It’s the last day! We made it – it’s been tough, and I have to tell you there have been a lot of very late nighters to get this done but here we are on Day 14 of Fairtrade Fortnight. It’s not just about the groom and his guys today – we’re looking at the [...]
Posted in Confetti, Ethical brides, Ethical gold, Ethical weddings, Family, Flowers, Green Grooms, Green weddings, Photography, Real ethical and green weddings, Recycled, Wedding ceremony, Wedding rings, Wedding stationery on Nov 20th, 2009 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Family on May 25th, 2009 No Comments »
Other progress, people. Makeup the long kiss goodnight movie Hannibal Brooks movie Windcroft ipod At first, I wanted my own friend to do the make up, but of course my parents did not let me. Okay, then I surveyed four makeup artists in town with the help of two of my good friends (I don’t [...]
Posted in Family on Apr 30th, 2009 4 Comments »
With my wedding being only about two months from now, I think I’m not supposed to be on Ethical Weddings blog anymore. Well, things been quite a mess down here, I’ve decided to 95% give up. I know you shouldn’t wave that white flag before you use your own blood to bathe, but really I’m [...]
Posted in Family on Feb 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
Such a horrifying title, I know. I’ve told you that
Mr. H and I haven’t discussed anything again with my parents yet since our previous meeting, but I’m, once more, relieved that we have reached to another new progress in deciding a few things. Wedding outfits—let’s fight again Apparently Mr. H, as I do, doesn’t really agree with most of my stepmom’s ‘conventional’ ideas in [...]
Posted in Family on Nov 4th, 2008 4 Comments »
It’s obviously relieving and exciting to eventually have our wedding date set (mid July 2009, but I can’t reveal the date here… yet). However, it’s also such a pain that, again, my family (or my parents, to be exact) always think that my perspective of a simple, ethical wedding is stupid and weird (well, they [...]
Posted in Family on Aug 10th, 2008 No Comments »
Plenty of things (that, in point of fact, includes conflicts and its relatives) got in the way, so in a negative way to say: we don’t undergo too much progress in our wedding planning and preparations so far. At least in early July we had the ‘official’ marriage-proposal from Mr. Husband-to-be’s family. Well, he did [...]
Until now I haven’t shown my dad anything (articles, news, etc.) in regards to ethical weddings, though already planned that. Well, I do have two articles from the internet, both in Indonesian (as my dad doesn’t speak English)—it’s so hard to get writing on earth-friendly weddings in my very own language. The problem now: the [...]
Posted in Family on Apr 9th, 2008 No Comments »
I never thought that being close with this man only for a couple months could lead readiness for a marriage (I was previously an average no-no sayer to marriage life). And I never thought that when the readiness came, I didn’t even get a chance to hear a romantic “Will you marry me?” question (well, [...]