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WorldSkills London 2011 Have a Go (a national campaign to provide one million opportunities for people across the UK to try a new skill) is exhibiting at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, and has taken eco and ethical weddings as its theme. The stand features two eco-wedding dresses made from sustainable bamboo and silk by [...]

Living in England – a country famed for its cottage gardens – it never occured to me that “green” wedding flowers would be such a challenge. But, according to the 30 (yes, that’s thirty) florists I spoke to in the 3 months leading up to our wedding, you’d have thought I was asking them to [...]

We’ve had a few posts in the past about brides having a go at growing their own wedding flowers. And while they’ve had a lot of fun doing it, it hasn’t been easy. So when I spotted this course in our local Friends Centre Autumn prospectus, I thought I’d share it with you.  After all, [...]

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 [...]

Every time I hear of wedding bouquets costing hundreds of pounds I fail to be impressed. The amount of attention I gave to my own wedding bouquet was minimal and I think it had my mother quite worried. We had a general theme for the wedding called “sweet peas”.  I did at first intend to [...]

The girls at the Great Big Green Wedding Fayre asked me for a few thoughts on how ethical and green weddings had grown (or not) since we started Ethical Weddings some years ago. I’d like to share my ideas with you – brides and grooms trying to plan a wedding less ordinary – and see [...]

Today we have the lovely Beatriz of Butterflies of Blairgowrie here to talk to you about her passion for flowers and for the environment… Name: Beatriz Custodio-Strachan Location: Blairgowrie – Scotland Tell us a bit about yourself and your business I grew up watching the women in my family create beauty with flowers. Photos that are [...]

Marrying in March means some of my home-grown decorations will be spring bulbs – daffodils and crocuses to bloom alongside my cyclamen and primroses, along with plenty of foliage and borrowed pot plants. September, I have learned, is the month for planting your spring bulbs. So this weekend I was out buying crocus and daffodil [...]

This week Phil and I have been collecting cuttings of ivy, and planting them in seed trays to encourage them to root and start creeping across the greenhouse! We are hoping that by March we will have many long ivy tendrils which we can plant alongside the primroses, daffodils and cyclamen in our table pots, [...]

In my blogger profile, I wrote about how my experience with a callous, overpriced florist was one of the events that prompted to me to look for DIY alternatives for my wedding. I deservedly received a few chuckles from friends when I told them I was going to start growing my own flowers. For one, [...]