All posts under ‘eco-friendly’
{Adele Wechsler Fern wedding dress, regularly $3050, on sale for $1200. Photo courtesy Adele Wechsler Design.}
Looking for ways to be more eco-conscious when it comes to your big day? This week’s sample wedding dress comes from Adele Wechsler’s eco-couture line.
Wedding dresses with texture are a big trend for this year, so this week I’m showing you how to get the trend and be eco-friendly at the same time. Read the rest of this entry »
Nature-inspired hair accessories by Adele Wechsler.
It’s been a busy bridal season for Canadian dress designer Adele Wechsler. In addition to releasing her sixth Eco Couture collection of wedding dresses, Adele has also expanded her offerings to include bridal headpieces, plus-size gowns and bridesmaid dresses. Read the rest of this entry »
Bees may not be my favourite insects, but I do love them for their honeycomb-inspired patterns and the natural goodness that they provide for beeswax candles. I’m a huge fan of Big Dipper Wax Works for two reasons a) their commitment to being an eco-friendly and sustainable company (i.e. all their wicks are 100% cotton, etc.) and b) for all their pretty elements. Read the rest of this entry »
Wow! The last post! I feel like I’ve barely shared all of my ideas with you and now I have but 500 very valuable words left to fill you in on the rest of the details. Here’s how we’ve put our own personal twist (keeping in mind the 3R’s-reduce, reuse, recycle) on some wedding essentials:
1. Website–First, of all, thanks for all of your suggestions! We decided to go with mywedding.com for our wedding website. It IS really easy to use! Check it out: www.mywedding.com/carrieandgergely.
2. Party Favours–Like we’ve mentioned before, instead of party favours, we’re putting that money into sponsoring a child through Compassion Canada. Since I spent a summer volunteering in Tanzania, we’ve decided to sponsor a little girl from there. On each plate, we’re placing a teabag (Tanzanian rooibos), wrapped in a small envelope with our sponsored child’s picture and a blurb about Compassion Canada.
3. Guestbook–Instead of the traditional guestbook, we’re making a picture wall of black and white photos of us with every guest at the wedding that will be clipped to strings hung from the ceiling. This will serve as the backdrop in front of which our guests will write a message on a whiteboard and take a picture of themselves using our Mac’s “Photobooth” application and remote. Read the rest of this entry »
Finding our photographer was probably the easiest part of the wedding planning process. I already had a fairly clear idea of how I wanted our pictures to turn out, so when I came across the Photobolic website, I knew right away it was the right fit.
Photobolic is an independent photography studio in Calgary run by Wei Quek: a young, energetic and extremely talented photographer. He takes organic, interesting and PRETTY photographs that you fall in love with like a great pair of shoes! His pictures tend to have an editorial feel to them—pictures that you can hang up on your wall like art. Read the rest of this entry »
REN Moroccan Rose Otto Sugar Body Polish
In Friday’s post I talked about my vacay to Antigua, and one find I made while there I had to share. For me hotel bath products can be a hit or miss. I’m not a fan if they’re too fragrant, bad quality or too small (it’s like you have to use an entire bottle per shower!), so I was over-joyed in my discovery at Carlisle Bay. Read the rest of this entry »
Adele Wechsler's eco-friendly "Laurel" dress.
Canadian designer Adele Wechsler truly broke new ground when she released her first Eco Couture collection several years ago. Since then she has certainly changed the way we look at environmentally friendly fashion: her dresses made from sustainable fabrics such as hemp and organic silk are undeniably chic—with a conscience! Read the rest of this entry »
As part of our plan to reduce our impact on the environment, we had to think hard about out wedding invites. Sure, the most environmentally friendly way to do it is to send out evites, but I’ve always loved receiving the beautiful wedding invites from my friends in the mail. There’s something antiquated and traditional about getting an invitation (or anything other than bills, for that matter) in the mail.
The compromise: send out postcard invites. That way we can reduce the amount of paper that would go towards envelopes and RSVP cards (and their envelopes), and maps, and registry info, and so on, and so on. The problem with a postcard is that there is little room for text, so the invite has the basic minimal information, and then it directs people to our wedding website for more information. Read the rest of this entry »
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