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Say Cheese! Photographers go green

Couples often focus on the venue and the menu when going green, but they can also find many other wedding services that are taking steps to minimize their environmental impact. One of these involves photography.  I found a website, GreenerPhotography.org, that offers many ways for photographers to walk the walk. Among them:  use online galleries to proof  sessions and albums; [...]

“Green Wedding” on USA Today

 It’s that time of the year again when couples are busy planning their Spring and Summer weddings.  Jessica Durando from USA Today’s “Greenhouse” blog talked to me at length about the economic and environmental benefits of going green for one of the biggest, if not the biggest, celebration of our lifetime. Check it out!

“Green Wedding” for Holiday Giving!

Check out my latest press release:
More and more couples are incorporating environmental values into their wedding planning, but many don’t know where to start. “Green Wedding: Planning Your Eco-Friendly Celebration” is the perfect holiday gift for them. The only hardcover on the subject with pictures showing how stylish green weddings can be, this [...]

New Beginnings: How to Re-use Your Wedding Dress

“Project Runway” on Lifetime has been the same fabulous “Project Runway” so far — entertaining and always on top of trends. The latest episode (#8) showed viewers how a wedding dress can be converted into something wondrous instead of dying a slow death in the closet. True, what prompted the challenge was divorce — all [...]

The New York Times adds green wedding webpage!

My editors at the New York Times asked me to curate a “topics” page on green weddings and here’s the result: Topics: Green Weddings. The topics pages are similar to Wikipedia but written by New York Times writers specializing on the subject. Mine explains the basics of green weddings and has a list of resources [...]

Recycling = Wedding

In the Sunday Styles section of the New York Times today: Mary wanted to get rid of an ugly, stain-spotted love seat she hated. It had only cost her $50 when she bought it on a street sale a few years earlier.
She could have thrown it in the trash, but instead she put it on [...]

“Green Wedding” tips

Check out TheKnot.com for tips from “Green Wedding.”

“Green Wedding” on Facebook

Please join “Green Wedding” on Facebook for an easy way to keep up with book and green wedding events.

“Green Wedding” in the News

Many couples use Valentine’s Day as the perfect occasion to get engaged, so “Green Wedding” has been in the news lately. As couples set out to plan their wedding in these tough economic times, they are carefully watching their budget and looking for alternatives. My mantra to them: You can green your wedding at any [...]

Why a Green Wedding?

Many couples are downsizing their wedding plans in 2009 because of the bad economy. They may be surprised to learn that couples who married with the environment in mind managed to both save and have the wedding of their dreams by following some green principles, such as renting or borrowing whenever possible. Multi-layered invitations? Not [...]