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Posted in Gift Lists, Wedding fairs & wedding shows on Sep 30th, 2007 No Comments »
Yesterday I visited the National Wedding Show for the first time - having failed to drag the fiancé along when we were planning our own wedding a few years ago…
It was quite an event! Never have I seen so many brides in one room. I must confess I felt quite overwhelmed at first - if not a little light-headed [...]
Posted in Green weddings, Press, Real ethical and green weddings on Sep 27th, 2007 No Comments »
Europe is going great guns for green weddings at the moment!
Over the last few months, we’ve had curious queries from all over Europe but particularly France and Spain (handy for me as I studied French and Spanish!), with ethical weddings featuring in publications ranging from ‘Femme Actuelle’ (a women’s magazine) to financial Spanish newspaper, ‘Expansion’.
The [...]
Posted in Ethical gold, Green weddings, Jewellery and accessories, Real ethical and green weddings, Recycled, Wedding rings on Sep 26th, 2007 No Comments »
Last night we took the plunge and ordered our rings from www.greenkarat.com… so now we can’t wait to see them and report back to you all what recycled gold actually like.
Rings from GreenKarat each have a ‘Green Assay’: a list of the green credentials of that particular ring, including the recycled metal content, details of [...]
Posted in Flowers, Green weddings, Weddings on Sep 20th, 2007 No Comments »
Marrying in March means some of my home-grown decorations will be spring bulbs – daffodils and crocuses to bloom alongside my cyclamen and primroses, along with plenty of foliage and borrowed pot plants.
September, I have learned, is the month for planting your spring bulbs. So this weekend I was out buying crocus and daffodil bulbs [...]
Posted in Ethical brides, Real ethical and green weddings on Sep 18th, 2007 1 Comment »
I have been neglecting our little Ethical Weddings blog woefully over the last few weeks. First gallivanting (sustainably, by train!) to Spain, then living it up - or rather chilling out - at The End of the Road Festival these past few days, celebrating the end of our short-lived summer (read all about the fest’ [...]
Posted in Carbon emissions, Honeymoons, Responsible travel on Sep 9th, 2007 2 Comments »
After 10 glorious days in sunny Spain we’re back! It was great to completely ‘desconectar’ (no internet, no computers) for a while…and it’s taking a bit of getting used to being plugged in again (that’s our excuse for not replying to any emails yet anyway!).
We decided for this holiday we’d go the low carbon route [...]
Posted in Ethical brides, Green weddings, Wedding dresses, Weddings on Sep 7th, 2007 3 Comments »
I am having my wedding dress made by ethical dressmaker Jo Mackin of Wholly Jo’s… and this week I tried it on for the very first time!
Jo has been busy over the last few weeks making my ‘toile’ dress - a mock-up dress made of very cheap fabric bought from a charity shop. The idea [...]
Posted in Wedding stationery on Sep 4th, 2007 No Comments »
By this point I’ve burned myself out on color-coordinating, folding, and gluing, so for my final wedding-related purchase, I wanted to buy “thank you” cards that were a little different, and were another chance to do something good with my consumer dollars.
So I purchased these cards from a local nonprofit called DrawBridge. They have a [...]