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With St Valentine waiting just around the corner anxious suitors are getting ready to seize the day and pop that all-important question. But what to pop it with? And what to tie the knot with once it’s been popped? How can we find engagement and wedding rings that share the love a little? Well we [...]

Happy New Year! We hope you’re having a fun 2010 so far and not too put out by the snow if you’re in the UK.  At least it looks festive! We’re kicking off the New Year with a special offer on ice of a different sort – the kind you might find sparkling on your [...]

Hello! In part 1 I shared about our last-minute preparations, so here is how the actual wedding ceremony went. Seasonal wedding flowers The church was beautiful, we found a florist who was a friend of my parents, and who was sympathetic to our green ideas. She sourced flowers and greenery as seasonally as possible, including [...]

Yes, suddenly there are less than 7 days before our wedding.  I have been meaning to write here for weeks, but all of a sudden life took over!  I have been ill and had to resort to antibiotics, and that was definitely NOT in my plan. So, now feeling better and the sun is shining.  [...]

There’s really not long to go now – just as soon as we’d got used to thinking of the wedding as being a countable number of weeks away it seemed to become days away! So it’s time to start pulling everything together. The food Our last visit home turned out to be reasonably relaxed – [...]

The Green Queen shares a wedding rant today as her hunt for secondhand – or antique – wedding bands turns out to be a little more tricky than she’d hoped… Today Mark and I went wedding band shopping.  As I mentioned in my previous post about wanting a green wedding, we were looking for antique [...]

This week’s featured supplier, Chocolate Couture, creates stunning handcrafted and bespoke ethical engagement rings and wedding bands for the socially-conscious couple. But with the credit crunch biting, Gina of Chocolate Couture has some great news for the wallet-conscious couple too! Special offer on engagement rings & wedding bands To take advantage of this offer, all [...]

We’re thrilled to welcome back Wenona Napolitano, author of The Everything Green Wedding Book End of the Spear full movie (out in December) who follows up her feature on vintage wedding gowns Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired trailer Bad Taste movie with an exploration of wooden wedding rings.  Over to Wenona… Kenny Ortega Has the [...]

Gina Johnson and her husband Philip set up Chocolate Couture to offer high quality ethical jewellery at a reasonable price. The couple create beautiful wedding and commitment bands individually crafted in the UK from mostly recycled metals and with coloured gemstones, certified diamonds or fair trade gems. As your ring is a symbol of love [...]

Wow, this is…interesting! We’ve written many times on this blog about ethical jewellery and the environmental and social impact of gold and diamond mining, and have told you all about the jewellery designers trying to make a difference. Spy Hard film Stuey movie But this is something else! Spotted on Springwise, we learn that none [...]