How to Avoid Phthalates:

Beauty companies are not required to list ingredients, so you are not likely to see phthalates, a plastic softener linked to cancer, on labels. Avoid products that list "fragrance," which often contains phthalates; look for essential oils instead.

Back to Earth Organic Catering

Sample Wedding Menu

Why It's Good:

This family-style wedding supper — featuring summer vegetable ratatouille tartlettes, porcini-dusted Pacific rock cod, and pepper-crusted Marin Sun Farms sirloin — is one that all your friends and relatives will be thrilled to share.

Why It's Green:

Back to Earth focuses on organic ingredients. Their vegetables haven't been doused with pesticides (which are bad for the earth and for your health) and the livestock from Marin Sun Farms is 100 percent grass-fed and raised on open pastures, rather than grain-fed and confined in small pens like factory farmed beef.

Where To Get It:

www.organiccatering.com

Late-Summer Wedding in San Francisco

Meet & Greet Buffet

Antipasto of assorted local cheeses and charcuterie, marinated vegetables, olives and freshly-baked artisan breads

Passed Hors d 'Oeuvres

Summer vegetable ratatouille tartlettes
Spring Hill Farms Giana cheese

Cucumber fatoush salad
Pita crisp

Lemon-garlic-oregano chicken skewerettes

Family-Style Dinner

Escarole and butter lettuce salad
Flame grapes, toasted walnuts, red onion, cider vinaigrette

Porcini-dusted Pacific rock cod
Sweet corn emulsion, micro greens