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Today, I am pleased to pass you over once again to our blogger bride, Jenny:

“We plan to sign the legal marriage register the day before our wedding, so that we can hold our ceremony and reception wherever we want and write our own vows.
I love the idea of being able to marry somewhere close to [...]

A big thank you to Alex for her fab Fairtrade Fortnight Challenge searching high and low for fair trade wedding fare.  While Alex takes a well deserved rest, I have another type of fair to tell you about… a green wedding fair!
Sadly, for us in the UK, this is one for Stateside brides only…but we can [...]

Well that’s it, my ‘Fairtrade Fortnight, Fair Trade Wedding Challenge’ is finished, and it’s almost time to move away from my laptop and relax…
I have to say the last 14 days have been extremely full, but I have been truly amazed by the wonderful array of fair trade items available, more especially those suitable for [...]

And finally…
To close this challenge I thought it was appropriate to search for fair trade photograph albums and frames…
Albums
Rose Petal Album from Myakka
Wedding Album from Fairly Goods

Mother of Pearl Album (also in red) from Ganesha
Handmade paper Album from Shared Earth
Gold blockprint Album from People Tree

Satin & Bamboo Album from [...]

‘’A wedding cake” made from Theo fair trade chocolate
Today’s fair trade wedding cake has proved problematic to source online (hint, hint!). After numerous ‘fair trade wedding cake’ search engine results, I have only found two possible sources:

Fancy That! Wedding Cakes based in Oxfordshire. While they don’t mention a specific ‘fair trade wedding cake’ [...]

Incorporating fair trade chocolate at a wedding can vary from the simplest idea, to the exceedingly lavish…
Chocolate Cocktails
Sanderson’s Divinitini Cocktail recipe from Divine
Wedding Favours
Wedding Favours from A lot of Chocolate

Personalised Wedding Favours from A lot of Chocolate
Table Decorations/Extras
Chocolate Slabs from Chocaid
Belgian Finest Selection from Traidcraft
Feast
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Suitably following yesterday’s wine, today’s fair trade coffee & tea challenge has been fairly straight forward. As with the wine I believe many couples have already included fair trade beverages at their weddings, which perhaps reflects the fact that they are one of the simplest fair trade products to incorporate into everyday life, both at [...]

Happy International Women’s day!
“ My dream is to have a good job that will give me a good salary so I can send my children to school to study a higher education. I hope to live sufficiently and not depend on others. I want to encourage others and I want others to love and [...]

I had imagined today’s challenge would start and end with fair trade musical instruments. However, on entering ‘fair trade music’ into the search engine I’ve just found:

Calabash ‘the worlds first fair trade music company.’
According to Andy Morgan at the Independent ”Calabash is the online equivalent of your favourite backstreet music store’’.
There’s certainly a wide [...]

Fairtrade Fortnight Week Two!
I wonder if you noticed any Fairtrade Fortnight events in town over the weekend? I overheard the words ‘fair trade’ several times as I was out and about. I also found various Sheffield Initiative for Fairtrade (SHIFT) posters, and saw a large Fairtrade banner on the town hall. In fact Sheffield [...]