Couple Pays For Wedding With 400,000 Recycled Cans

Now here's an innovative way to have a green wedding. Recycle your way to the alter. According to a story found on Yahoo Green, one couple paid for their eco-friendly nuptials by recycling 400,000 cans. They're known as the "wedding can couple" and with good reason, they are paying for their July 31 wedding solely with the $3,800 in proceeds they earned from recycling 400,000 cans.

These natives of Spokane reached their goal last week and will now start saving for their honeymoon as well as upcoming donations to Doctors Without Borders and Rim Country Land Institute through their can collections.

Peter Geyer and Andrea Parrish started a Web site and drew traffic to the site with social networking. Alcoa donated 150,000 cans and United Recycling Services donated 73,000 cans to help the cause.

Read about their low impact wedding here.

Can't Raise the Money With Cans? Have a Low Impact Wedding Anyway Even if Geyer and Parrish hadn't raised the money through recycling, they still planned to have a low impact wedding and you can too. Start by downsizing your wedding to cut your consumption. Fewer people = less stuff generally. Make it vegetarian, skip the flowers, skip the favors, and choose an outdoor setting where less decor is necessary. To me the bottom line is to remember why you're getting married in the first place and skip all the fuss.