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Green Weddings Part 3
Verdant Venues : Himalayan peaks or ocean depths?
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Simply starting off your wedding on a shubh mahurat isn't good enough. After all don't they say that the date, time and locale are inter-related? Choose a location that is unique. Keep the wedding green, neat and tidy.
Greener pastures for your wedding
Avoid an indoor air-conditioned setting, as air-conditioning is one of the leading causes of global warming. Some idyllic green wedding venues in literature are recorded in Thomas Hardy's pastoral novels, Shakespeare's Forest of Arden and Robin Hood's Sherwood Forest.
Choose a green venue to wed, be it a chlorophyll-saturated spot, on the beach, in the nautical depths of the ocean blue or on the lofty snowy mountain caps.
On top of the world perhaps?
In June 2005, Nepalese couple Moni Mule Pati and Pem Dorjee Sherpa were the first to have exchanged wedding vows atop the Mount Everest. There were no wedding dresses, tuxedos or wedding bells. Just some oxygen tanks, climbing equipment and plastic flowers. Tying the knot high above the world was really a marriage made in the heavens.
Or maybe, the depths of the ocean?
Canadians Ghislain Rivard and Ghislaine La Rouche renewed their wedding vows on New Year's Eve 1999 beneath the clear blue waters of Bunaken Sea Garden, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. As they had chosen a shallow depth of 6 to 8 metres they could even wear the traditional wedding attire. Those who choose to marry in deeper depths however may have to wear scuba gear.
Even if you don't want to go for an adventure wedding there are many green (eco-friendly) venues you can choose from - parks, organic farms, gardens, community venues, temple courtyards or an open air terrace.
On venues to avoid, environmentalist Anand Pendharkar cautions, "Schools and colleges should never rent out their premises for weddings unless it is vacation time. When the students come back the morning after the wedding they often see their field littered and maybe poles dug into the cricket pitch."
Celebrity astrologer numerologist Pt. Aaadietya Pandey says, "A Dutch client of mine asked me for advice so that they could have a Vedic wedding as it is well known for its eco-friendliness. Heeding to my advice they chose a plateau coastal area where cool soothing sea breeze negated the need of an air-conditioned venue. In Vedic style they set up huts (kutirs) for guests who came from afar to reside with them during the wedding."
Poet Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Nature is the art of God." Marriages are said to be sacred. So what better way to inaugurate this sacred bond than marrying in the lap of nature?
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