Buy the perfect wedding gift for the happy couple – a tree!

When you’re invited to a wedding, you want to make sure you take a personalised gift for the happy couple. Trees are an incredibly unique wedding gift, symbolic and show how much you care for the environment, as well as the bride and groom. When you see everyone else with the same old traditional gift ideas bought online or from the local store, you’ll be sharing something truly original that they will never forget. A tree can also be the perfect gift for many other occasions, whether that’s Valentine's Day, Christmas, Father's Day or Mother’s Day, a birth and even to honor the memory of a loved one.

We own forests across Europe and you can buy trees online in our fantastic treeShop. Our expert team of foresters start by planting seeds in nurseries local to each forest then nurture them through to maturity. We are a sustainable forestry company, which means we avoid clear cuts and prefer continuous cover silviculture. That approach to forest management helps promote, protect and conserve natural habitats and biodiversity. For Valentine's Day, a wedding, Mother's Day or Father's Day, but also for Christmas, a birth or to honor the memory of a loved one, there's no better gift than a tree.

So you got a tree as a unique wedding gift? First of all, congratulations! Get started by claiming your gift and following the instructions to add it to a new online EcoTree account, or your current account if you already have one. You can then learn all about your tree’s location, age and species, as well as the date we estimate the tree will be ready to cut. As your tree was a unique and personalised wedding gift, you will want to check out the amount of CO2 your tree has sequestered throughout its lifetime. You can find the GPS coordinates of the forest on Google or on the page dedicated to forests on our website. You can even visit our forests from April to October and see our trees in person.

We love forests and our mission is to plant trees as part of a sustainable approach to renew and protect forests. We have a team of foresters who care for our trees throughout their lifetime. Not only do we plant trees in new spaces, when older trees mature they are cut and used for quality timber and other trees are planted in their place, unless they grow back on their own. Foresters often favour natural regeneration, which just means trees that have grown naturally and without the help of us humans. There may be several reasons to plant trees, including that natural regeneration does not happen or because the climatic conditions are bad. Sometimes, trees are planted to modify the diversity of forest species, so they can adapt to climatic disturbances.

There is a whole industry around wedding gifts and more often than not, it means happy couples end up getting the same old traditional presents. But while kitchen appliances, towels and crockery can be used and discarded in no time, trees are sustainable, meaningful and perfect for any couple who loves the natural world. In fact, when you give a tree you’re choosing a highly personalised wedding gift too, as it will grow for years in EcoTree forests and come to symbolise the happy couple’s relationship. You never know, they may one day want to visit an EcoTree forest to see their unique wedding gift in person. As they grow old together, their tree will mature over the years too!

You bet they will! Relationships are all about growing together and changing over time and so are trees and forests. That means a tree is a brilliantly symbolic and meaningful wedding gift idea that will live long in the hearts of the bride and groom. And of course, as natural, living organisms, trees are a vital part of our natural environment and a great place to enjoy time together – maybe even on honeymoon! Did you know that forests are sometimes called the Earth’s lungs? That’s because they are essential to life as they provide the oxygen we breathe and rich soils that include nutrients essential for growing food. Over the course of a year, seasons change along with life in forests, which are home to fauna, flora and lots of wildlife. Of course, climate change is already having an impact on how we live, but people all over the world appreciate the important role trees will have in a sustainable future for life on Earth.