One of the big decisions we had to make was to even have a wedding in the first place.  We knew that by having our wedding in Northern California where our guests would have to drive between 2-10 hours to reach it or fly 3000 miles (some even drove it) from the East Coast, that we would be leaving a substantial carbon footprint.  We acknowledged this and we accepted that if we chose to do this we would do what we could to offset our footprint.  Our marriage and our family and community being there to witness and to celebrate with us was very important to us.

Just as with the gifts, we had decided not to give out party favors until we heard about the National Arbor Day Foundation.  We decided as part of this we would give each guest a tree of their own that they could plant that would offset their own travel.  And we loved the idea of knowing that 90 trees were being planted in our name by our friends and family all over the United States.