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Mise en Place, the well-known, hip Tampa restaurant, does a lot of catering and numerous weddings each year.
But June 13, at the Italian Club in Ybor City, Mise en will be doing something new for a catering customer: an entirely green wedding.
“From start to finish, for every element of the wedding, the couple tried to accomplish something green,” says Ann Frechette, catering director for Mise en Place.
An Ybor City couple, Adam Fritz and Taryn Sabia, are working with Mise en to create an environmentally friendly event for about 125 guests.
The items they picked include examples of energy conservation, recycling, land preservation and source reduction. They include:
• Bookings at hotels are within walking distance to the reception and ceremony to save gas.
• The reception and ceremony are in the same building.
• Meat from free-range chickens and sustainable meats.
• A tablecloth made from recycled bottles.
• Field greens will come from a local farm.
• The bride's wedding ring is her grandmother's. The groom's tux is one he owns.
• RSVPs to the reception came to a Web site, to save paper.
• Tables will feature potted herbs, not fresh flowers.
• Waiters will serve sustainable wines, produced at vineyards where there is little soil depletion. The wines will have less additives.
• Instead of table favors of chocolate or almond, guests will see a table sign that a donation has been made by the couple to Hospice, in honor of their late fathers.
• The wedding photos will go into a green photo album made of hemp, canvas and vegan silk.
The comprehensive green wedding is a first, but Mise en actually has been incorporating more green practices piecemeal into its catering and restaurant business for years, Frechette says.
“We've been moving forward in this fashion,” she says. “Brides in the last two years want to incorporate something green. When this couple talked about doing it, we took it to the next level.”
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