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This week’s featured supplier, Fruto del Espiritu, is delighted to offer couples ordering a Taster Pack - 6-Bottle Mixed Case - by 30 September 2008 and quoting “Ethical Weddings” when asked for delivery instructions, 10% off the cost of fruit ordered for weddings celebrated by 30 September 2009.
Alternatively, if you prefer, we will put the [...]

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

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 [...]

This week’s featured supplier, VegOut make a vegetarian or vegan wedding breakfast an exciting option that will surprise and delight your guests. Over to Pat and Diane at VegOut…
Your name: Pat Wilder & Diane Page
Location: Sussex
Tell us a bit about yourself and your business
We started VegOut because we wanted to provide exclusively veggie food [...]

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 [...]

 
While it may be suffering from the weather a little at the moment (!), the West Country is a wonderful part of England and a popular spot for tying the knot.  Now, thanks to South West Tourism, ethical brides and green grooms have even more reason to head west with this beautiful publication, South West Tourism - [...]

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 [...]

My free-range hen party is nearly upon us, and I have just been getting the last details organised.
My creative friends Lucie and Jo are all prepared to give us a fun jewellery workshop and have come up with loads of special pieces they can demonstrate and help us to make.
I have ordered all the beads and [...]

My three ethical wedding cakes are now coming on fast. The carrot cake (recipe posted here back in the autumn) is finished. My chocolate cake, after several draft versions, will be made next week! The recipe for that was posted here back in the autumn too. 
I have also now made the fruit cake with help [...]

Following the carrot cake recipe last week, here’s the recipe for Fairtrade chocolate cake. It’s quite rich because of the chocolate but we have found it isn’t too heavy because of the meringue folded into it.
It freezes well (I know because I made several for a Fairtrade Feast we held last year) so again my [...]