This is a great question. Here are my top three tips. Number one, consider the venue very carefully. Think about the location and how convenient it is for where most of your guests are coming from and to where you want to be located for all the things on your wedding weekend. Also, think about if the venue has most things in house, like tables, chairs, linens, lounge furniture, tabletop items, and the food and drinks. If that stuff is in house, then you don’t need a bunch of trucks coming and going on your wedding day to make deliveries and pickups. This will significantly cut down on carbon emissions. Number two, book local wedding vendors with ecofriendly practices, especially caterers and florists. If they are eco friendly, they will have smart waste management and prioritize composting. They source their ingredients and flowers locally and seasonally, and they don’t use things like flower foam styrofoam to transport. Number three, provide a shuttle for your guests. This will significantly cut down on the number of cars coming and going on your wedding day. All right, that’s it for now.

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This starts with your conscious awareness and mindset on how you are consuming for your wedding. Hey, what’s up? My name is Megan and I’m a vintage curator and stylist at Lucid Ladybug. And today we’re talking about ecofriendly weddings. So some of my top tips include sourcing locally, tapping into your local farmers if your food vendor is able to source your produce from a farm nearby. If you’re able to work with a local florist or flower farm, this just keeps everything really close and super tight knit within your community. Also utilizing a local calligrapher, a local artist, a local musician for the wedding reception. Also styling for your wedding. It is so much fun and super thoughtful to style with vintage treasures, right? There’s a little bit of history behind them. Also, it’s not leaving any sort of carbon footprint because these are treasures that already exist out in the world. They’re not being mass produced. So not only will your wedding style feel unique and different, but also there is no new waste being created by what you are designing and styling with for your wedding. So that includes flower vases, this includes the hurricane glasses for candles, ribbons. There are so many pieces that you can find locally at your second hand store. Speaking of secondhand, don’t be afraid to wear secondhand fashion. How many times are you going to wear that white dress that you’re wearing to your bachelorette or you’re wearing to your shower? Probably only one time. So why not rent it or source it secondhand? It’s so fun to go thrifting to go to these big shops and markets to look for pieces and also one of a kind, right? And my last tip is creating a thoughtful wedding registry. It is so easy to just quickly add things to that cart, right? But stopping to consciously plan and ask for the things that you actually need in your home or in your space with your partner. This is also another great opportunity to tag small businesses, to tag sustainable brands and businesses so that not only your dollar is going to a thoughtful company, but your friends and family who want to celebrate you. Their purchases are also eco conscious. Cheers.

Hi, guys. Eco friendly weddings and stationery. We love to talk about this. There is actually so much more you can do than just the simple. Hey, don’t forget to recycle your invitations. I know, right? So one of the things that I definitely recommend is using a stationer at this point. If you have an eco friendly wedding, please use a stationer. Because ss stationers, we know what to look for. We know which paper mills can offer the best environmentally friendly papers and what can give you the biggest bang for your buck when it comes to your wedding and your theme. We look for certain logos. We look for certain types of paper, like cotton and linen and the recycled paper. So we tend to use a lot of nina paper products and we know what they offer. And look at all of these awesome logos and all these awesome things just other than the recycled logo. Look at fsc certified, the chlorine free one. These are really good things. These are some of the things that we look for and that you can look for yourself when you work with a stationer or you’re looking for paper. If you can’t work with the stationer, one thing that you can do yourself is condense everything to just one card. I know it’s crazy, but you can do it. Okay, put at the bottom of your invitation to rsvp online. It’ll eliminate that rsvp card, your accommodation and details card, that extra envelope, and that extra stamp. Not only are you going to save money by doing this, but you’re saving the environment. So a simple thing that you can put at the bottom is please rsvp online and then put the date. For more information, details, and accommodation as well as rsvp online, please visit our website at blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then put the date. Tons of tons of great things, right? So if you can’t work with the stationer, condense everything to one card. If you’re having the opportunity to work with the stationer, ask for these awesome logos. And look, there’s more that you can get than just a typical white and cream paper. Okay? Look at there’s actually even a black available. Who would have known, right? Black and paper and environmentally friendly. You would have never thought it. Ask us too. Reach out to us. Email us, dm us. You would be surprised. A lot of stationers would love to help you. And you don’t even have to book us. These are questions that we love, especially when it comes to environmentally friendly weddings. Reach out to us. We love you guys. We love to help you. I hope that helps.