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Posted in Wedding cakes on Jan 30th, 2008 No Comments »
My three ethical wedding cakes are now coming on fast. The carrot cake (recipe posted here back in the autumn) is finished. My chocolate cake, after several draft versions, will be made next week! The recipe for that was posted here back in the autumn too.
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I have also now made the [...]
Posted in Real ethical and green weddings on Jan 28th, 2008 No Comments »
As Katie recently pointed out, the weddings of yester-year were much greener… without even trying to.
I wrote and asked my Gran about what weddings were like in the war years. Her reply was really interesting, and actually quite humbling.
It made me realise how amazingly easy it is to organise a wedding now (greenly or [...]
Posted in Recycled on Jan 23rd, 2008 4 Comments »
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We get lots of emails at Ethical Weddings from brides and grooms trying to plan a more ethical and green wedding – so we thought it was about time we started to share them with you – especially as you might be able to help us answer them!
So today, we’re Stateside (virtually [...]
Posted in Wedding planner on Jan 17th, 2008 No Comments »
Following hard on the heels of my post about searching for a simpler wedding, I came across these two tales of wedding excess.
Business Standard reports on the growth of designer weddings in Punjab where the average wedding lasts between 3 and 7 days and where budget is not a constraint for most, according to one [...]
Posted in Wedding dresses on Jan 15th, 2008 No Comments »
I was reading a little book about weddings the other day (yep, approaching our third wedding anniversary and I still can’t tear myself away from them. Incidentally, in case you were wondering, year 3 is celebrated with leather – or leather equivalent!), and I came across this quote by Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)
‘I…chose my wife, as [...]
Posted in Wedding venues on Jan 9th, 2008 3 Comments »
Hello! In my first post as a ‘blogger bride’ I thought I’d fill you in with where we are so far with planning our wedding.
Sam and I got engaged in June 07 – he proposed on holiday on a small island on the Croatian coast (we’d travelled there in a fairly ethical style – by [...]
Posted in Ethical brides on Jan 5th, 2008 No Comments »
With the start of a new year we’re delighted to welcome a new bride-to-be to blog with us at Ethical Weddings.
Kate is the founder of Ethical Bags and she and her fiancé, Sam, are preparing for a June wedding in Cumbria.
Trying to go green for their wedding makes sense to Sam and Kate who are already trying [...]
Posted in Green weddings on Jan 1st, 2008 No Comments »
Here’s a big fat happy New Year from Ethical Weddings – we hope organic champagne has left you hangover-free today!
If the question was popped along with the cork this Christmas and this is your first visit, we’d like to give you a very warm welcome and hope you’ll keep checking in for tips and support for [...]