I am loving the new trend of decorating a cake with artfully placed fresh flowers. I think it is so fresh and pretty, especially for an outdoor bride.
It can be a budget solution, also. But there is one MAJOR concern if this is something you want to do. The flowers used to decorate the cake must be edible. This does not mean that your guests will be chomping down the foliage like a horde of ravenous bunnies, but poison + food just DO NOT go together. Luckily, there are a diverse number of flowers that are edible.
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I, like most people these days, try to be as green as possible in my daily life. I reduce, reuse and recycle as much as I can… but never did I think you could find a wedding dress designer that is not only eco-friendly but makes fabulous gowns. I ran across the Natural Bridal Collection on one of my many nights perusing Etsy.com.
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I’ve been inspired… by my new blog friend A Little Birdie! Go visit her at her blog A Little Birdie Weds. We spoke briefly about being blogging buddies from Canada. While blogs allow us all to communicate from all corners of the world, it is safe to say that most blogging brides are from the U.S.
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It figures that the week I mail my wedding invitations, I find out about a brand new, stylish, budget-savvy suite of wedding invitations. A Practical Wedding tipped me off to the launch of Printable Press, a line of semi-DIY invitations. The designers had been making custom print-it-yourself invitations– via digital file– for friends when they decided to start their own online stationery store. They have dozens of designs in eight different categories, enough to satisfy even the choosiest of design snobs.
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I love the idea of having a green wedding. The goal of a green wedding is essentially to reduce your carbon footprint. It seems complicated and cumbersome, but it’s actually very simple. Here are a few suggestions:
1. Plan a ZeroCarbon wedding
Use CarbonFund’s carbon calculator to determine the level of carbon dioxide your wedding events will emit into the air and give your guests the opportunity to contribute to your ZeroCarbon Wedding.
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Being that half of our wedding guests are in Italy and the other half are all of the U.S., I knew I needed to create some sort of a communal forum to post information in both Italian and English for travel plans, registry, accommodations, wedding weekend schedule, etc. Creating a wedding website was the perfect solution!
 weddingwire.com Luckily, I found WeddingWire – a bride’s dream come true. It gave me the ability to create our wedding website, create a guest list (complete with addresses and a seating chart), search for ideas, and search for wedding vendors (only downfall – they don’t have any vendors in Italy).
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Feeling bad about spending so much money on wedding flowers? Why not donate them to a good cause instead of throwing them in the trash. Recently married Lisa Loeb donated her flowers to the Flower Power Foundation, who re-assembles wedding flowers and gives them to sick, terminally ill, and elderly residents in New York City and Los Angeles. If you don’t live in those areas, why not deliver them yourself!
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Save the Dates have arrived. Finally.
Hours of work later, our Save the Date postcards have arrived. I’m thrilled with how they turned out, but it was very odd to open them, and find them exactly as expected. I’m not sure if I thought they’d arrive differently, or if they should be more exciting than I’m giving them credit for. Maybe it’s that I want to have invitations and a wedding now…not in 9 months. Or that I was standing in my kitchen by myself with no one to “Ooohh!” over them.
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I already have a gorgeous wedding dress that I love, but I ran across this article the other day and I just had to find out more about the eco-friendly convertible wedding dress from designer Vanessa Fedorkiw.
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There aren’t too many options for what to do with your wedding day bouquet after the big day. You can toss it of course, but many people seem to get a separate bouquet for the toss. You can have it preserved if you plan ahead. And one philanthropic idea that I love is to donate your flowers to a nursing home or hospital. If you’ve got a unique idea, I’d love to hear it.
I had so many extra flowers after the wedding since we did the flowers ourselves. Shortly after Christmas I decided to make handmade paper and tossed in a good portion of the leftover wedding flowers.
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