Eco Honeymoon

For your honeymoon try to travel less. Shorter trips can be very relaxing and a cost and resource-effective way to kick off your married life. With travel being the security hassle it is these days...

HONEYMOON & YOUR NEW LIFE TOGETHER

For your honeymoon try to travel less. Shorter trips can be very relaxing and a cost and resource- palm_island effective way to kick off your married life. With travel being the security hassle it is these days, local eco-tourism options can be more relaxing for the budget and can provide you with a nearby memory-making location that you can visit during future anniversaries for respite and to rekindle your romance. New friends that are met at this location are an added bonus that can build your community together.

Make your wedding carbon neutral! Carbon Neutral is when you offset the amount of carbon dioxide that's produced by your wedding (through guest transport, electricity usage, honeymoon transport etc.) by planting trees or supporting renewable energy projects. For more about carbon credit.

If you really want to honor your committment and make a statement at the same time, consider taking a honeymoon with a "great purpose." Through organizations like World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms, you can spend your honeymoon making a difference by volunteering. The good news is that vacations like Wilderness Volunteer are relatively inexpensive.

One more honeymoon related green tip. Make sure that when you leave, you turn off as many elelctricity draining appliances as you can.

In conclusion . . .

The concept of an environmentally correct wedding is supported by recycling and the use of as many products as possible made out of recycled materials. The idea is to use as few virgin resources as possible, especially nonrenewable ones. Participating wedding professionals can be encouraged to buy bulk - local and organic, with minimal packaging and to avoid the use of all aerosol products. With a little extra thought and effort, the environmentally conscientious bride and groom will find many ways in which a wedding can maintain all of its beauty and sense of tradition, and still work to preserve Mother Earth.

YOUR NEW LIFE TOGETHER

Practice making sustainable choices in your daily life together. Simple things like organic bedding, compact fluorescent lightbulbs, low-water faucets and shopping at farmers markets can build a healthful homestead and create good habits that you build one at a time. Invest in socially responsible companies when planning for your retirement and financial well being. And for the entrepreneurs in our midst, consider sustainable business processes when you look for that little extra job or hobby-turned-business.

Building a family is first about vision. Then about implementing that vision with joy and productivity. The result is a solid family base that serves as a haven in the midst of our tumultuous world, and your example will shine for all the people who visit your home, and share your interests, joys and communal table.

"Live simply - so others may simply live." Elizabeth Seaton

Little things add up to help you feel you are at the least, trying to give back instead of constantly taking the resources around you for granted. It just takes some time and planning to do it the eco-friendly way … and your own special way.

"In the end we will conserve only what we love.

We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught." Ecologist Baba Dioum.

PRESERVING A MARRIAGE

First select a good sized tender heart for preserving: it might look very tempting in the market, but be sure that it will stand the preserving process.

Remove all the fat of selfishness and proceed to stuff as follows:

1 lb crumbs of comfort, 1 quart milk of human kindness, several drops of essence of goodness and happiness. Blend well with a little of the oil of time to mellow and soften.

If you think it demands a little spice, use it with caution.

Leave the heart in a warm place with love’s rays full upon it, keeping the world’s cold blasts from it if possible, but do not let it be absorbed in its own juices.

Do not keep stirring it up, neither should you keep poking it with sharp points to see if it is done.

Sauce for above:

Pint or more of good spirits, a few honeyed words; a little cream of society may improve but is not necessary.

Carefully avoid cold water, vinegar, pepper or acidity in any form.

The above will keep for years.

Taken from Grandmother’s Scrapbook – 1880s

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