Greetins All!

[sweet_bread]

Hello and congrats to all of you. I just got engaged on Monday, but we have already secured a venue and caterers (they came together.) I am in the early planning stages. We are vegan and socially conscious, so we would like our wedding to reflect that. We are having our ceremony outdoors and our reception is at a hall called The Environmental

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[kel3am]

Your wedding sounds like fun! I'm not planning a wedding myself, but I'm helping my sister with hers. She wanted some environmentally friendly tableware instead of plastic, and we found this site - http://www.greenpartygoods.com/... )

[affectionjunkie]

I second the seed paper, especial, if you'd be sending out the invites in the spring. I found really pretty ones once, let me search and post them if I find them again.

(ps- vampire icons for vegan make me giggle)

[affectionjunkie]

I couldn't find it, but these look beautiful!

http://www.botanicalpaperworks.com/category/Handmade+Plantable+Wedding+Invitations/1/

http://www.greenfieldpaper.com/asccustompages/products.asp?categoryid=12

[delicatetruth]

Thats what I just posted about, but I couldn't find a link! I love those.

[mamomo]

Yay for green weddings! Here are some useful blogs, if you haven't discovered them already:

Earth Friendly Weddings

Eco Chic Weddings

Real Green Weddings

Offbeat Bride is also a good resource. Not everything on there is 'green,' but they do have a lot of vegan, hippy, and outdoorsy weddings. Good luck!

[sweet_bread]

Thank you so much. Eco Chic gave me some kick-ass ideas! Whew!

[biochemcrazy]

I gave spruce saplings as my favors, and I got them from this site: http://www.greenworldproject.net/

They were a pretty big hit with my guests, and it was nice to have a living favor. We used the ones in the tubes since a lot of our guests traveled pretty far and I didn't want the tree to die on the way home.

[mahasin]

Tomato plants! Because anyone can grow a tomato plant indoors or outdoors, it encourges people to grow their own food/eat organic.

mmm. tomato plants

[delicatetruth]

I don't know what your budget is, but I watched a special on green weddings once where the couple's invitations were made out of seeds and bio-degradeable ornaments so that all they had to do was plant the card and it wuold grow wild flowers. It was pretty awesome.