Your Environment Friendly Wedding Can Help Save Mother Earth

With all the destruction and damage done to our environment, Mother Earth calls for your help. What better way to help her than to start with your own environment friendly wedding day when you are also about to start your own family just like Mother Earth?

Let’s begin with the invites. The invitation should be made from recycled paper or handmade paper. And since we are into the modern times, try and check out invites that are sent through email. There are also plenty of places online that offer an invitation service.

Next, we have the flowers for the bride, her entourage, and the decoration. You may want to use those that are home grown or freshly picked from the gardens. Avoid those wedding flowers that are sprayed with insecticides.

For venue, choose an outdoor wedding. You can have a garden wedding, or wedding in a local park, or a beach wedding. Your environment-friendly wedding should be able to showcase the beauty of nature and why it is important to preserve it.

Moving to the wedding dress and clothing, there are many organic materials that you can choose from. The bridal gown should be made from natural fibers like silk, stain, hemp, organic cotton. Or you can go retro and recycle your mom’s or granny’s wedding gown while the groom can wear a vintage suit.

The symbol of love, the ring, should also conform to one’s being environment friendly. Instead of going for the diamond which is mined and endangers lives as well as the earth, try buying a green wedding ring from an ethical jeweler who specializes in environment friendly weddings. Ethical jewelers make sure that the gems they sell are produced responsibly.

Let’s go to one of the most awaited and important part of the festivities, the wedding reception. You may want to avail of the services of a caterer who concentrates on environment friendly weddings. You may opt to go total vegan, or semi-vegetarian. Whatever your choice is, you have to make sure that the food you serve shows your advocacy towards saving Mother Earth.

The wedding cake should also be all natural. Use natural sweeteners and organic ingredients. Although quite rare, you may want to find a baker that specializes in vegan or vegetarian wedding cakes.

Of course, you cannot let your guests go without giving favors. For your wedding party favors, you can visit organic retail stores that sell or offer novelty eco-friendly items such as handmade soaps, potpourri from dried flowers and leaves, organic scented candles, and the likes. You may also want to convince your guests to donate whatever amount they feel comfortable with to causes that will help save Mother Earth.

As a culmination of the wedding festivities, you can also conduct some environment-friendly activities to increase the consciousness of your wedding party and guests to the good cause that you are advocating.

When the wedding is over, you can gather what is left-over such as flowers and recycle them to a hospital or nursing home. To save on paper, you can send your wedding photos to your family and friends online via email or use a website that specializes in having an online wedding photo gallery.

See how easy you can help save Mother Earth through your environment friendly wedding?

An Eco-Friendly Wedding is More than just Going Green

It is important that we try to protect our environment by means of showing welfare to nature and all its contents; how will you be able to do this? Well, you can start with yourself, you can try to find some small things that would make you contribute something for the welfare of the environment. One thing that you can do is to consider welfare for animals – be a vegetarian.

Vegetarian is known to be described as a diet which will just let a person eat or consume those which is not extracted from animals. In ethics, it is a fact that inflicting pain with animals is not right and is unjust. They have their own rights to live and be part of the world; thus, every creature has its right to be protected and live as long as it/she/he can. It’s wrong for man to slaughter animals just to make them the most expensive bag or coat and to make those tasty meals. This is just one of the reasons why there are vegetarians nowadays. Have you ever attended a vegan wedding or vegetarian wedding? If not, then it would be good for you to know that by having this vegetarian wedding you can show that you care for your environment because this is also known as an eco-friendly wedding.

An eco-friendly wedding is a type of wedding wherein all of the things that will be used and all of the meals that will be served were free from animal harm. This means that everything will be made of materials that were not extracted from animals; from the wedding gowns, shoes, green gift bags, meals and even cakes were not made extracted from meat, fish and poultry.

The advantage of having an eco-friendly wedding from the term itself promotes a good idea that is against slaughtering or inflicting pain to animals just for man’s benefit. There are two religions which are living proof of vegetarianism – Hinduism and Jainism. Both of these religions imposed the idea of being a vegetarian among its people. They want their people to be informed about the violence that eating meat, fish and poultry can give harm to animals. They are against animal harm because they also believe about the animals right to live. These two religions were also after the fact that eating vegetables were good for the mind and body as well as the spiritual growth and development. Eating meat for them would mean hindrance for spiritual and mental development and so they obliged their people to be vegans – with these religions, they promote an eco-friendly wedding.

With the idea that having an eco-friendly wedding would be valuable, since you’re about to share the idea of an environmental friendly wedding, there will be a chance for you to share the great feeling of being a vegetarian with all of your guests. You can let them taste the great recipe that you have for your vegetarian wedding menu and maybe they will also be interested in becoming a vegetarian; and thus, an environment lover.