Articles tagged “Green Your Wedding”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

How to Go Green: Weddings By Team Planet Green IN Work & Connect Jun 1 2010 Weddings are expensive, both in dollars and green impact. Going green for your wedding doesn?t mean you have to compromise on your big day, though. + READ MORE

Pre-Valentine's Romantic Gesture Warning: Are You Unwittingly Destroying Natural Habitats? By Mickey Z. IN Travel & Outdoors Jan 29 2010 She said yes. The eco-system screamed no. + READ MORE

The Ultimate Look-Good-in-Your-Wedding-Dress Workout By Laurel House IN Food & Health Jun 11 2009 Your big aisle walk is approaching. So what's the most important thing when it comes to wedding prep? Looking your best in that wedding dress! + READ MORE

Planning A Green Wedding? 6 Books That'll Make the Day Perfect By Jaymi Heimbuch IN Work & Connect May 18 2009 We're quickly coming upon wedding season, and it's time for brides, grooms, and anyone else involved in the planning to hunker down and study the wonderful ways you can green your event. Going green means getting to have a creative, unique, and low-impact day with elements that are memorable and long-lasting for the marrying couple, but not for the planet. + READ MORE

Make Chocolate Liqueur Cupcakes Instead of a Groom's Cake By Sara Novak IN Food & Health May 11 2009 A groom's cake is a great opportunity to add some personalty and style to your wedding. Wedding cakes tend to be a bit more traditional than the groom's cake. Try these chocolate cupcakes, which have a really distinctive flavor triggered by the coffee and liqueur. The combination really adds a depth to the flavor of the cupcakes and the icing. + READ MORE

How to Be a Green Groom By Josh Peterson IN Work & Connect May 7 2009 Having been married once, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone I like. However, love is blind and you'll not heed my warning. Those big, green eyes of hers are more powerful than any poisonous sentence I can write. So let's just focus on greening your groom experience. + READ MORE

How to Be a Green Wedding Guest By Blythe Copeland IN Home & Garden May 7 2009 With wedding season fast approaching, we're all looking for ways to cut the carbon cost of attending four, six, ten, even twelve couples' Big Day. Keep your green ethics intact by wearing clothes you already have (even if the other guests have already seen your party dress) and dressing them up with accessories and shoes; encouraging your friends to forego favors and programs; and helping the brides you're closest to source local flowers and wine—then keep these other steps in mind to make the Big Day a little smaller. + READ MORE

How to Order (or Bake) a Greener Wedding Cake By Tejal Rao IN Food & Health May 4 2009 How green is the average wedding cake? If you've cut into a traditional multi-tiered confection, or a novelty handbag cake, then you know what's holding it together. Hint: the answer isn't chocolate ganache. It's plastic tubes, metal wires, plastic disks, and other surprises without which the delicate structure would probably fall apart. + READ MORE

Inexpensive Ways to Dress Up Wedding Tablescapes Without Cut Flowers By Sara Novak IN Home & Garden Apr 24 2009 When I was planning my wedding last year I wanted it to reflect my husband and I, our likes and our ideals. On top of that weddings can be pricey and wasteful. Cut flowers are a main contributor to that waste. For the industry as a whole 79 percent of cut flowers come from Ecuador or Columbia and are grown with 12 different pesticides. It's no secret that these pesticides are getting workers sick and polluting our ground water. And as I said above, these flowers are pricey. + READ MORE

Set up Online RSVP for Your Wedding By Cara Smusiak, NaturallySavvy.com IN Work & Connect Apr 10 2009 I love weddings. The romance, the comedy, the family and friends—it all makes for a wonderful day of celebration. But weddings aren't exactly gentle on the earth. + READ MORE

Plan a Greener Bridesmaid Luncheon By Sara Novak IN Home & Garden Mar 26 2009 Wedding season is here again. Can you believe it? It's almost spring! If you are about to get hitched, why not plan a greener bridesmaid luncheon? The purpose of a bridesmaid luncheon is to honor your bridesmaids and you can most certainly do that without tons of waste. A greener bridesmaid luncheon is also less pricey which means that whomever is flipping the bill can enjoy the benefits of greening it up as well. + READ MORE

Avoid These Wedding Eco Demons for a Greener Wedding By Sara Novak IN Fashion & Beauty Oct 22 2008 Wedding budgets can get ridiculous and I know because I just got married. Costs get out of control incredibly fast, almost as fast as your carbon footprint. With a few easy steps you can control your impact and save tons of money to spend on your first down payment. Remember what's important, getting your friends and family together to celebrate?not the plastic parting gifts. + READ MORE

DIY and other Eco-Friendly Wedding Favor Ideas By Team Planet Green IN Fashion & Beauty Sep 10 2008 Wedding favors can be a huge waste that your guests often end up tossing. So why not pick a favor that has a purpose? Reduce your consumption and waste by skipping the monogrammed match books or over packaged truffles. Go green with some awesome green wedding favors. + READ MORE

How to Make your Bridesmaids Green By Team Planet Green IN Fashion & Beauty Sep 8 2008 Having a ton of bridesmaids in your wedding can be hugely wasteful. But sometimes you just can't discount your lifelong friends even if it means more dresses, shoes, and gifts. The following few simple green tips will allow you to honor your friends and family without dishonoring Mother Earth. + READ MORE

Top Green Gift Registry Options By Collin Dunn IN Home & Garden Jun 16 2008 The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the grass is growing; summertime is here, and wedding season is in full swing. If wedding bells are in your future, but you want to keep the festivities green, choosing a green wedding registry is a great place to start. + READ MORE

A Cow is the Greenest Gift of All By Team Planet Green IN Travel & Outdoors Jun 12 2008 Ed says that he tries to 'live simply so that others can simply live.' The nonprofit charitable organization Heifer International has an interesting twist on Ed's idea: give simply so that others can simply live. + READ MORE

With This Green, I Thee Wed By Team Planet Green IN Work & Connect Jun 10 2008 When Rachelle married Ed, she didn't know she was promising herself to not only the wedded life but also the green life. There are earth-friendly wedding dresses, organically grown flowers, recycled-paper invitations, green gift registries, and the list goes on. + READ MORE

Today on TreeHugger By Jessica Root IN Home & Garden May 30 2008 See why being green is officially sexy. Don't consume water the way Celine Dion does. Read Going Green to learn your eco-basics. All this and more, today on TreeHugger! + READ MORE

Try Alternative Wedding Registry with "Changing the Present" By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Work & Connect Apr 4 2008 Wedding registries were the best thing to happen to matrimonial couplings since Pachelbel composed the four-note bass line to Canon in D. By telling your dearly beloved friends and relations what it is you precisely want, you get to sidestep the frustration of unwrapping (and returning) eight gravy boats, or the... + READ MORE

Choose a Green Wedding Dress By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Fashion & Beauty Mar 14 2008 Who cares what anybody else is wearing? Let's be honest-it's all about The Dress. (We might talk about garb for the groom-to-be later. Maybe.) Whether you're gliding down a rose-petal-strewn aisle or kicking off your clogs at the beach, here's how you can look like one hot matrimonial mama, without running roughshed over the environment. + READ MORE