Green, Ethical and Eco-friendly Weddings

CameraRenter.com is offering all the visitors at BluePlanetWedding.com the chance to save 80% off a $495 digital camera rental package. That’s a saving of $386 - pay only $99.

Enter the draw here

Enter until September 30, 2008; CameraRenter.com will draw 1 lucky name for this great saving in early October. CameraRenter.com’s only request is that your wedding is after October 18, 2008 so that they have time to get the cameras to you.

Learn about CameraRenter.com, digital camera rental, and renting digital cameras instead of disposables for your wedding here

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.