Etsy Designers Give Back

It is so easy to shop for your wedding while giving back on Etsy!  Check these Etsy designers out for starters!  Head over to Etsy to shop for your cause while getting the stuff you need for your wedding!

Wooden Flowers for Lupus

Will You Marry Me Card for American Cancer Society

Pink Breast Cancer Goddess Necklace

Wedding Invitations for Japan Disaster Relief

Star Wars Cake Toppers for Japan Disaster Relief

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Real Wedding Inspiration

Instead of featuring one wedding today – we wanted to show several ideas and things we love for real wedding inspiration.  We love Mike + Sarah’s wedding shown above at Heavenly Ski Resort last summer by Ocean Blue Photography!  Why?  We know they took full advantage of using the great outdoors as their main source of decor.

Planning a destination wedding and want it to be green?  Why not try the beautiful St. Martin Chalets in Austria?  St. Martin Chalets are made from locally sourced and untreated timber with 100% pure sheep’s wool insulation.  The water is supplied by a natural spring and heated and powered by their own vegetable oil power plant – all surrounded by the Alps and full of luxurious surprises! (Click on the photo above for more details!)

Getting married in Hawaii?  Going for beautiful and casual attendants clothing will ensure they will wear those dresses and outfits again!  The Hawaii Island Reteat, near the small village of Hawi of the Big Island is full of eco-friendliness and surrounded by natural beauty as well! (Photo by Karen Loudon)

Kati + Pete’s wedding (photos by BellaLu Photography) from the Spring Issue of Eco-Beautiful Weddings was so chock full of ideas and beautiful photos – we simply can’t get enough!  Not only did the bride wear a bright aqua dress, she wore sunflowers in her hair that they grew on their own farm!  Their only gift request was a tandem bike and they had a wonderful time promoting local farms for their contribution to the wedding.

Stay local, give back to the community, buy decor and clothing to reuse after the wedding and you are well on your way to having a green wedding.  This does not mean that a destination wedding is an ecological disaster.  In most major metropolitan cities – they end up being destination weddings anyway for out of town guests.  Reduce waste and do the best you can to provide locally produced food and decor.  Carbon offset if needed – and by all means have the party of a lifetime!

 

 

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BHLDN Mood Boards

 

 

Ahhh – BHLDN – we just can’t get enough of thee!!!  They are adding a new section to their website on Monday to help you create Mood Boards to help simplify your wedding planning process.

Since we could not wait – here is a mini Mood Board from their products we have created here (all produced in Italy or the USA and yummy to look at!)

A few of our favorites (hurry on those shoes –  there is only one size left!!!)

Stay tuned next week when we share our Mood Board with you!

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Eleven Eleven Wedding

Want to win a wedding?  Live in Chicago?  Get married on lucky 11.11.11!

Chicagoland couples are invited to share their love stories for a chance to win the eleven eleven WEDDING, Chicago’s premier all-inclusive wedding giveaway valued at $60,000, to be held on Nov. 11, 2011, at The Chicago History Museum. Everything, from food to formalwear, flowers to the last dance, is included thanks to many of Chicago’s top wedding professionals.

Couples can enter by telling their love story, including the proposal, and by answering a few questions. 10 semifinalists will be chosen and posted at www.elevenelevenwedding.com where the public can then vote for their favorite couple. The couples with the top three votes will be interviewed by the planning committee and the winning couple will be announced during a reveal party.

Now is the time!!  Submissions are only accepted from March 15, 2011 – April 15, 2011.

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Cover Photo Shoot

We had such a tough time figuring out which photos to showcase in our cover photo shoot because Marta Locklear is a genius!  She does weddings, babies, portraits and fashion….and she does them all WELL!

Our Editor-in-Chief Katie Martin could not resist the National Capital Trolley Museum for this shoot.  Just way to good to be true!

Want to see more?  Check out the Spring Issue today!

 

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Yoga + Lifestyle from Emily Anderson

Stressed by your wedding planning process?  Look no further!  Be sure to read Emily Anderson’s article in the Spring Issue of Eco-Beautiful Weddings on how to be a Mindful Bride by integrating yoga into the process!

 

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