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  • Guest Blogger: Tree Beginnings, Inc.

    Photography by Jeff Newsom - see more at www.jeffnewsom.com

    By giving Trees as Favors at your wedding, you can set an example and possibly inspire your guests to adopt a greener consciousness. In perspective, your wedding and party can be responsible for planting a forest!

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  • The Great Centerpiece Giveaway - Oh, Those Lucky Guests!

    Photography by Anna Kuperberg - see more at www.kuperberg.com

    If you’ve rented the centerpieces for your wedding reception tables, giving them away to guests is obviously not a good idea. But if you’ve purchased centerpieces and want to make one guest at each table feel like a lottery winner, give them away, but do it fairly. Here are a few ideas - some mundane and some a bit of fun - for dispersing your highly coveted reception table centerpieces equitably!

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  • Green Day: Choosing Eco Friendly Flowers.

    Photography by The Wiebners - Joel and Rita Wiebner - see more at www.thewiebners.com
    "Earth laughs in flowers," said the great Ralph Waldo Emerson. Inherently products of the natural world, flowers are a symbol of beauty and are an essential part of most wedding day celebrations. If you would like to incorporate more eco-friendly elements into your wedding, flowers are a great place to start. Conventional cut flowers are grown with pesticides and often with unsustainable growing practices. Many conventional flower farms also grow their flowers in countries where they pay workers very low wages to keep costs low to American consumers. There is hope, however. Recent demand for sustainable products has spread into the world of wedding flowers. Here are a few suggestions to help you find flowers that match your green values:

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  • Your Blooms, My Bouquet

    Photography by Milton Gil- see more at www.miltongil.com

    For an intimate and meaningful way to honor the special women in your life at your wedding, create your bouquet out of their favorite flowers. Have the bridesmaids hold a bouquet of the flower they chose for your bouquet. And have the other women, like the Moms, Grandmas, Aunts, etc, wear corsages of the bloom they selected as their favorite. This is a symbolic way to show the women in your life that you will carry the relationship you have with each of them through your married life as well.

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  • "..Sixpence in Her Shoe...and Something That Shows my Love for You!"

    Photography by Cameron Ingalls - see more at www.cameroningalls.com

    There is no formal etiquette that pertains to the bride and groom exchanging gifts with one another before the nuptial takes place. But it has become a popular practice over the years.

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  • mywedding.com's 2008 Spring & Summer Wedding Trends!

    Photography by Milton Gil Photographers - see more at www.miltongil.com

    Shades of Green
    Making their mark in 2007, Green Weddings have lead the way for 2008 trends. The spring and summer seasons are the perfect time to celebrate this top spot trend. An abundance of flowers and fruit fill the markets giving brides the advantage of buying local. Outdoor venues like gardens, meadows, farm lands and lake settings make for a beautiful natural backdrop for Eco-friendly ceremonies. And though donations made in honor of your guests are popular as green wedding favors, eco-friendly favors are also a great alternative, as you'll read later.

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  • Sharing the Love, Part 3: Donate your Blooms and Bounty

    Are you planning to embark on your honeymoon armed with a giant vase full of your leftover wedding flower arrangements? What, that’s unlikely you say? If you’re flying, that means that you will need to be able to cram them all into a 3-ounce test-tube sized water receptacle and zip that into a teeny baggie for security purposes. If you can do that, kudos for being conservative with your resources but I don’t think they’ll show up very well in your photos.

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  • Ask Nicole: Red Rose Alternatives

    Question:


    Dear Nicole,

    We are also hosting a June wedding in a sunny part of Washington next year - do you have any suggestions for red flowers that are not roses?

    Jennifer from Seattle, WA

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