Top 5 Ideas for an Eco-Friendly Wedding in Paris with Kim Petyt!
Our favorite Parisian wedding planner extraordinaire, Kim Petyt, has released her first book The Paris Wedding ! The book is a full-color, idea-packed, go-to guide for globally-minded trendsetters who are in love with the style and romance of Paris, and is now available online and at booksellers nationwide. Simply gorgeous!
Kim chose Eco-Beautiful Weddings as one of her stops on her whirlwind book tour, and she’s our guest today here on the blog! This post is just a glimpse of the goodness in her new book. So without further ado, here’s the fabulous Kim Petyt!
Top 5 Ideas for an Eco-Friendly Wedding in Paris
So you and your trend-setting betrothed have decided to have a destination wedding. More than that, you’ve decided on an eco-friendly destination wedding. You’ve e-mailed or hand delivered your recycled paper invitations. You’ve registered with World Wildlife Fund Weddings and Celebrations rather than your local “Meat Hooks, Marbles & More”. You’ve even offset the amount of carbon emissions used to fly you and your guests to Paris by donating money to help build wind turbines in India. But why should your eco-wedding stop there?
A lot of people feel that planning a regular destination wedding is hard enough. The thought of trying to make it eco-friendly as well is just too much. In fact, with a little time online, you’ll find that there are plenty of ways that you can incorporate green or eco-conscious elements into a destination wedding. For instance, here are my top five ideas for a green or eco- friendly wedding in Paris:
1. Purchase or have a wedding dress custom created that uses all-natural, earth-friendly fibers. Elsa Gary is a French designer whose natural bridal collections include materials like silk, bamboo, hemp, soya and maize.
2. Have your wedding meal prepared by an organic French caterer. Ethiques et Toques is an organic catering company servicing Paris, Lyon and Blois.
3. Rather than tossing birdseed or blowing bubbles at the end of your ceremony, why not follow a wedding tradition from the South of France and have your guests shower you with handfuls of lavender, like those sold in packets from Pluie de Lavande?
4. Thank your guests with a sweet French wedding favor: a little sachet of organic hard candy or lollipops from La Butinerie.
5. Toast your nuptials with a glass of organic champagne: Jean-Pierre Fleury and Larmandier-Bernier are two to try.
Kimberley Petyt is an American wedding planner in Paris, a French wedding expert and writes the popular blog parisian party: tales of an american wedding planner in paris. Kim has been featured in print publications such as Real Simple Weddings, LA Times, Get Married Magazine, Essence Magazine, Eco-Beautiful Weddings, Cosmopolitan China, France Magazine and the New York Times. Follow her on Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest!
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Paris Anyone?
It’s Fashion Week in Paris, so we’re daydreaming a bit about French-inspired weddings! Eco-Style in France…we love it! Why not plan an eco-elopement in Paris, or a pre-honeymoon for an engagement photography session underneath the Eiffel Tower? Are we dreaming too much? If so, then bring a touch of Paris to your day with beautiful handmade Parisian jewelry, an amazing, hand-painted invitation suite, and of course, macaroons!
For a little retro inspiration, check out our awesome Green City Wedding Guide: Paris from our Spring 2011 issue!
Photo Credits
Queen Anne’s Necklace by L’Orina for BHLDN
Parisian-Inspired Invitations by Momental Designs
Couple in Paris from Snippet and Ink
Macaroons from Bridal Musings
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