One of the very first weddings Carbon Planet ever did a proper greenhouse gas assessment and provided certified offsets for was my own. My wedding and honeymoon (we travelled from the Australian outback to the USA, then to The Caribbean, Cuba and then Europe) was 49 tonnes of CO2e. That was in 2006.

We’ve done quite a few weddings since then, including a quaker wedding in 39th street station in Philadelphia, USA (1 tonne total as they made everyone catch trains to get there). As the guys from Terrapass say in the article above, the real emissions are not in the event itself. But those travel emissions are a killer, and hotel stays typically come to around 100Kg or so of CO2e per guest per night.

In 2006 people thought it was a bit weird to offset your wedding, but these days it’s very common and with some forethought the costs can be minimal.

Cheers

Dave Sag
Founder and Exec Director
Carbon Planet Limited