Green Weddings

[Justin J Hyman]

Sarah and I live in Granola, USA (aka Austin TX) and are committed to the environment. We are incorporating many "green" elements into our Wedding and Reception such as recycled material invitations, solar batteries for night time lighting, erasing the carbon footprint of our guests travel and accommodations, renting a bio-diesel fueled limousine (this one is stretching it as a limo is not that eco-friendly bio fueled or not...hey wait, stretching it...limo, pun!) and having only locally sourced organic food including the cake. I am even trying to track down a suit made from recycled PET bottles available from ecogir but it is only in test markets in New Jersey.
Are any of you guys doing similar things?

[Martin]

Yeah, I just mentioned in my other reply that that's a huge part of what we're doing. Local sourcing wherever possible, crafting rather than purchasing, and several green websites. Solar and photovoltaics will be prominent, yes, probably wedding compost as well. Also finding green rated accomodations in the area (as well as couch allocations), and pushing public transport, especially in this city, and encouraging walking and biking.

Wedding correspondence will all be handled electronically apart from a one-way invitation, single recycled card with no inlay and eco-inks, all terrapassed.

[ShowtimeSparty]

wow.... that sounds awesome. Are using solar batteries much more expensive?

[Justin J Hyman]

A full (and growing) list of what we are doing can be found here

And its not that expensive.

[Kent]

We are also trying to be as eco-friendly as possible. We're having the ENTIRE event outside, using the natural light to our advantage. We're hoping to have some acoustic music and we want to use reusable utensils for food and whatnot. Not necessarily renting or buying anything, but recycled materials are always key.

Good stuff, Justin!

[Hassan Chaudhri]

We've taken a few steps in this direction in terms of using recycled materials, but not on the level that you're going to. It's a good idea, and something I wish we'd thought through more - we have a venue and so on, and so that will restrict what we can do a bit. One of the things we are doing is giving out a list of charities and organizations that people can donate to instead of buying us stuff that we don't really need.

[David Sanborne]

The venue that we are holding both the wedding and reception at is on a state park and the building is built entirely from reclaimed wood and limestone - and the cost of renting the venue goes to the upkeep of the park and educational programs.

[Justin J Hyman]

At one point I was trying to find a solar battery cart but could not. I emailed the GreenBrideGuide because I saw one on one of their featured weddings. I never was able to secure the cart but they did email us afterwards and ask to feature our wedding!

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