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I wanted to share this idea for green wedding planners who are interested in sustainable foods:

My boyfriend and I are making every effort to reduce the impact of our wedding. Though ecologically minded, we are not vegetarians, and wanted to find local and sustainable meat to serve to our guests. We found the most local and sustainable source possible – deer hunted from the woods behind our NJ home. In NJ the deer population is so large that the fish and wildlife department does not limit their harvest (they may be rare in other states). A bow hunter that we know and trust has agreed to harvest three does for us, which will be processed into steaks for the wedding and ground meat for hamburgers at the rehearsal picnic. The cost to butcher the deer is only $75 a piece, which works out to be less than $3 per pound for wild, sustainable, locally harvested venison.

Thanks, A

Want to make a difference? Pick up some great ideas from Emma's experience:

I got married last Friday and tried my best to make it as environmentally friendly as I could. Here are some of the things we did.

1. I made invites from old stationery that would have been thrown away from work.

2. We had a friend drive us to our venue, it was a full car on both journeys (wedding and reception all in 1 place).

3. We requested that all food was locally sourced or organic.

4. We had a fairly traded organic chocolate fountain. http://www.montezumas.co.uk/ (their machine has just broken, but they are happy to supply another fountain company with their chocolate).

5. We had a wedding cake made for us at our venue. (Though we id also find a organic chocolate wedding cake supplier http://www.tophatcakes.co.uk/).

6. Flowers were grown for us, either in our garden or my parents. I love tulips, so it had to be a spring wedding. I have to admit to having had my bouquet made by a florist though.

7. Wedding gifts we asked for money, for spending money for our honeymoon. Our work colleagues gave us some vouchers for Wiggly Wigglers http://www.wigglywigglers.co.uk. I have just ordered us a Can - O - Worms wormery for our kitchen waste.

8. For our wedding favors, we made a donation to our favorite charity and they gave us some pin badges. We also put out some Montezuma's Chocolate on the tables, so people had something to munch on.

9. I made my own confetti from sweet paper (bit like thin wafers) the birds seem to like it, and it dissolved as soon as it came into contact with water. The sweet paper you can buy from sweet shops/ newsagents. They are usually in packs of about 30 sheets and are pinks, white and yellow (they are with the kiddies sweets). I try to be a little creative in my spare time, so had some different shaped hole punch's with flowers, and our initials etc.

Wow thanks to Emma for a usefully comprehensive rundown! Emma also that says she is hosting a Charity Wedding Dress Ball so brides get to wear their dresses again. Now what a great idea that is. Bookmark us and come back for more info on that when we have it.

One of our first contributors recommends beautiful wooden wedding bands, shipped from greenest Canada:

Just to let you know there is a cool site http://www.touchwoodrings.com/

They are Canadian based couple, very spiritual and earthy people. They make wooden wedding and engagement bands. The designs are amazing, the results are stunning and they use bits of wood that they find around the area they live. We are going to be using them for our wedding bands since I am allergic to metals.

Might come in handy for people seeking something a bit different and a little more grounded. They can ship overseas too."