Tips for Creating a Green Wedding Registry

Creating a green registry is a great way to support local, eco-conscious retailers and reduce your ecological footprint at the same time. If celebrating a sustainable wedding is something you and your groom want to do, it is important that you include your guests in the plans as well.

The following websites make it easy to create a green wedding registry. With plenty of options and some tips, the wedding registry can be easily take care of.

Gaiam
Gaiam is a website that is dedicated to helping everyone find ways to live as naturally as possible, with one of the biggest selections of household goods out there. When setting up a wedding registry on the website, you are able to customize your registry page and then get busy adding those items to your registry that you would like. Everything from bedding to lighting to outdoor furniture is available. There is even a huge selection of fair trade décor that you can add to your home. www.gaiam.com

Green Sage
You hear a lot about alternative wedding registries, and in a way a green wedding registry is alternative for some people. If you already have everything you and your groom need to start your new life together, but are looking to buy your first home, Green Sage is the perfect site to use. Green Sage has a wedding registry that gives you the chance to introduce your guests to your wish to have a sustainable home and furnishings with reclaimed, recycled, energy efficient and biodegradable building materials. For this type of list make sure that you include a note to your guest about your wish to build a home or add more sustainable features to your home. www.greensage.com

Uncommon Goods
Uncommon Goods is a great site for eco-friendly and quirky gifts that can be adding to an existing wedding registry or make up one entirely. There are items available for every room in your home, as well as for the office. What I like the most about the gifts that are available on Uncommon Goods is that most of them are locally made, so you can shop items in your geographic region and add those to your list, supporting small business owners that use eco-friendly business practices themselves. www.uncommongoods.com

Viva Terra
Viva Terra is another site that is great to use in conjunction with a more traditional wedding registry. The gift items are unique and well paired together so that you can pick and choose the things you want to furnish a room, or choose an entire room's worth of items. The huge selection allows you to choose items in everyone's price range. www.vivaterra.com