In case you haven’t heard, the summer issue of Eco-Beautiful Weddings Magazine, the hottest wedding e-zine is now available. Go check it out!
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Eco-Beautiful Weddings – Spring 2010 Issue
If you have not already checked out the second issue of Eco-Beautiful Weddings, then I would like to invite you to do so now. This is truly one of the best digital wedding magazines out there and best of all it is a must read for you eco-brides, with over 100 pages of inspiration for your green wedding. I truly love this wedding magazine!
Eco-Beautiful Weddings Magazine
The premiere issue of the newest wedding e-zine launched yesterday and I am loving it. I think the publisher and editors have done an amazing job with this e-zine, offering 128 pages of inspiration and resources for planning your green wedding.
In case you haven’t already heard about it, please be sure to check out this wedding e-zine and it’s blog.
Get Inspired!
Eco-Friendly Wedding Rings – Brilliant Earth
If you are bride or groom that is conscious about the traditional practices of the diamond industry and the atrocities that have resulted from the diamond trade, then purchasing and sporting a diamond that very well has supported wars, resulted in bloodshed, destroyed communities and families, does not sit well or suit you in the least bit of ways.
If this is the case as it is with me, I want to share with you a company that sells eco-friendly diamonds and jewelry, including engagement rings and wedding bands. Brilliant Earth was founded by husband and wife team, Beth Gerstein and Eric Grossberg, “to provide certified conflict free diamonds as an alternative to current diamond industry practices.” They started the company after Eric was having a difficult time finding a company that could guarantee conflict-free diamonds for his proposal to Beth.
Brilliant Earth is committed to tracking their diamonds to make sure that they were mined and produced in a socially and ethical manner by getting their diamonds “from Canadian mines that follow environmentally sustainable practices and are committed to delivering high quality gems”. In addition, the company is committed fostering change by educating consumers about the issues affecting the jewelry industries as well as identifying ways to help make a difference. The company also donates five percent of its profits to African communities that have been drastically hurt by the diamond industry.
If you are planning a green wedding and or are conscious about the debilitating affects of the diamond industry and would like to purchase eco-friendly jewelry, please go check out their company’s website and learn more about their mission and what makes their products eco-friendly.
Eco-Chic Wedding Invitations – Baron Card Designs
I first blogged about this fabulous company and their eco-friendly invitation designs last year. You can read about that post here to learn what makes their products eco-friendly.
Petal Bloom Wedding Invitation
They have since retired many of their old designs and launched an all new collection of eco-chic invitations. Very stylish!!
What I like most about the new invitation designs are the unique color palettes and graphic artwork and illustrations, which are designed by Lianne Tokey, the founder of Baron Cards.
In addition, I am loving the company’s new website. I snagged these photos from the company’s website to share with you. Don’t you just love how they are displayed?
Eco-Fabrics – Bamboo Wedding Gowns
If you are just tuning in to my blog, I’ve been discussing eco-fabrics. To date, I have discussed reasons to consider eco-fabrics and am now introducing you to the most sustainable fabrics that are being used to design eco-chic bridal gowns. Yesterday, I talked about hemp fiber. Next on my list of eco-fabrics is bamboo.
What makes bamboo eco-friendly?
Bamboo is highly sustainable and just like hemp, it has thousands of practical uses. In addition to making textiles from bamboo, you can use it to build things (furniture and homes). You can even eat (vegetable) and drink (beer) bamboo. And of course, you can wear it.
Also, all products that are made from bamboo are 100 percent biodegradable and recyclable. In addition, bamboo grows very fast, in fact some species can grow up to a foot a day; it doesn’t deplete the soil and requires minimal care to grow. Bamboo also has an all-natural built-in anti-bacterial system (used to make bandages, masks, surgical clothes, etc.) and so it can grow naturally without the use of pesticides. It’s biodegradable in that it can be broken down in soil by microorganisms and so it does not pollute our environment when it decomposes.
With regard to bamboo fabrics, they “are made from pure bamboo fiber yarns [and bamboo pulp] which have an excellent wet permeability, moisture vapor transmission property, soft hand, better drape, easy dying, [and] splendid colors.”
Bamboo fibers are also often blended with other natural and organic fibers to make bridal gowns. The bridal gown featured above is made from bamboo and organic cotton and was designed by Morgan Boszilkov, owner of the Natural Bridal Collection based in Atlanta, GA. Please be sure to visit her website and store on Etsy if you are looking for an eco-couture bridal gown. Go Green!
Sources: eco-couture bamboo bridal gown – Natural Bridal Collection; quote – Swicofil
Previously, I talked about reasons to consider eco-fabrics for your bridal attire. Now, I would like to share with you the most common Eco-fabrics used to make Eco-bridal gowns as well as what makes them an eco-friendly. I will begin with the most sustainable and versatile of all plants that are used to make textiles, which is as follows:
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Hemp is the most sustainable of all plants and it is very versatile in that it has hundreds or even thousands of practical uses. In addition to using hemp fiber for textiles, its fibers and oils are used to make building materials for houses, food, hair and skin care products, and perhaps the best of all of its practical uses is that it can be used to make bio fuels.
In my previous post, I told you that the textile industry is known as the number one polluter of clean water, next to agriculture because of all of the different chemicals they use from growing and harvesting crops (pesticides and herbicides) to create textiles to the chemicals they use to dye and produce the actual fabric.
Well growing hemp “does not exhaust the soil, uses little water, and requires no pesticides or herbicides” because “its skin is tough and insect resistant…” In addition, hemp fiber is one of the strongest fibers you can find, thereby making it the most sustainable of all textile fibers and it can be blended with other natural fibers. Most often, hemp fiber is blended with silk fibers to create Eco-chic bridal gowns like the one featured above and below:
Please join me again tomorrow as I talk more about different types of Eco-fabrics. If you haven’t already, please subscribe to my blog to be notified of new blog post. Stay tuned!
Sources: Hemp Bridal Gowns – Adele Wechsler; Quotes: Pick Natural.
