Earth Day Wedding Ideas: #6 - #10 of our Eco-Chic Wedding Countdown

Today we celebrate Earth day, and there are many couples out there who will also be celebrating their wedding today, and some with an Earth day or eco-friendly theme. For many the act of planning a wedding is a stressful and tedious task, not to mention if you’re planning a wedding that sways slightly from timeworn traditions to creating new practices that are sustainable and organic.
I’ve been slow in follow in up, just because there’s so much information and resources out there now. But here are the rest of my favorite earth day/environmentally friendly wedding finds left on my Eco-chic wedding countdown:

6. Organic Patisserie - The best place to find a caterer who uses organic is usually in your own backyard. Local caterers will uses what’s in season and work with local farmers to get the best organic ingredients available for your wedding cake and delicacies.
A place like Wildflowers in the NYC area creates vegan, vegetarian and organic weddings cakes.



7. Recycled Invitations – Now I now not many would want to just send out email invite to save the life of a tree, but there is another option available, why not use a company that uses recycled paper for their invitations? Such as Seal and Send, I found on the Treehugger website. Some companies even go as far as using soy-based ink. I found this beautiful one from Green Weddings feature on Ivitesite




8. Digital photography – Choose a great wedding photographer who will agree to photograph your wedding digitally. Eliminating the negatives minimizes chemicals and putting the preliminary proofs online saves paper. Many photographers nowadays do this, but still this is a conversation to have with your photographer.





{photos above by Olivier Lalin}

9. Fresh Food- Use seasonally available fruits and vegetables, that way you can ensure that your food didn’t travel from who knows where to get to you, unnecessarily using up gas oil. Ok, we all know that you might be planning for your spring wedding in summer the year ahead, so when you meet with caterers you might be taking food that’s in season then. Also have a conversation with your caterers about what you’re expecting and it might not be able to do a tasting that far in advance.


10. Fair Trade produced fabrics – It’s not hard to find wedding dresses and even men’s clothing now with sustainable fabrics such as "peace silk" where the worms have not been killed as I mentioned in #5.


Perhaps you're eco-conscious and thinking of tying the knot let me know what you're planning! I'd love to hear many more ideas! there are so many wonderful sustainable options available today than before, making the decision to go green is beautiful can still be produce a stunning and fun wedding.
Bisous- Yan!