The Best Eco-friendly Wedding Invitation & Stationery Brands

Eco-friendly and sustainable wedding invitations (and save the dates) are a great way to kick off your conscious wedding planning.

Let your guests know you want to celebrate your love with some love for the planet.

Here are seven eco-friendly wedding invitation brands that are serious about sustainability and modern design.

These brands have other wedding paper goods and stationery products as well which is great.

For the simplicity of this post I’m just chatting wedding invites, but definitely check out their eco-friendly thank you notes, menus, save the dates, and all the other paper products you might need!

This guide features wedding invites made with recycled paper, plantable stationery, paperless invites, and more. Plus I’m sharing which brands I used for my wedding!

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7 Sustainable Stationery Brands for Eco-friendly Wedding Invitations

Paper Culture: Sustainable Stationery Meets Modern Design

Paper Culture matches modern design with sustainability through their beautiful wedding invites, save the dates, stationery, and other wedding day essentials.

Paper Culture’s cards are made from 100% post-consumer recycled paper which means no trees are cut down in the process. AND each order plants a tree.

Through Paper Culture’s partnerships with organizations such as the Arbor Day Foundation, Friends of the Urban Forest, Our City Forest, and Trees for the Future they are able to identify where trees will be most impactful and plant trees where they are needed.

We used Paper Culture for place cards at our wedding table during the reception! They looked so beautiful, were sturdy, and high quality. I’ve also used Paper Culture for our Christmas cards. Every time I am so pleased with how the products turn out!

Greenvelope: Paperless E-mail Wedding Invites

Greenvelope encourages brides to save paper and send e-mail invitations. Their beautiful wedding invitation templates feature elegant designs from independent artists. By sending e-mail invitations brides are also making the eco-friendly choice to save trees by going paper free.

Botanical PaperWorks: Plantable Wedding Invitations

Botanical PaperWorks crafts unique invitations on their innovative eco-friendly seed paper. Botanical PaperWorks is working to reduce waste and spread beauty through their biodegradable seed paper made from post-consumer material.

After planted and cared for, your sustainable wedding invite will grow into wildflowers or herbs. Botanical PaperWorks even goes the extra mile to collect post-consumer waste from businesses and schools in their area and use the local waste as the basis for their eco-friendly, plantable seed paper.

Through this collection, Botanical PaperWorks saves the local landfill 10 tons of paper per year. Amazing work!

For our eco-friendly wedding we used Botanical PaperWorks for our save the date cards, wedding invitations, and RSVP cards.

We found a template that matched our wedding theme and colors, so it was easy to add all the info into the template. People loved how unique our invitation cards were and that they were printed on plantable paper with wildflower seeds.

I planted a few of our extra save the date cards. Wildflowers did grow! This is such a great way to reduce paper waste and reduce the environmental impact of your special day.

ForeverFiances: Eco-Chic Wedding Stationery

ForeverFiances focuses on eco-chic wedding stationery through their emphasis on sustainability, affordability, and design.

ForeverFiances carries plantable wedding invites made from seed paper and non-plantable invites made from 100% recycled paper.

ForeverFiances is also part of 1% For The Planet which gives back 1% of revenues to non-profit organizations supporting environmental causes. ForeverFiances has a a range of price points allowing the bride-to-be to stick to their budget.

Flower Seed Paper’s Custom Wedding Paper Products

Based in Seattle with over a decade of experience, Flower Seed Paper has a wide range of paper goods perfect for any sustainable wedding.

All of their products are ethically made with handmade seed paper and can be customized to fit the vision of your wedding.

Etsy Eco-friendly Wedding Invites That Support Small Businesses

Etsy is a great place to look if you’re looking for unique design and into supporting small businesses. Their selection features made to order designs, plant paper wedding invites, recycled paper, and more.

With a wide range of designs and price points there is sure to be an invite that catches every brides eye.

Plus Etsy practices sustainability by being powered by renewable energy and ships carbon neutral.

Words with Heart: Eco-friendly Wedding Invites & Women’s Empowerment

Words with Heart focuses on women empowerment and sustainability through their wedding invitations. Words with Heart crafts their invites with recycled paper and prints the designs using vegetable based inks and green electricity.

Each stationery item sold helps fund a certain number of days of education for girls in developing countries. Words with Heart partners with NGOs to help fund women’s empowerment, education, and training programs in Africa and Asia.

Each purchase support Words with Heart’s mission to empower women around the world.

Tips for Shopping for Wedding Invitations

When picking out wedding invitations, there are a few things to keep in mind. Here are a few tips:

• Consider the overall style of your wedding when selecting invitations. If you're having a formal wedding, choose more traditional invitations. If you're having a casual wedding, choose something more fun and funky.

• Think about the colors you want to use for your wedding. This will help you narrow down your choices when it comes to invitations.

• Think about the wording of your invitations. You want the wording to reflect the overall tone of your wedding.

• Be sure to order enough invitations for everyone on your guest list. It's better to err on the side of too many than too few.

• If you're on a tight budget, consider sending out online invites to say some money and some paper.

• Don’t forget to direct people to your wedding website or registry where they can find more details.

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When Should You Send Out Wedding Invitations?

Typically, wedding invitations should be sent out six to eight weeks before the big day.

This gives your guests plenty of time to save the date and make travel arrangements, if need be. If you're having a destination wedding, you'll want to send out your invitations even earlier so that your guests have ample time to plan.

So be sure to shop for your wedding invitations early on in the wedding planning process!

Hopefully this guide helped give you some ideas for some eco-friendly wedding invites! For more sustainable wedding planning resources check out my Sustainable Wedding Planning page.

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