My overall favorite posts: 

Green Wedding Feature: I’m not the biggest fan of weddings in general, yet I really had fun during green wedding month. I liked the whole darn thing. The cake, the lighting, the flowers, the dresses, and more. It was a super entertaining theme, and I think I was surprised by just how many cool green wedding resources there are out there.

100 Ideas for Your Green Family & 60 Eco-Friendly Ways to Celebrate Spring & How Kids Can Make A Difference: Saving the Planet from A to Z – Good stuff. Also these lists posts take flipping forever, so I better love them.

The Tree Hugging Change Surprise – This post was pretty dull, but for me it marks something good. This was the post where I introduced Peggy when she joined Tree Hugging Family. I think Peggy’s been the best addition ever to this blog. She’s the best green co-blogger you could ask for, a good friend, and an all around killer person. Now, before I get too sappy, I’ll leave it at this – aren’t you glad she joined the party?

Month-by-month favorites:

I was trying to think, now how can I choose my favorite posts of the year. I can’t. It’s hard. So I’ll choose one great, visit again worthy post from each month, and be done with it. Here we go….

September: 10 Fun Organic Gardening Projects for Kids

October: Seven Trees A Year

November: Eco-Friendly Birthday Theme Cakes

December: 25 Reasons To Get Outside During Winter

January: Peace & Social Change: 10 Ways You Can Actively Participate

February: Make Your Own Solar Light!

March: Eco Tips from Kids

April: Homemade Organic Paint Soap for Kids

May: Organic Food Costs Rise – 11 Ways to Save Money on Organic Food

June: Overcoming Reusable Bag Shyness

July: Go organic without losing your mind

August: Solar Art Project

What are some of your favorite THF posts of the year? 

(random flower images via stock.xchng)

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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 topper that you’ll love to look at forever, not simply store away.
• Make it yourself out of green or recycled materials.
• Use fresh flowers or herbs, leaves, etc., only – stuff that will compost.
• Use candy. Eat the topper.
• Have pie instead

Here are some ideas:

Robot Bride and Groom Wedding Cake Topper Wood Statues with Base – this is too cute and unique. You could keep this out and look at it all year. More choices available.

Adorable bird cake toppers – made with mostly vintage and antique fabrics and garments. Currently artist Ann Wood is out of these toppers, but if you sign up on her mailing list, you can learn when more are coming. Go see all of the different styles she’s made!

Max Kitano of Sugarworks, LLC was making amazing sugar art that would look fabulous on a cake. I wrote about his work at another blog of mine, and he actually sent me one of his sugar Origami Cranes and it was beautiful – it looked just like glass. Now to save breaking he’s using casting resin, for wedding cranes, which makes his cranes break proof, and thus not stress inducing if you’re getting married. These resin cranes last forever, and are perfect for a cake topper and available in all sorts of color choices. Actually, Sugarworks offers an entire page of wedding favors as well.

DIY Cake Topper – cutest topper ever! Made partially with scraps from the bride’s dress alteration. I LOVE these. Click the image to see the entire topper.

Do you have any other ideas?

Click here to learn about all the current contests, themes, and green challenges going on at Tree Hugging Family in June 2008

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