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Invitation & Wedding Website
Although they originally considered sending an electronic invitation, Suzanne and Michael opted for a sustainably made paper invitation instead. "To appease my mom, we decided to send out printed invitations (but without direction or reply cards, and using tree-free paper). The cover wrapper and envelope liner for our invitations were made from mulberry and sugar cane paper. The printed sheets and envelopes were made from milkweed post-consumer recycled paper. The thread tying the pieces together was linen. We did all the printing and assembled the invitations ourselves."
To supplement their invitations, the couple set up a wedding website "because it enabled us to reduce the amount of paper needed to share important information with our guests. Instead of sending them each a lot of cards with information about events, printed updates as details changed, and reply cards with envelopes, they could instead find out everything they needed to know and RSVP right on the site. It also allowed us to describe in great detail the mass transit options for getting to Bethesda and to make arrangements for ride sharing." Their wedding website also featured a Green Choices page, which included “a detailed list of tips for reducing energy consumption, reducing fuel consumption, reducing water consumption, recycling and reusing, avoiding petrochemicals and selecting natural products."
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