How to integrate charitable giving / philanthropy into your wedding? We’ve thought about including donation links of our favorite charities as options on our registry, but wonder what else we can do.

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I have seen people put in the insert with the invitation.
Registry : We have been blessed with abundance, in lieu of a gift please donTe to the charity of your choice in our honor. Here are some of our favorites:

You could also just do a charity fund. Lots of people are reluctant to give now because then you get inundated with requests to keep giving. So you could add on option that allows direct donations and then send people a thank you saying where you donated.

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Didn't do this at my wedding, just had donations in our registry, but is there anyway you can work with a local organization to donate any leftovers from the wedding?

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We had donations on our registry, we then matched those donations when we gave them, and in lieu of favors we donated to earthquake relief efforts in Turkey and Syria (one of the major challenges at the time of our wedding).

Similarly we tried to reduce waste as much as possible (restaurant buyout = less wasted food, reusing decor, few real flowers that were dried/given away/composted).

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