Environmentally friendly wedding stationery?

That book is awesome. She just recently came out with another one. The name escapes me ATM.

I suppose this would be a good time to offer congratulations (unless there was already another announcement that my apparently senile brain forgot).

To that end, congratulations!

As to your stationery issue, email?

No, he obviously needs to attach a 100MB Word doc. Duh.

I don't want to, but I do feel guilty about throwing that sort of thing away, despite the fact that I have no desire to ever look at it again.

I just had another great idea. If you don´t want to do the rocket to the sun plan (eventhough it would be simpler), we could tear up each individual invitation into really tiny pieces, and then spread them out over a huge area. Think about it, a bunch of wedding invitations together is unwieldy, messy, and just trashes up our precious earth. But one tiny little shred of paper by itself is no big deal, as long as we keep all of them far enough apart.

But perhaps you want the invitations to be recycled or re-used for something else to help conserve our planet´s resources, in which case I have another good idea. Make stickers with you and your finace´s names on them and also make stickers for any dates, times, and locations on the invitations. This way, the stickers can be peeled off later on, and the invitations can be used again for your friend or child. You could even sell them on ebay.

So do I! For goodness sakes, isn't this missing the point a bit?

Funny, I took to calling it the Wedding-Industrial Complex. To the greatest extent possible, we tried to avoid all that. My wife's engagement ring was a family heirloom rather than a shiny new one. We hired a photographer who doesn't normally do weddings. We hired a restaurant that doesn't normally do weddings. We even got a judge to officiate who doesn't normally do weddings. Some things, you end up surrendering to the madness. The worst, at least financially, was booze. Since my family's tradition is to have an open bar, that ended up being the single largest cost item on the spreadsheet. *sigh*

Apparently you haven't seen the American (cable) reality show Bridezillas. Well, I haven't either, but I have seen ads. And my mom is a wedding director.

Doing some searching (basically google://uk wedding invitations recycled/) reveals a few, but it mostly seems to be very small companies (read "one woman in her basement") and what I'd consider overly lighthearted for wedding invitations, but, then, maybe that's the style in the UK.

Another possibility is that you might be able to find a printer who might not have the paper you want, but you might be able to buy the paper separately and have them print on it.