How To Plan a Green Wedding

Planning a green wedding may seem like a daunting process - you have to research a number of resources to figure you if the company uses environmentally sound resources for instances.

Luckily here is a great article from Cantonrep.com to help you out! ;-)

From eco-friendly invitations to exchanging your vows barefoot on the beach, planning an environmentally friendly “green” wedding is not as hard as it looks. It just takes a little more effort.

Green weddings are more popular in some areas of the country than others, but in many respects, the Internet has helped dissolve the geographical differences.

Whether you want an environmentally correct wedding gown, plan to exchange vows with rings cast by a jeweler with a social conscience or are bent on making your own invitations using recycled or tree-free paper, if the suppliers of these environmentally friendly products don’t exist locally, the Web will link you with those who can.

Orange County, N.Y., resident Carissa Haberland discovered that when she and her fiance decided on a green wedding. Both work in land conservation and, she says, shop organic and local whenever possible.

“We have been relying a lot on the Internet for researching products,” she says. Books like Emily Elizabeth Anderson’s “Eco-Chic Weddings: Simple Tips to Plan an Environmentally Friendly, Socially Responsible, Affordable, and Stylish Celebration” (Hatherleigh Press, $12.95), which Haberland found and later reviewed on Amazon, “made me feel a lot less pressure to do things the way everyone else does, even when my conscious was telling me that it was not reflective of who we are or how we live.”

Haberland, who is making her own invitations using seed, recycled and hemp paper, will be wed in a historic church, followed by a reception catered by a local eco-conscious restaurant. For some friends and family, the green wedding is a novelty, she says, “but I hope we can influence them in a positive way by showing them how important this is to us.”

If you want a green wedding, you might want to check out these Web sites:

• Wedding bands: For rings made of recycled gold and gemstones that are mined without damaging the environment.

www.leberjeweler.com

www.greenkarat.com

• Invitations: Designing your own eco-invitations lets your creativity soar. Use recycled, chemical-free or tree-free paper and pressed flowers or leaves in the design.

www.invitesite.com

• Locations and receptions: Check your state’s Web site for wedding rules and site details at state parks, which can vary.

www.dnr.state.oh.us/parks/lodging/

TV Shows such as Days of Our Lives Embrace Green Weddings

You know that 'green weddings' are becoming more mainstream when traditional soap operas embrace them. This situation was definitely the case when Sam and Lucas tied the knot with a fabulous green wedding.

Even if you are not into 'soaps', it is great that environmentalism is being promoted by the mainstream media.

Here are some other potential storylines for other soap operas from the Orlando Sentinel:

General Hospital: Cheri and Ken investigated whether Esteban had dumped used motor oil into the sewer, and then made love.

As the World Turns: Shelly and Bruce argued about the amount of energy she wastes with her bubble baths. Esperanza and Murray watched An Inconvenient Truth while making love. Hideki saw Vanessa pitch a Twix wrapper out her car window.

The Young and the Restless: Cassandra confronted R.J. after she found his copy of "The Whole Earth Catalog" at Suki's apartment. Tomas begged Chloe to sell Catwalk magazine in order to finance a wind farm.

Days of Our Lives: Gomez revealed to Cherisse that he was the one who left the porch light on all night. Callie and Gunther found themselves trapped on an ice floe with a displaced polar bear -- but still managed to make love.