Hairspiration: Wedding (or Weekend!) Hairstyles for All Hair Types
We put together this group of styles for curly hair, short hair, thin hair and more.
Summer Hair How-To: Style with Flowers Three Ways
Hairstyles strewn with fresh flowers are most often associated with weddings, but why shouldn't you rock this look on a daily basis if you feel like it?
Eco-Friendly Wedding Favors for the Conscious Couple
It’s our belief that wedding favors should be sustainable, personal, and practical. If you can send guests home with a lovely gift that’s both environmentally responsible and useful to them, why wouldn’t you?
Paper Culture's Gorgeously Graphic (and Green) Eco Stationery for Summer Parties and More
Guest Post by Christopher Wu One of the best parts of diving into the summer months is the endless social fun that goes hand-in-hand with this time of year. If you are a fan of pool parties, picnics, or just simple get-togethers spent noshing on good food with friends, summer…
The Eco Bridesmaid Diaries: My Reused Gown from BridesmaidTrade.com
It’s such an honor to be a bridesmaid, that is, until it’s not and you have a bridezilla or bridesmaidzillas on your hands. So I’ve heard. I don’t have personal experience though. I swear. Fortunately, I’ve had the loveliest of experiences with brides. At 26, more and more girlfriends are…
Housingworks Green Weddings Event with Leanne Marshall, Mary Cleaver, Danielle Venokur and Mireya Navarro
Project Runway designer Leanne Marshall (Season 5) shows us the gorgeous ecofriendly wedding dress she whipped up for the event! I had lots of fun at last week’s Green Weddings event put on by Housingworks in Manhattan. A lively panel discussion was moderated by author Mireya Navarro (who wrote the…
Dose of Reality: Engagements
To produce that single ounce, miners have to quarry hundreds of tons of rock, which are then doused in a liquid cyanide solution to separate the gold. Payal Sampat, the campaign director for Earthworks, the mining watchdog, told The Independent: “Gold mining is arguably the world’s dirtiest and most polluting…
Beautiful Eco-Friendly Invitations made Easy: Bella Figura
There are certain cultural traditions that are hard to let go of, especially when it comes to weddings and event planning, and the invitation is one of them. No matter how much of an eco-chick you are, sending out wedding invites via email might just not cut it for…
Wedding Transportation Alternative: Would You Do This?
As HippyShopper and EcoStreet (two of my fave blogs) report, this gorgeous British couple (Robert Gray and Stefanie Schmiedel) and their whole wedding party, took the Tube to their wedding! They wanted to save on carbon emissions, and they def. succeeded. I must admit that London’s Underground is superclean and…
Sweet and Super Green Wedding Gifts
Summer is wedding time, and if you’re like me, you might be running out of ideas for great, eco-friendly gifts. I try to give native trees or bushes from my local nursery (a great gift because they add value to a home, are not too expensive, are pretty, and they…
