Wedding Photo Albums (made from elephant poo!)
Here’s a lovely unique way to display your zero waste wedding photos, while helping our elephant friends at the same time.
Paper High makes photo albums and photo frames, made from a blend of recycled paper and elephant dung! So each album has unique flecks, depending on what your elephant friend ate that day!
These albums have a serious side. Abroad, wild elephants are often harmed, due to trampling on crops. So by paying local villagers to collect the dung, they see elephants as income opportunities (and friends) rather than competing for food.
And as the average elephant eats around the same as us chomping down 300 cans of baked beans each day, that’s a lot of dung! Read more on how to help save endangered elephants.
You are also helping to provide income for a mostly female team of artisans in Sri Lanka who produce the beautiful albums, each one filled with 35 pages of handmade paddy husk paper (a by-product of the rice-milling industry). It’s acid-free and interweaved with tissue paper, to protect and preserve your memories).
The albums are sold in 3 sizes (which hold 70, 140 or 210 photos ox 6 x 4 inches, depending on your choice). Each album also features a beautiful brass elephant on the cover. To avoid glue, you can add a pack of clear self-adhesive photo corners to your order.
The albums are sold with matching photo frames, which have attached stands for portrait or landscape orientation on a flat surface. They have no glass/plastic windows nor fiddly hooks (just slot photos in the discreet slot). Each frame again is finished with a hand-crafted brass elephant.
Alternative Ideas for Wedding Photos
Rather than pay for stuffy photos, gift a talented friend or two with eco digital cameras to take photos for you, far cheaper than hiring a professional photographer. If a few people take them, there is less chance of each one coming back, where someone forgot to take the shutter off!
After use, just upload photos using the SD card to your phone or Wedibox. Keep rechargeable batteries away from heat, light & metal.
The other alternative is Posable, where you order a chosen amount of digital cameras, that guests can use to take photos, then they are dropped off at your local post office, to receive a gallery of photos to choose from. The basic package costs less than hiring a photographer.
