Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Green
Going green with your wedding planning is fast becoming the new tradition. Even if you don't want to go all-the-way green with your wedding plans, there are still several things that you can do during the celebration with the environment in mind.According to Millie Martini Bratten, the editor in chief of Bride's magazine, you do not have to sacrifice style or taste to
A daytime outdoor wedding and reception eliminates the need of electricity for lighting. Having both the wedding ceremony and reception in the same location eliminates the need for driving from one location to another and saves fuel.
Decorations and table center pieces for your wedding can be chosen from whatever is locally grown. Locally grown flowers and fruits will be fresher, save on the fuel needed for importing them from elsewhere and will benefit your local economy. Go green by providing guests with an alternative to throw away wedding favors and gifts. The wedding and reception table arrangements of glass bowls filled with fresh fruits or flowers can serve the environment twice by providing colorful wedding decor and as becoming wedding favors for your guests. Donations to charity in lieu of wedding favors is the new green trend.
Wedding invitations printed on recycled paper is a way to help save the trees. Setting up a website for your wedding on a website like MyWedding.com is another non-paper way to keep in touch with wedding invitees.
Vintage wedding dresses are very much sought after and a way to go green with your wedding plans. Gently used wedding dresses or Mother's wedding dress are ways to recycle and go green. Wedding dresses made from environmentally friendly fabric like hemp, silk, organic cotton and bamboo fabric are not only fashionable and trendy, but another way to keep the environment in mind. The grooms have long been ahead of the brides in going green in the wedding day attire by renting a tux.
Companies around U.S. are choosing to help make the world and our environment a better by beginning to go green. But the process has to begin at home, so that it can be carried onto the workplace too.
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- Vintage wedding dresses are popular and trendy.
- Fresh fruit bowls make lovely wedding table decorations.
- Honeymoon at an environmentally friendly hotel or resort.
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