Wedding Checklist

• Use recycled paper for your invitations
• Disposable flashlights for guest favors (it’s dark getting back to your cars)
• Use small insect repellent swabs/wipes for favors or make your own herbal bug repellent and put it in handy spray bottles left around your reception site so guests may help themselves as needed..
• Use small sunscreen tubes as favors
• Give grass or bird seed sachets to throw in place of traditional rice, which is harmful to some wildlife
• Have baskets with above as guest place favors
• Reduce plastic & paper consumption (and disposal of same) by using glass pitchers, permanent dinnerware for your tables, cloth napkins, glass bottles instead of aluminum cans
• Make use of recycling containers for guests’ use.
• Carpool to reduce fuel consumption and the impact on the land.
• Reduce number of rental chairs by using straw bales for occasional barn seating
• Suggest that people stand for the ceremony using just a few chairs for elderly or infirm.
• Ask your caterer if they will use bio-degradable trash bags
• Get extra white Xmas lighting on sale after the holidays for use in your tent(s) and for barn decoration
• Use caterers that incorporate grass fed meats in their menu and use locally grown, organic veggies and fruits
• Suggest the purchase of renewable carbon offsets as a wedding present instead of ending up with 3 toasters.
• Buy vintage clothing and have it refitted
• Plan on using wedding  resale websites to “pass on” wedding paraphernalia that you no longer need or want.