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Green Wedding Business

Green Blog Con via EcoStiletto

November 9, 2009 Green Wedding Business

Rachel from EcoStiletto did a bang up job on Friday morning — putting the first Green Blogger Conference together. It was a smashing success. Rachel wrote that 50 bloggers attended, but it seemed like there were closer to 100 people milling about and gabbing. Mostly gorgeous women. A room full. Who would have known! From [...]

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Tomato Love

September 7, 2009 Green Wedding Business

As a devotee of organic farmer’s markets and raw foods for almost 20 years now, I find myself in a bit of a dilemma. We buy about 80% of all our food from local farmer’s markets. This year, Scott, Cindy and I  started a vegetable garden.  So far, we’ve produced hundreds and hundreds of delicious, [...]

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Award-Winning InviteSite

March 11, 2009 Green Wedding Business

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 [...]

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Postage Lowdown – the 20 cent bump surcharge

July 16, 2008 Green Wedding Business

Almost all invitations will cost more than 42 cents to mail. If it’s square, if it’s thicker, if it’s more than 6-1/8 inches on two sides, it will cost at least 20 cents more. The Post Office increased rates about 6 months back, and finally sorted out the increases. If any of your wedding stationery [...]

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Greening the Dem Convention

July 7, 2008 Eco-Donations

The Democratic National Convention, held in August in Denver, has created strong environmental mandates and standards about food (local and healthy), catering supplies (compostable), transportation, and Democratic Party related consumer goods. (fanny packs, totes, etc) Some good people are on board to help them pull it off, but so far, the press has reported only [...]

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Launching the new Invitesite website!

June 30, 2008 Green Wedding Business

So here we are getting ready to launch the brand new Invitesite. Almost a year of work. The new site is all custom coded by Alex, and we’ll be able to offer loads of new designs for your Green Wedding pleasure . Lots of new letterpress decorated designs coming too. (We just rebuilt a lovely [...]

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Event Planners : Can We Stop the Styro Madness?

May 23, 2008 Green Wedding Business

I just came back from the National Stationery Show in New York.  Yes, Green was marketed as the NEXT HOT TREND. Concurrently, the International Contemporary Furniture Fair is held at the same time. Lots of very modern, eco furniture and building materials companies exhibit. Great. Terrific. Then why, why, why isn’t someone putting pressure on [...]

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Recycled Paper: A Primer : Part III

April 21, 2008 Green Wedding Business

Post Consumer Recycled Paper: Use it or Not?? Unfortunately, it’s not easy to find 100% postconsumer recycled paper. Last year, one of our suppliers actually went into bankruptcy. (They have since stabilized their finances.) Until the markets for recycled paper expand and become commonplace, trees will continue to be cut down to  make paper. This, [...]

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Roses can be Green…

April 18, 2008 Green Wedding Business

The Union of Concerned Scientists has a great monthly newsletter, “Green Tips.”  This month, the subject is roses. Flowers sold in the United States are generally grown on large farms and treated with massive amounts of pesticide; this not only endangers the health of farm workers, but also pollutes local air and water supplies. In [...]

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Green Weddings and Earth Day

April 14, 2008 Green Wedding Business

Saturday 12th of April was Earth Day on the Promenade in Santa Monica, CA.  I spoke to a few of the organizations that are active, locally, about doing some workshops or getting more listings for Green Wedding vendors in local resources. Well, I was basically told that greening weddings and events (YIkes — in Hollywood!!) [...]

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