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How to Make Your Wedding Eco-Friendly
Wedding favors
Give your guests an eco-friendly gift, with sustenance. It will not only last longer than traditional favors, but will also honor your wedding by evoking its memory longer.
Give seed packets, bulbs, potted plants, small trees or saplings.
Give delicious organic chocolate that they will want to ration and savor.
Tag your favors with rice paper or recyclable material.
Send them home with a meaningful piece of artistry made by a local artist.
Donate to one of your beloved charities in your guests’ names. An excellent option for your earth-friendly wedding is an organization that serves to offset the carbon “footprint” made by your wedding. A carbon footprint is the quantity of carbon dioxide emitted by someone or something over a period of time. It is thought that you can help offset that impact. Using a calculator provided by your organization of choice, you can calculate your wedding’s total carbon footprint (due to items like transportation, goods and services) and give the appropriate amount to an organization that invests in operations that strive to lessen the atmosphere’s levels of greenhouse-causing gasses. These groups also strive to eradicate future emissions via avenues such as renewable energy sources and tree planting. The contributions you make in your guests’ names can bring your wedding closer to being “carbon neutral.”
Gifts
If you and your fiancé have already set up house, ask guests to refrain from gift giving, or suggest that they contribute to an environmental group or plant a tree in your name.
Establish your registry with a merchant who is eco-conscious, such as one selling organic or recycled products.
Gifts for your wedding party can be non-consumptive, such as those made of recycled or tree-free materials. You can spoil them with a gift card to a massage parlor or health-food store, or give them organic wine, soap, or specialty coffee.
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