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Happy New Year! We hope you’re having a fun 2010 so far and not too put out by the snow if you’re in the UK.  At least it looks festive!
We’re kicking off the New Year with a special offer on ice of a different sort – the kind you might find sparkling on your finger. 
Yep, [...]

Hello! In part 1 I shared about our last-minute preparations, so here is how the actual wedding ceremony went.
Seasonal wedding flowers
The church was beautiful, we found a florist who was a friend of my parents, and who was sympathetic to our green ideas.
She sourced flowers and greenery as seasonally as possible, including some raided from [...]

This week’s featured supplier, Chocolate Couture, creates stunning handcrafted and bespoke ethical engagement rings and wedding bands for the socially-conscious couple.
But with the credit crunch biting, Gina of Chocolate Couture has some great news for the wallet-conscious couple too!
Special offer on engagement rings & wedding bands
To take advantage of this offer, all you need to [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

I know we’re in the middle of Fairtrade Fortnight events at the moment but just to confuse you, I thought I’d let you know about an event we’re planning for World Fair Trade Day on Saturday 10 May.
We will be hosting the event with Cred Jewellery and the Sussex Fair Trade Network to raise awareness of [...]

As we prepare to debate diamonds, I couldn’t help but notice The Observer’s ethical column last weekend on that other ethical wedding worry: gold
Lucy Siegle asks the question: ‘Should I wear newly mined gold?’ and tells us the reasons why not!
What do you think? Are you going for gold? Or have you found an alternative? [...]

This morning a newly engaged couple from London led a march along Oxford Street calling for jewellers to take action to ensure the gold they sell is mined ethically.
Independent Catholic News tells how a twenty strong congregation of CAFOD campaigners carried a 100 metre long signed gold chain petition to deliver to jewellery retailer Argos [...]