5 Eco-Friendly Wedding Invitations To Sustainably ‘Save The Date’

Paper products may seem harmless enough, but the paper industry’s high carbon footprint and resource-intensive processes can have quite the weight on our planet.

Instead, wedding invites made from recycled paper or seeded paper are lower impact and just as beautiful as conventional invites. So that’s what we’ve curated here for you, beautiful invites that are not only thoughtfully designed but also made of responsible material.

Price range: $0.60–$364

Weddings can be expensive and with all-around rising costs, a lot of us are tightening our wedding budgets. That’s why White Dragon Paper offers a selection of beautiful handmade paper made from recycled fibers on which you can write or print your own invitations, making for an affordable eco-friendly wedding invitation.

No matter the aesthetic of your wedding theme, they probably have something to suit, including vintage encyclopedia pages or colorful, classic white, or recycled brown paper wedding invitation options.

This single owner/operator makes handmade paper from recycled and waste materials. The inspiration came from a simple “How to” article about making paper. From those humble beginnings that started with the creation of a few sheets at a time, the business has grown into a 5-star rated shop with over 16,500 sales.

Price Range: $5

With the UK’s Little Green Paper Shop, you can create your very own little green wedding using either recycled paper made from cotton scraps or plantable seed paper. The ECO cotton paper is made from old clothes and textile industry waste imported from India, while the seed paper comes with a variety of seeds, which your invitees get to take home and grow into beautiful flowers and herbs lasting long beyond your big day.

Another paper option is special sheets of paper handmade in India from sanitized elephant poo and cotton fibers. Granted, elephant poo may not scream “I do”, but once you consider that it helps provide a (sanitary) source of income for elephant sanctuaries, you might find it’s just another way to show your love.

Water-based inks are used to color the paper, which doesn’t damage the paper’s seeds or alter the paper’s biodegradable properties.

Price Range: $1.64–$2.34

Paper Culture partners with a local paper manufacturer to create its own 100% post-consumer recycled paper for the range of recycled paper invitations and other wedding day essentials. They offer every option imaginable, from a full scale DIY recycled wedding invitation creation suite to simple RSVP cards. Whether you prefer photos, florals, or minimalist lettering, their wide variety of designs can suit (er, tuxedo?) anyone.

To produce them, Paper Culture partners with a domestic producer to further reduce its environmental impact. Alongside recycled paper, this brand uses recycled plastic (for its decals), bamboo, organic cotton or pre-consumer recycled cotton.

Office sustainability takes the form of printing on two sides of paper, recycling, and composting. Company offices are located close to public transport, and the majority of employees walk or take public transport to work. There is a building-wide recycling program and the office is stocked with eco-friendly cleaning materials and 100% post-consumer recycled paper.

The company plants a tree for every order placed, having planted more than 1 million trees to date through organizations like Friends of the Urban Forest, Our City Forest, and local municipalities and schools. Outside their local scope, Paper Culture partners include the Arbor Day Foundation, CarbonFund.org, and Trees for the Future.

Price Range: $1.35–$2

Artifact Uprising partners with a company called Mohawk to offer FSC-certified 100% post-consumer recycled paper invites for your special day. All the electricity used to manufacture the recycled invitation paper is matched with renewable wind-generated electricity. You can custom design these invites with photos of you and the future Mr. or Mrs.

Artifact offers a range of other products alongside its wedding range, such as hardcover books made of recycled fibers and while reclaimed fallen pine wood calendars. All are made in the USA.

Price Range: $4.40–$7.74

Myeco Design’s plantable wedding invitations are crafted from 100% post-consumer waste and seeds donated from a variety of sources, including local businesses and schools. The handmade plantable paper cards are available in a variety of minimalist, floral designs, all embedded with wildflower seeds, a mix of daisy, poppy, and celosia seeds.

To complete the sustainable paper wedding invitation set, you’ll get a recycled Kraft envelope and natural jute twine to boot.

Myeco Designs is a husband and wife team operating from Valencia, Spain, but their range of plantable paper stationery, calendars, and cards can be shipped all over the world. They also make any other wedding stationery products you might need to plan the green wedding of your dreams: table number cards, menus, eco-friendly wedding shower invitations, and placecards.