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.

Aug 05, 2009