{Eco-Chic Weddings} by Emily Anderson

have an {organized} wedding with lovelydesign

LovelyDesign has the perfect things to organize all of the creative details that make planning an event so much fun...everything is handmade using reclaimed paper and materials.

love this look {sag awards inspiration}

This dress did not get a thumbs up from the writer, but I really love it (sorry Annie)...for more looks from the red carpet, go here...

                

{free ipod nanos} from {mywedding.com}

It's not too late to register to win two free iPod Nanos from mywedding.com...contest ends today!

iPod can be a bride and grooms best friend...music during the cocktail hour, band breaks, and even processional and recessional music can be covered with an iPod...just one great way to reduce your impact....

photographer karen gordon + your love story

Photographer Karen Gordon is giving away a free wedding package. And all you have to do is make a video about how you met your fiance, and upload it to You Tube...so, are you ready for your close-up Mr. Demille?

{wedding inspiration} pancake & franks et edith meyer cakes

I find inspiration from so many different sources...children's books, magazines, food...Recentely I was inspired by the current issue of Metropolitan Home. The cover sports shades of blue, cotton candy pink, white and black accents. I put together this inspiration board with wedding ideas from a few of my favorite people...I hope you enjoy...

Clockwise from the top:
Blik Blik Wall art
Poppytalk Handmade (deer tray too)
Pancake & Franks
Edith Meyer Cakes

flower girls and party favors

Some nice ideas for your flower girls--send them floating down the aisle with these faerie crowns. The flowers are made from fabric remnants,  and I couldn't imagine a little girl in the world who wouldn't be over the moon to wear one of these pretty creations. Tamar Schechner has  other  pretty things too.

fairy crowns
M.Sasek books

organic wedding flowers: local harvest + california organic flowers

Oftentimes you will read in "Green Wedding" articles that one of the things you can do to make your wedding more eco is to have organic flowers. What is not explained is that this is still a challenge. First of all, organic flowers are more expensive, and the selection is limited, as compared to traditional flowers supplied by florists. But there are important health (for people and the planet) reasons for switching to organic flowers.

Local Harvest basket is so nice and a keepsake
Kate D'Arcy makes pretty fair trade sustainable fashion
California Organic Flowers is my favorite organic flower resource

This is from the Local Harvest Web site:
Most flowers sold in the U.S. are imported from as far away as Ecuador and China. Why contribute to the waste of energy involved flying and trucking flowers great distances, when your local farmer grows wonderful bouquets just down the road?

Industrial flower farms also typically use large quantities of pesticides, exposing both their workers and the environment to nasty poisons. And flowers grown abroad often use pesticides that have been banned in the U.S. --- or use pesticides in quantities far exceeding U.S. regulations, and without any sort of protection for the workers exposed to them.

The flowers grown by LocalHarvest family farmers are not only fresher than those grown in faraway greenhouses --- they are healthier for the people who grow them and healthier for the people who buy and enjoy them.

More about flowers:
Pretty as a Picture
Candles instead of flowers
Wheat as decor
Sustainable Design Elements

win a free ipod with mywedding.com...

Mywedding.com wants to give away two (2) free iPod Nanos...Here's what you have to do: go to mywedding.com, register as a new user, and answer the green-themed question...and we'll do the rest...
here's the link:  iPod contest

keep on the sunnyside...

A few months back, I gave a podcast interview to someone.  Since then, he has set himself up on iTunes as the "Eco-Chic Weddings Expert," with a link to his site which features my interview. And to top it all off, he's sending press releases out using my name...which might lead people to belive that I am in some sort of partnership with him, when I am not...Unfortunately, there will always be opportunistic individuals who do not have other people's best interests in mind. But the only way people like this can really get to you is if you spend any of your energy trying to conquer them. In the end, people like this are already defeated, because they are such a negative force in the universe. Ultimately it is sad when someone behaves like this when what the world needs is positive change. I wasn't planning on writing about this at all, but now that I have, I feel ever so much better!  Have a beautiful day!
xo
Emily

eco-friendly travel: island outpost, jamaica

Planning your eco-honeymoon? Go to the Island Outpost site and take a look at one of their several properties in Jamaica...and be sure to read the bit about social responsibility...I've only been to Jamaica once, but that was to a Sandals with someone I would rather forget...

You might like to read this excellent piece about green travel by Andrea Bennett for Travel and Leisure. Oh, and by the way, Sandals may not be as cool as some other chic-destinations, but all of their locations are Green Globe Certified. Not that I would revisit my Sandals vacation, for so many reasons.