What are some eco-friendly invitation ideas?
If you want your wedding invitations to be more eco-friendly, you have lots of options. • Choose a stationer who prints wedding invitations on recycled paper or with soy-based inks. They’re out there, so during your search, just ask to see if they do. • Instead of multiple enclosures, opt for one piece of paper that holds any essential information and directs guests to your wedding website for additional details. • Keep all your enclosures, but ditch the inner envelope and just use one for everything. • And this one’s easy: Hire a calligrapher! It’s more eco-friendly than the inks from the printer. If you’re going eco-friendly with your invitations, you might as well for your other wedding stationery. Instead of traditional paper escort cards, print guests’ names on stones or create a big list where guests can just find their names and seating assignments. For your thank-you cards, opt for postcard-shaped thank-you cards instead of normal ones to save paper.
If you love the convenience and cost of online invitations, but hate the look, then I am excited to introduce you to Paperless Post , which in my opinion is beautiful enough even for wedding invitations. Paperless Post has partnered with some of the world’s best stationers in order to offer something for everyone. And everything is completely customizable. You can submit your own artwork or choose one of their fantastic designs, you can play with fonts and colors, make your invite two-sided, etc. etc. And you will have all the ease, convenience, cost and eco-benefits of digital invitations. I was married years before Paperless Post came out, but if I were getting married today, this is what I would do. I used them for my baby shower (and printed out 20 hard copy invitations for older family members and for the baby book) and the cost savings were substaintial.
