Posted in Bridalwear, Decorations and tableware, Ethical brides, Ethical gold, Ethical weddings, Flowers, Gift Lists, Green weddings, Invitations, Jewellery and accessories, Real ethical and green weddings, Shoes, Wedding cakes, Wedding dresses, Wedding rings on May 14th, 2008 2 Comments »
I’ve had a long absence from this blog… while I enjoyed my wedding and my month long honeymoon!
Everything was a huge success and Phil and I enjoyed every minute of our day. So here’s a little list of the best and the worst of our green successes and failures, for anyone who is planning 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, [...]
To round off our week with Conscious Elegance as our featured supplier, why not have a listen to an interview with Lori as recorded for the BBC last October about her experiences as an ethical dressmaker…
Conscious Elegance interview - eco-friendly wedding dresses
Have a great weekend!
Katie
Find more ethical dress designers in the Ethical Weddings directory
Following Earth Day yesterday (oops, forgot to mention it in my excitement over the eco-friendly toilets post!), we are thrilled to have for you today an interview with our current featured supplier and winner of the 2007 Environmental Business Award, Conscious Elegance - eco-dressmaker extraordinaire!
Click on the image below to roll the tape…
Happy anniversary to us!
Oh [...]
One of our Ethical Weddings visitors got in touch recently on a subject that I don’t think we’ve really covered in this blog…
Toilets
Yep, if you’re having a marquee for your wedding, whether you like it or not, conveniences are going to come into your considerations somewhere!
First thoughts probably leap to finding a service that promises to stay clean [...]
We’re thrilled to be able to welcome our third blogger bride in as many weeks to give us all their green wedding gossip here on the Ethical Weddings blog.
Em & Lachie are getting married in Cumbria this June and are keen to share some of their ethical wedding planning stories with us before the big [...]
As I’ve told you, my family (especially my dad and my stepmom, the ones in my family that I have talked about this eco-wedding plan with so far) doesn’t take the ethical wedding idea earnestly.So at first, I expressed to them how my husband-to-be and I sought after a very simple wedding. I kept emphasizing [...]
Posted in Bridalwear, Decorations and tableware, Eco wedding, Ethical brides, Ethical weddings, Flowers, Food and Drink, Green weddings, Invitations, Organic, Real ethical and green weddings, Wedding dresses, Wedding rings, Wedding stationery, Wedding venues on Apr 11th, 2008 1 Comment »
For today’s post, we’re delighted to feature an account from our wonderful web designers, Make Hay, of their preparations for their very soon-to-be-celebrated wedding! Over to Vicky…
As mine and Jez’s big day approaches and most of the preparations are in place I thought I would steal a little time to reflect and share my experience in planning our eco [...]
After welcoming Ecoescape’s Laura to blog with us about her eco wedding plans last week, we are excited to introduce Diar, who is planning her 2009 wedding in Pontianak, Indonesia.
Diar is already struggling to get family and friends to understand her desire for a simpler celebration and this is made more difficult by the fact [...]
I’m afraid I’ve been dreadfully remiss; I encouraged our lovely new blogger bride, Laura, to get posting without actually introducing her to you first!
So here goes…
Laura is perfectly placed - or perhaps under pressure! - to create a great green wedding as the founder of green travel business, Ecoescape (well, at least the green honeymoon shouldn’t [...]