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We're quickly coming upon wedding season, and it's time for brides, grooms, and anyone else involved in the planning to hunker down and study the wonderful ways you can green your event. Going green means getting to have a creative, unique, and low-impact day with elements that are memorable and long-lasting for the marrying couple, but not for the planet.
In order to help you cut down on time spent searching out ways to go green, we've gathered six of the best resource manuals for sparking dark green, light footprint ideas for every aspect of the wedding day.
Eco-Chic Weddings: Simple Plans to an Earth-Friendly, Socially Responsible, Affordable Green Wedding
by Emily Elizabeth Anderson
Offering advice on how to save money while going green, this book offers tips like how to use in-season flowers, which parts of the formal wedding traditions can be skipped without being noticed, and how to make party purchases with reusability in mind. Every aspect of the wedding, from location to menu to attire, gets attention so you can make informed eco-friendly decisions.
The Everything Green Wedding Book: Plan an elegant, affordable, earth-friendly wedding
by Wenona Napolitano
It's a hefty book, for a good reason. It offers loads of advice and ideas for planning an eco-friendly wedding. From the (moment of engagement http://planetgreen.discovery.com/go-green/wedding-engagement/ ) through to the honeymoon, you'll find great tips and tricks on finding organic, recyclable, reuseable, and footprint-free options. The author is an old hat at being green, and is a contributing editor for the Wedding Planning for the Budget Bride and the Natural Health and Beauty sites at GardenandHearth.com, so you know you're getting expert input.
by Ariel Meadow Stallings
With sweet sass and a sharp eye for everything interesting, Stallings will guide you through planning a wedding that is exactly how you want it to be, helping you to fling tradition aside and use only the elements you're most comfortable with. You'll be guided through filling in the blanks with your own brilliant ideas. Going green will feel easy when you have the support of others who have gone against the grain to have a wedding day that shows off their personality to the very last detail.
Organic Weddings: Balancing Ecology, Style and Tradition
by Michelle Kozin.
A wedding day likely requires the use of a lot of resources, and this book will help guide you to the organic, natural options. From beauty products to materials for the wedding attire, you'll find information you need to make the green choices that will make your special day easy on the earth, and easy on your green conscience.
Green Weddings that Don't Cost the Earth
by Carol Reed-Jones
Just as picking out the greenest materials for your wedding is important, so too is selecting only the materials you need. This book will help you learn where you can cut waste, incorporate recycling, and even get really involved in the wedding process through some fun do-it-yourself projects like making the bridal bouquet, or baking an all-natural wedding cake.
The Green Bride Guide: How to Create an Earth Friendly Wedding on Any Budget
by Kate L. Harrison
Budgets are as varied as brides and grooms when it comes to wedding planning. This book offers resources for going green at a wide range of price points. It's especially helpful for couples new to going green, and want to reduce their footprint while keeping it chic. Additionally, the author has a website with vendor worksheets for extra help in laying out ideas.
For much more on tying the knot the green way, check out our Green Weddings feature.
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