Wedding Stationery Eco-Friendly is most important. There are a growing number of brides and grooms who are becoming eco-conscious in their wedding planning. Unfortunately, the industry has a lot of waste and poor sustainability practices within it.
Eco-friendly weddings are becoming more popular because they allow couples to celebrate their love while also being mindful of their impact on the planet. For some couples, having an eco-friendly wedding is a way to reflect their personal values and beliefs.
By making conscious choices about everything from the food to the decorations, they can create a wedding that aligns with their values and supports sustainable practices.
From the diamond within the engagement ring to the carbon used in honeymoon travel there are a number of things to consider for a sustainable wedding. This guide focuses on the stationery that you will use both for invitations and on the day.
Photo: Dan Alexandru
4 Eco-Friendly Wedding Stationery ideas
1. Electronic Invitations
Perhaps the most eco-friendly and possibly one of the cheaper options is to simply forgo the invitation altogether. Send people a message with a hyperlink to either an e-invitation or a bespoke wedding website containing all the details you need and an easy way to RSVP.
Personal websites can be created specifically for an occasion and provide a personal touch. This doesn’t appeal to most couples as there is still something traditional and ethereal about receiving a handwritten envelope and feeling the tactile touch of paper in your hands to set the tone for your wedding
2. Recyclable Invitations
When designing your wedding invitations you can look for a stationer that specialises in sustainable stationery, or specify this to your chosen designer.
There is a range of specialised stationery companies who ensure that everything from the supply chains and material sourcing they have used. Through to ensuring the ink and shipment options are as environmentally friendly as possible.
Photo: Little Green Wedding
3. Plantable Invitations
There has been a growing trend to use plantable seed paper for wedding invitations. Seed paper is usually made from another fibre other than wood pulp with many opting for reclaimed cotton fibres from the textile industry. This pulp is then mixed with a variety of seeds so that the invitation can be planted after use.
This can go a little further than just invitations and provides excellent options for eco-conscious brides and grooms to either give their guests a little extra as part of their stationery or for them to grow a garden made from their RSVP cards.
Photo: Maple & Fleur Photography
4. Edible Invitations
Another great idea is to use something a little less ordinary as a wedding invitation. We have seen options of cakes and biscuits used really well to give the outline details of a wedding invitation with subsequent information sent by another means.
With laser engraving becoming more popular there are now multiple food items that can be customised with detailed images and text. An edible toast invitation anyone?
How Can Wedding Stationery Be Harmful?
Production
Wedding invitations can be wasteful if they are not designed and produced with sustainability in mind. Traditional paper invitations often require a significant amount of resources to create, including trees, water, and energy. Additionally, many invitations end up being thrown away after the wedding, contributing to landfill waste.
Materials
Embellishments, gloss and glitter all render paper non-recyclable, the growing trend for acrylic stationery also creates issues. But there are a number of alternative suggestions to keep your wedding as sustainable as possible from the start.
Wedding stationery does not begin and end with invitations as on-the-day stationery can include orders of service, menus, place settings, favors and signage. However, the vast majority of these are traditionally single-use, paper-based products.
You can look to forgo the items altogether, recycle or make recycling easier. Or reuse by making your stationery serve a dual purpose or repurpose it from another item altogether.
Consider These Options For Sustainable Wedding Stationery
- Look for stationery suppliers with eco-conscious practices
- Consider switching paper for digital wedding invitations
- Make stationery dual-purpose
- Forgo stationery that isn’t essential
- Use recycled materials
- Choose materials that can be recycled
- Try seed-paper invites or edible invitations
A wedding day should be about fun and happiness, but a wedding should not cost the earth. Take these steps to have a more sustainable approach.
This is a guest feature written by Little Green Wedding – Eco-friendly wedding stationery designers.
