Reusable wedding shoes?
That’s right you heard correctly, the days of wearing your shoes for your wedding then boxing them up along with the dress is OVER! In Sex and the City, our style icon Carrie showed us that a wedding shoe can be colorful, not just white or ivory as we have all seen in the past.
Today is a new day and it is bright, colorful and fabulous! As the popularity of nontraditional colored wedding shoes has grown, their ability to be worn again has grown as well! No longer confined to the limited selection and style traditional wedding shoes offered, you can now choose from an endless array of styles, designs, colors, brands and more! Wear them to your wedding today and on the honeymoon later.
It’s Easy Being Green- Photography Business Practices by: Rebecca Wilkowski
Rebecca Wilkowski is a San Francisco Bay Area wedding photographer and photojournalist. She is a certified green photographer and one of only 11 photographers in the country approved to be part of Green America’s Green Business Network.
Even though Kermit the Frog might disagree, being green is getting easier.
What does it mean to be green? It’s pretty simple, actually. A “green” photographer is one who has assessed the impact his/her company has on the environment and who chooses to use environmentally sustainable and socially responsible practices in an effort towards lessening this impact.
Looking for an eco-friendly caterer in the SF Bay Area?
In the Mood for Food has been catering numerous events, including weddings for over 6 years in the San Francisco Bay area. We provide cuisine that is stunningly beautiful as well as vibrant in flavors and textures.
photo: by Kate Harrison
photo: by Kate Harrison
Focusing our menus on local and seasonal ingredients, we take full advantage of being in the Northern California culinary mecca with 12 months a year of local harvests. We provide the freshest flavors by creating all our ingredients from scratch including our homemade tempeh, tofu, seitan, noodles of many kinds, soy and other bean, nut and grain milks.
Besides offering the finest flavors, this approach is obviously very “green” in the lack of packaging and transportation of the basic ingredients in the dishes we create. Menus include traditional and innovative approaches based on our understanding of the cuisines of Japan, Thailand, Sichuan Province along with Italian and Middle Eastern Approaches.
photo: by Kate Harrison
photo: by Kate Harrison
Although our food is entirely devoid of any animal products, we feed omnivores far more frequently then we feed vegans or vegetarians.
philip gelb, chef, owner
phil@philipgelb.com
510 393 6096
http://philipgelb.blogspot.com/
photo: by Kate Harrison
Karine Brighten Events: Women Entrepreneurs Showcase
Karine Brighten Events recently hosted a Women Entrepreneurs Showcase Event in Berkeley. The goal of the event was to promote women owned businesses in the Bay Area.
23 vendors took part in this wonderful event, and a couple of those were wedding vendors that I work very closely with.
How to Shop for a Sustainable Engagement Ring by: Meghan Connolly Haupt
It is important to talk about the devastation associated with traditional jewelry, but it is more important to talk about the solutions. Up until just a few years ago, fewengagement ring alternatives existed that were both beautiful and that were associated with minimal social and environmental impact.
If you could find something that you felt good about, chances are, it fell short of the stunning engagement ring you saw in a magazine, but felt too guilty to buy.Though still not mainstream, eco-friendly and “green” engagement rings are now possible. No longer do you have to sacrifice luxury for sustainability.
Is your dress eco-friendly? by: Amy Kuschel
Is my dream dress eco-friendly? While there is no “certified organic” process for apparel, in a quest to be greener, our team at Amy Kuschel searches high and low 
for organic fabrics and “American made” textiles and trims to use in our San Francisco made wedding gowns.
Eco-friendly Wedding Favors by Gina Grega
Wedding favors are a small but thoughtful way to thank guests for being a part of your big day. I know I speak for many when I say that often, those gifts end up as landfill. Forget the tchotchkes, tooth-busting Jordan almonds and passé personalized matchbooks by gifting your guests with eco-friendly favors they’d love to receive and will actually use.
Hannah’s Wedding Dress Portraits
Hannah Dooley was born in May 1981 on the outskirts of London, England. By the age of 15, she had moved back and forth between England and the United States three times with her mother, father, and brother. She has remained in California since then and has settled in Walnut Creek.
Dream Green Weddings Launches “All-Eco” Online Wedding Boutique Featuring the Largest Collection of Eco-Friendly Wedding Specialties for Every Budget
With the most comprehensive selection of environmentally friendly wedding products all in one convenient “eco-wedding boutique,” Dream Green Weddings (http://green-wedding.net) has created a unique shopping venue for budget-conscious couples planning their own green wedding.
