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Green Wedding Trends

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January 24, 2009 Green Wedding Trends

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 [...]

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Is Gray too Grey?

December 14, 2008 Green Wedding Trends

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 [...]

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1. Live Simply and Use Less

November 20, 2008 Green Wedding Trends

“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 [...]

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Love the Earth? What About Your Peeps?

October 8, 2008 Green Wedding Trends

A new blog advises you to reduce the number of guests invited to your wedding. The reason? To reduce the amount of paper you have to use in your invitations and handouts. Your wedding is an opportunity to express your commitment to our environment, but it’s far more important to do this every day in [...]

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Black is Back — but as a Border?

July 30, 2008 Green Wedding Trends

We’ve been seeing a lot of black used as an accent color for the past year. We use a black satin ribbon for our Garbo wedding invitation. Something to consider, though, if you are thinking about using a black border framing your wedding invitation: black bordered cards have a rather grim use historically. Called “mourning [...]

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More History of the Modern Wedding Invitation

July 16, 2008 Green Wedding Invitations

Wedding Invitations were really really boring until about 10 years ago. One company (Taylor Corp) owns most of the large commercial wedding invitation companies. They pretty much controlled the entire market. About 13 years ago, right when the web started to gear up, a few brave couples wanted to individualize their weddings. They didn’t want [...]

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Brief History of the Modern Wedding Invitation

July 16, 2008 Green Wedding Invitations

So what does desire for a fabulously modern wedding invitation have to do with Oscar Wilde? We think it’s delicious that the trend for highly creative wedding invitations has its roots in the Aesthetic Movement of the early 20th century. Beautiful papers (inspired by the opening of Japanese design to European artists), fine letterpress printing [...]

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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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Green Weddings segment on ABC

June 10, 2008 Green Wedding Invitations

Invitesite’s eco wedding invitations are featured in the upcoming local ABC News feature on Green Weddings. Great stuff and good suggestions.

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Green Wedding Exhibit Los Feliz Street Fair

June 3, 2008 Green Wedding Invitations

Yipee,  a group of local green wedding vendors will be exhibiting at the upcoming Los Feliz Street Fair, Sunday June 8th, 11 am – 8pm. We will be located in the “Green Scene” Eco Showcase.  Our group includes Angelica from Angelique Events and GreenWeddings.net. Cake, signature drinks and some neat giveaways are in the offing… [...]

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