I love the idea of having a green wedding. The goal of a green wedding is essentially to reduce your carbon footprint. It seems complicated and cumbersome, but it’s actually very simple. Here are a few suggestions:
1. Plan a ZeroCarbon wedding
Use CarbonFund‘s carbon calculator to determine the level of carbon dioxide your wedding events will emit into the air and give your guests the opportunity to contribute to your ZeroCarbon Wedding.
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Being that half of our wedding guests are in Italy and the other half are all of the U.S., I knew I needed to create some sort of a communal forum to post information in both Italian and English for travel plans, registry, accommodations, wedding weekend schedule, etc. Creating a wedding website was the perfect solution!
 weddingwire.com Luckily, I found WeddingWire – a bride’s dream come true. It gave me the ability to create our wedding website, create a guest list (complete with addresses and a seating chart), search for ideas, and search for wedding vendors (only downfall – they don’t have any vendors in Italy).
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Feeling bad about spending so much money on wedding flowers? Why not donate them to a good cause instead of throwing them in the trash. Recently married Lisa Loeb donated her flowers to the Flower Power Foundation, who re-assembles wedding flowers and gives them to sick, terminally ill, and elderly residents in New York City and Los Angeles. If you don’t live in those areas, why not deliver them yourself!
Save the Dates have arrived. Finally.
Hours of work later, our Save the Date postcards have arrived. I’m thrilled with how they turned out, but it was very odd to open them, and find them exactly as expected. I’m not sure if I thought they’d arrive differently, or if they should be more exciting than I’m giving them credit for. Maybe it’s that I want to have invitations and a wedding now…not in 9 months. Or that I was standing in my kitchen by myself with no one to “Ooohh!” over them.
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I already have a gorgeous wedding dress that I love, but I ran across this article the other day and I just had to find out more about the eco-friendly convertible wedding dress from designer Vanessa Fedorkiw.
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There aren’t too many options for what to do with your wedding day bouquet after the big day. You can toss it of course, but many people seem to get a separate bouquet for the toss. You can have it preserved if you plan ahead. And one philanthropic idea that I love is to donate your flowers to a nursing home or hospital. If you’ve got a unique idea, I’d love to hear it.
I had so many extra flowers after the wedding since we did the flowers ourselves. Shortly after Christmas I decided to make handmade paper and tossed in a good portion of the leftover wedding flowers.
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 From offbeatbride.nearlyweds.com If Plumeria Dude and I didn’t already have a wedding website (which I will post about at some point), we’d definitely consider this new service from Offbeat Bride. When we were looking the wedding website templates out there, they all seemed pretty generic if not completely cheesy. Which is why we did our own thing. (Yes, there are benefits to marrying a geek!)
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Gerber Daisy Dude and I made a decision that turned us into an eco-friendly couple without us even realizing it…until now! This decision was creating our website through WeddingWire. I checked out many different websites and even though I’m sure it’s impossible to check out every single option, I found their features to be the best and reasonably priced – FREE! Other websites would offer basic things like posting your story, wedding info and a limited about of pictures, but if you wanted more (RSVP capabilities, guest book, links, more pictures and videos) you needed to pay more.
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Hydrangea Dude and I decided a while back that we would not send out response cards with our invitations, and instead, would ask people to RSVP online. We have our wedding website through WeddingWire, and they have a great tool that lets people RSVP directly through our website. Not only does this help the environment by reducing paper and envelopes, it saves us money on that paper and stamps. Also, since we are both very tech-savvy and do almost everything online, it reflects our personalities.
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We’re in the middle of designing (with the help of a graphic designer friend) our Save the Date post cards. When we got engaged, I read all of the “rules” on save the dates, i.e. originally intended for destination weddings, to be sent out 6 months in advance. We’re not exactly having a destination wedding (we live in NYC, and are getting married in Madison, WI—and I wouldn’t call Wisconsin in October a destination…) but since many of our friends and family would be traveling, we decided that we were going to “Save the Date”.
Part of me didn’t want to waste the paper, because this is the first thing, in what I perceive to be a waste of resources for wedding planning. I wanted to email it out. But, then I found Greener Printers.
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