How to plan your eco-friendly wedding?
If you’d asked me in college whether I would consider wearing a traditional white gown with a train to my future wedding, I would have arched my brow, put my hands on my hips, and scoffed, “You have got to be kidding.” What planet- and self-respecting modern woman would be caught dead in white silk, taffeta and lace — symbols as they are of the whole odious wedding industrial complex? And who says I’ll get married, anyway?
And then came Eric. Eric, with whom I converse in funny voices. Eric who is passionate about beets, reads E.F. Schumacher and asked me with a straight face if I’d be down for spending our wedding night in a chrome Airstream camper van (sorry, babe, but no).
I’ve already found the dress (details of which are top-secret, although I will admit it’s white with perhaps a teensy train). The real question now is how to do the deed, because while I’ve mellowed over the years, the wedding industry hasn’t. The typical American wedding is a doozy for Mother Nature — multiple rounds of intricate dead-tree invitations, guests flown in from all over the globe, exotic foods, rental cars, and an elaborate, expensive, ethically-suspect gown worn for a grand total of eight hours, tops.
It can seem like there’s no such thing as a wedding without pomp, excess, and a cake taller than your flower girl. Isn’t the phrase “green wedding” an oxymoron?
Actually, no. Lest we forget: there’s always the original “green” wedding: throw on a cocktail dress, tie some cans from the blue bin to the back of your bike, and pedal down to the nearest courthouse. Then again, that sort of simplicity won’t work for everyone (such as, for instance, your doily-crazed Aunt Bertha).
Thankfully, the wedding world is a lot wider than it used to be, and it’s perfectly possible to have an all-out soiree that still sits right with your conscience. To help flesh out the possibilities, I’ve spoken with newlyweds in five cities across America to share a glimpse of what they’ve found on the matrimonial frontlines.
Source: life.gaiam
If you’d asked me in college whether I would consider wearing a traditional white gown with a train to my future wedding, I would have arched my brow, put my hands on my hips, and scoffed, “You have got to be kidding.” What planet- and self-respecting modern woman would be caught dead in white silk, taffeta and lace — symbols as they are of the whole odious wedding industrial complex? And who says I’ll get married, anyway?
I’ve already found the dress (details of which are top-secret, although I will admit it’s white with perhaps a teensy train). The real question now is how to do the deed, because while I’ve mellowed over the years, the wedding industry hasn’t. The typical American wedding is a doozy for Mother Nature — multiple rounds of intricate dead-tree invitations, guests flown in from all over the globe, exotic foods, rental cars, and an elaborate, expensive, ethically-suspect gown worn for a grand total of eight hours, tops.
It can seem like there’s no such thing as a wedding without pomp, excess, and a cake taller than your flower girl. Isn’t the phrase “green wedding” an oxymoron?
Actually, no. Lest we forget: there’s always the original “green” wedding: throw on a cocktail dress, tie some cans from the blue bin to the back of your bike, and pedal down to the nearest courthouse. Then again, that sort of simplicity won’t work for everyone (such as, for instance, your doily-crazed Aunt Bertha).
Thankfully, the wedding world is a lot wider than it used to be, and it’s perfectly possible to have an all-out soiree that still sits right with your conscience. To help flesh out the possibilities, I’ve spoken with newlyweds in five cities across America to share a glimpse of what they’ve found on the matrimonial frontlines.
Source: life.gaiam
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