Unfortunately, just because you're holding your wedding ceremony in the great outdoors that doesn't mean your celebration is good for the planet. If you want some ideas for cutting down on the environmental impact of your big day, take a look at my tips.
For a Greener Wedding
- Who doesn't love flowers [1]? You can keep your flowers eco by buying organic blooms [2] or buying the flowers locally.
- When considering where to hold your wedding, think about where most of your guests are located. Midwest? East Coast? The Southwest? Then, consider holding your ceremony there. It will cut down on travel expenses as well as the environmental cost of planes, trains, and automobiles.
- You can now buy compostable cups [3], plates, and utensils for your shindig. This means that your guests' plates will end up enriching the soil instead of sitting in a landfill.
- If guests are traveling from a long distance, ask them to offset the carbon [4] produced from their travel. It's cheap, quick, and easy. In lieu of wedding favors, which are often thrown away or forgotten, you could also offset your entire wedding guest list's carbon output [5]. You could have a message telling them about the carbon offset "gift" printed up on wildflower seed cards [6] that are left on each guest's plate. Make sure the guests take the cards home and plant them.
- Instead of cut flowers, arrange small potted flowers in groupings on reception tables. Encourage guests to take the plants home to their garden at the end of the party.
- Keep your registry eco-oriented, with gifts from green designers, artists, and furniture stores. Crate and Barrel [7] and Ikea [8] are two big retailers that have consistently scored high marks in terms of environmental responsibility.
- Print your invitations on recycled paper [9] that use nontoxic, soy-based inks.
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