and put it back together as something new,&#8221; says the bride.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-100520\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_014.jpg\" alt=\"Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_014\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-100521\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_015.jpg\" alt=\"Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_015\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-100524\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_018-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_018\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1920\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-100525\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_019.jpg\" alt=\"Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_019\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-100522\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_016.jpg\" alt=\"Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_016\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Entertainment for guests included <a href=\"http:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/WeddingHire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawn games<\/a> like bochi.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-100533\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_027.jpg\" alt=\"Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_027\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-100532\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_026.jpg\" alt=\"Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_026\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-100534\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_028.jpg\" alt=\"Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_028\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-100554 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_SBS_016-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_SBS_016\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" title=\"\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-100559 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_SBS_021.jpg\" alt=\"Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_SBS_021\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-100530\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_024.jpg\" alt=\"Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_024\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-100536\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_030.jpg\" alt=\"Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_030\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We specifically asked for no gifts,&#8221; says Lara. &#8220;Friends travelling to Devon and spending a long weekend with us was more than enough.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-100563 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_SBS_025.jpg\" alt=\"Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_SBS_025\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" title=\"\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-100565 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_SBS_027.jpg\" alt=\"Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_SBS_027\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" title=\"\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-100538\" src=\"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_032.jpg\" alt=\"Lara_Ben_DIY-Eco-Festival-Wedding_032\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":214254,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"uk_real_wedding_category":[9086],"uk_real_wedding_tag":[10010,9197,9631,10009,10016,9374],"uk_real_wedding_style":[10473],"uk_real_wedding_location":[10522,10521],"uk_real_wedding_setting":[10484],"uk_real_wedding_colour":[10660,10643,10653],"uk_real_wedding_competition":[],"class_list":["post-214221","uk-real-wedding","type-uk-real-wedding","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","uk_real_wedding_category-9086","uk_real_wedding_tag-diy-eco-festival-wedding","uk_real_wedding_tag-diy-wedding","uk_real_wedding_tag-festival-wedding","uk_real_wedding_tag-jessica-milberg-photography","uk_real_wedding_tag-light-green-wedding","uk_real_wedding_tag-real-weddings","uk_real_wedding_style-bohemian","uk_real_wedding_location-devon","uk_real_wedding_location-south-west","uk_real_wedding_setting-garden-chapel","uk_real_wedding_colour-coral-wedding","uk_real_wedding_colour-light-green-wedding","uk_real_wedding_colour-light-pink-wedding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk-real-wedding\/214221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk-real-wedding"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/uk-real-wedding"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk-real-wedding\/214221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"uk_real_wedding_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk_real_wedding_category?post=214221"},{"taxonomy":"uk_real_wedding_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk_real_wedding_tag?post=214221"},{"taxonomy":"uk_real_wedding_style","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk_real_wedding_style?post=214221"},{"taxonomy":"uk_real_wedding_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk_real_wedding_location?post=214221"},{"taxonomy":"uk_real_wedding_setting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk_real_wedding_setting?post=214221"},{"taxonomy":"uk_real_wedding_colour","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk_real_wedding_colour?post=214221"},{"taxonomy":"uk_real_wedding_competition","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.co.uk\/real-weddings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/uk_real_wedding_competition?post=214221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}