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The ‘official’ wedding season starts next week and already we are being deluged with demands for green grooms and ethical brides…
First up, Central News in Nottingham is champing at the bit to champion ethical and green weddings in the East Midlands area and is looking for a couple from the region (Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire [...]

Just a quick post  – I have found my wedding shoes for £6 in my local Oxfam shop.  Clearly only worn once for someone else’s big day, they are nearly pristine, with one tiny mark on the side which you cannot see unless you peer at them closely (and I don’t think many people will [...]

Following on from our post questioning the cleanliness of Canadian diamonds, we have asked Greg Valerio of Cred Jewellery, who are pushing for fair trade diamonds, for his thoughts on the issue. Over to Greg…
Firstly, due to the Kimberley Process the likelihood of someone buying a conflict diamond is now less than 1%.
The only main source [...]

We were extremely excited to hear ethical bride, Becca, talking about her plans for a green wedding on Radio 4’s You & Yours Programme yesterday.
Becca very kindly mentioned ethicalweddings.com as a great place to find tips and advice and share ideas with other brides and grooms.  We hope this will encourage even more brides and grooms [...]

One of my biggest ‘green guilt’ dilemmas is our honeymoon. Phil and I have always desperately wanted to visit China. As soon as we talk about our honeymoon we can imagine it straight away – three weeks backpacking from Hong Kong to Beijing followed by a week in the Phillipines to dive some of the [...]

“There are no clean diamonds.  Exploring for them, digging them out of the ground and selling them requires sacrifices from the natural environment, from the wildlife and fish that live on it, and from the Aboriginal people who depend on it.” Mining Watch
To open the diamond debate, we have picked up on a thread in the [...]

Oxfam wedding dress appeal
Don’t Say a Word rip Such is the enthusiasm for ethical weddings that the Eastbourne branch of Oxfam is running out of gowns for the green bride.
“It’s great that so many brides are coming to Oxfam for their dresses, but we are desperate for donations to meet this growing demand,”
Barbara Warmsley, [...]

Hi everyone, this is Rhonda from Our Wedding Plus. I’d like to thank Katie for adding me on as a guest blogger! 
For my first post I want to spread the word about how we in the wedding community can support a great cause, helping breast cancer patients and their families. 
The Making Memories Foundation has an [...]

Well, I took advantage of the Easter weekend to switch off and didn’t so much as glance computer-wards from Friday until today.
Evidently, others weren’t of the same mind as when I did dare to download my emails my inbox was inundated thanks to a great green weddings piece from Reuters that appeared around the world, including on the [...]

“Why don’t you just find a hall?” a friend asked us.
We did hope it would be that simple. Call around a few churches and community groups, and find one with a pleasant enough hall which can fit about 60 guests (current estimate) for our party in Australia.
Ah, how wrong we were.
We were full of hope [...]