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With my wedding being only about two months from now, I think I’m not supposed to be on Ethical Weddings blog anymore. Well, things been quite a mess down here, I’ve decided to 95% give up. I know you shouldn’t wave that white flag before you use your own blood to bathe, but really I’m [...]

.!. First things first, a big congratulations to our blogging couple, Helen and Mike who got married on Saturday.  We hope you had a lovely day and are feeling well and truly relaxed on your honeymoon. Confetti crazy Fraternity House trailer I’m not sure what Helen and Mike got pelted with as they left the [...]

What’s in a name? Quite a lot it would seem. Pygmalion hd The debate in the Ethical Weddings forum on taking your other half’s name is hotting up. Does it make you a closer couple to share the same name? Do you lose your independence when you give up your original surname? Or does it [...]

We like the custom of throwing stuff over the bride and groom after the ceremony as it traditionally signifies bestowing prosperity and fertility on the couple and is a well loved custom in both Denmark and the UK. We will not be using rice (as is traditional in Denmark) as John is a great bird [...]

My wedding dress is not very eco-friendly and this caused me a lot of grief and green guilt. But I decided to keep it and be happy about it since it is beautiful, suits me perfectly, made my mother-in-law cry and is from Monsoon.  Also when I found out that Monsoon apart from doing lovely [...]

There’s really not long to go now – just as soon as we’d got used to thinking of the wedding as being a countable number of weeks away it seemed to become days away! So it’s time to start pulling everything together. The food Our last visit home turned out to be reasonably relaxed – [...]

Sob, the show (Eco Chic Wedding & Home) is over. But we’re still buzzing about the bridalwear.  So now the pics are in (courtesy of the Birmingham Botanical Gardens), I thought we’d take a closer look at those dazzling dresses. Worn Once with Love – pre-loved wedding dresses Claire Ingram at Worn Once with Love [...]

(I was supposed to post this back in February, hence the snow - oops! Anyway, this is for all of you waiting for your Spring or Summer wedding!). Despite the attention-grabbing, almost ominous presence of “W-day” on the horizon we’re still able to find so much joy in the silly little things of now each day.  [...]

The lovely Jen Napier (pictured right on her wedding day) of wedding planning site, OneWed got in touch to share her top green wedding tips with us. We thought it would be rather selfish to keep them all to ourselves so here they are in all their green glory… Going Green Wedding Tips: download Never [...]