Dec 20, 2012

WIN THIS: Numi Organic Tea’s Artisan’s Tea Blending Kit

Nothing says winter like a warm mug of tea! If tea is indeed your drink of choice, you of course have your standard faves, but you’re also open to new flavors too. Well, now’s the time to introduce your taste buds to something new for winter. The Artisan Tea Blending Kit from Numi Organic Tea is one of our favorite green things from our Winter/Spring 2013 issue. The kit comes with an assortment of natural teas that you can blend to create your new favorite tea flavor!

We’d love for you to win this kit from Numi Organic Tea! For a chance to win, complete this sentence:

Nothing says winter like (blank).

That’s it! Leave your response here by December 28th, and we’ll choose a winner on December 31, 2012.

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Dec 20, 2012

And the Color Is…

Pantone is the color authority when it comes to color trends, so when they speak, we are all ears! They’ve recently announced emerald as the color of the year for 2013, so we can’t wait to see all of the emerald coated weddings in the coming year. They’ll be lots of emerald shoes peeking from beneath bridal dresses, surely emerald décor and invitations, and for the bold bride, maybe even an emerald gown or two. Since green just happens to be our color, we are looking out for eco-friendly ways to incorporate emerald into your wedding day, so we’ll keep you posted on what we find!

Photo Credits

Shoes

Earrings

Dress

Invitations

Brooch Bouquet

Chandelier

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Dec 19, 2012

Eco-Friendly Christmas List

Believe it or not, Christmas is just a few short days away! If you are like most of us, you still have a little (or in our case a lot!) of shopping to do, so here are a few eco-friendly suggestions for those last minute holiday items:

Ornaments by Green Bride Guide and Platypus Papers

Add a little more green to your tree with a cute wood ornament. These are made from Colorado Beetle Kill Pine, and laser-etched with the inscription of your choice. While you are shopping for ornaments, you can also pick up a few additional things in the Green Bride Guide Wedding or Gift Shop at 10% off! Use the code 10OFFGIFTS at checkout.

Stocking Stuffers by Project 7

These mini tubes of gum from Project 7 are great stocking stuffers! Their Products for Good support several nonprofits, including the Children’s Hunger Fund and Trees, Water & People. Grab a few of these from your local Target or Walmart stores.

Cookies by Sugar Lane Bake Shop

If you don’t have time to bake for Santa, no worries! You can order some yummy vegan cookies from your local bakery or online. These snowflakes from Sugar Lane Bake Shop look delish!

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Dec 18, 2012

Our Winter 2013 Issue is almost here!

Our Winter 2013 issue is coming to you this week! And it’s just so…Eco-Beautiful! Stay tuned for a sneak peek!

Banner by Brickleberry

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Dec 17, 2012

Real Wedding: Kaitlyn + Tom

When a sustainability consultant bride and a groom studying forestry engineering decided to get married, an Eco-Beautiful Wedding is bound to follow!

Kaitlyn and Tom’s wedding day was the first powered by Bullfrog, a Canadian green energy supplier. The couple opted to incorporate lots of eco details into their day, including a hemp and eco-silk dress for the bride, wedding bands made from recycled gold (from their families) and a registry of locally-produced gifts. Love it!

Many Eco-Beautiful Wedding Wishes to Kaitlyn and Tom!

Photographer: Kandise Brown
Hair Stylist: Heavens the Salon
Floral Designer: WEDS
Musicians: Vinyl2bits
Cake Designer: The Happy Baker
Tuxedo and Men’s Attire: Tip Top Tailors
Event Venue: Delta Fredericton

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Dec 14, 2012

The Green Side of Engage!

I had the absolute pleasure of attending the Engage!12 conference in West Palm Springs earlier this week and our team is ready to implement a lot of what I learned at the conference. The conference is all about the luxury side of the wedding industry! We are in the business of providing luxury eco-wedding details and we are excited about what we are doing! We are still the only eco-friendly wedding magazine in the world that focuses on weddings all over the world! That is really hard to say in an industry packed with a lot of people searching for new and amazing ideas.
We are a bridal magazine - both online and in print and a blog. We are also a destination weddings magazine as well as a hyper-niche local magazine for those that read it around the world - especially when we feature your city in our Green City Wedding Guide! We are also full of real weddings from all over the world and we feature beautiful and luxurious wedding ideas that are still easy on the environment!
I was pretty much the only company that really focuses on being eco-friendly in the luxury wedding market at the conference. Not a lonely place - but an awesome place to be in out of 250 conference attendees! I was the green side of Engage! People who had never met me came up to me and knew me from Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and Facebook. I was called the “sustainable chic” and “green girl” at least 15 times in a matter of 4 days. Made me giddy! Nothing could have made me happier!
I was probably the only one that asked the staff at The Breakers if there was a place to recycle my bottles of water and then I found a secret garden right on the property where they grow their own herbs and tomatoes! I was floored. So happy.
I was probably the only one that asked the staff about the local fare used in the catering menu - I was fascinated. This amazing event was sustainable in many ways and this hotel had many green initiatives.
This is a perfect example of eco decor! Gorgeous escort lapel or hair pins in the shape of flowers on painted manzanita branches. As a florist - I know the designer can reuse these branches over and over again and the guests can reuse the escort lapels for fun in the future! Not something that any of us will throw away soon. Inventive, adorable and beautiful all at the same time! Right up our Eco-Beautiful alley!
More inventive decor - more of a beachy feel but all decor that can be used again!!
Gorgeous!
Another fabulous aspect at Engage was the stationery! Items that can be reused again in the office and handpainted details from our favorite - Momental Designs!
I really could go on and on about the swag we got at the conference! From the bag made by Reisenthel - an awesome green company (shown 1st above) - to the take away desktop items we received throughout the conference. The gals at Gifts for the Good Life went all out to make sure items were reusable in many ways, fun, creative, recyclable and most items handmade and made in the USA!
Most of all - Engage is almost always about celebrating the creativity in all of us as wedding professionals. Working on finding the best ways to be creative to bring you, as brides and grooms, the best possible customer service and quality content, services and products for you as you gear up to walk down the aisle. I can truly say that I am part of the best industry on earth - my job is to help you be creative and Eco-Beautiful on a daily basis! How awesome is that?
A special thank you to these two wonderful ladies! Rebecca and Kathy for being the amazing and talented “team force” behind Engage conferences. They follow all of the 250 attendees throughout the years and always know exactly what it is you are doing. Sweet as can be and dizzying intellects…these are two ladies that are legends and that I feel blessed to know and call friends.
Happy Greening!
Katie Martin Editor in Chief
p.s. - Today is my Elena’s 1st birthday! So this note is truly for a special day! Happy Birthday to my little lady!!

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Dec 13, 2012

Cupcake Celebration!

This weekend is fast approaching, and as if that wasn’t enough, December 15th is National Cupcake Day! We’re starting our celebration a bit early in the Eco-Beautiful office today, so we thought we’d share a few cupcakes with you as well. Cupcakes continue to be popular wedding treats, either in addition to or in lieu of the wedding cake. With so many decorative and cake flavor options to choose from, cupcakes provide plenty of versatility and fun. Work with your baker to incorporate local seasonal fruits into your cupcakes and dress them with sophisticated eco-friendly wrappers like those from Bella Cupcake Couture!

Photo Credits

Top Row (from the left) Inspired by This, Sparkle and Hay via Lover.ly

Bottom Row (from the left) Sparkle and Hay via Lover.ly, Society Bride, Bridal Musings

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