Mid last year, we became the new home for Mindfully Wed. And we didn’t want to just move the content across quietly and hope people noticed. We wanted to mark the moment properly.

The Mindful Edit is our permanent home for everything that lived on Mindfully Wed (I mean – have you seen the wedding footprint calculator and the Mindfully Wed e-guide for instance?), and everything we’ll keep building around it. And The Mindful Issue, running across April and May, is our way of celebrating that. And of going deeper into what mindful actually means to us.

Because as we shifted the content across, we realised something. Mindful weddings, at their core, have always been about sustainability and eco-conscious choices. And we still believe in all of that. But mindful started to mean something more to us. More: what is planning a wedding intentionally? About what happens to your mind and your body when you are in the middle of planning something this emotionally charged? About the moments that actually hit deeper? Where is the content that talks honestly about mental health? And what a wedding can do to it? Where is the content that hits beyond the pretty and the trends and the aesthetic (that we do still adore mind you).

And it’s not to say the aesthetic choices don’t matter. They do. The details make up the fabric of the day and we have always believed that. But over April and May we want to shift a bit.

Because here is the thing. We are planning weddings in 2026. In a world that feels loud and heavy and a lot. Where the mental load of just getting through a week is already something, before you add venue contracts and guest lists and family dynamics and the quiet pressure of wanting it all to mean something. And yet, people are still choosing each other.

The moment you step outside for five minutes of quiet and your person finds you. The ceremony that goes off-script and ends up being your favourite part of the day. The decision that felt strange on paper and perfect on the day. The tears that surprised you. The bit you thought you’d skip that turned out to matter most. That is what we are looking for.

How do we honour our minds and our bodies while doing this incredible, emotionally charged act of love? How do we look after each other? How do we make choices that are kinder to the planet, that reflect our values, that reduce our footprint without adding to the load? How do we find our way in a world of noise and must-dos and should-haves?

We want to celebrate the couples who did it their way. Not with disdain for tradition. More, if we pull apart what a wedding is, how can we make it work for us?

All of it lives in the Mindful Edit. Come find us there. And join us over the next two months as we celebrate it all in the Mindful Issue. We hope it feels like a deep breath.

Header photo by Georgia Wiggs via Luke & Laura’s Intimate & Laidback Lantern Parade Wedding