Emily Anderson Helps You Green Your Gifts
Decisions, Decisions…
Selecting items for the wedding registry can be one of the most daunting tasks of the planning process. Bride- and -Grooms- to-be often find themselves overwhelmed with all of items and options available.
One of our favorite guest contributors, Emily Anderson, offers great advice to couples who are seeking to make the most out of their wedding registries by keeping it stylish, practical, but still green!
If you are searching for the right registry, or the ideal wedding gift for the green couple, you don’t want to miss the “Green Your Gifts” article in our Summer issue!
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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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What is in Your Paper?
Yesterday Emily Anderson hosted a tweetup online all about eco-chic weddings and a few of us joined the conversation. Take a look here.
One of the biggest items that we tackled in the tweetup surrounded stationery. There is a huge amount of waste when it comes to paper items in the wedding industry. Emily wrote a fantastic article in the Summer issue of Eco-Beautiful Weddings that really helps to uncover the best ways to go green with your wedding stationery. Click on the image above to get to the current summer issue and get to pages 96-99 to read all about it!
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How-To Have A DIY Wedding
I know what you’re thinking–I could totally make my own cake topper like these sweet ones by Rain’s End.
Trust me I do the same thing every time I peruse the Etsy marketplace. Occasionally I think this when I’m watching some design related tv show, or visit a web site or blog by a creative crafty person. I have so many DIY projects backed-up, not to mention materials saved for future projects. In recent years, DIY weddings have become an international phenomenon. Some people think it’s because couples are trying to save money. I have a different theory. It’s the same reason why people become so entranced with the wedding planning process in general. It’s because , for most people, it is the first time they have a license to be creative. Let’s face it, most of us do not have highly creative jobs. There are very few people who get to make a living being creative. Even for them it is mostly about the business side of things–finding your next project, planning the production process, etc. I can a test to the fact that I spend more time planning than I actually do making. So It’s perfectly natural for you to feel like you want to make things for your wedding. That’s great, but don’t forget to be realistic about your time and your talent. I for one am certain that my ideas are far better than my execution. It’s okay for you to buy things, too. You can find affordable, quality, handmade wedding items in many different places. I hope you will take some time to find them. If you can’t find something you really want, find someone who can make it for you–because if you can dream about it, then it’s just waiting to be created for you.
(Bird’s Nest Ring Pillow–adorable, right?)
xo
Emily
http://www.emilyanderson.com
http://www.goodwithstyle.com
http://www.ecochicweddings.com
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Help Clean-up The Gulf Coast Oil Spill Catastrophe
With no end in sight, and so many things being affected by the BP oil spill in the Gulf, it’s easy to feel helpless. I am especially heartbroken for the local fishing community, tourism, and any other local businesses that are sure to be impacted–if not destroyed–by this terrible tragedy. But, if you know me at all, then you will know that I am always looking for the bright side of things. In this situation, there may not be any bright side, but there are things we can do to help the situation, rather than just feeling helpless watching the oil gush on tv.
Here’s what you can do today:
1) Keep informed. For oil spill news and updates go here.
2) Text WILDLIFE to 20222 to donate $10 for the clean-up
3) Volunteer your time to help wildlife
4) Join National Wildlife Federation on Facebook
5) On Twitter
5) On Flickr
6) On YouTube
But most of all, what you can do is reduce your own personal dependence on oil and oil byproducts so that we can hope to avoid this type of disaster in the future…
xo
Emily
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Winter 2012 Issue
