Brighter Planet

Greener Weddings

Green is the new white! While cakes and flowers are a must, carbon emissions are not. Your special day is a great opportunity to show friends and family what kind of world you want to live in — and help make that world a reality by building clean energy projects in communities across the country. Buy Planet Shares to offset your wedding’s carbon footprint and ensure it’s the start of a happy future, rather than a contributor to climate change. One way to significantly reduce the footprint of your celebration is to consider how far all of your guest will have to travel. Try to find a place you love that is also close to friends and family.

How do we calculate your wedding’s emissions?

Travel is the main contributor to a wedding’s carbon footprint, followed by the energy used by hotel room, the ceremony, and the reception. We assume a large wedding has 300 guests. We assume that 40 are flying round-trip from far away (more than 3 hours), 60 are flying a medium distance (1 to 3 hours), and 80 are taking short flights (an hour or less). We assume the rest of the guests are driving from an average distance of 75 miles away, with two people per car. We assume that all the guests spend 2 nights in a hotel room. We assume the wedding ceremony lasts about 3 hours and the reception 6 hours (including setup and cleanup time).

When you choose to buy offsets from Brighter Planet, you join a community of green Americans doing their part for the planet. Your purchase includes:

• Top-quality offsets from the exclusive Brighter Planet blend
• Access to meaningful conservation tips that match your lifestyle
• An online climate profile that allows you to record your conservation efforts, manage the offsets you’ve purchased and earned, and track your progress as you go beyond carbon neutrality
• A beautiful certificate for you to print and display