Your invitation is the first glimpse into your wedding style, your opening act. The most eco friendly is to send evites, which can be creatively designed by professionals or be a do-it-yourself task. If you have fun to be creative there are various options you can play with – tree free paper made out of plants like hemp or kenaf or about 900 other common fibers; paper can be made from almost any plant cellulose including agricultural by-products such as corn stalk and sugar cane. Recycled paper made from old clothes/ rags was the way to go until 1870, when trees started to be cut for commercial paper production.
The green stationary industry offers amazing colors and ideas.

We love www.invitesite.com in Pasadena. If you live in Los Angeles, this is the fun choice as Helen and John are your portal in the world of paper, they know it all. Their fascinating German printing machines are a great back ground for wedding scrap book photos. To touch their many sensual, vibrant and sexy, or elegant, smooth and serene samples is a joy for our senses.

For each paper order www.custompaper.com uses only the flowers you request and you can come up with your own recipe and design.

We also recommend www.consciouscreative.com a company offering creative print jobs on recycled paper.

If you have lots of time and love to investigate new ideas you might want to make your own paper, use leaves for your place cards, write names on pebbles or integrate your guest's names into your favors, there are no limitations to eco-imagination.

Nature itself offers many ideas and you can get as personal as you like – maybe even fetch your own autumn leaves or grow forgetmenots in cute little ceramic pots.