Ahead of her Earth Day wedding, the Green Party leader talks about avoiding wedding waste
Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party of Canada, is having an environmentally conscious wedding at Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria on April 22 – Earth Day, of course. At 64, May will marry John Kidder, 71, one of the founders of the Green Party of B.C., former federal Liberal candidate and brother to the late actress and activist Margot Kidder.
I was convinced I was never going to meet anybody. I thought, I’m just going to get a dog so I have somebody happy to see me when I get home. My daughter had thought she could put up an online profile for me, but that was not going to happen. So my good friend Sylvia [Olsen, mother of Green Party MLA Adam Olsen] said, “Well, I’m a matchmaker!” More than a year went by and then she came up to me at the convention and said, “Okay, I found your guy: John Kidder.” I said, “Oh, I love him.
All the organizing is being done by our daughters. We didn’t do little fluffy paper invitations. Everything is online. I’ve told my bridesmaids, nobody needs to go buy a new dress. We’ll use the altar guild’s Easter Sunday flowers because it’s Easter Monday. A friend of mine on Saturna Island, said, “We’ll do the bouquets with the flowers that are in our garden.” A lot of things are being co-ordinated by a lovely network of dear friends volunteering their time.
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