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

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

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

The greenest wedding gown may not be organic, or hemp, or even made under very green circumstances. However, if you fit into your mother’s gown, and like the dress, this is the greenest option of all, because it requires no new use of materials or energy to make.
If your mother’s dress is not an option wedding consignment shop is the next best thing. Buying used, for an item, you’ll only wear once (hopefully) is your best green bet, when it comes to wedding gowns.
Click here to learn about all the current contests, themes, and green challenges going on at Tree …read more

We will be singling out some beautiful eco-wedding dresses this month, but I also thought it might be nice to have a master list of places where you can find greener wedding dress options.
Wholly Jo’s: London based eco wedding dress design and creation shop.
Conscious Clothing: Earth friendly options, including vegan.
Olivia Luca: Custom create your own eco gown.

Rawganique: Organic hemp wedding clothes for both bride and groom – in fact, the whole darn wedding party.
Threadhead Creations: Actually, I’ve featured them before.
Posh Girl Vintage: lovely dresses!
Encore Bridal: Not green exactly, but consignment, so you’re not buying new (bonus).
Annatarian: I bet pricey, but …read more