A green wedding is a wedding that is environmentally conscious.
Green Wedding Tips
- Look for post-consumer or recycled paper for wedding invitations
- Purchase vintage eco-friendly, or conflict-free wedding rings.
- Serve organic, locally grown food.
- Use organic, locally grown flowers.
- Donate your food and flowers.
- Offset what you can't reduce. [1]
- Choose a venue that minimizes travel for guests.
- Take an eco-honeymoon.
- Buy a vintage wedding dress.
- Have bridesmaids wear a dress they already own.
- Donate the wedding dress and bridesmaid dresses to charity.
- Instead of flower petals or rice, throw ecofetti. It dissolves when sprayed with water.
- Use potted plants and herbs for centerpieces, they can be taken home by guests or you to enjoy for long after the day is done.
- If you are having your wedding in an area where you can take public transit (you'll probably get some unique pictures from that adventure).
- Reduce paper usage by having a wedding website (eliminating the need for direction inserts and RSVP cards and envelopes).
- Reduce the size of your guest list.
- Reserve hotel rooms for your guests at an eco-friendly hotel [2]
- Consider serving a vegetarian menu and/or eliminating as much dairy as possible from the menu.
- Serve organic, shade-grown coffee if possible.
- Skip personalized napkins and just stick to cloth napkins on the tables.
- Hold your ceremony and your reception in the same location.
- Donate your centerpieces to a local hospice or hospital to reuse them.
- Choose other zero-waste vendors (florist, hotel, etc.)
- Collect digital photos instead of providing disposable cameras for guests.
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