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I came across this photo story online about a Chinese couple who married on 9 November and it intrigues me…
The headline is ‘Yao ethical wedding in Rongshui County, southwest China’s Guangxi‘ but the article itself doesn’t explain in any way why the wedding was ethical - or not that I can see.
If you see something [...]

Last weekend I had the pleasure of attending one of the most unintentionally (as far as I know) green weddings I’ve seen - and I did it dressed as Bjork!
Let me explain…
The couple in question are very laid back, no fuss kind of people. So for a start there were no fancy invites; our summons [...]

You’ve got your head screwed on properly (always a good thing I think), you’re down-to-earth, no nonsense… this wedding m’larkey is not going to freak you out.  You will not - repeat NOT - become the next bridezilla.
After all, you’re here at Ethical Weddings, you’re thinking about the impact your wedding will have on the [...]

My dad came to see me the other week to help with my accounts (interpret: do them for me because I’m lazy) and while he was here I asked if he wanted to see The Venue.
Given the choice of that or a million receipts for 80p which all need logging and filing somewhere - anywhere! [...]

I thought I’d get a bit of debate going today - although how much of a debate I’m going to get on this issue from Ethical Weddings readers I’m not sure!

An ethical bride-to-be on a budget and in a hurry emailed us to ask for our thoughts on the etiquette of sending email wedding invites. [...]

The Proposal was a fairly lack-lustre affair. We had both been ill with a vicious flu-style bug, and off work for about two weeks. I was beginning to think I would never be well again, and if Toby whinged about feeling crap one more time I was going to kill him with my snot.
He started [...]

Our Ethical Weddings May newsletter went out today (yup, end of the month again!).
We’ve got some great offers this month with the chance to win a copy of ecoescape written by our blogger bride, Laura (to help you plan that green honeymoon) and fabulous discounts from ethical jewellery designers, Ingle & Rhode.
Not only that but we’ve some [...]

Enough time has passed that I can now talk about wedding venues without that dull, throbbing ache appearing somewhere around my temples. Having only recently moved back to the UK after an 8 year hiatus in Australia, and living many miles from my family home, there was no beautiful building I was just dying to [...]

I’ve had a long absence from this blog… while I enjoyed my wedding and my month long honeymoon!
 
Everything was a huge success and Phil and I enjoyed every minute of our day. So here’s a little list of the best and the worst of our green successes and failures, for anyone who is planning to [...]

We are delighted to announce that the winners of our Sally Steele Weddings’ DIY wedding planning DVD competition from our March Ethical Weddings newsletter are Ruthe & Jonathan who are getting married in Galway, Ireland next May 2009.
As they’ll be wedding planning from a distance (living in England but marrying in Ireland), the DVD should come in [...]