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***UPDATE***If you’d like to know where & how I got every single item used in my packaging below, I can offer you those resources for a low price of only $25! I’ve received a ton of emails already in regards to where I found my materials, and I would love to share that information with anyone who’d like to save time doing the research on their own. It took me a little over a month and VERY LITTLE sleep to come up with what I have. I have also included some resources in there that offer non-eco-friendly packaging that were to good to pass up. So for $25 bucks, you can save yourself that madness! 100% of every transaction will be used for missions trips. Please use the Paypal button below to make your donation.

UPDATE (07/12/2010): We have raised $1200 and have donated $600 to one of my sisters who will be visiting Honduras this year and $600 to another sister who will be visiting Moldova this year, both on missions trips. Thank you so much for your support so far! Any purchases made from now on, will be to raise money for a missions trip to Honduras in Spring 2011. It will be to support the media team & construction teams’ travel expenses and material costs. Again, thank you so much for your support in God’s work!

NOTE: I am well aware of the forums and discussions talking about how dare I sell a vendor list. $25 is not a lot of money to ask for a charitable cause. I could have easily just asked for donations or could have just sold my vendor list and kept the money for myself. If you are one of the people who float around on forums and websites demanding that free information be given to you, do me a solid. Quit complaining & quit expecting me to give away information that took me week’s of hard work to come up with.

So many of you may know that I am currently in the process of “going green” in my business. One of the steps that I have taken is in my packaging & photo presentation for my clients. I’ve done about a month’s worth of research just to find all of the pieces to put together. Almost each element you see here was bought from a different vendor. It would have been better to find them all in one place but I have yet to find a one-stop shop for all-green photo presentation for photographers. Every single thing you see is either bio-degradable, 100% recycled or 100% recyclable or reusable. I’ve just packaged a real wedding order (for Johanna & Blair) and here is what it all looks like. You like?

So here’s kind of an overall look of the finished product. The shopping bag is a 100% recycled Euro Tote.

A little peek at the envelope which contains the reproduction release & lab recommendations.

Inside the photo proof box. The box is 100% biodegradable.

Another look at the outside of the photo proof box all wrapped up.

I hand-stamped my logo on this really neat handmade paper.

Then I hand-stamped the word “photos” on these recycled chip-board hang tags. I’ve attached all tags & wrapped the boxes in 100% natural raffia ribbon.

Here’s a look at the CD my brides get. A photo is printed on a label and then adhered to the CD.

The CD’s are placed on a bed of Natural Coarse Wood Excelsior, in side this 100% biodegradable black box.

Then the CD box is wrapped with Raffia ribbon and more hang tags are attached.

And there you go!