zinnia • lavender wedding or party invitation

The eco-wedding line at Night Owl Paper Goods is beautiful, unique, and will kick your green wedding off right. The wedding line of products are made of eco-friendly sustainably harvested yellow birch wood. The wood grain varies, which means your invites will be super unique & lovely. Wedding cards includes custom text, or a fill-in section (yes, you can write on this wood), and outer envelope.

squirrel vows • golden pecan save the date postcard

Shown above:

1. flowering dogwood • sunny wedding or party invitation
2. zinnia • peacock blue reply card
3. Save the Date * Kelly Rosette
4. everlasting wheat circle wedding or party invitation

Pricing is the only downside of these cards. Being so unique they go for $3 to $6 each, so I’m guessing these are MUCH better for a small eco-wedding. If you’ve got the budget though, these are simply the coolest material cards for a green wedding you can get. If going with touchable cards is not your deal check out:

• Engagement Party & Wedding Invitations Go Digital
• Perfect Digital Wedding Cards

Visit Night Owl Paper Goods to learn more.

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• 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

Seal and Send

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.

baron*cards

Botanical Paperworks

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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I got a comment and email about one very cool digital invitation service. I took a look and honestly, I think that this digital service trumps all others where digital weddings invites are concerned.

The service, My Invitation Link, offers digital wedding save the date cards, invitations, announcements , thank you cards, and much more. All of which are beautiful, custom, and well-priced. John, an individual from My Invitation Link, showed me some examples of a Christmas card and birthday card as well, so you could handle other events with this service as well. BUT we’re talking about weddings so… let’s see some wedding designs! Now remember, you really have to visit the site to see how this works. The designs below are just snippets of a single slide card.

Blackbird:

Bronze:

Here are two different slides from the Snow Forest card, to give you an idea of layout…

These digital cards are much more than a simple card, they can be entire slide shows; like a tiny movie. You can fit up to 20 slides in a card, music licensed by My Invitation Link, and is fully text customizable.

Pricing includes a subscription time of three, six, or twelve months. During that time your invitations and announcements are hosted and My Invitation Link notes, “During this time, users can come on to the site and change pictures, music, templates, etc. You can send to as many people as you would like, as many times as you like. You can use the templates for Save the Date Cards, Invitations, Thank You Notes, Birthday Cards, Shower Invitations, Christmas cards, Birth Announcements, Etc.”

Pricing is a much better deal than paper cards and stamps (and for trees!):

• 3 months – $39
• 6 months – $59
• 1 year – $75

Visit My Invitation Link to see some cards in action and to learn more.

Click here to learn about all the current contests, themes, and green challenges going on at Tree Hugging Family in May 2008

[Image via My Invitation Link]

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If you really want to be true-blue green all the way, then digital is the way to go. I KNOW! A digital wedding invitation! How weird is that? Not so weird if you’d like to conserve trees and resources. Plus, believe me, there are some pretty cool invite options out there in digital land.

pingg is a great option for beautiful digital cards.  Not only can you create great cards and send them to the masses, but many of the services offered at pingg are FREE. Yup free. Save paper and paper money! You can use one of their design options (of which they have many) or download your own image or photo.

I made a pretend wedding invite so you could see how nice they look. I didn’t really have much to say, seeing as how I’m not really getting married, so my cards are a little sparse. You however, can add addresses, notes, messages and more.

I like this design and colors best – very soothing:

May 18th! I’m getting married quick. Ha. I also like this option…

Care2 eCards also has a selection of fun e-card. For each card you send through Care2 they make a donation to an environmental nonprofit to save a square foot of rainforest. I don’t love any of their wedding specific choices. However, they have a super collection of artsy cards in oddball categories like world, art, and friendship. You just have to look, and you’ll find something nice. Care2 is totally free as well and you can add personalized messages.

Hallmark has oodles of e-cards; some free, some not, but many are adorable. The only problem with Hallmark cards is I don’t think you can change messages. You can add messages though. Their wedding selection is slim, but like any e-card service, you don’t have to use a “wedding” card, you can use a friendship or art-type card with a wedding message added to it.

Yahoo Greetings: This site is in conjunction with American Greetings and you can find great e-cards here. There’s also a special create your own invite section. I found this card:

Next up, options besides digital including paper card products that are more earth friendly than traditional. Now, would you go digital for your wedding?

Click here to learn about all the current contests, themes, and green challenges going on at Tree Hugging Family in May 2008

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