Gina Johnson and her husband Philip set up Chocolate Couture to offer high quality ethical jewellery at a reasonable price.
The couple create beautiful wedding and commitment bands individually crafted in the UK from mostly recycled metals and with coloured gemstones, certified diamonds or fair trade gems.
As your ring is a symbol of love and commitment, [...]
The Proposal was a fairly lack-lustre affair. We had both been ill with a vicious flu-style bug, and off work for about two weeks. I was beginning to think I would never be well again, and if Toby whinged about feeling crap one more time I was going to kill him with my snot.
He started [...]
On Saturday 10 May we held a fair trade event in Brighton to celebrate World Fair Trade Day, at which Greg Valerio of Cred Jewellery gave a talk about the future for Fair Trade gold and diamonds.
A month on (where has the time gone?!), we thought it was about time we let you know how it went… although I’m afraid we [...]
I was engaged on 29 February after proposing to my H2B. It wasn’t exactly planned, so there were no rings exchanged on the said day. In fact, we had no idea how to go about things. So after the initial shock/excitement of deciding to get married, we set about trying to find a ring.
I guess [...]
Our Ethical Weddings May newsletter went out today (yup, end of the month again!).
We’ve got some great offers this month with the chance to win a copy of ecoescape written by our blogger bride, Laura (to help you plan that green honeymoon) and fabulous discounts from ethical jewellery designers, Ingle & Rhode.
Not only that but we’ve some [...]
Our featured supplier this week is a familiar name to followers of ethical fashion. Fifi Bijoux designs luxury ethical jewellery and features regularly in the weekend papers’ sustainable style guides (yesterday’s Times ‘Style’ magazine, for example) while also being recently shortlisted for an Observer Ethical Award.
Describing her products as ‘an intoxicating blend of conscience and luxury’, Vivien Johnston, [...]
We are really excited about our World Fair Trade Day event this Saturday 10 May!
Greg Valerio of Cred Jewellery is going to be telling us all about the process of seeking Fair Trade certification for gold and diamonds. So if you’re on the lookout for an ethical engagement or wedding ring, are confused about conflict diamonds [...]
Tim Rhode of Ingle & Rhode, ethical jewellery designers and our featured supplier of the week, shares some practical tips on choosing an engagement ring… over to Tim:
How to choose the right engagement ring?
Choosing a ring can be time consuming, expensive and stressful. So how do you find a deal that will leave both you and your [...]
For today’s post, we’re delighted to present an interview with this week’s featured ethical wedding supplier, ethical jewellery designers: Ingle & Rhode:
Name: Tim Ingle and David Rhode
Location: Piccadilly, London
Tell us a bit about yourself and your business
We offer ethical fine jewellery - engagement rings and wedding bands whose provenance we can guarantee. Our gold is [...]
…seems to be the view of The Times of India:
“The accepted view is to look at any amount of money spent on a wedding as a waste. But this view ignores facts. Weddings in certain communities in India have always been ostentatious affairs.
Now, with the economy growing at almost 9 per cent a year [...]