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To round off our week with Conscious Elegance as our featured supplier, why not have a listen to an interview with Lori as recorded for the BBC last October about her experiences as an ethical dressmaker…
Conscious Elegance interview - eco-friendly wedding dresses
Have a great weekend!
Katie
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Following Earth Day yesterday (oops, forgot to mention it in my excitement over the eco-friendly toilets post!), we are thrilled to have for you today an interview with our current featured supplier and winner of the 2007 Environmental Business Award, Conscious Elegance - eco-dressmaker extraordinaire!
Click on the image below to roll the tape…

Happy anniversary to us!
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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 [...]

We’re delighted that Ethical Weddings bridalwear supplier, Conscious Elegance is featured on New Consumer today.
Lori del Genis, who founded her beautiful bridalwear business with a conscience just over 2 years ago, has already - in 2007 - scooped the Environmental Business of the Year Award!
Find out more about Lori and her gorgeous gowns in the New Consumer interview.
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I was reading a little book about weddings the other day (yep, approaching our third wedding anniversary and I still can’t tear myself away from them. Incidentally, in case you were wondering, year 3 is celebrated with leather - or leather equivalent!), and I came across this quote by Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)
‘I…chose my wife, as [...]

There was a recent discussion on one of my favorite wedding blogs regarding the wastefulness of the trendy “Trash the Dress” photos. I completely agree, except for the notion that sealing up and saving your dress is equally wasteful.
I proudly wore my Mother’s dress from 1978 and it made for an eco-friendly, and meaningful choice. [...]

I am having my wedding  dress made by ethical dressmaker Jo Mackin of Wholly Jo’s… and this week I tried it on for the very first time!
Jo has been busy over the last few weeks making my ‘toile’ dress - a mock-up dress made of very cheap fabric bought from a charity shop.  The idea [...]

I’ve been seriously debating what to do with my wedding dress over the last few weeks. 
Yep, as founder of Ethical Weddings I put my hand on my heart and confess my guilty secret - I have not worn it since the big day in 2005! (Well, I’ve put it on and twirled around in it [...]

Weddings can be an expensive business, can’t they? So it would seem a welcome turn of events when major retailers announce, as they did recently, that they can kit out you and your partner for under £200 with The Dress coming in at as little as £60.
Some designers of course were up in arms - [...]

For today’s post, I am very pleased to welcome Liz O’Neill, Head of Communications for The Vegetarian Society, to tell us a little bit about her wedding and her thoughts on veggie weddings in general.  Over to Liz:
Being vegetarian is a big part of most veggies’ lives so naturally it is also important to any veggie [...]