If you want a very symbolic invitation that won't end up in a landfill, send invitations made from plantable seeded paper. The invitations will bloom just like your love for your fiancé. Plantable paper embedded with flower seeds is a great eco-choice. Depending on the seeds, the flowers may last for weeks or months after your wedding and no paper waste is left behind.

Many plantable papers are made from recycled or tree-free fibers and are embedded with seeds so they are doubly and triply green. Not only were no trees harmed in the production of these papers, but beautiful flowers will grow from them once they are planted. Botanical PaperWorks (www.botanicalpaperworks.com), Tree Beginnings (www.plantamemory.com), and Ecoparti (www.ecoparti.com) offer plantable papers, invitations, and favors.

If you make your own recycled or tree-free handmade paper, you can add seeds to it at the end of the process while the slurry settles in the mold.