Your Guide to Sustainable Bell Tent Hire for an Ethical, Low-Waste Wedding

Planning a wedding that reflects your values is a beautiful thing. If you’re looking to host a truly sustainable, ethical, and low-waste wedding, your venue and supplier choices are key. With our eco-friendly glamping accommodation, you can celebrate responsibly while still enjoying a luxurious and memorable experience.

A Sustainable Solution: On-Site Accommodation

One of the most effective ways to reduce your wedding’s carbon footprint is by minimising guest travel. Offering on-site bell tent accommodation eliminates the need for guests to drive to separate hotels. Significantly cuts down on fuel consumption and vehicle emissions. Our bell tents use far less energy than a traditional hotel, creating a more cohesive and environmentally friendly experience for everyone.

Ysella's Commitment to Sustainable Practices

At Ysella Glamping, we believe that every choice, no matter how small, can make a positive impact. Our business is built on a "use, return, and repeat" ethos, promoting a circular economy and minimising our environmental footprint.

Mindful Furnishings: We’ve consciously avoided using disposable airbeds that often end up in landfills, opting instead for sturdy metal beds. We also furnish our tents with high-quality, long-lasting vintage and upcycled items, which helps to combat the "fast furniture" model and reduces the demand for new goods.

guest camping on-site is the most sustainable wedding accommodation

Eco-Friendly Linens: Our bedding is carefully sourced with environmental consciousness at its core, featuring natural bed linens. We also layer our tent floors with recycled polypropylene tent matting for insulation and warmth.

Waste Reduction: We are dedicated to reducing our own waste and work closely with our suppliers to address excessive packaging. We offer refillable plastic-free toiletries by 'Fill' - Heath & Wellbeing Sustainable Hero award winners in 2023.

Fill plastic free camping toiletries

More Tips for a Truly Sustainable Wedding

Creating a low-waste wedding goes beyond just accommodation. Here are a few more ideas to help you plan an ethical celebration that is kind to the planet:

Choose Local & Seasonal: Select local suppliers for your flowers, food, and drinks. This reduces travel miles, supports your local economy, and ensures your menu and decor are in tune with the season.

Zero-Waste Decor: Get creative with your decor! Opt for living plants and potted herbs as centerpieces that can be taken home as favours, or use natural materials like foraged foliage, pinecones, and dried flowers. Avoid single-use plastics, glitter, and balloons.

Conscious Catering: Work with a caterer who prioritises organic, locally sourced ingredients and has a clear plan for composting food waste. Instead of a multi-course sit-down meal, consider a family-style grazing table to reduce waste from individual plates.

Ethical Favours: Skip the generic plastic favours and choose something meaningful and sustainable. Edible treats, seeds to plant, or a small donation to a charity in your guests' honour are all thoughtful, low-waste options.

Eco-Friendly Attire: Consider renting or buying pre-loved wedding attire. Alternatively, choose a designer who uses sustainable materials or ethical production methods.

Digital Invites: Reduce paper waste by sending digital invitations, save-the-dates, and thank-you notes. If you prefer physical invitations, use recycled paper and eco-friendly ink. We offer an online tent booking system to reduce paper waste and unnecessary communication threads.

The Ysella Vision

Our passion is creating memorable, luxurious outdoor experiences that are also kind to the planet. We are committed to making smart business choices. This way, we can provide high-quality service while reducing our environmental impact.

We try to be as sustainable as we can. However, as a business, we sometimes need to compromise. Practical and financial decisions do influence us. To help offset our carbon footprint, our bell tent supplier plants a tree for every tent we purchase. Each year we also leave our meadow to grow wild, and plant native tree species (the pollinator pack from the woodland trust), providing vital nectar and nesting sites for pollinators.

Our wild flower meadow offsets carbon emissions by sequestering carbon in the soil

Recommended 'Green' Sustainable Wedding Venues in Cornwall:

Mount Pleasant Eco Park: This venue in Porthtowan is a 100% vegetarian and sustainable wedding venue with a relaxed vibe. It offers beautiful spaces like a barn, atrium, courtyard, and amphitheater. With plenty of space for wedding glamping so guests do not need to travel, reducing the footprint of your wedding.