I seem to be on a photography streak this week…
Here’s another really cool idea, and a great alternative to the impact and waste of disposable cameras: rent digital cameras for your guests.
Here are a couple of places to rent digital cameras:
CameraRenter.com - all-inclusive packages start at $495
YouShoot.com - starts at about $20/camera
PictureItYourself.com - starts at about $15/camera
Don’t forget to share your pictures in the BluePlanetWedding.com group on Flickr!
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Check out the BluePlanetWedding.com Flickr group - share your green wedding photos, and get ideas from other people’s eco weddings.
As an addition to Monday’s Share all of the wedding photos taken by everyone, Chuck Templeton at Delta Beans put me onto TheWeddingLens.com (a Delta Beans site).
TheWeddingLens.com is a wedding-specific photo sharing site. You and your guests can upload pictures to your album, share the album, print pictures, group and organize your album, leave comments, and so on. Delta Beans, the company behind TheWeddingLens.com has some eco-cred - one of their other projects is GreenBusinessProject.com, information on how to green your business.
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Check out the BluePlanetWedding.com Flickr group - share your green wedding photos, and get ideas from other people’s eco weddings.
One of the hardest parts of the post-wedding wrap-up was getting everyone’s photos together into an album. Dozens of people took pictures, but we only got copies from a small fraction of the guests. We also got a mix of emailed photos, prints, CDs and enlargements, none of which were easily combinable into an album. Mind you, this was in 2003, and traditional film photography wasn’t quite dead yet; here in 2008, it’s very hard to find people still shooting film.
Create a group on Flickr.com
Photo courtesy of Magali deVulpillieres.
My favourite way to share photos between groups of people is to create a group on Flickr.com. It’s easy to do and free, but you’ll probably want to upgrade to a “Pro” account (just my opinion; $24.95/year, or ask for an account as a wedding present - they can be given as gifts). Here’s how to do it, via Flickr.
Your wedding guests can sign up for a free account and upload their own pictures to the group, or take the pictures that are emailed to you and upload them yourself to Flickr.
If you’re concerned about privacy, don’t worry - you can make your group as public or private as you want.
It beats printing out dozens of pictures - anything that can be done digitally is generally better for the planet than physical “stuff”. Plus, it’s much easier to share the albums with a large group of people, and the comments are priceless!
Check out the new BluePlanetWedding Eco Wedding Flickr group. Upload the pictures from your own wedding, wedding ideas, and more, and I’ll be adding my own finds to the group. It’ll take some time to build the group, so in the meantime, enjoy the Green Weddings pool.
There’s a new eco bride blog in town. This Ontario, Canada, -based bride is blogging her wedding plans, and dealing with the ups and downs of planning an eco-friendly wedding.
Follow her eco-wedding plans here, and see what she’s doing for her wedding, which is coming up fairly soon!
Suzan St. Maur’s third wedding book, How To Get Married In Green, is an entertaining green wedding how-to book, covering how to make your wedding eco-friendly and why you should make the green choices.
I really enjoyed Suzan’s ideas on how to have an eco wedding. Her ideas are practical and a lot of fun (check out the recipes for eco drinks!), and the reasons behind going green are clear and sensible. Pick and choose the green elements you want for your wedding - vegetarian meals are not practical for every wedding, for example - Suzan won’t guilt you into making choices you don’t want to make.
Although everyone may argue different aspects of environmentalism - I disagree with using birdseed as confetti, for example, because it can introduce non-native, invasive plant species - the book has many practical examples and is well thought out. I sense the book is written for regular people wanting to make a difference; the hardcore environmentalists may not learn much new here.
The book is full of great internet search terms - you can use the suggested terms to find additional resources, businesses and ideas for your green wedding, and Suzan has a great list of wedding web sites (but not BluePlanetWedding.com - next edition, please?). Suzan lives in England, and the book has a heavy UK bias for the businesses and locations, but this shouldn’t stop you from reading the excellent advice.
Overall, this is a well written, well researched and entertaining guide on green weddings - pick up a copy to help you plan your wedding!
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