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Tuesday 17 September 2013

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These unique bouquets are breathtaking, sophisticated, filled with such amazing details. They are hands down pieces of art!
Emily carefully selects vintage brooches and jewelry to make every bride’s bouquet an individual masterpiece that she will cherish forever. Every bouquet she creates is different and tells a special story about the bride.
Brooch bouquets are amazing for so many reasons: they make meaningful keepsakes after the wedding, they are sparkly, you can use jewelry from family members and carry a bit of them with you down the aisle, you make your brooch bouquet well in advance of the wedding and you never have to worry about it not holding up throughout the day!
A brooch bouquet by Emily Clair is a delightfully personal fashion statement to add sparkle and romance to your wedding day.If you’d asked me in college whether I would consider wearing a traditional white gown with a train to my future wedding, I would have arched my brow, put my hands on my hips, and scoffed, “You have got to be kidding.” What planet- and self-respecting modern woman would be caught dead in white silk, taffeta and lace — symbols as they are of the whole odious wedding industrial complex? And who says I’ll get married, anyway?
And then came Eric. Eric, with whom I converse in funny voices. Eric who is passionate about beets, reads E.F. Schumacher and asked me with a straight face if I’d be down for spending our wedding night in a chrome Airstream camper van (sorry, babe, but no).
I’ve already found the dress (details of which are top-secret, although I will admit it’s white with perhaps a teensy train). The real question now is how to do the deed, because while I’ve mellowed over the years, the wedding industry hasn’t. The typical American wedding is a doozy for Mother Nature — multiple rounds of intricate dead-tree invitations, guests flown in from all over the globe, exotic foods, rental cars, and an elaborate, expensive, ethically-suspect gown worn for a grand total of eight hours, tops.
It can seem like there’s no such thing as a wedding without pomp, excess, and a cake taller than your flower girl. Isn’t the phrase “green wedding” an oxymoron?
Actually, no. Lest we forget: there’s always the original “green” wedding: throw on a cocktail dress, tie some cans from the blue bin to the back of your bike, and pedal down to the nearest courthouse. Then again, that sort of simplicity won’t work for everyone (such as, for instance, your doily-crazed Aunt Bertha).
Thankfully, the wedding world is a lot wider than it used to be, and it’s perfectly possible to have an all-out soiree that still sits right with your conscience. To help flesh out the possibilities, I’ve spoken with newlyweds in five cities across America to share a glimpse of what they’ve found on the matrimonial frontlines.
Given all the hype and expectations surrounding modern-day nuptials, Seattleites Libbe and Ben’s vision for their wedding might sound darn near revolutionary. Says Libbe, who works at the IT help desk for Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s company Volken, “We just approached it like it was a huge party for our friends.”
Their top two goals? It had to be fun, and it had to have good food. Ben’s friends are real foodies, and besides, (Libbe again), “After reading The Omnivore’s Dilemma and everything, it would feel weird to give people corporate food. We decided, ‘It’s got to be food that represents our values.’”
So, they called up organic and local-loving caterer Herban Feast, led by B.J. Duft. And, they searched for a venue that would be easily accessible but also rural. The Farm at Judd Creek, on Vashon Island, did the trick. It’s managed by Karen Biondo, who also runs K-Jo farm and is deeply involved in the Vashon community. Biondo humanely raises and slaughters her own chickens, and in fact raised a few chickens exclusively for Ben and Libbe; thankfully, their caterer was able to incorporate this extremely local meat into the menu. Libbe saw these little touches as chances to communicate her and Ben’s values to their guests.
“Sometimes people turn their ethical radar off when they’re planning their wedding,” Libbe says. “We kind of felt the opposite. It was like, ‘What better way or place or time to show people how we feel?’… We believe you can have great food without having it trucked in from South America, or having wedding favors that are plastic and made in China.”
One of the ways they did this was by purchasing carbon offsets from the organization Carbon Fund for their event. They explained their choice on their website: “Offsetting carbon emissions basically means that for every act surrounding our event that ‘dirties’ the air, we will put in a donation to organizations that create cleaner air.”
For their wedding invitations, Libbe and Ben wanted to patronize a small business. They settled on The Sherwood Press, a letterpress based in Olympia, Washington that’s been around since the ’40s. “We loved the human element of it,” says Libbe. “The fact that a hand had touched every one of them. That was really important to us.”
Another big priority for Libbe and Ben was minimizing the amount of waste from their event. So, for their rehearsal dinner, they hosted a barbecue at a Seattle park, where Libbe’s dad served sandwiches atop biodegradable plates. The only “trash” remaining after the event was put in Bio Bags and carted off to the county compost pile.
For their actual wedding reception, Ben and Libbe utilized the services of a non-profit called Sustainable Vashon, which oversees the Trash-Free Bash Stash, a stockpile of clean, intact — yet whimsically mismatched — dishware that people can borrow for their events.