20 Online Resources for Planning an Eco Wedding
He means the world to you…but the world means a lot to you, too! If you’re getting ready to plan an eco wedding, look no further than this helpful guide. Here’s a list of the best online resources to help you plan a green wedding:
At Great Green Wedding, you’ll find an assortment of links for eco-friendly invitations, favors, centerpieces, flowers, rings, attire and even honeymoon ideas. Visit their blog for highlights of sustainable, recycled and organic décor, jewelry, dresses and more.
Ethical Weddings is a fabulous online magazine to help you plan a green day of celebration with helpful tips, stories about eco-friendly weddings, their own blog and more.
Wedvert‘s wedding guide search engine is an easy way to find reception settings, gowns, catering companies, flowers and more based on the location. Plus, this comprehensive site offers green articles and expert tips.
Eco-Chic Weddings is a must-read blog with a myriad of posts in categories like fashion and jewelry, favors and gifts, flowers and décor, invitations and paper, and more.
When it comes to elegant eco-couture wedding gowns, Adele Wechsler takes the cake. This talented designer is the brain behind stunning collections tailored to “the bride who cares about the world in which she lives.”
Twisted Limb Paperworks offers gorgeous wedding invitations, place cards and thank you notes that are 100% recycled. Plus, they’re embedded with wildflower seeds and can be planted instead of discarded. Their site also offers insight into eco-friendly attire, rings, flowers, favors and gifts.
Green Karat specializes in environmentally and socially responsible jewelry and is the perfect place to find a stylish assortment of recycled wedding bands for all tastes.
Blue Planet Wedding includes links to eco-friendly wedding planners, vegetarian caterers, carbon neutral photographers, ethically sourced diamonds and more. You’ll also find a search engine for green wedding vendors.
Green Union is a great resource with tips on how to choose the best venue, create the ideal wedding atmosphere, plan the decorative details and more.
The Knot includes a comprehensive green section with a ton of articles about earth-friendly rings, menus, invitations and more. You’ll also find information about hiring green vendors and donating your gown.
Earthwise Jewelry offers a stunning collection of reclaimed wedding bands.
The Green Your Wedding section of Planet Green includes a compilation of eco-friendly wedding articles, including Avoid These Wedding Eco Demons for a Greener Wedding Party, How to Make Your Bridesmaids Green and DIY and Eco-Friendly Wedding Favor Ideas.
Using eco-friendly fabrics and an eye for style, Morgan Boszilkov of Natural Bridals presents brides-to-be with a collection of gorgeous gowns and donates 5% of profits to environmental causes.
The Green Bride Guide includes stories about green weddings, a carbon calculator, a cost estimator and more. If you don’t find your what you’re looking for, you can e-mail Kate Harrison, author of the book by the same name that inspired this great site.
If you’re concerned about the cost of an eco-friendly wedding, then check out the green section of Budget Dream Weddings. This blog features ideas to cut costs, instructions for DIY favors, helpful links and more.
At My Eco Chic Wedding, you’ll find wedding craft ideas, advice on venues, catering tips, links to elegant organic attire and more. Also, check out the editor’s picks for invitations, favors, flowers and decorations.
The Eco-Chic Weddings section at Brides magazine’s online site features a comprehensive guide with advice for brides on a budget, a glossary of key terms, a checklist and more. Plus, you’ll find a list of the top green honeymoon destinations.
For eco-friendly wedding tips and honeymoon ideas, an extensive planning timeline and more, check out Green Elegance Weddings.
Elegala breaks down the components of an eco-friendly wedding with advice about choosing a location, invitations, décor elements, the menu, flowers, the cake, attire and favors.
Feeling overwhelmed? These 10 Steps to a Green Wedding will help you plan your eco-friendly nuptials one day at a time.
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April 30th, 2009 at 1:35 PM
Brilliant Earth is a great place for eco-wedding bands – we offer 100% recycled gold and platinum wedding bands and rings made with conflict-free Canadian diamonds. http://www.brilliantearth.com
May 5th, 2009 at 6:18 PM
We all have an obligation to help Mother Earth. If you don’t have a totally green wedding atleast consider doing part of it Earth friendly like using recycled paper.
May 16th, 2009 at 9:44 PM
I’m in Houston, Texas and were looking for green conflict free ring for my fiancee and found two local companies in Texas. Green Karat and Green ORO, i went to their respective websites i.e http://www.greenkarat.com and http://www.greenoro.com. I found the prices on Green ORO much more reasonable then Green Karat. I save over $ 500 by buying from Green ORO as they are the direct manufacturers of Green Jewelry.
Few things i found and personally visited:
Pros and Cons:
You can visit their physical Location and Showroom and can see the Green Process
Green Karat
1) Pros:
Been in business and internet for long years
Cons:
1) Higher Prices
2) No In house retail showroom or store
3) Green Karat ETA time is much more then Green ORO
4) Don’t offer high end created diamond settings or jewelry repairs
5) No Physical Location to visit , everything is Online
Green ORO:
Pros:
1) Reasonable and Cheaper Prices then Green Karat
2) Direct Manufacturer and willing to work with you on Custom Jewelry
3) Repairs are much faster on all green jewelry
4) no outsourcing to any middle man , everything is done within their showroom and have work labs
5) ORO Certificate of Authenticity to Back 100% recycled gold and process.
6) One Tree & One Ring at a Time – i really love this concept as they will put one tree towards the purchase i made. Highly impressed with their unique concept.
7) ETA is much less then Green Karat
December 1st, 2009 at 2:19 AM
Since weddings bring people together from all over the world, travel is usually a must. To offset your carbon footprint, TerraPass can help you calculate the carbon emissions from your trip and convert that to a monetary value that can go towards renewable energy. A very simple thing to do is to compost the food, flowers, paper materials at the end of the night. This allows the event to give back to the land.
March 28th, 2010 at 5:51 PM
What a great bunch of sites for “green” wedding planning. Thanks for providing a great list.
I’ve done TONS of research on ecofriendly wedding rings and have recently started a site listing many of the best suppliers. Check it out at http://ecofriendlyweddingring.com. I am adding new content all the time!
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