Celebrating the Wedding of Marsha & Shafira

Celebrating the Wedding of Marsha & Shafira

At its heart, a wedding is a celebration of love, family, and the beginning of a new generation. As we begin this new chapter, we want our celebration to reflect a kind of love that goes beyond us: love for the people around us and love for the earth that will hold the generations after us.
Weddings can be beautiful, but they can also produce significant waste, including flower boards and floral arrangements that are often displayed only for a short time before being discarded.
For this reason, we will not be accepting any kind of flower boards, wreaths, or floral arrangements and instead invite our family, friends, and guests to support something that can continue to grow beyond our wedding day.
Together with LindungiHutan, we created a tree-planting campaign in the coastal area of Kelapapati Village, Bengkalis Regency, Riau. We chose Riau because environmental restoration in the province remains urgent. In 2024, Riau recorded the largest net deforestation area among Indonesian provinces, with 29,702.1 hectares of net deforestation out of Indonesia’s total 175.4 thousand hectares that year. Global Forest Watch also records that Riau lost around 4.3 million hectares of tree cover from 2001 to 2024, equivalent to around 55% of its 2000 tree cover area.
Each tree donated through this campaign will be planted with the support of local farmers, so the impact goes beyond coastal ecosystem restoration and also supports the local economy. As a token of recognition, each contributor will receive a donation certificate.
The required donation amount for planting and maintaining the trees is IDR 70,000 per tree.For the past 13 years, Kelompok Paghet Seghagah (KPS) has carried out rehabilitation efforts in Zone 2. After achieving sedimentation results, KPS will proceed with rehabilitation in Zone 1, by planting Avicennia and Sonneratia mangroves as the front line of defense against wave impact, which causes coastal erosion and abrasion.
To carry out planting in Zone 1, several supporting structures are needed, such as wave breakers made from wooden stakes and covered with netting on the outer side. Using a clustered planting pattern protected by stakes and netting will help reduce and weaken the waves before they reach the newly planted mangroves, allowing the mangroves to grow safely without being directly exposed to wave impact.
We are truly grateful for every prayer, wish, and support shared with us as we begin this new chapter. Thank you for helping us celebrate with less waste, more trees, and a little more care for the world we live in.