When Nick Kordesch talks about his green wedding, he’s not referring to the color of the table runners.
In June, Nick, 34, the sustainability coordinator at San Francisco State University, married Hazel Perry, 33, a genetic counselor at UCSF, in what the couple call a “zero-waste wedding.”
Because the East Bay holds a special place for them — Nick is an alumnus of Cal and Hazel, who attended UC Davis, grew up there — they held their ceremony at the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden.
After vows were recited, the 130 guests launched into a sing-along of a personalized rendition of “This Land Is Your Land.”
[...] in 2010 their real meet-up was when Toby organized a “sibling camping trip” to Pinnacles National Park — he invited Nick and Nick’s two sisters, and he persuaded his own sister, Hazel, to come along.
Nick and Hazel decided to forgo the latter option and, to that end, everything used to make and serve their guests’ Cuban dinner was composted or recycled.
