Going green for your wedding seems like a great idea, until you try. However, once you start researching ways to go green, it seems like you can never do a good enough job to make your conscience clear about the carbon footprint your wedding has. Most resources tell you the million ways that you are killing mother Earth so it’s easy to have this guilty sense for enjoying your wedding if you don’t follow what they say.
I would pick out a couple of ideas to follow and then call it a day because every aspect of your wedding has potential to be more green. If green advice says that your carbon footprint would increase if you did something that you really wanted to do, such as fly to the Caribbean for your honeymoon, then you should ask yourself, “Will I be more sad about not going to the Caribbean, or will I be more sad about the carbon footprint of my plane travel?” If you don’t feel guilty enough, then don’t worry about it. 
Randomly, there is a compilation of green wedding blogs on Top Online Colleges. This list is pretty good and includes 50 different blogs that you could follow.
While we’re at it, I like these 5 easy ideas that you could do for your wedding:
- Use chalkboard signs as much as possible instead of paper (see above from RecycledBride.com)
- Reuse items that would normally be discarded. This couple reused film canisters from work and repacked it with their wedding invitation.
- Minimize transportation requirements by inviting less people (think the cost of traveling by car, plane, or train multiplied by number of guests), forgo the limo rental, or plan a honeymoon that involves minimal transportation.
- Use recycled paper for your invitations. Top Online College’s list has several vendors that use recycled paper and with chic designs.
- Keep meat to a minimum. Meat has the biggest impact on the environment among food items so if you leave it out, you’ve reduced your carbon footprint. This idea is easy to do, but personally, I’d be sad without meat on the menu.
Eco-friendly invitations, such as formal-invitations.com, give only 100% recycled paper options.
What green ideas have you done, or intent to do for your wedding?
Great article. This will be very helpful to brides who are looking to have a green wedding. Thanks for sharing.
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