Eco-Chic Wedding Invitations

In today’s changing world, it is important that you do everything you can to make sure you are being respectful towards the environment. When your goal is to live in a socially conscious way, planning your wedding is the perfect “green” opportunity. This will probably be the first big “purchase” that you and your fiancé will make in your new lives together, why not make it in an ethical way?

Now, the first step is announcing your big day! Wedding announcements or invitations can set the perfect tone for your environmentally friendly wedding. There are many options today for 100% recycled, partially recycled or completely tree free papers from wedding invitation suppliers. A perfect source for earth friendly invitations is Earthly Affair. Not only do they offer 100% recycled alternatives to traditional paper invitations, but they also take into consideration their environmental impact in other ways, such as earth friendly printing methods, an eco equipped studio, and carbon free shipping.

A fun project for your guests after the wedding is to provide them with “plantable wedding invitations”. They are an interesting and unique way to literally green your wedding and Botanical Paperworks is doing them the right way. Garden Greetings™ paper has actual seeds embedded into it and when you plant the paper in a pot of soil, the seeds will grow into beautiful wildflowers! How eco-chic is that? 

Now, if you really want to throw caution to the wind, many couples are fore-going the paper invitations all together and moving towards the virtual world. Couples are opting to send a simple email invitation to visit their online Wedding site. A creative and informative wedding website can easily give details and links to important wedding locations, schedules, maps, etc. In addition, if the couple is able to create their own site or find a designer they like, they can definitely express their own unique flair and theme on a wedding website. This non-traditional method might be a little controversial, but times they are a’ changing, and this route is an easy way to save a lot of time, money and help the planet.

In the end, you have many alternatives in your choice of invitations that can be original, unique and eco-friendly – this is something that will require a little more effort on your part, but if taking care of our planet is important, then you will want to make this effort to be socially responsible.

A few other companies that are doing it the right way:
Bella Figura
Naturally Ever After
Oblation Papers + Press