1. Live Simply and Use Less

November 20, 2008 Green Wedding Trends

“A truly green economy means living lightly on the Earth with simple, joyful elegance.” (From Co-op America, first principle) I really love the “simple, joyful elegance” part. Really says love, really says a gathering of friends and family : really says Weddings. (Sorry bridezilla!) Let’s talk about ‘simple’ for a while. What is simple? What [...]

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Co-op America’s 25 Ways to Green the World

November 20, 2008 Green-Weddings-Values

Taking inspiration from Co-op America’s Quarterly Feature, we’re going to apply 25 Ways to Green the World, to Green Weddings and Events. Since weddings are a time for joy, exuberance and being great hosts, we will favor generosity (of spirit AND objects) over, ummm, hyper minimalism.

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Mickey Attends an InviteSite Wedding

November 10, 2008 Invitesite Stationery

What a fun and beautiful event with ears on! InviteSite (and Helen personally) catches special mention at an event attended by Mickey. Thank you, Tim and Melanie.

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Tara and Mike’s Resourceful Coordinator

October 9, 2008 Green Wedding Invitations

With a 15% rise in wedding supplies this year and predicted next year, Tara and Mike were delighted that their wedding coordinator was resourceful and found them real value in InviteSite. They say that Do-It-Yourself wedding invitations are well worth the savings. Updated to October 15th, news about the couple’s wedding appears on this blog.

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Love the Earth? What About Your Peeps?

October 8, 2008 Green Wedding Trends

A new blog advises you to reduce the number of guests invited to your wedding. The reason? To reduce the amount of paper you have to use in your invitations and handouts. Your wedding is an opportunity to express your commitment to our environment, but it’s far more important to do this every day in [...]

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Beyond Pleased

October 8, 2008 Invitesite Stationery

After being “pretty appalled” by everything they were finding in their diy wedding ceremony program research, Davash posted in a blog, “It’s Only Paper,” that InviteSite was the answer. We are always pleased to be blogged about, especially when our designs get caught in action by professional photographers. Peter Doyle Photography

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Plantable Treefree Booklet Wedding Invitation

August 20, 2008 Green Wedding Invitations

Ok – we FINALLY got the first of the new booklet style designs up. We created a really affordable design that is still complex and rich. But, bumpless. Which is really important for keeping the postage down. So – this design uses a normal, 42 cent stamp. Groovy! It’s a landscape booklet, with a pocket, [...]

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Eco Invitations as a Category

August 18, 2008 Green Wedding Invitations

There has been so much work to do on the relaunch of Invitesite (the downside of running a 10 year old website!) — that we haven’t been able to post as much as we’d like. However! We did manage to create a stable set of URLs that put all our eco and green invitations in [...]

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Black is Back — but as a Border?

July 30, 2008 Green Wedding Trends

We’ve been seeing a lot of black used as an accent color for the past year. We use a black satin ribbon for our Garbo wedding invitation. Something to consider, though, if you are thinking about using a black border framing your wedding invitation: black bordered cards have a rather grim use historically. Called “mourning [...]

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Dynamite! InviteSite In Another Appearance

July 30, 2008 Invitesite Stationery

InviteSite Mentioned on Kate and James’ Entry in Dynamite Weddings InviteSite makes the invitations long before the event, but we are not forgotten. After all these years it’s still a thrill for us to be listed as a part of such a beautiful event. All of our couples’ events are beautiful, but Kate recalls the [...]

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