By Temma Ehrenfeld 

If you care for the environment but don’t want a wedding that screams “I’m green,” add these simple ideas to your festivities:

• Arrange ahead of time to have a food-rescue organization like secondharvest.org pick up your untouched entrees.

• Instead of exotic cut flowers that re-quire shipping and refrigeration, Valerie Edmunds of greeneleganceweddings.com suggests potted plants that guests can take home. Or use local, in-season blooms.

• Donate your wedding dress to making memories.org. Bridesmaids can donate gowns to charities that recycle them as prom dresses (try glassslipperproject.org or donatemydress.org).

• Try jewelers like greenkarat.com or sumiche.com, which create rings with post-consumer gold.

• Suggest that guests give to a charity in lieu of buying a gift.

If you do want to go all out, companies like Vibrant (vibrant events.net) and Angel & Company (angel weddingplanners .com) will help you plan your wedding for a fee of 10 to 15 percent of your budget. Too bad their bills aren’t recyclable.