Weddingbee Blog

This post was originally published on March 4, 2010.

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It’s moving week here in Stripe world. Sigh. As I sit on my couch writing this post I’m surrounded by half-finished STDs and an ever increasing sea of boxes that make my heart race. And not in a good way. And then there’s the wedding crap.

Have you ever looked around at the fast accumulating wedding crap that’s taking over your house/apartment/life and wondered, ‘what the hell am I gonna do with this stuff after the wedding?’

In attempting to have a green (ish) wedding I like to think about where this stuff is going after our wedding and not just rejoice in my initial discovery.

This goes for all our wedding inspired handicrafts as well. Like the cranes. Yup, like a bunch of blog-land brides we’re making a 1001 cranes. What’s that? You don’t remember me talking about them? Right. That might have something to do with the fact that so far we’ve done zip. Zilch. Zero. There’s a practice crane or two floating around the apartment, but definitely not a wedding worthy crane in sight. But don’t worry - we’re not. We’ve still got six months and a whole bunch of willing friends, so we’re thinking of hosting a few crafting/crane making parties where your admission is a set number of cranes. It’s really just an excuse to drink with our friends, but it’ll get the job done.

Anyhow, the important question is what in the hell are we going to do with 1001 effing paper cranes? I have no doubt whatsoever that they’ll be gorgeous but I already want ‘em out of our house (and we haven’t even made ‘em yet). And of course, I’d love it if they weren’t a total waste of paper/trees but it might break my heart to shove them all in the recycling bin…

Then I came across The Crane Chandelier Project and now I know what we’ll be doing with our cranes. All 999 of them. We’ve gotta keep a few right? The Wedding Co. is creating a giant 10,000 crane chandelier from recently engaged/married couples cranes and is donating 50 cents per crane to cancer research.

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Do the math. That’s $499.50 to cancer research. And 999 beautiful cranes included in what’s sure to be a gorgeous piece of art. This makes me so happy.

And today being happy makes our big move bearable.

Is there any creative or charitable recycling happening after your wedding?