Incorporating fair trade chocolate at a wedding can vary from the simplest idea, to the exceedingly lavish… Chocolate Cocktails Sanderson’s Divinitini Cocktail recipe from Divine Wedding Favours Wedding Favours from A lot of Chocolate Personalised Wedding Favours from A lot of Chocolate Table Decorations/Extras Chocolate Slabs from Chocaid Belgian Finest Selection from Traidcraft Feast Divine [...]
Suitably following yesterday’s wine, today’s fair trade coffee & tea challenge has been fairly straight forward. As with the wine I believe many couples have already included fair trade beverages at their weddings, which perhaps reflects the fact that they are one of the simplest fair trade products to incorporate into everyday life, both at [...]
Happy International Women’s day! “ My dream is to have a good job that will give me a good salary so I can send my children to school to study a higher education. I hope to live sufficiently and not depend on others. I want to encourage others and I want others to love and [...]
Fairtrade Fortnight Week Two! I wonder if you noticed any Fairtrade Fortnight events in town over the weekend? I overheard the words ‘fair trade’ several times as I was out and about. I also found various Sheffield Initiative for Fairtrade (SHIFT) posters, and saw a large Fairtrade banner on the town hall. In fact Sheffield [...]
On starting today’s challenge I found that there’s been much debate about fair trade flowers, so before going any further, here’s a Fairtrade Roses Questions and Answers doc from the Fairtrade Foundation which may be of interest… Currently Fairtrade Roses from two Kenyan farms are available in a number of UK high street retailers including: [...]
Today’s challenge is all about how to have a fair trade unwind during the potentially hectic time of preparing for a wedding! Relaxation in a box Perhaps the most perfect item I’ve found is this fair trade ‘Relaxation in a box’ from Mondomundi which is described as: ‘All you need to unwind and calm your [...]
Before I get going with today’s challenge I wanted to share this great animation created by Chris Haughton for People Tree. I thought today’s challenge would follow well after the last two, but no more socks – I promise! There’s actually an abundance of beautiful fair trade accessories available to mix and match with your [...]
Okay so bear with me, I know it’s meant to be a different item each day but the amount of info on clothing yesterday bowled me over so much that I felt I should continue today – is this cheating with the challenge (I hope not)? Yesterday, I introduced the idea of finding outfits for [...]
Watching the developments in fair trade fashion, particularly the increasing numbers of companies selling clothes made from Fairtrade certified cotton has been great, but where do I begin for this Fair Trade Wedding Challenge, with its very ‘woolly’ title? Should I be searching for suits for the groom, best man, or page boy, or for dresses [...]
Before sealing up the envelopes to your fair trade invitations, don’t forget to pop in your wedding gift list details! Fair Trade Wedding Gift Lists Today I’ve found three online wedding gift list services that are dedicated to selling only fair trade goods: Ganesha Wedding Gift List, why not pop into their London South Bank shop for a [...]
