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I’ve revealed the slow progress we came up with beforehand. Now it’s relieving for me that we have the month fixed (and we’re still rummaging around for the date).
It’s kind of funny how it was pretty much convoluted earlier to talk about the ‘when’ with my family, in particular my father and my older brother, [...]

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 [...]

Not long ago, my long-time-no-see friend from university got hitched, and to my surprise, she invited me (and some other friends) to her wedding ceremony (not only to her reception). I was pretty thrilled, as I’m planning a wedding myself, I feel that I need to ‘survey’ many other weddings as well. You know, to [...]

As I’ve told you, my family (especially my dad and my stepmom, the ones in my family that I have talked about this eco-wedding plan with so far) doesn’t take the ethical wedding idea earnestly.So at first, I expressed to them how my husband-to-be and I sought after a very simple wedding. I kept emphasizing [...]

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 [...]

As I am boldly (or stupidly) attempting to make my own ethical wedding cakes, a couple of people have asked me to put the recipes on the blog.  So here is my tested recipe for carrot cake.  The chocolate cake and fruit cake recipes will follow when I have made sure they work!   
I’ve been [...]

Our venue, a Masonic Centre which is providing a big conference room and a three-course dinner for our wedding, has never been asked about local or ethical food before. Not only that but, because of our small budget, we have had to go for one of the lowest price menus they offer. So it is [...]

Decorating my wedding venue with plants is becoming quite a creative project. I’ve been learning loads of new things about growing flowers and ivy… and last week I learned a whole new craft. My Mum and I visited Christine Brewster of www.stripeybasket.co.uk in Englefield, Reading, and learned willow weaving.
I had only ever previously had one [...]

Marrying in March means some of my home-grown decorations will be spring bulbs – daffodils and crocuses to bloom alongside my cyclamen and primroses, along with plenty of foliage and borrowed pot plants.
September, I have learned, is the month for planting your spring bulbs. So this weekend I was out buying crocus and daffodil bulbs [...]

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 [...]