Reduce,
Reuse, Recycle!
There's more than one way to recycle -
I donate paper scraps to my daughter's school
or save them to use on future projects or crafts at home.
I
print with environmentally-friendly Xerox Solid
Ink.
Solid ink’s cartridge-free design and minimal packaging, its nearly waste-free
printing process and its safe, toxin-free solid ink sticks make it a very
environmentally-conscious way to print.
I reuse shipping supplies and packing materials-
my packaging may not be fancy....but it's what's on the inside that really
counts!
Oh, and I try to be nice to people whenever possible too -
because what goes around, comes around.
Each month I plant trees through:
www.americanforests.org
Changing
the Face of Wedding Invitations
Do
I really need an inner envelope?
Tradition of the inner & outer envelopes:
Back
in the late 1800s/early 1900s, if you were a rich
person, you didn't
put things
in
the
mail.
You had servants who would deliver your
invitations to your friends' homes. Invitations were
placed in a clean white envelope, then into another
outer envelope. Why?
Because your servant would deliver all
of those
invitations by hand -
walking outside in the rain and the weather. That
outside envelope stands an excellent chance of getting
ripped,
dirty, wet, smudged, etc. So you used two envelopes,
and when your invite is delivered to your friend's
house, the friend's servant removes the dirty outer
envelope and puts the lovely clean inner envelope,
invitation inside, on a silver platter and delivers
it to your friend.
Now that invitations are not such a status symbol
for most people, and now that the postal service
is a fairly reliable system, the inner envelope
is not REALLY necessary. But the tradition
persists, and most people don't have
any idea that it was actually a matter of practicality back
in the olden
days.
So
if you don't want to use an inner envelope, don't!
Can
I send reply postcards with my wedding invitations?
Yes! Even Martha Stewart OK's this new trend.
You'll not only save paper, but you'll save on postage
too - and saving money is always a "Good Thing".
The
papers I use are 20-100% post consumer recycled and/or
made by
companies that use
Well Managed Forests (forests that are certified and audited to ensure they
comply with
environmentally sustainable practice and principles).
