Weddings Can Have a Big Footprint - Calculate Yours!

We didn't expect our wedding to be a large one but once you start naming names the list gets long pretty quickly. His family, my family, his childhood friends and mine, mutual friends, work friends... It only took a 10 minute brainstorming session to realize that we would be inviting over a hundred people to our wedding. I understand that this might not seem like a huge number to some people but it was shocking for us. We considered reducing our numbers but ultimately we have decided that this is one event that we want everyone to attend.

To try to keep our carbon footprint as small as possible we have decided to have the wedding not in the location that is most convenient for us, but that is closest to the majority of our guests. That being said, some of our guests will be coming via plane, train and automobile. To determine the environmental impact of this travel I have been using a site called TerraPass. This site calculates how many pounds of CO2 the travel to and from your wedding will create (you have to input the information) and allows you to purchase a "TerraPass". In turn TerraPass invests in Carbon Reducing projects.


I also really like the work done by zerofootprint which offers a similar program to that of TerraPass.