Green Wedding Extreme

Wow, green are couples making head lines. On Saturday, July 31 Pete and Andrea are getting married, applauded by the press: they will have paid most of their wedding with 400,000 Aluminium cans they collected over several months. Then later this year, on September 25, 2010 Julia and Andy will celebrate in Maine with local and sustainable food - with the small difference that they grow it all themselves in their rented 7,500-square-foot garden in a peaceful meadow. With all the ups and downs of farming, they most probably will find the Zen approach to life on the way.
Meredith Goad from the Portland Press Herald reports today: "Instead of a wedding cake, they'll have pies baked by their mothers and ice cream from John's Ice Cream Factory in Liberty. Davis' parents, Jane and Stan Davis of Wayne, are growing gourds and sunflowers, globe amaranth, statice and strawflowers for decorations. Appropriately enough, the wedding falls on Common Ground Fair weekend, a popular annual gathering of organic farmers and gardeners. "
Even if most of us don't yearn for a quaker wedding style, the cool thing is that stories like these are inspiring others to find something unique and green for our own celebrations, how fancy they might be.  Life is to short to be boring but too long to add to mountains of waste and rivers of tears.