Creatively Green Weddings

Add a Little Eco-Charm to Your Big Day

© Wenona Napolitano

Jan 10, 2009
Ice Cream Bucket Turned Flower Girl Basket, Wenona Napolitano
You can easily add a little eco-charm to your wedding day by being creatively green. What does this mean? The idea is to think outside the box.

Look at normal, ordinary, everyday things in a new way.

Put your wedding goggles on and look at everything around you. Imagine an item transformed into something potentially wedding-ish. Do you see anything interesting? Come on try harder. Look at that basket over there, now add some ribbon, maybe a bit of lace, how about some flower petals? Now you have a flower girl basket. I think you are getting the hang of it.

Wedding Decor Can Be Lurking in the Strangest Places

Fabulous wedding décor and accessories exist all around you. Take for instance cardboard toilet paper rolls. In a million years you probably never would have considered that toilet paper rolls could play a role (pun intended) in your wedding, but they can. A toilet paper roll can be transformed in a fabulous favor holder with a bit of paint, ribbon, glue, flowers or whatever.

Other ordinary everyday objects that you might never think twice about are empty aluminum cans or glass pasta sauce jars. What do you think they could be transformed into? How about unique candle holders? What creative transformations can you imagine?

Ordinary Can Become Extraordinary

Take a look at what piles up in your trash cans and recycling bins. Now look at it all again, no really look. Inspect every object and try to think of it with a fancy or funky coat of paint. Imagine these objects at your wedding reception. Could they end up there? You are probably thinking no way, but really, ordinary can become extraordinary with a bit of imagination.

Just like the simple toilet paper roll that became a fancy favor box other items can be transformed as well. Suddenly a soup can is reborn as a candle holder or centerpiece, a pasta sauce jar becomes beautiful Italian inspired décor or a fabulous jar candle. That discarded plastic ice cream pail becomes a beautiful flower-girl basket.

What is lurking around your home? You can find all kinds of interesting items in forgotten areas like the attic, basement, garage, the junk room, the junk drawer. Don't stop there, check out your parent's house or even your grandparents place, especially wonderful if you are planning to add a bit of eco-charm to your wedding.

You can plan a great green wedding by adding a little creatively green eco-charm to your planning and you will save things from ending up in the landfill or at the recycling center. Give them new purpose by becoming useful and beautiful additions to your wedding. You never know what may inspire you.


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Comments
Jan 11, 2009 9:24 AM
Guest :
Wonderful article, and we think the ultimate item transformation into something "wedding-ish" is using gold from the bride and groom's family for having wedding bands handmade. What could be more special and unique?! Where can this be done? Beyond the RockZ!

Al and Caroline
<A href="http://www.beyondtherockz.com/">Beyond the RockZ</A>
Jan 12, 2009 12:48 PM
Guest :
Great article. While you are going through your home (finding interesting items that have been forgotten about), when you come across an item you no longer want, it is the green thing to pass it on to someone else that can use it. Don’t throw it away, pass on the treasure. Maybe, someone will pass along an item to you that can be used in your wedding. Not to mention, it will reduce the clutter for your new life.

~Vicki Priebe
Wish Grantor
www.ewishingwell.com
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