Planning a Green Wedding
The average US wedding costs around $20,000, with a large chunk of that going to catering, and the venue. (For the record, about 10% typically goes to the photographer). By choosing sustainable, local, flowers, food, drink, and vendors, your wedding can provide a healthy boost to the local economy, and be very low impact on the environment. An added benefit: going green with your wedding is a growing trend, the hip thing to do. Read a New York Times article about it, or MSNBC:Hottest Wedding Trend is Going Green. A number of online resources can get you started with some great ideas:
- Grist: Nice Day for a Green Wedding
- Sierra Club: 10 Steps to a Green Wedding
- Potovert Magazine
- Time: Have a Green Wedding
- Treehugger.org: Green Your Wedding
- Green Elegance Weddings
- Ethical Weddings
- Green Wedding Registry
- Green Wedding Wiki
Some great organic and all natural vendors, most local to the seacoast area: