Green Wedding Services in Toronto

Green weddings are the in-thing these days and if you want to make your big day as environmentally as possible, check out this blog post over on BlogTO that highlights some of the city’s greenest wedding venues.

Here my thoughts on a few of the places they’ve highlighted.

Cabaret Vintage: a must-stop for any bride who wants vintage, or vintage-style dress. While the dress prices are hardly steals, they are reasonable for a wedding dress.

Vert Catering: I’ve heard great reviews about these guys but I’ve also been told that they are on the expensive side.

Mill St. Brewery: I don’t drink beer but Shawn and many other beer drinkers I know love this brewery. I think we’re actually going to get these guys to provide all the beer for our bar.

Pure + Simple & Elixir Organic Spa: While I’ve never been to either of these spas, I’ve heard great things about both of them and am considering both for them for my pre-wedding pampering.

Toronto Botanical Garden: We checked this out last spring and my review is over here. It’s a nice place, just not for us.

Kortright Centre for Conservation: Another venue we checked out and that review is here. Kortright is quite pretty and eco-friendly, but it was a bit too far out-of-town for us (plus it didn’t have AC).

How To Have A Green Wedding For Under $10,000

If you’re planning on having an eco-friendly wedding on the cheap, check on this article that ran in Saturday’s Toronto Star. It’s about a Toronto couple who recently held an elegant, green wedding for $10,000.

Their steps to saving money (held a cocktail reception, eschewed flowers and the big white gown, had a friend get them a deal on the reception venue) and being green (offset their carbon credits, gave away tree saplings as favours, had a the wedding dress made out of bamboo) aren’t anything new but it’s always nice to a real life example of those steps in action.

The article also contains a great little sidebar on how to make your own video booth. The couple was able to create their own for less than $100 and they got to keep the video camera.

While their wedding certainly won’t be for everyone one, it certainly worked for them and it’s certainly a common-sense wedding.