Green Wedding Shower Check List
January 19, 2009 by Mandy Schmitt
Filed under Featured, Food, Planning, Printing, Venue, Wedding Planning
A green wedding can be much more than simply the ceremony and reception. As we’ve worked through our planning our family and friends have been eager to try their hand at infusing sustainability into showers and parties. (The Matron-of-honor shared her expereince last month here on Go Green In Style.)
We’ve captured our checklist here to help you as you organize your thinking. Let us know what other questions or suggestions you have!
| Category | Checklist | Resources |
| Invitations | •Paperless invitations- online invitation
•If paper, recycled content paper and soy ink
•Non-traditional: Seed paper, handmade, hemp |
•Evite.com or Pingg.com
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| Food | •Green menu- Some or all of the menu is composed of local, organic, in season ingredients
•Choose a caterer who specializes in sustainable catering
•Minimize meat and dairy |
•WorldCommunityCookbook.org
•GA Options: GeorgiaOrganics.org |
| Beverages | •Non-alcoholic: organic teas, soft drinks •Wine: Choose organic, biodynamic, or local wine
•Beer: Choose organic or local beer
•Liquor: Several organic vodkas are on the market |
•Choice Teas, Knudsen
•Bonterra, Frey
•Wolavers, Stone Mill
•360 Vodka, Square One |
| Supplies | •Eliminate paper and plastic products. Use china, silverware, linens
•If using disposables, go for compostable products |
•Worldcentric.com |
| Themes | •Organic cooking demonstration
•Botanical garden or museum |
•GA: Cooks Warehouse |
| Décor | •Flowers: Choose in season and domestically grown, consider plants or flowers that can be planted
•Minimize decorations that will be disposed |
•Waldenour.com |
| Favors | •Avoid excess packaging and highly packaged goods
•Carbon offsets or donations to the brides favorite charity |
•Terrapass.com |
| Location | •Choose a restaurant has gone green- sustainable menu, green building, and other green practices
•Choose a museum or historic venue
•Locate near alternative transit options |
•GA Options: GeorgiaOrganics.org |
| Travel | •Encourage guests to carpool
•Offer guests to option to buy carbon offsets |
•Evite offers option to list |
| Waste disposal | •Recycle
•Compost food and paper waste |
•Earth911.com |
Joey on Mon, 19th Jan 2009 3:37 pm
Maybe you guys should try to win this book!
http://feelgoodstyle.com/2009/01/19/win-a-free-copy-of-the-everything-green-wedding-book/
Wedding Web Site Blog; Diary of A Green Bride - A Reality Check on Mon, 2nd Feb 2009 2:14 pm
[...] Green Wedding Shower Checklist lists specific suggestions for beverages, food and supplies, along with websites to help you [...]
marc sommers on Fri, 20th Feb 2009 10:10 am
Great advice – nice to see there is a site doing what you are doing.
We have the first Sustainable Wedding Venue in the Atlanta area. The Gardens at Kennesaw Mountain is the ideal location for Green Weddings. Great for Bridal showers and rehearsal dinners too. Our caterer – Parsley’s Catering – will be the first GRA certified Green caterer.
Sean Mahoney on Fri, 20th Feb 2009 10:23 am
Thanks, Marc! As a matter of fact we were just at your facility last weekend for the Georgia Organics Valentine’s Day Dinner. Folks looking to hold an eco event in the Atlanta Metro area owe it to themselves to check you out.