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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 what [...]

This week’s featured supplier has a great story to tell. Fruto del Espiritu offer exotic fruit purées from Colombia that make heavenly cocktails and have earned a place in leading cocktail bars such as that of The Dorchester Hotel.

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At the same time, they’re making a real difference back in Colombia. [...]

Green wedding venue, Gants Mill has had a wonderful summer for weddings this year with pretty much every Saturday getting snapped up!
And little wonder when you see what a beautiful setting the old (still working!) mill makes. Greg at Gants Mill has put together a little video of some of their summer weddings this [...]

We’re often told that going green means keeping it local – which is all well and good but does pose a few problems for fair trade products coming from developing countries.
The dilemma is dividing us into two camps – those whose priority is the environment and local communities, and those for whom issues of social justice – human rights [...]

When it comes to weddings, we tend to give a lot of thought to the alcohol that will be served – what will guests drink on arrival, will we have champagne, how many bottles of wine will we need, and other questions such as is it local, fair trade, organic, vegetarian?
But how often do you [...]

Sometimes the world works in funny ways.
According to a recent article in The Guardian, thanks to global warming, the quality of English grapes is improving which means that brides and grooms trying to keep their wedding breakfast local no longer have to joke: ‘apart from the wine of course!‘
At the prestigious International Wine Challenge, Denbies, England’s [...]

I’m afraid I’m shirking my diamond debating duty once again but I just had to tell you about the lovely evening I had on Wednesday night.
A friend (who has a business fashioning furniture from reclaimed wood) and I decided it was about time the ethical businesses of Brighton and its environs got together.  We knew there [...]

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
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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 [...]