Buy eco-friendly wedding stationery or some eco paper to create your own DIY wedding ideas.

Eco-friendly wedding stationery is becoming increasingly popular and doesn't mean a compromise on quality either.

Planning a wedding should be a fun experience, but in these days of mass consumption some people feel the pressure to do things bigger and better.  A wedding doesn't have to make a big impact on the environment or a big hole in your pocket. Adding a few green touches to your wedding or having a full-on green celebration can be less expensive for you and the planet. My “Green wedding” series of blog posts will help you choose the eco-friendly way to getting married. An eco-chic wedding is a more simple way to get married and is often a more intimate and personal experience for the bride & groom and their guests. So if you want a beautiful, romantic day where the emphasis is on the happy couple and not how much the cake cost, read on…

Why use recycled paper?

There are three main reasons to use recycled fibre:

• Reduced resource use: Paper manufacture is very resource-intensive. Why use paper only once, when it can can easily be reused?
• Less landfill: Recycling reduces the amount of waste paper going to landfill.
• Save our forests: Using 100% recycled paper means you know that your product has not caused more trees to be chopped down.

If you’re concerned about the colour of recycled paper materials, you’ll be pleased to hear that things have greatly improved and gone are the days of dirty yellow recycled stocks.

Why use vegetable-based printing inks?

Vegetable-based inks use vegetable oil instead of petroleum and have much lower rates of VOC (volatile organic compounds) than petroleum-based inks. VOCs are a major source of ozone pollution and are a potential a health hazard to those working with them. By buying products using vegetable-based inks you help to reduce air pollution by minimizing toxic emissions . Also, in contrast to petroleum based inks, vegetable oils are derived from renewable resources and the inks made from them are more easily removed from waste paper during de-inking.

Buy or make your own eco-friendly wedding stationery

• Wild About Paper specialise in handmade and plantable seed paper. So your guests not only receive an invite but also a little gift because when planted the invitation turns into a beautiful wild flower display. If you've got your own DIY wedding ideas, you can order paper and make your own invitations for that extra personal touch or let the company create them for you.
• Alice Palace  is an illustrator of wedding stationery and greeting cards who uses quality uncoated recycled post-consumer FSC board, FSC recycled envelopes and biodegradable bags.
• Not on the High Street wedding stationery has an eco-friendly selection

You may also be interested in…

• Handmade button bouquets make a unique alternative to wedding flowers
• Jewellery with an eco-friendly heart