Green Weddings are Trendy and Healthy for the Earth
Join the hottest revolution, and plan a green wedding! Here are some tips, ideas, and links to resources on how to do just that.
Creating a green wedding is easy, and fun to do. 
Impress your guests with your green know-how, and keep your wedding hip, and healthy at the same time. And don't forget to have an Eco-Chic Wedding
by choosing environmentally friendly, but cool wedding
clothes.
It's Nice Being Green
Have a green environmentally friendly wedding

Kermit was right! It is nice being green, and it is good for the earth. You don't have to be a frog anymore to be green. Kermit was just leading the way.
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When I was married (a long time ago) we didn't have all of the great choices to help the environment that we do now. But with a little bit of research, today you can make your wedding

Green Wedding:
Planning Your Eco-Friendly Celebration

Green is the new white for today's brides--metaphorically speaking. Environmentally conscious couples are often appalled by the carbon footprint of traditional weddings and are seeking ways to express their earth-friendly values as they express their love. As Green Wedding shows, there are alternatives--products and services that can reduce environmental harm while ensuring a joyous and stylish celebration. Featuring stories of couples who have "gone green" on their wedding day, this authoritative guide by New York Times Style correspondent Mireya Navarro explains how couples can green their dream wedding, and why this is important. The book presents ideas for maximizing the sustainability of every aspect of your ceremony and reception--from choosing (and reusing) wedding attire, to offsetting the global-warming impact of your guests' travel, to designing a menu (including cake and Champagne) that's seasonal, local, and organic. And because environmental responsibility isn't just a one-day affair, the book includes chapters on ecotourism honeymoons and on living sustainably throughout your married life.
Have You Been to any Green Weddings?
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Green Places to Start
Recycling resource
- Great Green Wedding
- Oodles of ideas and content to help you plan a green wedding or buy green wedding gifts.
- Recycled Ideas
- Recycleable Stationary and other items.
- Green Weddings
- Green Event Planner
- Green Resource for Weddings
- Great place to start to look for green wedding resources.
- The Knot
- A wedding resource with some leads to green weddings
- Green Weddings
- Plan and Celebrate in Harmony with the Environment
- Real Green Weddings
- A blog on actual green weddings.
- Green Weddings--Giant Love, Tiny Footprint
- Another great blog on green weddings and how-to
- Soul Mating
- A blog on other wedding blogs including green ones.
- Bridal Fantasy Blog
- A great blog about weddings and green weddings. Good resource.
- Living Green on a Budget
- Includes information on Green Weddings
- Green Your Wedding
- This is an introductory article on how to Green your Wedding.
- Our Greenhouse
- This is a great site for organic and eco-friendly gifts.
Plan Your Wedding Online
Don't Stress the Details
The Knot Ultimate Wedding Planner: Worksheets, Checklists, Etiquette, Calendars, and Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
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This practical companion to The Knot Complete Guide to Weddings in the Real World acts as a stand-alone guide to the nuts and bolts of planning a wedding. The Knot Ultimate Wedding Planner is where the bride and groom can record wedding ideas, create budget guidelines, check items off their to-do list, generate the guest list, store contact information for their wedding vendors, and get tips and advice on the best way to plan their big day.
Chapter by chapter, the planner walks the bridal couple through each major step: for example, choosing the reception site, picking a photographer, and deciding on a menu. Author Carley Roney and the editors of The Knot Web site have talked with both wedding professionals and hundreds of thousands of brides and grooms, and have a good idea of the necessary ingredients for a successful wedding. Most helpful and thorough are each chapter's "Questions to Ask" checklists and the "Knot Knowledge" tips, which include money-saving ideas. The book also contains a gift log, a budget tracker, and a wedding-day phone contacts sheet.
Roney offers loads of helpful advice, such as recommending that the bride and groom declare "wedding free zones" where the couple makes time for activities together that have nothing to do with planning the wedding. Each chapter also includes her down-to-earth answers to commonly asked questions, such as whether it's appropriate for a relative to host a shower or if the wedding couple should pay for guests' travel expenses. With all of its tips, advice, and organizers, The Knot Ultimate Wedding Planner may just be, next to a wedding coordinator, the best way for modern couples to ensure their wedding is a smoothly run, stress-free affair. --Kris Law
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The Trendiest Weddings are Green

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Alternatives to the excessive and synthetic wedding industry machine

