Top 5 Ideas for an Eco-Friendly Wedding in Paris with Kim Petyt!
Our favorite Parisian wedding planner extraordinaire, Kim Petyt, has released her first book The Paris Wedding ! The book is a full-color, idea-packed, go-to guide for globally-minded trendsetters who are in love with the style and romance of Paris, and is now available online and at booksellers nationwide. Simply gorgeous!
Kim chose Eco-Beautiful Weddings as one of her stops on her whirlwind book tour, and she’s our guest today here on the blog! This post is just a glimpse of the goodness in her new book. So without further ado, here’s the fabulous Kim Petyt!
Top 5 Ideas for an Eco-Friendly Wedding in Paris
So you and your trend-setting betrothed have decided to have a destination wedding. More than that, you’ve decided on an eco-friendly destination wedding. You’ve e-mailed or hand delivered your recycled paper invitations. You’ve registered with World Wildlife Fund Weddings and Celebrations rather than your local “Meat Hooks, Marbles & More”. You’ve even offset the amount of carbon emissions used to fly you and your guests to Paris by donating money to help build wind turbines in India. But why should your eco-wedding stop there?
A lot of people feel that planning a regular destination wedding is hard enough. The thought of trying to make it eco-friendly as well is just too much. In fact, with a little time online, you’ll find that there are plenty of ways that you can incorporate green or eco-conscious elements into a destination wedding. For instance, here are my top five ideas for a green or eco- friendly wedding in Paris:
1. Purchase or have a wedding dress custom created that uses all-natural, earth-friendly fibers. Elsa Gary is a French designer whose natural bridal collections include materials like silk, bamboo, hemp, soya and maize.
2. Have your wedding meal prepared by an organic French caterer. Ethiques et Toques is an organic catering company servicing Paris, Lyon and Blois.
3. Rather than tossing birdseed or blowing bubbles at the end of your ceremony, why not follow a wedding tradition from the South of France and have your guests shower you with handfuls of lavender, like those sold in packets from Pluie de Lavande?
4. Thank your guests with a sweet French wedding favor: a little sachet of organic hard candy or lollipops from La Butinerie.
5. Toast your nuptials with a glass of organic champagne: Jean-Pierre Fleury and Larmandier-Bernier are two to try.
Kimberley Petyt is an American wedding planner in Paris, a French wedding expert and writes the popular blog parisian party: tales of an american wedding planner in paris. Kim has been featured in print publications such as Real Simple Weddings, LA Times, Get Married Magazine, Essence Magazine, Eco-Beautiful Weddings, Cosmopolitan China, France Magazine and the New York Times. Follow her on Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest!
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Vancouver Event: The Original Bridal Swap
An annual event in Vancouver, The Original Bridal Swap brings new brides and brides-to-be together to exchange wedding day must haves in a marketplace setting. Past brides become vendors, selling their new and gently-used dresses, linens, cake stands, accessories and other unique items. Local bridal shops will also be in attendance with an array of sample wedding gowns, as well as other wedding vendors in case you’re still searching for a photographer or florist!
The Original Bridal Swap is like a fancy flea market with music and hors d’ oeuvres! Come on out and join a few hundred brides-to-be and newlyweds for an afternoon of fun.
For tickets and vendor information, visit The Original Bridal Swap website, www.bridalswap.ca.
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The Winter/Spring 2013 Issue is now Live!
We are finally live with our Winter/Spring 2013 issue of Eco-Beautiful Weddings!
Click on the cover above to see!
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Buy The Summer/Fall 2012 Print Issue Today!
Been wanting a print copy of the Summer/Fall 2012 Issue? Well - it is now available for print! Click here to learn how to buy your copy (or copies) today!
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Georgian Eco-Friendly Wedding
All about the environment, Luisa and Craig’s beautiful wedding is sweet, simple and Eco-Beautiful! They even planted a tree during their ceremony!
The beautiful Brasstown Valley Resort was a gorgeous backdrop for their wedding day! We love this gorgeous and timeless cake design by Sherry Moriarty!
We adore thumbprint trees instead of guest books (who ever reuses or looks at those again after weddings???) and we will always love the tree sapling idea for favors!
Congrats to Luisa and Craig!
Photography by Jessica Horwitz
Flowers by Natoure Design
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