In addition to getting married, gathering with our friends and family, our final goal is to be mindful of the planet as we party. Leftovers will be packed in reusable containers or composted. Cans and glass bottles will be recycled. Items used throughout our event have been reused or can be reused.

Recycle and reduce!

Save the Date Seed packets, Inserts, & Envelope
  • All printed on 100% recycled paper
  • Envelopes were made using 100% wind power
Wedding Website
Everyone will use this website to RSVP! Also, we hope that we provide sufficient information so that our guests will have a perfectly planned trip.
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If you planted your wildflower seeds, please share their progress here!
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Yes.
Navigating the ATL is possible without driving.

If you haven't already, visit the "Transportation" web page to see how to navigate the ATL to reduce your gasoline consumption. 

Also, did you know Lyft has recently gone carbon neutral. Find out what this means here and here.

A wedding coordinator who really knows zero waste

With a career background in fashion manufacturing and now waste diversion, it was only a matter of time before Natasha Dyer found herself wanting to help brides create zero waste weddings.  (Naturally, right? ;) ) The Fisher/Geonczy affair will be a chance for her and the couple to share their passion for zero waste living with the couples' friends and family as they reuse right, recycle right, and compost right.  
Keep up with Natasha as she lets you know what's going on around the City and the world surrounding energy & water efficiency and recycling & composting by following her on Facebook  or Instagram.

Backyard Composting

Leslie, Erik, Bryan, and I visited Sara at the farm she worked at for two summers.  Here we are eating sweet corn RIGHT OFF THE CORN STALK!  It was an experience that was out of this world for me. Not only was it the tastiest corn on the cob ever, no cooking was necessary, no plastic was used to wrap the corn, and the cob could be composted. The earth produced, we enjoyed the sweet corn, and returned the cob to the ground to enrich the soil.

Seasonal

I encountered MetroFresh through their restaurant within the Atlanta Botanical Garden.  I don't remember what I had but I do remember that it was good.  It turns out they had their Midtown location since 2003 and only discovered it through a Bicycle Commuters of Atlanta breakfast several years later after the garden.  It's an oasis of tasty, healthy food.  Your dietary requests will be acknowledged through careful labeling.  If you wish, we will box up leftovers for you to take home.
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​From their website: "MetroFresh is not a typical catering company. We are a restaurant that does catering. In fact, we didn’t set out to be a catering company at all. But after we opened the first MetroFresh, our regulars began to inquire whether we could bring our food to them. And bringing our food means bringing our philosophy. Because our menu changes to utilize fresh, seasonal ingredients, we have no “standard” menu. Instead, we work with each client, tailoring a menu to suit the season, the freshest available produce and meats, any unique dietary or culinary preferences, and the personality of the event."

Hard to Recycle Materials

If you follow Maria on Instagram, you know she goes to CHaRM Atlanta almost every Saturday, or now Tuesday since she works from home that day, granted we have stuff to recycle.  What is CHaRM Atlanta? CHaRM stands for the Center for Hard to Recycle Materials.  So just as the name indicates, this location takes almost everything that does not go into the recycling bin that gets picked up every week.  Unfortunately, plastic bags, unwanted electronics, used cooking oil, old mattresses,  and expanded polystyrene foam (to name a few) do not go into your bin.  Fortunately, Atlanta has a CHaRM.  They take these items and more, since they have found customers that can reuse these products in one form or another.  We will be taking our glass bottles to this facility because the City of Atlanta sends glass to the landfill.

Did you know that: Expanded polystyrene foam is the correct word to identify what almost everyone incorrectly refers to as Styrofoam.  Styrofoam is the trademarked name for extruded polystyrene foam

Reuse

What's neat about cutting down single use waste is coming up with creative solutions that can save perfectly good items from the landfill, meanwhile saving money. These are reused curtains that my mom and I cut and sewed into napkins.

Slow fashion, support local

Brittani Bumb made my sister's bridesperson's dress.  It all started out when I wanted to find someone to make my own wedding dress because I wanted something simple and not too expensive.  I searched around the internet and then wrote to the owner of TopStitch ATL, a newish local sewing supplies store in Ponce City Market, for a recommendation. The owner provided a glowing recommendation for Brittani.  Ultimately, I ended up buying a dress which I hope to sell through a website like preownedweddingdresses.com so I can pay it forward to a future bride (cross fingers).  However, my sister needed a dress made from a natural fabric (e.g. cotton) and Brittani made her wish come true! She designed a dress per Sara's recommendations and it came out perfect! Brittani is absolutely amazing and you should follow her on instagram.

From the TopStitch ATL website:
Brittani Bumb is the Owner and Head designer for Untitled Thoughts, a local Georgia Clothing Brand focused on eco-friendly clothing. Brittani absolutely loves everything about nature-if she could live entirely outside, she probably would! Ever since she was young, clothing seemed to be an outlet for expressing her personality, and when she learned how to sew, nothing could slow her roll! To her, clothing represents a form of freedom and expression of confidence, all of which Brittani wants other women to feel when they wear one of her pieces. Brittani also strives to put an eco-green stamp of approval on as many sewing practices as she can. 
​You can find Brittani's clothing at local boutiques such as Coco + Mischa and Indie South in Athens, Ga. Brittani also loves to keep herself busy sewing up custom wedding dresses, teaching private lessons from her home studio, and working with a number of local studios to offer sewing & dyeing workshops. Brittani has a BFA in Fashion Design from SCAD. 

​https://untitledthoughts.com/pages/our-mission
​https://www.instagram.com/untitledthoughts/
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Ethically Sourced

​We bought the engagement ring from Kate Szabone. Her "designs are inspired by the simplicity and complexity of nature," uses "a range of natural gemstones and conflict-free diamonds," and are set in recycled or ethically-sourced metals. Bryan had the ring adorned with moissanite, or silicon carbide, which is a rare mineral. It was discovered by the French chemist Henri Moissan in 1893 while examining rock samples from a meteor crater located in Canyon Diablo, Arizona, in 1893. At first, he mistakenly identified the crystals as diamonds, but in 1904 he identified the crystals as silicon carbide. Of course, the moissanite in this ring was synthesized in a lab instead of being mined.
Oh and there's more mindful practices we'd like to share with you coming soon! :)

Want to learn more about zero waste or living sustainably? Here's some more resources:
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