Organic Weddings:
Balancing Ecology, Style and Tradition

Every year in the United States, over 2.4 million people get married, fueling a wedding industry estimated at -seventy billion dollars per year. Until now, there had been no readily available help for those wanting their wedding celebrations to reflect their environmental and social awareness by balancing ecology, style and tradition.
Organic Weddings fills this gap by providing alternatives to the excessive and synthetic wedding industry machine while still enabling couples to incorporate time-honored traditions, as well as meaningful details, that celebrate the bride and groom's own style and values. The book presents new ideas and product information, interviews with eco-leaders, real wedding stories, and tips from eco-brides that can be readily shared with relatives and other wedding decision-makers. Topics covered include:
planning and budgeting
wedding attire from natural fibers
holistic beauty and natural products
tree-free invitations and stationery
earth-friendly locations and decor
ceremonies and vows
organic food and beverages
favors, flowers, and eco-gifts
honeymoons, green hotels, and eco-travel
newlyweds, sustainable living, values investing, and natural homes.
Packed with beautiful black-and-white and color photographs, this refreshing book will inspire those planning all varieties of wedding, from backyard to black tie. It will especially appeal to those wanting their valuable wedding purchases to reflect environmentally and socially responsible choices, while also showcasing the fun and style of conscientious celebrations.
Michelle Kozin is founder and president of Organic Weddings, Inc., the only comprehensive online wedding resource for couples living healthy, natural lifestyles with regard for the environment. An MBA, with experience as a change management consultant, event planner, and designer.
Everything Green Weddings and More
Balancing ecology, style, and tradition
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To Help You Plan Your Wedding
As the whole green subject becomes more and more complex - combining environmental, ethical and organic issues, some of which can be conflicting - it's getting progressively harder to work out how to make your wedding eco-friendly without ending up with a glorified mudbath. Yet, quite rightly, many couples now want their weddings designed to help keep our planet, environment, agriculture and employment ethics as healthy as possible ...without compromising on style, glamour, quality and, of course, fun. A tall order? Not now, with How to Get Married in Green. In this book, Suzan St Maur (also author of Wedding Speeches For Women and The A to Z of Wedding Worries and how to put them right neatly unravels the increasingly tangled web of green issues relating to weddings; so that you can: choose from a range of options depending on how far you want to pursue your green approach; see how these options work across all key areas of your wedding; get some clever, effective ideas on transport, decorations, clothes, catering, entertainment and more; learn how to make those ideas work for you with style and panache; understand just what an appreciable difference these measures will make to our planet and wellbeing; and, enjoy your wedding (and its planning) even more, because you know you're making a difference.
The Knot Ultimate Wedding Planner: Worksheets, Checklists, Etiquette, Calendars, and Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
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Intimate Weddings: Planning a Small Wedding that Fits Your Budget and Style
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The Perfect Wedding Details: More Than 100 Ideas for Personalizing Your Wedding
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Colin Cowie's Extraordinary Weddings: From a Glimmer of an Idea to a Legendary Event
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Eco-Chic Weddings: Simple Tips to Plan an Earth-Friendly, Socially Responsible, Affordable Green Wedding
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It's Not Just a Trend--It's Good For the World!
Green Weddings are Part of Green Living

The Gaiam Green Living Section is a resource for ingenious products to help you reduce your impact on the environment, save money and increase efficiency indoors and out.
"Keeping it Green" is not just an expression any more. We can save the earth one action at a time and weddings are a great place to start. Listed on this lens are loads of resources to do just that and as I discover more, I will include them. So keep tuned and pass on the info to anyone you know that is getting married.
Green Resources
To Help You Become More Earth Friendly

Easy Recycling Handbook: What to Recycle & How to Buy Recycled... Without All the Garbage
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Always A Bridesmaid: 89 Ways to Recycle That Bridesmaid Dress
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Greening My Life
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Gorgeously Green: 8 Simple Steps to an Earth-Friendly Life
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The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time
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Wedding Music List
Wedding Cd's

A Day to Remember - Instrumental Music for Your Wedding Day
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25 Wedding Favorites
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Classical Wedding
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A Day to Remember: Music for Your Beach Wedding
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Heart Beats: Now & Forever - Timeless Wedding Songs
Release Date: 01/19/1999
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Custom Engraved Wedding Bottle

This is my absolute favorite wedding gift. It is green, and so very cool. This is a recycled flattened champagne bottle custom engraved with the actual wedding invitation on it. These are made by my friend Deby Cowdin, who is a glass artist. She gets the bottles from bars and restaurants in Cleveland, Ohio, and recycles them into food functional cheese trays, dishes, and bowls. This comes in several colors, and is also available as a destination wedding bottle.
To order:
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Another Green Gift--The VESSEL Project
Another fun gift is the VESSEL project by artist T. L. Champion. T.L. creates her VESSELs out of recycled alcohol bottles. Here is what she has to say about them.Introducing VESSELS. . .edgy, functional art that utilizes the unique combination of recycled glass (alcohol/liquor bottles from local restaurants and bars) and recycled jewelry. Use your VESSEL as a decorative piece for your end table, dresser, bar or bath as a:
Room Diffuser
Bud Vase
Prayer Bottle
Wish maker . . . make a wish, put it in the bottle and cover it (real tight!) until the wish comes true. Use again and again, for special wishes!
These are custom made, so you need to order color and style.
To order:
VESSELS
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AeroGrow AeroGarden Pro 100 with Gourmet Herb Seed Kit
AeroGrow AeroGarden Pro 100 with Gourmet Herb Seed Kit
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Xantrex Technologies 852-2071 Xpower AC/DC Powerpack Solar With 400 Watt Inverter, Two AC Outlets, USB Port, And Digital Display
Xantrex Technologies 852-2071 Xpower AC/DC Powerpack Solar With 400 Watt Inverter, Two AC Outlets, USB Port, And Digital Display
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Yukiko Sato - K2L&D2 HANABI Leaf of Katty TESAGE tote bags, with Purse Insert (Drawstirng Organizer), Light weight Cotton Canvas
Yukiko Sato - K2L&D2 HANABI Leaf of Katty TESAGE tote bags, with Purse Insert (Drawstirng Organizer), Light weight Cotton Canvas, Hobo Style
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TopStyleTravel wrote...
Wonderful lens, 5 stars! Love the pictures of fruit and flowers. Great tips for wedding planning and info on reducing our carbon footprint on the earth. My idea is for the couple to choose an eco-friendly honeymoon destination such as Hawaii, Costa Rica, New Zealand, or a National Park. Choose Hotels that have the Energy Star ratings. Also rent a hybrid vehicle or ride a horse or bicycle. And make sure to recycle.
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That's a great lens! love the pics and congratulations on winning the best green lens. Thanks for joining my group - Green Things to Covet.
My best green tips are on my website - which is a collection of green living ideas. Anyone who would like to contribute green tips is welcome!
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