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Green giving and receiving shines in all shades of green. The options for gifts and favors start at requesting donations to your favorite environmental charity in lieu of gifts for yourself
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and end in a cornucopia of fun and useful gifts and favors for your guests.
Many brides opt out of favors. But if you can't forgo the cute decor, we like the trend to combine favors with place cards: imprint the name of your guests on organic chocolates, paint it on hand made cookies or glue pretty recycled paper labels on "green glass" jars filled with home made jam. Be aware of green veils pulled over your eyes: when organic chocolates are wrapped in cute little foils containing all kind of mean metals, tree saplings come in plastic tubes, or hand made soaps stick to cellophane.
The old paradigm made brides dream of an opulent wedding and an excess, which would make Liz Taylor cry with envy. Liz, the prototype for a dame deluxe, produced lots of wedding waste but was recently triumphed over by another Liz: Elizabeth Hurley's day-long wedding has produced a big fat carbon footprint so large that it would take the average Indian couple over 100 years of unconscious partying to compete with. Environmentalists get still heated up over the degrees of decadence Hurley and Arun Nayar have displayed.
"A special study, by an Oxford-based consultancy, suggests the celebrations will release around 200,000kg of carbon into the atmosphere", said the British newspaper "The Independant".
It's glorious times when eco-sensitive couples create new paradigms: Alicia Silverstone started the trend a couple of years ago with her vegan, barefoot wedding. In the eco-hip and healthy McCartney tradition, Stella Stella McCartney and her
fiancé requested that friends and family give them tree saplings
to be planted on the grounds of their home in lieu of traditional wedding gifts.
If you would like to thank your bridal party for helping you with your wedding or want your guests to remember all the eco-info you so graciously supplied, you can send your guests off with
creative, fun and earth friendly memories of your wedding.
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