Down to the wire on planning your June Worldchanging wedding? Consider these suggestions from Grist Magazine on How To Marry Your Sweetheart and Love the Planet.
Conscious Choice, meanwhile, offers alternatives to the traditional diamond ring for folks (rightly) concerned about the social and environmental costs of mining those sparkers.
And for a really green wedding, go to Uttaranchal, India, where the the Maiti ritual combines nuptials with reforestation and improving the lives of women. The community's local "Maiti group" of young women tends a nursery of saplings. The groom gets a sapling and plants it near the bride's family home during the wedding ceremony, while the bride waters it; it will be tended by her family and friends. The groom donates money to fund the education of poor girls, or to help with the marriage expenses of a poor girl. Plus, as the forests regrow, women can find wood and grasses closer to home.
