Eco Friendly Paper for Your Green Wedding
If you truly want the ultimate green wedding, don’t bother reading this post. Instead skip back and read:
- Green Wedding Planner: Perfect Digital Wedding Cards
- Green Wedding Planning - Engagement Party & Wedding Invitations Go Digital
- Green Wedding Tip: Alternatives to Reply Cards
It’s tough to justify paper, even eco-friendly paper, when there are better, no paper ways to go. However, this is your wedding, and your day, so if you want paper, I’m bringing in some options you can use for invites, thank-you cards, save-the-date cards, and more. The following papers will work beautifully for your wedding needs, while allowing you to still be green.
The basic thing you’re looking for is recycled paper and, or paper that can maybe be put to another use. One other idea is to make your own homemade paper. This could be a really fun sort of pre-wedding get-together. Grab some pals, or your future spouse, some tasty treats for the gang, and spend one nice day making paper. Fun, earth-friendly, and totally custom and unique.
Perfect paper products for a green wedding:
A HUGE selection of beautiful tree-free and post consumer recycled papers for eco wedding invitations from Invitesite. From Invitesite: “These invitations are sold as DIY kits that you can print desktop or we can print for you. (we print in-house with vegetable based inks)” You can read their Eco Policies and Green Practices as well.
Here are three lovely examples from Invitesite but you won’t believe all the colors and ideas available - tons to see.
Angelicia Wedding Invitation - perfect for autumn weddings.
Coco - I LOVE this one.
Sol - very different colors, but great for a modern wedding or maybe one in the heat of summer.
Plantable Seeded Wrapping Paper from Bloom
Tasha Rae Designs has some absolutely beautiful wedding designs going on - not all the invites at this site are eco-friendly, but you can have anything switched to eco-friendly papers. One note, it was tough to find the eco content for this shop. If you’re interested in how green the papers are, you need to scroll down on this page to the bottom. Green aspects won’t come up if you click on the invite itself.
There are plenty of earth friendly paper companies around now. Check Co-op America’s listing for stationary and tree-free papers. Just be sure to read each site carefully. “Earth Friendly” at one shop may mean 20% recycled content, and 100% tree-free at another.
Do you have some other ideas?
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2 opinions for Eco Friendly Paper for Your Green Wedding
green thinking
May 25, 2008 at 11:32 pm
We need to develop the new green industrial revolution that develops the new technologies that can confront and overcome the challenge of climate change; and that above all can show us not that we can avoid changing our behaviour but we can change it in a way that is environmentally sustainable.
Delilah
Jul 13, 2008 at 3:37 pm
I love the idea of making my own handmade paper. I design and make wedding invitations for a living and have been meaning to get around to learning to make my own paper. This post just gave me the kick in the butt to get going and really start doing it! Thanks!
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