Happy Holidays!

All of us at Green-weddings.net want to wish you and yours happy holidays!
Holiday Tip:
This season many of us are wrapping gifts, but we don’t need to waste paper in the process!  Check out Earth Presents

Matching gift tags and bows are also 100% recycled and recyclable.

A family friend has created their own line of 100% Recycled [...]

Eco-Friendly Fun at the DC Green Wedding Consortium!

Kate and I had a blast attending the DC Green Wedding Consortium’s Holiday Party at the Decatur House last week. Thank you so much to Michelle Slaughter from HerPreSign and Katie Martin from Elegance and Simplicity for inviting us!

Here’s Kate and I with Michelle. She is also the Managing Editor of Eco-Beautiful Weddings, who unveiled the [...]

Need Help Planning a Green Wedding? Use a Green Wedding Planner.

Green weddings can be somewhat more challenging to organize and pull together. There are always different areas of a wedding that a couple can go green with. Common areas are catering, location, florals and it’s sometimes hard to know what will work best for your dream wedding.
If you are nervous or unsure about [...]

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New York Botanical Garden Edible Garden Summer Events!

What a fun way to kick start green inspiration for not only your wedding but your lifestyle by visiting NY Botanical Garden’s Edible Garden!
I have visited the Botanical Garden before and it’s a must see, however this is a wonderful time to visit for those planning eco-friendly weddings to get inspired by Edible Gardens!

Starting this [...]

Planning a Wedding in September? There is still time to add a touch of Green! Inspired by Liesl Menning and Kevin Haynie’s Sustainable Wedding!

Beautiful, simply, summer and why not green? A wedding in summer is a wonderful chance to make your wedding eco friendly. Get Inspired by Liesl Menning eco friendly marriage to Kevin Haynie.

I wanted to share Liesl Menning, Martha Stewart’s personal assistant, and Kevin Haynie, famous country musician, environmentally conscious wedding. With the help [...]

WeddingWire Goes Green!

WeddingWire partners with Carbonfund.org
WeddingWire is right on track with the latest wedding trends, Green Weddings.  WeddingWire understands weddings are large investments using lots of energy.  With this understanding, WeddingWire partners with Carbonfund in the effort to help engagned couples to offset their wedding’s co2 emissions by creating a calculator tool on WeddingWire’s wedding websites.
 
 
From the press [...]

Go Green Weekend Tip

From now on, on Fridays, I have decided to leave you with a fun Go Green Weekend Tip that may or may not always have to do with green weddings. However, it will be a fun tip or something to think about until my post on Mondays.
That being said, the first Go [...]

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Destination Green Weddings? Get Out of Town! Go Green with Green Venues

In keeping with the theme of Green Wedding Venues, I found one that is great for destination weddings!
Though some believe it is not totally green to have a destination wedding, but If you really want to have you wedding elsewhere, you still can do a part by picking an green venue. If you don’t [...]

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A Small Town Bride Doesn’t have to Go Far to Go Green.

If your are getting married in Maryland and are trying to find a green venue to accommodate a fairly small guest list, then Avalon Cliff may be the perfect place.

Located 8 miles from BWI airport, this venue offers its intimate facilities tucked away in the wilderness overlooking 15,000 acres of the Patapsco River Valley State [...]

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Cinderella’s Green Castle

While recently on WeddingWire I enjoyed reading brides wonderful reviews about Castle on the Hudson These brides were able to combine a fairytale wedding of the past with the future of green weddings. As a bride you can have it all at Castle on the Hudson located in Tarrytown, New York.

This historic [...]

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