It’s green wedding month here at THF, and earlier we looked at some vintage and casual green wedding dresses. However, if you’re looking for something a little more traditional, you still do have green options.
Your first best bet for a traditional gown that’s also earth-friendly is to go used. Wear your mama’s gown, look at consignment shops, or visit estate sales. For some new green gown choices keep reading…

Conscious Clothing creates unique green wedding gowns using environmentally friendly,SBP (sustainable and biodegradable product) hemp fabrics. The Basic Strapless Gown is shown above and the details on the organic cotton lace around …read more

I know I talk about Night Owl Paper Goods all the time here, but being that I love them, and being that it’s green wedding month here at THF, I can’t NOT post their amazing eco-birch wedding invites, reply cards, and party invites.

zinnia • lavender wedding or party invitation
The eco-wedding line at Night Owl Paper Goods is beautiful, unique, and will kick your green wedding off right. The wedding line of products are made of eco-friendly sustainably harvested yellow birch wood. The wood grain varies, which means your invites will be super unique & lovely. Wedding cards includes custom text, …read more

If you’re not interested in going nuts with a big fat gown for you and the other ladies in your wedding party, you can check out the goods at various eco-friendly shops and find something casual. Following are some great dresses that would be perfect for a casual eco-friendly wedding party.
Such as…

Bamboo Tiki Dress – at just $69 a pop, this 100% bamboo dress is pretty and inexpensive enough for your entire line up of wedding gals. The dress is from Sweetgrass Natural Fibers who carries products made in the U.S.A. from fabrics and fibers grown without any harmful chemical …read more

This being the last day of June, we’re closing out our green wedding feature. In case you missed something essential, I rounded up all the posts we did so far related to green weddings. I also made this green wedding guide a permanent fixture in our sidebar page section (to your right). Although green wedding month is over, as we do other posts that relate, we’ll be adding to the sidebar guide.
Here’s what we covered in May…
Basics:
Green Wedding Planner: Helpful Links for Wedding Planning
Announcements & Invitations:

Engagement Party & Wedding Invitations Go Digital
Perfect Digital Wedding Cards
Alternatives to Reply Cards
Eco …read more

You know, for someone who claims to have nothing to say about wedding cakes, I sure have a lot to say about them. We’re wrapping up green wedding month tomorrow though; so of course all these ideas are popping into my head tonight.

These are a few random tips I was thinking about.
Before I mentioned you could have edible cake toppers – a very green choice. However, I forgot to mention that you could go ahead and make them yourself. We have a post here on making candied flowers, and Linette, over at Mother Earth’s Garden has another option for creating …read more

Ok, so I lied in the last post about not having jack to say about wedding cakes. Mainly because I totally forgot about this amazing cake site that I’ve had bookmarked for ages.
If you need a picture to take to your baker, and you want something with a natural theme then I’d visit Wildflowers – one of the most beautiful cake shop in the world (IMO). Not just cakes either. Wildflowers creates amazing baskets filled to the brim with sugar flowers, leaves, berries, and more.
Individuals in New Jersey, New York, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland can order cakes from Wildflowers, …read more

I wanted to do a green wedding post regarding wedding cakes this month, for our green wedding feature. But after thinking about it, what can I say?
Go organic.
There; two words. That’s not a post. When it comes to the cake, you’ll simply have to make it, or have it made, with organic ingredients. If you have it made, you’ll simply need to search out a local bakery that will go organic.
Since cakes are out, I thought hey, let’s look at cake toppers!
Your best bets for green cake toppers include:

Seek out a company that makes eco toppers (rare).
Buy something for a …read more

If you truly want the ultimate green wedding, don’t bother reading this post. Instead skip back and read:

Green Wedding Planner: Perfect Digital Wedding Cards
Green Wedding Planning – Engagement Party & Wedding Invitations Go Digital
Green Wedding Tip: Alternatives to Reply Cards

It’s tough to justify paper, even eco-friendly paper, when there are better, no paper ways to go. However, this is your wedding, and your day, so if you want paper, I’m bringing in some options you can use for invites, thank-you cards, save-the-date cards, and more. The following papers will work beautifully for your wedding needs, while allowing you to still …read more

All May we’ve been talking about green weddings. In June, of course, we’ll be focusing on another feature, but good news – here at b5 we’re not the only blog talking weddings though.
We have a wedding planning blog here at b5 – Our One Heart, and although, the ideas are not green exclusive, you can draw ideas from the blog, and adapt them to your choosing. Then we also have Marriage Actually – a fun read written by Cory and Kerri. And yes, they’re an actual married couple. Now you can see what life might be like after the big …read more

Part of any good green wedding is of course the food. However, food is not so much my thing. I can cook when I want, but I’m pretty dull, and your wedding deserves more creativity than brown rice and raw broccoli. That said, I’ve gathered up some links and ideas that can help you to plan your green wedding food.
Oh, and we’ll discuss cake and wine later.
Planning a Vegetarian Wedding
UK organic caterer search
Co-op America’s organic food providers
‘Green’ Wedding Ideas: Your Menu
San Francisco based, Work of Art has a cool sample menu for an Organic and Sustainable Cocktail Dinner you can …read more