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The BBC is looking for a UK-based couple who are getting married before the end of 2008 to appear in a well-established fun loving and practical prime time magazine show on BBC2.
They say:
“We would like to find a couple who are holding a green wedding before the end of the year and who would like [...]

We’ve had a rather interesting press request from The Press Association about weddings on an extreme budget…
I’m intrigued to know if any of you fit the bill - cos I’ll then want to pick your brains to find out how you did it!
They’re looking for women aged between 20 to 50 who celebrated their big [...]

We haven’t picked up a copy ourselves yet but we’ve been told that the latest issues of New Consumer magazine and Eve magazine are now on the shelves - and both feature Ethical Weddings!
So if you’re browsing your local newsagent’s shelves wondering what will tickle your fancy, why not give Eve or New Consumer a [...]

I can’t quite believe I’m telling you this but I did an interview last week about the popularity of ethical weddings in the UK … in French!
Yep, I dragged my university French out of the cupboard (hey, it was only 7 years ago!) and agreed to do an interview for Europe 1.
I admit, I [...]

Europe is going great guns for green weddings at the moment! 
Over the last few months, we’ve had curious queries from all over Europe but particularly France and Spain (handy for me as I studied French and Spanish!), with ethical weddings featuring in publications ranging from ‘Femme Actuelle’ (a women’s magazine) to financial Spanish newspaper, ‘Expansion’.
The [...]

The ‘official’ wedding season starts next week and already we are being deluged with demands for green grooms and ethical brides…
First up, Central News in Nottingham is champing at the bit to champion ethical and green weddings in the East Midlands area and is looking for a couple from the region (Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire [...]

Well, I took advantage of the Easter weekend to switch off and didn’t so much as glance computer-wards from Friday until today.
Evidently, others weren’t of the same mind as when I did dare to download my emails my inbox was inundated thanks to a great green weddings piece from Reuters that appeared around the world, including on the [...]

Below is a post I wrote for Newlyweds-uk.com… but I thought I would share it with you here too - your comments are always welcome! 
Another week and another inbox full of questions from journalists wanting to get the lowdown on the growing interest in ethical and green weddings.
One of the questions I get asked most of all - and [...]

Ethical brides and grooms are very much in demand - everyone wants the lowdown on an ethical wedding!
Spirit & Destiny, a women’s alternative lifestyle magazine, have been in touch looking for a bride who is having an ethical wedding so that they can diarise their big day and inspire other readers (in much the same [...]

I came across an interesting commentary the other day in reaction to The New York Times’ enthusiastic coverage of a Stateside bride’s big green day. 
‘A ‘Green’ Bride’s Self-Involvement is Not Less Self-Involved Just Because It’s Green’ takes issue with the media’s portrayal of the ethical bride as some kind of green angel rather than an imperfect human being [...]