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Back in July, our post ‘How to give your wedding dress to another bride‘ looked at a number of charities who could take your beloved but one-wear-only wedding gown and give it a new life as the dream dress of another deserving bride. Today we’re bringing you a new way to donate your dress – [...]

We’re back from our fun-filled family holiday in Dorset (thanks mum and dad!) and are ready and raring to share more ethical and green wedding news with you. Pens (or iphones or other mobiley things that do everything but especially coordinate your diary) at the ready please as we have 2 green wedding events coming [...]

When brides ask us what they can do with their wedding gowns after the big day, our almost auto response is: donate it to a charity shop.  There are so many charity shops with bridal departments just begging for your dress, you know it’s going to a good home – and a good cause. But [...]

And now for something a little bit different… Ethical bridalwear designer, Lucy Tammam is putting on an eco-couture catwalk show at the Champagne Bar at St Pancras International Train Station next Friday 21 January. Sustainable fashion and transport come together! RSVP to info@tammam.co.uk and quote ‘Ethical Weddings’ to join the guest list. Be there at [...]

I was saddened to read about the Irish bride who “bagged herself a bargain” on EBay by buying a €6 brand new wedding dress from China. In these tight times, I can understand how brides might think this is a fantastic idea. Anything to do with weddings has an overinflated price-tag, especially wedding dresses but [...]

In our October Ethical Weddings newsletter we mentioned the emails we had been receiving from brides who wanted to know what to do with their wedding dress after the big day. Should they sell it? If so how and where? Should they give it away? Where can it do most good? Should they have it [...]

Phew, finally got round to blogging about our wedding! Been married for 6 months, but better late than never. It was an amazing and beautiful day. The wedding party began to arrive the day before, and we put the finishing touches to the decorations and food that could be done in advance. In the evening, [...]

We are pleased to welcome to the Ethical Weddings blog today Dawn Del Russo, Stylist and Owner of online boutique, Bella Dawn. Dawn has featured in many national magazines such as InStyle, Real Simple, Family Circle, In Touch and Life and Style, and her “How-To” book is out this autumn, filled with affordable style advice [...]

I’m not exactly a materialistic person (quite the opposite) so choosing a wedding gift list was really tough. I don’t like the idea of asking people for money as it seems a bit odd, so in the end we went for a list of grow-your-own goodies from Harrod Horticultural who have been really helpful. We [...]

We’re Emma and Philip and we’re getting married in just 5 days – the 18th July! Because the wedding is so close I’m going to try to blog about things we’ve done rather than what we will be doing. Philip and I met in 2007 and he asked me to marry him in December last [...]