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Okay so bear with me, I know it’s meant to be a different item each day but the amount of info on clothing yesterday bowled me over so much that I felt I should continue today – is this cheating with the challenge (I hope not)? Yesterday, I introduced the idea of finding outfits for [...]

Before sealing up the envelopes to your fair trade invitations, don’t forget to pop in your wedding gift list details! Fair Trade Wedding Gift Lists Today I’ve found three online wedding gift list services that are dedicated to selling only fair trade goods: Ganesha Wedding Gift List, why not pop into their London South Bank shop for a [...]

Well this is a little later than planned, but I think I’ve managed to meet today’s challenge! After an evening searching the Internet I’ve not found the specifically labelled ‘Fair Trade Wedding Stationery’ business I was hoping for (hint, hint all you social enterprise people out there!). However, I have found more products available than [...]

It’s Fairtrade Fortnight! And to mark the occasion I’ve decided to take on a self imposed Fair Trade Wedding Challenge! Inspired by the passion behind Fairtrade Fortnight, and keen to see fair trade develop a significant presence in the wedding industry, I will be trying to source at least one fair trade wedding item a [...]

To celebrate this year’s Fairtrade Fortnight (26 Feb – 11 March), Alex Prince, my colleague at Ethical Weddings, has set herself the challenge of finding a different fair trade wedding item for every day of the Fairtrade Fortnight. While The Times reported yesterday that overall marriages had dropped dramatically from 2004-2005, the interest in ethical [...]

On Saturday we gave you the Surfer Chicks and their preparations for an ethical civil partnership; today we’re pleased to welcome Jenny to the Ethical Weddings blog, as she gives us the lowdown on her first dress fitting… “I still have more than a year to wait for my wedding… but at my first dress fitting on [...]

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 [...]

A big warm welcome to the Surfer Chicks and their first post on their plans for an ethical civil partnership…over to you girls! “We’re getting Civilly Partnered! Or should that be ‘Civil Partnershipped’? Hmm, maybe ‘hitched’? Oh, what the heck… We’re getting MARRIED!! This declaration is often met with blank looks here in Australia, where [...]

I have been contacted by BBC World Service Radio’s flagship breakfast programme: The World Today. Ahead of the publication of a major UN report on Climate Change on Friday, they are looking to put together a selection of interesting stories about what individuals are doing to save the enviroment. If you are celebrating your ethical [...]

After yesterday’s post about the ethical Bradford bride, The Independent now have full details of the big green day here. Take care, Katie ethicalweddings.com