Green Wedding Ideas
Your wedding is a great opportunity to do your bit to create a beautiful and healthier world that you would like to share with your partner, and raise your kids in. You can do this by choosing eco-friendly items for your wedding. Here are some great suggestions of things to be used for a ‘green’ wedding.
Have a Small Ceremony
Having a large guest list for your wedding means a lot of travel, lot of food consumption as well as lots of wastage. So invite only close friends and relatives whom you see often. It is not necessary for you to invite all your co-workers or your distant relatives who live in another country and you haven’t seen them for years. Therefore, invite only close family and friends, unless it would lead to a big family rift.
Go Vintage
Use as much or vintage stuff as possible including your dresses, suits and rings. Buying used things is not just eco-friendly but also saves a lot of money. However, buying used is still lesser ‘green’ then renting stuff. Wasting money on a suit that you probably will never wear again is a bad idea. Re-using items is a great way to go green.
Invitations
Make your invitations using hand made, recycled or tree free paper or hire a company that advertises their eco friendly and green invitations and stationary. Besides using a local vendor, you can go online and find hundreds of websites offering great designs for green wedding invitations at a low cost.
Go Local
Try to get everything you want for the wedding including invitations, food, flowers and gifts from local vendors instead of getting them shipped from other cities. This would help is avoiding the overuse of earth’s resource required for shipping.
Research Whatever You Buy
Before buying or renting anything for the wedding, make sure to find out the greenness of the product. This means that you should know if the products your are using are eco-friendly or not. Make sure that the diamonds you are buying to wear on your wedding are not conflict diamonds. Conflicts diamonds, also referred to as blood diamonds, are extracted from mines located in the war zones and are used for funding illegal military actions. So make sure you buy things that are completely people and environment friendly.
