We just launched a new blog at Invitesite.com. Please visit and check it out for invitation and wedding ideas (both green and just weddings).
We’ll be rebuilding and relaunching Green Weddings and the Green Wedding Blog in the next month or so, with a bunch of new features. Hope you all enjoy 
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Great Gift idea: While buying heirloom tomatoes this weekend, at Tomatomania, we met a lovely neighbor, Connor, who makes really lovely garden boxes on wheels.
We all live in the still wild hills between downtown LA and Pasadena and gophers are very previlent. (Since they live in the ground, you never really notice them unless you plant a garden.) Gophers love those juicy garden roots.
Boxed gardens are great for apartment dwellers, or if you have to move your garden to follow the shade or sun. Or, if gophers eat your plants!
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WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, just announced that InviteSite as won the 2009 Bride’s Choice Awards™!
In its inaugural year, the Bride’s Choice Awards recognizes and honors vendors from the WeddingWire Network that demonstrate excellent quality of service, responsiveness, professionalism, value of cost and flexibility. This year’s recipients represent the top three percent of WeddingWire’s vendor community, which includes over 100,000 wedding vendors from across the US. That means InviteSite is one of the very best makers of wedding invitations.
Unlike other awards in which winners are selected by the company, the Bride’s Choice Awards are determined exclusively by recent newlyweds through surveys and reviews.
“We are excited to launch this annual award program to honor high-performing vendors based solely on the experiences of our WeddingWire community,” according to Timothy Chi, WeddingWire’s Chief Executive Officer. “This year’s recipients have set the bar high, exhibiting excellent service and expertise in the wedding industry.”
InviteSite would like to thank our past clients for speaking on our behalf and helping us win the 2009 Bride’s Choice Award!
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Beautiful Bridal wrote a very funny post today:
http://beautiful-bridal.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-dont-want-green-wedding-and-you-cant.html
What makes brides afraid of the word g-r-e-e-n? It could be:
1. Hemp wedding dresses and cheesecloth veils
2. Bouquets made of turnip, carrot and cucumber flowers
3. Personalized brown paper bag favors full of compost
4. His and her John Deere tattoos
5. Rings made from melted-down fillings from Grandma’s teeth
6. Graham cracker and flaxseed wedding cakes
7. Free 8 x 10 from Sears instead of a bridal portrait
8. Canned food station at the reception
9. Bridesmaids with hairy armpits
10. Honeymoon in his parent’s spare room
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For the past 6 months, the color gray has been promoted in fashion tomes and some wedding pages as the “new” chocolate — as the trendy wedding color. But, with the economy in the doldrums for at least the next few months, is gray just a bit too … dull? I’m having a hard time getting excited about it. Mustard yellow? Smashing. Silver or pewter? Right on. Maybe gray is just too mineral and not enough vegetable.
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“A truly green economy means living lightly on the Earth with simple, joyful elegance.” (From Co-op America, first principle)
I really love the “simple, joyful elegance” part. Really says love, really says a gathering of friends and family : really says Weddings. (Sorry bridezilla!)
Let’s talk about ’simple’ for a while. What is simple? What does simple really mean? Simple can mean unsophisticated — but it can also mean the essential — something that cannot be divided further.
So — when planning your green wedding, ask yourselves : What is our essence? What are our core values and beliefs? I think that that is what comes across in elegant people: their essentialness comes right through so gracefully. They can have a great richness about them, but fundamentally, they are simple. So — being conscious of your essential values and nature, will help throughout your selection process.
Joyful. Oh my. I study Energy Medicine, and in EM, there are two very simple energetic states: fear (protection mode) and joy (or health and growth). In Donna Eden’s version of Energy Medicine, these are called the radiant circuits. We share these energetic states with single cell creatures. These states are communicative : we all notice when a fearful/angry person comes into a room. We find happy people contagious. So, joy can be a very communal, sharing state. How do we help create the joyful state among our guests, and prevent the fearful state? (Some people call this skill having good manners.)
Awareness of these human conditions will help you create a simple, joyfully elegant celebration.
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Taking inspiration from Co-op America’s Quarterly Feature, we’re going to apply 25 Ways to Green the World, to Green Weddings and Events. Since weddings are a time for joy, exuberance and being great hosts, we will favor generosity (of spirit AND objects) over, ummm, hyper minimalism.
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What a fun and beautiful event with ears on!
InviteSite (and Helen personally) catches special mention at an event attended by Mickey. Thank you, Tim and Melanie.
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With a 15% rise in wedding supplies this year and predicted next year, Tara and Mike were delighted that their wedding coordinator was resourceful and found them real value in InviteSite.
They say that Do-It-Yourself wedding invitations are well worth the savings.
Updated to October 15th, news about the couple’s wedding appears on this blog.
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