...in the UK?

We've found a couple of places in the US that do recycled/bleach-free wedding stationery, but none in the UK.

Unfortunately, buying from the US kind of offsets any environmental good by having to come a long way.

Any ideas?

Buy your own paper and print your own ?

We printed all our invites, menus etc

As Eryl has pointed out we did in fact produce a brochure rather than an invite, given that we had to give detailed directions to the secret location...

You could make your own paper Link

With the right tools and calculations you could launch the unrecyclable wedding invitions into orbit and then on a path to reach the sun by 2040, which will burn the non-biodegradable trash into an eco-friendly firey abyss.

I can help you with the calculations, but I´ll need some nitrogen tetroxide, or, if you have the resources, 20 liters of high-density liquid hydrogen. If you can meet me in Amsterdam the weekend after the wedding, we can do this in a couple of hours. Just tell the guests to bring their invitations with them to the wedding.

Greetings!

What about The Carbon Neutral Shop? I found the link off of your old post about Future Forests. They sell carbon neutral stationary and wedding kits...

As for the solar launch, if your time span is long enough you can just wait for the sun to come to you!

WE have a couple of small stationery producers on board at Downsizer:

http://villagestationery.co.uk/
http://www.thecardbee.com/
http://www.denisebydesigns.co.uk/

None of them are doing recycled etc as standard but all are one woman bands so would I'm sure gladly accomodate your wishes. Lynn at Village Stationery is brilliant, real looney in the nicest possible way.

Tahir

Thanks Guys, we'll take a look at those. We don't particularly want to make our own, because neither of us is particularly blessed with craft-type skills.

Follow this link to see an example of how a simple wedding invite can get out of control...

InviteSlim.pdf

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'd like to add my congratulations (and apostrophe's).

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As to your stationery issue, email?

A fantastic way to save on paper is to minimize the amount of paper you use in your paper invitations. When my wife and I were looking through "official" wedding invitation books, you'd see that most of the decent ones are elaborate constructions. Envelopes have colored liners. Then you've got an inner envelope. Then you've got the invitation, proper, with vellum lining and some number of pull-out cards.

Our solution was to simplify. We printed in two colors (dark blue and silver ink) on standard-sized postcards (for an entirely reasonable price, as done by a professional printer who happily took PDF) and stuffed those into standard OfficeMax envelopes. That card basically said you're invited to the wedding and this time and place, and for more details visit our web page. We also included one of three different RSVP cards plus a return envelope, depending on whether the guest in question was being invited to the smaller events the night before or the morning after the wedding. Those were pre-printed in a single color, at the professional printer, for an entirely reasonable price.

All of this was on the theory that nobody really cares to keep ancient wedding invitations, and it's a seriously good thing to have most of the information online, where it's easy to update as things change. The web page, of course, was our chance to go over the top, with maps, directions, baby pictures, links to wedding registry stuff, and so forth. Even the older relatives who aren't online generally had help from younger relatives...

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.